Michael Jackson fuming at Eminem over 'demeaning' video

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Furious Michael Jackson has launched a war of words against US rapper Eminem over his "demeaning and disrespectful" video, which mocks the "King of Pop" and shows him cavorting with children.

Jackson, who is awaiting trial on child molestation charges, wants the rapper's "Just Lose It" video, which shows a Jackson look-alike on a bed surrounded by children, taken off the air, aides said Tuesday.

"Michael is very angry about this video," his spokeswoman Raymone Bain told AFP. "He feels that Eminem has crossed the line; it's one thing to spoof someone, but it's another to be so disrespectful.

"He feels it's inappropriate, insensitive, demeaning and disrespectful and his first priority is to get it pulled from the airwaves," she said....