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Yes. He was the first Black pop artist to make it anywhere,like he said after Sony dumped him, black aritists have been taken advatage of and have not made it very far because of their skin color. Michael was the first black artist to be inducted into the Rockstar hall of fame and the first to be featured on MTV

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