After it was announced in June that Vibe magazine was shutting down due to a huge fall in sales, its founder Quincy Jones vowed that he would buy back the magazine and relaunch it as an online venture. Well, Quincy no longer has to worry because the publishing company which backs Uptown magazine has stepped in and saved the day! The publication will relaunch later this year and will now hit newsstands every three months.

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Now that Michael Jackson is dead everyone close to him is letting it all out, from his addiction to prescription drugs and most recent his issue with his appearance. For years the world has questioned whether the late legend really had a skin disease which brought on the whitening of his black skin. Well, Quincy Jones has let the cat out of the bag claiming that Michael’s ass lied about having vitiligo. Quincy insists that Michael purposely bleached his skin because he didn’t like being black! WOW! He says,

“You’re justifying something that’s destructive to your existence. But when somebody’s hell-bent on it, you can’t stop them. What his face turned into is ridiculous. Chemical peels and all of it. And I don’t understand it. But he obviously didn’t want to be black. You see his kids?”

Quincy also explains that he never quite understood why Michael had such a problem with his appearance.

“He’d come up with, ‘Man, I promise you I have this disease,’ and so forth, and ‘I have a blister on my lungs,’ and all that. It’s hard, because Michael’s a Virgo, man, he’s very set in his ways. You can’t talk him out of it. Adding, “I’m just a musician and a record producer. I’m not a psychiatrist. I don’t understand all that stuff. We all got problems.”

Seriously, with friends like Quincy, who needs enemies?! Quincy is saying what we’ve all been thinking for years, but last time I checked his ass doesn’t even wife up, let alone impregnate BLACK women…look at his children!