think not only in new york and los angeles will appreciate but also somedown town in the mid-west that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv? because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? [ music playing ] >> he's a person of color sand and he shouldn't have kilometre i don't believe in that. what i do i don't want it labeled black or white. i want it labelled as music. [ music playing [ music playing ] >> 1983, mo-town has a big tv special mo--towns anniversary. at that time thriller is out and "thriller" is doing well, but michael jackson couldn't get "billy jean" on mtv.