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Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. If you've heard the story, then you've heard it from the beginning. I was born in the summer of 1965, a Sagittarius in the country of Barbados. Mom was a Gemini, and I was an Air sign...

Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. Now, it all started out in a town called Gary. I was born and raised there, my mom was a line cook, and my dad was a manager at a paint company. I had two brothers and a sister. My mom worked hard to take care of my brothers and sister, as well as take care of me. We were poor but had a happy family. Well, like most family's back then, my mom had her problems. I had my problems. My mom didn't want anything to do with my problems. My dad, he didn't really know what to do about my problems. So I started to take a lot of the fall-outs on myself. But all of that, it changed when the big city came knocking on my family's door...

Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. Now, I know that most of you probably already heard the story, but for those who haven't, please allow me to enlighten.

I come from a long line of people who were basically entertainers. My family goes way back and I'm the sixth generation of entertainers, so naturally, I got it from my mom's side of the family. We were basically singers. Back in the day, you know, in the early 1900s, there was this group of singers called The Five Little Peppers and they were my uncles. And one day, my mom said, "We're going to do something new. We're going to call ourselves The Jackson 5 and we're going to be singers." My mother was six months pregnant and she was like, "Well, what's your name going to be?" And they said, "Well, we got a good idea for the name, you know, James." My father went off and said, "Well, we got a good name. We'll call you Michael." So we named the family, the six of us, Michael, LaToya, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and myself.

We started performing together, the five of us. And, you know, the rest is just history.

Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. Now as for my family tree, I'm the youngest in a family of five. My brothers are older, and they can't seem to find a job. And my little sister is getting real crazy, I'm gonna tell you how crazy. Now once I got the chance to go to college, I went all the way. At North Carolina Central University, I majored in political science. And I became an accountant. Oh yeah, did my time at the work, kept my head down, just working my plan, making a lot of money, getting my stripes, so I could retire to this hell hole. Now I am the mayor of this city called Bel Air, I live at 311 Bel Air Grove, and I drive a 2000 Cadillac. Now I'm so extravagant, I even get my own rainbow, but they don't ask for my autograph. Now I want you to know that this house is my office, where the meetings are held, and the deals are done. And my house is my laboratory, where I let my people go insane. And now I want you to know that this garden party, or whatever the hell it is, is at seven o'clock tonight. So I have to be there! I have to be there! If you'd like, you can come to my office and watch me sign the checks, that's where I keep them. And if you'd like, I will sign my name for you. But you have to be on time, you have to be on budget, and you have to be ready, to get down with the work. And do it now.

Now I'm so extravagant, I even have my own rainbow.

I used to sing this song with my friends Michael Jackson and Kenny Rogers