Michael Joseph Jackson remains one of the most influential and beloved musical savants the nation has ever produced. The man that Motown legend Smokey Robinson called the most complete artist he’d ever seen or worked with revolutionized he way music was produced, packaged and presented to the masses forever.
The King of Pop died on this day four years ago in Bel Air, Calif., just two months shy of his 51st birthday. And as the nation pauses to pay homage to MJ, we select the 10 best covers and samples of Mike’s immortal classics by the artists he influenced and who paid tribute to him in their own way.
