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Michael Jackson Birthday: 'Block Party' Hosted by Spike Lee

by Blaine Metzgar | August 28, 2009 at 10:31 am

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Michael Jackson's birthday party, taking place August 29 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is slated to have more than 100,000 attendees. The party was organized by acclaimed director Spike Lee who put up $11,000 of his own money for the permit to hold the "block party."

The event will be a “Brooklyn-style block party,” Lee told The Root, an online magazine of black American culture. “It’s going to just be how we do it, Brooklyn style. I’ll leave it at that. It’s going to be a joyous, festive, celebratory party.”

As many as 30,000 people or more may show up to celebrate on the Nethermead, a 15-acre lawn in Prospect Park, said Eugene Patron, a spokesman for the Prospect Park Alliance, the not-for- profit group that manages the park.

Unfortunately the National Weather Service predicts heavy rains and thunderstorms in the area but Lee doesn't seem to care. His company took to Twitter to explicate there's "no sleep 'Til Brooklyn" cause "you gotta fight for your right to party," even if it is with mother nature.