The song was originally intended as a duo by means of longtime rival Prince. It's concerning this kid from a bad neighbourhood who gets to go absent to a private school. He comes back to the old neighbourhood when he's on a break from school and the kids from the neighbourhood start giving him problem. Jackson portrays a boy named Daryl who has just finished a winning word at an luxurious private school. He returns to the metropolis by coach and then subway, inward in a derelict neighbourhood.

Daryl arrives to find his house empty (his mother is played by Roberta Flack, albeit in voiceover), other than is greeted by his old friends, led by Small Max (an emerging Wesley Snipes) and spends an evening with them. At first relations are welcoming, if slightly awkward, but the situation deteriorates once the rest of the gang realise how a great deal Daryl has distorted, and in particular how uncomfortable he has become with their tendencies towards petty crime. Enraged, Daryl takes the gang to a subway station where he attempts to mug an elderly man other than bottles out at the last minute.

His insistence so as to Pass with flying colors is headed intended for a fall are nearly his undoing, but finally his friend accepts so as to "that's the method it goes downward", and, after a final handshake, heads rotten with his gang. The scene shifts rear to black and pallid as Daryl, alone plus rear in his tracksuit, watches them go away. S. Country melody artist Beam Stevens recorded a cover of the song on his 1988 album I Never Complete a Evidence I Didn't Like.

Stevens' account features an impersonation of Michael Jackson. This mp3 was covered in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoon King Mario of Cramalot in its orignial run other than was removed after the demonstrate was given up for lost owing to licensing issues.

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