{"id":311,"date":"2022-10-20T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:41:05","slug":"watch-mjs-epic-2001-dance-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/2022\/10\/20\/watch-mjs-epic-2001-dance-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch MJ&#8217;s Epic 2001 Dance-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Jackson, better known as \u201cThe King of Pop,&#8221; celebrated the 30 year anniversary of his solo career in 2001 with a star-studded concert special. MJ was joined on stage by famous names from the early 2000s and beyond. However, one of the more noteworthy (and iconic) moments of the two-night special was when comedian Chris Tucker and R&amp;B Prince, Usher, joined MJ on stage during his performance of &#8216;You Rock My World.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Michael Jackson and Usher were surprised by a guest while having a dance off <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2CBGzXDPBT\">pic.twitter.com\/2CBGzXDPBT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historyinmemes\/status\/1581317851046375425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The King of Pop performed a two hour concert special at Madison Square Garden on September 7 and 10, 2001. The recorded show was later aired on CBS. The concert special was in celebration of Michael\u2019s 30th year as a solo performer. The special was a combination of both nights\u2019 performances and was watched by 30 million viewers when it was broadcasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both nights featured A-list guests, who introduced or performed alongside Michael. These star-studded guests included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qU9zLIcXtbo\" title=\"\">Marc Anthony<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bqu4p8UGgus\" title=\"\">Whitney Houston<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJxixyRQZXs\" title=\"\">Britney Spears<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=shAaRtHQqWg\" title=\"\">Missy Elliot<\/a>. But MJ\u2019s second night gave the world an unforgettable closing performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comedian Chris Tucker and R&amp;B artist Usher came out to dance with Michael during his closing song, &#8216;You Rock My World.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usher came out moonwalking and kept up dancing with MJ from there. And Chris, well, he tries his best to give a solid impression of some signature Michael moves. MJ\u2019s reaction to the comedian\u2019s attempts are priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/category\/video\/\" title=\"\">Click here to watch more history videos!<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relive Michael Jackson&#8217;s star-studded concert special celebrating the 30 year anniversary of his solo career, featuring a dance-off with Chris Tucker and Usher!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37,33,34,31,36,32,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mj-dance-off.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyinmemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}