Jamie Foxx Dances the Moonwalk for Michael Jackson

Us Magazine - June 28, 2009 4:57 PM PDT
Story photo: Jamie Foxx Dances the Moonwalk for Michael JacksonJamie Foxx onstage at the 2009 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 28, 2009 in L.A., California John Shearer / Wire ImageUs Magazine
Jamie Foxx paid tribute to the late Michael Jackson while hosting Sunday's BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The show opened with a medley of Jackson 5 hits, including "ABC" and "The Love You Save," as images of Jackson as a child flashed on a screen.

Host Foxx then walked on stage dressed as an 80s era Jackson - complete with the gloves - as "Beat It" blared in the background. He then showed off some of Jackson's signature moves, including Jackson's infamous crotch-grabbing routine.

He then shouted for the audience to clap their hands. "C'mon," he yelled, "for Michael."

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"We are here for the greatest. There's no need to be sad," he told the audience, which included Diddy, Alicia Keys and Kanye West, among others. "We want to celebrate this black man - he belongs to us - and we shared him with everybody else."

"It don't matter what he looked like ... what his nose looked like ... it was what he sounded like," he went on.

"Who was the best?" Foxx then asked the audience. The crowd shouted,"MIchael!"

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Foxx recounted seeing Jackson in concert in 1983 at Texas Stadium.

"Mike comes out ... and grown white men fainted," said Foxx.

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He then did the moonwalk across the stage to honor the singer, who died Thursday at the age of 50 after suffering cardiac arrest.

"I am going to moonwalk for Michael Jackson," Foxx told the crowd. As he worked his way across the stage, the audience went wild.

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  • MICHAELB
    If the shoes don't fit don't try to put them on.SOMETIMES words don't help the cause.
    report abuseposted August 30, 2009 3:35 PM PDT
  • MICHAELB
    If the shoes don't fit don't try to put them on.SOMETIMES words don't help the cause.
    report abuseposted August 30, 2009 3:35 PM PDT
  • llweezie
    JAMIE DID LOOK A GOOD MESS, BLACKS AND WHITES TRY TO SEIZE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP RACISM ALIVE, ITS SAD BUT ITS TRUE, ONE IS JUST AS BAD AS THE OTHER!!!
    report abuseposted August 22, 2009 9:03 PM PDT
  • PHYLLIS
    JAMIE I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU LOOKED AWFUL IN THOSE SKINNY JEANS... MICHAEL LOOKED 20 KAZILLION TIMES BETTER THAN YOU. YOUR USUALLY VERY AMUSING TO ME.I'M LIKE RHIANNA I WAS NOT FEELING YOU. IN MY OPINION IT WAS LIKE MORE EXPLOITATION OF MICHAEL, AND I KNOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY BUT, IT WAS'NT... LATELY YOU HAVE BEEN A BIT SOUR, STEP YOUR GAME BACK UP. YOUR HUMAN, ALLOW CONSTRUC
    report abuseposted August 14, 2009 6:46 AM PDT
  • rebecca
    I dont think jamie fox done anything wrong with anything he said or did, I dont think his so called racial remarks, were out of line,and im white and from the old old south. As far as his moonwalk imitations it was in micheals honor, so leave him alone, he would never have done anything to be disrespectfull.
    report abuseposted August 1, 2009 7:03 PM PDT
  • fozzi
    marion you need to go somewhere wit that jamie foxx did it for everyone i did not hear any boos so put a cork in it please have some respect
    report abuseposted July 5, 2009 3:56 PM PDT
  • fozzi
    marion you need to go somewhere wit that jamie foxx did it for everyone i did not hear any boos so put a cork in it please have some respect
    report abuseposted July 5, 2009 3:56 PM PDT
  • Marion
    I like Jamie Fox, but he was terrible on the BET awards. His performance was not good and his jokes were down right vulgar. I feel in his heart that he was trying to make a tribute to MJ, but he ended up being unprofessional and many times he seem not to have anything to say, so whatever disgusting things that he thought came out of his mouth. He should not have tried to sing any of MJ's
    report abuseposted July 3, 2009 4:36 AM PDT
  • Zeecron
    that fly?
    report abuseposted July 1, 2009 2:42 PM PDT
  • Zeecron
    You have to love Foxx's subtle racist remarks. Saying black folks shared Micheal with the whites was a pretty lame thing to say. I dont think Michael debated on selling any of his albums to whites he wasnt racist. I dont think whites were the only people fainting at his concerts either. What if a white comedian said "Well we just shared the oval office with Obama" how wou
    report abuseposted July 1, 2009 2:29 PM PDT
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