For Michael Jackson, the Unkindest Cut? : Radio: A Jermaine Jackson song, aired on several stations across the country, criticizes his brother for allegedly altering his skin color and obtaining plastic surgery.

Two more members of the battling Jackson family are duking it out on radio stations in Los Angeles and New York.

Just as a bootlegged cut from superstar Michael Jackson’s long-awaited “Dangerous” album hit the airwaves over the weekend, a recording by older brother Jermaine was heard taking shots at Michael’s efforts over the years to alter his looks.

An unauthorized version of Michael’s “Black or White,” a song about racial harmony that was not officially due to be released until Monday, began airing on several radio stations across the nation late Saturday. A bootleg of his older brother’s “Word to the Badd” song mysteriously showed up at the same stations on the same day.

The songs were played back-to-back on Los Angeles’ KPWR-FM (105.9) and on co-owned sister station WQHT-FM in New York.

Jermaine’s song features a caustic lyric indicting Michael for allegedly altering his skin color and obtaining plastic surgery.

A spokesman for Michael’s record label called the release of Jermaine’s song a “malicious publicity stunt.”

Sample lyrics from “Word to the Badd:”

Once you were made

You changed your shade

Was your color wrong

Could not turn back

It’s a known fact

You’re too far gone . . . .

Reconstructed

Been Abducted

Don’t know who you are

Think they love you

They don’t know you

Lonely superstar . . . .

LaMonte Boles, vice president of operations at LaFace Records, said he had “no idea” how the pirated “Badd” tape arrived at radio stations the same day as the Michael Jackson release.

Jermaine Jackson, 37, could not be reached for comment, but explained the song Monday in a statement released by his publicist.

“ ‘Word to the Badd’ is a song which comes from my heart,” the statement read, “and it doesn’t detract from the fact that I love my brother.”

Michael Jackson also could not be reached for comment. But Glen Brunman, vice president of media and artist development at Epic Records--the company Jackson records for--called the timing of the release of “Badd” “a deliberate, blatant and malicious publicity stunt that should disgust fans.”

KPWR program director Rick Cummings said he received the “Badd” cassette tape in an unidentified envelope on Saturday and began playing it immediately.

“The song is obviously aimed at Michael,” Cummings said. “It’s intriguing. Jermaine takes him to task for living in an unreal world and for abandoning his family. I don’t think the message is just sour grapes. It seems to implore him to come back to reality.”

WQHT-FM program director Judy Ellis said the response to the two records has been “phenomenal.”

“Our listeners love the songs being played together,” Ellis said. “It’s almost like having the (Jackson) brothers talking to each other.”

A different version of “Word to the Badd” appears on Jermaine Jackson’s new album, “You Said,” which was released last week by LaFace Records, an independent Atlanta-based label distributed by Arista Records. The version being played on the radio was recorded last summer but edited at Jackson’s request before being included on the album.

An 11-minute short film of “Black or White”--directed by John Landis and featuring appearances by Macaulay Culkin, George Wendt and Bart Simpson--is scheduled to premiere on Nov. 14 on Fox Television.

Jermaine is the latest member of the famous Jackson clan to air his grievances about a family member in public. La Toya, whose nude photos appear in the November issue of Playboy magazine, recently released a vindictive tell-all autobiography and appeared on talk shows accusing her father of physically abusing many of her siblings, including superstars Michael and Janet.