Pharrell Williams says that Michael Jackson was the “king of catching you off guard.”
Remembering the first time he met Jackson, Williams said on Apple Music.
“I met him two times. Talk about mind control, he was a genius! We get into the trailer, it’s a two story trailer, the trailer has stairs!”
“He comes in, he’s tall, standing there, two beautiful women walk in,” Pharrell explains. “He kisses one. It’s a moment!” Williams went on. “It ain’t like no peck, it’s a situation. [The women] look Brazilian, and I’m like, ‘Wow!’ He’s the king of catching you off guard.”
Williams then remembered the second time he heard from Jackson, when he was working with Justin Timberlake and a call came in.
“The [first] meeting was supposed to be for us to meet to talk about music, and the songs that he turned down, I don’t think he realized that I was going to give those songs to Justin,” Williams said. “So I’m in the studio with Justin, and they say, ‘Got a call for you on line 1, it’s Michael Jackson.”
“So I’m thinking it’s one of my friends trying to be funny. And I heard someone eating popcorn in my ear, that’s how I know that it’s him. He’s the king of control, I think he invented it! He’s like, ‘Hey, okay, you working with Justin? Ah that’s really nice, okay cool, well you guys have a great session, tell Justin I said, ‘Hello,”” Williams continued. “And Justin was like, ‘Who was that? Michael? Yeah he does that.'”