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FlatPineappleSociety t1_j8mdil7 wrote

You've been hit by, you've been struck by

A smooth criminal

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EmperorDPants t1_j8n72u3 wrote

Clearly, they wanna be startin something...

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AldoTheeApache t1_j8n7t82 wrote

it’s just Human Nature

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Freefall_J t1_j8nrrt8 wrote

I think we just found our next Michael Jackson.

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TimeTravelMishap t1_j8m9lxz wrote

Same shit happened with Dre. Me and Franklin took care of it tho.

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shaokim t1_j8mba4c wrote

Oh yeah, I forgot about Dre

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Annethrakx t1_j8n01f6 wrote

Hate it when Motherfuckers act like they Forgot about Dre.

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MrCasterSugar t1_j8n2xbp wrote

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say..

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That75252Expensive t1_j8nin0t wrote

On the playground was where I spent most of my days. Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool.

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jschubart t1_j8nnspj wrote

Keep his name out your motherfucking mouth.

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That75252Expensive t1_j8no9sm wrote

Wow, dude! It was a Dr. Dre joke.

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jschubart t1_j8np040 wrote

Maybe the reference went over my head but those were Fresh Prince lyrics. He has no doctorate.

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dkran t1_j8p3n9l wrote

In a Mercedes Benz with the windows up when the temp goes up to the mid eighties

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ExtensionNoise9000 t1_j8n0yn5 wrote

Any info on this?

Man I really want to hear some old unreleased music from Dre.

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starmartyr t1_j8n8ow3 wrote

It's a series of missions in GTA online. Dre's unreleased tracks are stolen and the player has to find them and get them back. This is unsurprisingly accomplished through auto theft and murder.

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ExtensionNoise9000 t1_j8n9p2n wrote

Ohh 😅

I don’t play GTA:O so I completely missed that reference.

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starmartyr t1_j8nknmf wrote

It's a fairly recent addition to the game that was added last year. Dre appears in the content and actually voices his own lines.

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DrDavid_Pornalt t1_j8ow1dx wrote

He runs over his own hookers too

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ChemicalReception t1_j8p1v4f wrote

Did they include the part where he beats up his girlfriend and shot at her as well?

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starmartyr t1_j8ql21o wrote

No but he is out there doing crimes. It's a bit weird considering that he's a real person. My GTA character has murdered more people than most drug cartels. It feels weird that he would want to be my friend.

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osnapitsjoey t1_j8n4xbj wrote

Yeah it was all over the Los Santos news for it a while

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pseudocultist t1_j8q69r3 wrote

I try not to read the local Los Santos news, way too violent.

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Canis_Familiaris t1_j8nnpu1 wrote

Franklin and that silent dude's agency put in a lot of work. Heard they were investing in cabs recently though, what a change!

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thecoffee t1_j8qu0j1 wrote

I hear with ride share apps taking so much business away, most cab companies are just fronts for acid dealers these days.

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ThaVerySadTruth t1_j8m7icx wrote

Am I the only one who finds traveling the world with such content extremely reckless, if not negligent?

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Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life t1_j8n8r90 wrote

Unless they were trying to sell it, I mean even if it was stored in the cloud it could be stolen by a disingenuous buyer.

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Nihil_Cow t1_j8nkr5w wrote

Trying to sell a deadman’s work for a quick buck.

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Aazadan t1_j8nmwjb wrote

Same concept as a museum. But unreleased material typically isn’t in a release state, and especially not in a state to artist would want us to experience it in.

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Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life t1_j8nw23s wrote

Never heard of the antiques market?

(Watch White Collar, it’s a great tv show)

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Javerage t1_j8mjev5 wrote

Hopefully now we'll finally be able to find out if Annie is indeed okay. She's been very tight lipped about telling us if she's okay.

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black_flag_4ever t1_j8mlaax wrote

It’s 2023, she’s definitely not.

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WalkerBRiley t1_j8mra6u wrote

Kinda an odd unit of measure to describe how much content it was. 50gb is nothing today. It could be a few short videos or it could be several days worth of audio. Just the formatting of the files will change their size.

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weildescent t1_j8nieqn wrote

That was my first thought. These ain't gonna be 5-10 MB a piece... these are gonna be huge files for use while mastering, right?

