hit singles from the album Bad, (the first a time a recording artist achieved this feat) and was his seventh number-one single overall. The song was originally intended as a duet with longtime rival Prince. Quincy Jones, in an interview included in the special edition of Bad, said that Prince told Jackson and him that he had not wanted to participate because "it would be a hit without (him)". In his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk, Jackson wrote: 'Bad' is a song about the street. It’s about ...