Theo Von

Yeah, the government said it was too unsafe for him to come, but he wanted to come and be around the people.

Let me see.

Rio de Janeiro, 1996.

Spike Lee's camera pans across the hills of Dona Marta, a favela clinging to the city's slopes.

Michael Jackson has come to shoot his video, but the setting, a far cry from Hollywood Studios, is no ordinary set.

The governor of Rio is against it.

The police refuse to set foot in Dona Marta, and yet the cameras roll.

That had to be pretty brave, bro.

I mean, to be that loved...

Did it say that they looked out for him?

I would imagine so.

So when Michael Jackson arrives in Rio to shoot in a favela, it's not the mayor or the governor who has the final say, it's Marcino VP.

The man hunted by police is also the one who ensures the King of Pop's safety.

So he was the head of one of the most powerful criminal factions in the city.

Charismatic and ruthless, Marcino had established himself in a world where hierarchy is carved out, carved in fear and cemented by weapons.

What set him apart from other Hillbosses was a strange intellectual depth, almost unsettling for a man at war with the established order.

It's just pretty wild that he went and shot that there.

Yeah, it does.

But I think he... Why did we even start talking about this?

Do you remember?