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TurnsOutImAScientist t1_j8onc6a wrote

Assume it's .wav, 10 MB per minute. Assume separate tracks for each instrument, we'll say 100. So that's 1GB per minute. At most a couple of albums worth of material.

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senorbolsa t1_j8otwa4 wrote

a few albums of unreleased tracks by one of the most famous (and some would say greatest) pop artists is a pretty big deal though.

even if it was just 50gb of MJ doodling in his notebook that would be a big deal for fans I presume. (I like MJ but I'd stop short of fanaticism)

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nulledit t1_j8ngdg4 wrote

It's like when a news story talks about pages of emails or texts. Some emails are shorter than this comment and might take up a whole page depending on how it is formatted. It's an inconsistent measure.

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AveDominusNox t1_j8nyt9b wrote

I’m gonna go on with my day believing it’s all text. Just trillions of words of notes and lyrics and musings. Like the lyrics to all the genesis sonic games. Or instruction manuals for theme park rides. Maybe detailed notes on what monkeys eat.

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deeman18 t1_j8oiij2 wrote

They're just being descriptive. Not like we know the contents or number of files or anything

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j8m7s69 wrote

Honestly, I'd rather they respect the artists wishes if they never intended to release it. If it was the case of just not having the chance but intended to, go for it. I get fans and people wanting to hear everything that person produced, but I also think a major part of an artists image and art itself is what you choose to share/publish. Not an artist, but knowing some people who enjoy it, they take sharing more personal pieces very seriously and I know they wouldn't be very happy if it were "leaked" or shared publicly.

That being said, 50GB is a LOT of music, assuming the media takes up similar space to high quality audio tracks. Especially when you consider how much content/music we already have from MJ.

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Madbiscuitz t1_j8mceta wrote

I'd imagine a fair amount of it is either rough takes and raw multitracks. One song could have dozens of tracks that are unmixed. Would be cool though if those tracks were released out in the wild so anyone could mix and master their own tracks.

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Rfunkpocket t1_j8mtx20 wrote

great, a bunch of unmastered tracks and demos from the leading session musicians of the last decade

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Pauly_Amorous t1_j8n0ns9 wrote

>I'd imagine a fair amount of it is either rough takes and raw multitracks.

Some of those are very interesting though, like Thriller with alternate lyrics. (This was actually released, but who knows what else is out there that we've never heard.)

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Javelin-x t1_j8n3pkv wrote

>Would be cool though if those tracks were released out in the wild so anyone could mix and master their own tracks.

Billie-Jean wrecks the Edmund Fitzgerald?

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a3poify t1_j8nrujk wrote

There's quite a few raw multitracks of Michael Jackson stuff out there.

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sluttttt t1_j8ogeqo wrote

It still sucks that they released Prince's unreleased tracks after he passed. Dude was a perfectionist and there's no way for us to know if he felt that they were ready for the public. Maybe Anderson Paak went a little hardcore with his tattoo requesting no posthumous releases, but I get where he's coming from.

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oldsecondhand t1_j8q8dxu wrote

> Honestly, I'd rather they respect the artists wishes if they never intended to release it.

If we went by that, we'd have nothing left of Franz Kaffka's works.

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fullload93 t1_j8mt2qo wrote

Why TF is someone walking around with this massive amount of data and it wasn’t backed up somewhere secure? Like come on… that’s just carelessness at this point.

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grosslytransparent t1_j8mui9w wrote

Probably will be praised by preservationist on twitter and be uploaded on archive.org

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intoxicatednoob t1_j8p8dcz wrote

Indeed the only crime here is it being locked away on some guys laptop and not available for the world to enjoy.

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superbugger t1_j8msome wrote

Is 50GB a lot or a little? That truly means nothing to me.

It could be like 50,000 songs or 1 hour of video.

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Thewonderboy94 t1_j8n2ld9 wrote

Well, if it's unreleased stuff, it's most likely not in a lossy compressed format like MP3, so the sound would at minimum be in a lossless compressed format like FLAC, but it would more likely be in WAVE, so you would have maybe roughly around ~70 hours of CD quality audio or basically 70 albums worth of CDs if the CDs were more or less filled to the brim (which usually isn't the case, most albums don't utilize the full capacity of the CD, most of the time albums seem to be in the 40-50min range).

But if we consider all that unreleased stuff to also contain just some isolated beats and vocals or other stuff, or unmixed tracks, their specs could be beyond CD quality to ensure better headroom for mixing and mastering, which would also reduce the estimate of how much music is in that 50GB package. Because we don't really know what exactly is contained in that 50GB, it's kinda hard to say how much of that is actually listenable music and tracks. Like, if you have an isolated vocal demo track and then an isolated drum demo track meant for a single song, those would separately use more space as their own tracks than when they would eventually be mixed together into a single finished track. Maybe there are several variations for the drums for a single track, or maybe there are a couple of different mixed versions of an unreleased but finished track. That can vastly sway the amount of listenable music you have in that 50GB.

It's probably still a lot of music, though. Probably not just "70 albums worth" a lot.

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RadonSilentButDeadly t1_j8n1o8h wrote

Depends on what it is. Raw studio audio takes up way more room than the final product. That hard drive could just tracks for one song.

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mandy009 t1_j8n81m2 wrote

back in my day a decade and a half ago when we consumed just HD quality video, a general rule of thumb was 1 GB per feature length movie.

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apenature t1_j8m78ek wrote

I have mixed feelings about releasing anything like this.

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drawkbox t1_j8mqv75 wrote

Why? Why? Tell them that its Human Nature...

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Utsutsumujuru t1_j8o2ugy wrote

I heard they are looking for a smooth criminal

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POLLnarafu t1_j8om05z wrote

Michael jackson is a pedophile

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DireWraith3000 t1_j8n1hdh wrote

Police said Dirty Diana and her accomplice Billie Jean Beat It with the stolen music. Blood on the Dance Floor was a clue that led to a co conspirator named Ben but being a rat he wasn’t talking much. Authorities stated it was Human Nature for these types of crimes to occur.

Police also said that Off The Wall comments about their investigation have left them in a State of Shock as everything is not always Black or White and the public should look at The Man in the Mirror before criticizing the investigation.

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Diabetesh t1_j8nhbgw wrote

I like to think that it will just all show up on tpb or some other equivalent to then never disappear from the web.

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IsThisKismet t1_j8nhdg6 wrote

I recently watched Leaving Neverland and the takeaway that I got (beyond the legalities of crimes that he was acquitted for) is that he broke their hearts. Not necessarily for doing the things they say he did? But because he replaced them. And that’s far more easily assured to have happened and still unforgivable.

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Sajun t1_j8nkagx wrote

oh thank god. Maybe these kind thieves will release it.

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PaleontologistClear4 t1_j8nq4rs wrote

50 GB of unreleased songs? That's a lot of music, curious what it sounds like.

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patman_007 t1_j8nqsw3 wrote

Obviously the most responsible thing to do here is feed all the content to an AI generator and then have it perform live.

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edgeplayer t1_j8pxvdq wrote

Surely if it existed the world would have known years ago. It is rather late to be saying this material exists but was stolen. It could be an elaborate deep fake fraud. If it came off it would be the most lucrative forgery ever. MJ's estate was in tatters, so where was this little gem hidden away ?

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rutefoot t1_j8mzplx wrote

Finding an old hard drive that belonged to MJ is a risky click if there ever was one

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Demiansmark t1_j8n3cg9 wrote

That's bad. Really really bad.

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MechaMagikarp t1_j8quwwi wrote

Daily reminder: No amount of childhood trauma, success or fame excuses being a pedophile. This piece of crap was fucking boys and paying their parents off. He literally dangled his child out of a multi-story building window. Stop bringing this shit head back up and stop acting like his music did nearly as much good as he did bad to the world.

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Active-Sky-M31 t1_j8n1rl3 wrote

50GB, that’s a very large amount of data. Did they steal his .MP3 and .MPEG collection?

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deuceawesome t1_j8nb58u wrote

Something tells me this won't be as popular as the Pamela Anderson sex tape was

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FlowersForAlgorithm t1_j8n45r8 wrote

Could the Michael Jackson story get any more weird?

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[deleted] t1_j8njt2v wrote

It was for his OnlyFreaks account.

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bleachglommer t1_j8mrs8s wrote

Damn if only there was an article where they explain how they stole it (there is, you should read it)

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righteousprovidence t1_j8m8ngi wrote

Some of 2pac's finest works came long after he is dead. I hope the same is the case with MJ

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NoCardio_ t1_j8mh9e5 wrote

Not counting makaveli, what examples do you have? Let me guess, you’re going to say Changes.

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