Breaking: PRINCE DEAD AT 57

Lucky7s

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Man my mom still hasn't returned my text earlier. :smh:
Man I think we all should probably hit up our mothers. We are all basically the same age and Prince was already a legend back then. It is Crazy to think that this man has been a legend my entire existence.
HEAD...ALBUM DIRTY MIND...1981
Youngsters,

Ask your Dad, Uncles or if you super young Grand-Dad about this mutha fucka, when it was out in the clubs?

Anybody old enough to remember being in the clubs at this time. The party was a real party. And this joint got females up on the floor.

PRINCE had some music for every emotion and desire you felt or wanted!

This may surprise a lot of folks but, most black folks born in the 50s (same age as Prince) were not IN to Prince's music. He had a couple of funk bangers but, he didn't really get a whole LOT of play because of his image.

It was all about Rick James from 1978-1983. I can't name a single friend of my parents, nor their siblings (my aunts and uncles) that had Prince on steady rotation. People came around for Kiss in 1986, it was more mainstream and tolearble. Prince had image issues out of this world with his black peer group, it hurt him a lil' bit but he ain't give a fuck. Black folks was loyal as fuck to Michael Jackson up until the "Bad" 1987 era...

FB Post I came across:

They immediately removed Prince music from the Spotify downloading streaming devices...
Reading the timelines not really knowing wtf folks were talkin about until i tuned into MTV and see the music tribute thats going on... Ya'll can call it a conspiracy theory or wateva but i feel that murder is the case due to the fact that he removed himself from a label meaning a tagged slave of the industry. That rebirth marked a new era as the ability for Prince to terminate master recording copyrights after 35 years and was granted in the Copyright Revision Act of 1976 and became effective in 1978, the year that Prince's debut album came out. He owned everything of his personal body and dem devils will find a way to get rid of you once theyre hands stop being greased. Micheal and Prince told the truth about the Masses and the industry now therye both gone...
Rest In Paradise Roger " Prince" Nelson.

I'm sorry, they killed Prince ... There's no way that he just finalized the deal to gain majority control of his whole catalog .. Then he just up and dies ..... Nope I'm not stupid don't y'all believe this shit. They Killed The King They Killed The Queen now they've Killed the Prince

Prince been looking bad for years...he knew he was on his last legs. Dude coulda had terminal cancer or some shit for all we know. But TPTB will slander him with the monster to tarnish his legacy.

 

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Man, this hasn't sunken in for me yet and I'm still sad. I can't believe it. Witnessed his halftime performance live at the Super Bowl in Miami, in a steady downpour, Pure Greatness. Rest In Paradise. The Beautiful Ones tops my list of many favorites.
 

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This may surprise a lot of folks but, most black folks born in the 50s (same age as Prince) were not IN to Prince's music. He had a couple of funk bangers but, he didn't really get a whole LOT of play because of his image.

It was all about Rick James from 1978-1983. I can't name a single friend of my parents, nor their siblings (my aunts and uncles) that had Prince on steady rotation. People came around for Kiss in 1986, it was more mainstream and tolearble. Prince had image issues out of this world with his black peer group, it hurt him a lil' bit but he ain't give a fuck. Black folks was loyal as fuck to Michael Jackson up until the "Bad" 1987 era...





Prince been looking bad for years...he knew he was on his last legs. Dude coulda had terminal cancer or some shit for all we know. But TPTB will slander him with the monster to tarnish his legacy.


I don't know if that's true but I was in to Prince and Rick at the Parliament Funkadelic thing..

If it was funky and meaningful oh we was in it..

Was nothing like getting lifted and sitting in the dark listening to Prince.


I saw him last year at the United Center and then at the after party at the House of Blues......shows was slammin and he didn't look bad to me.

Janelle Monáe opened for him....

Irony is that Vanity who died earlier this year was also 57 when she passed
 

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This may surprise a lot of folks but, most black folks born in the 50s (same age as Prince) were not IN to Prince's music. He had a couple of funk bangers but, he didn't really get a whole LOT of play because of his image.

It was all about Rick James from 1978-1983. I can't name a single friend of my parents, nor their siblings (my aunts and uncles) that had Prince on steady rotation. People came around for Kiss in 1986, it was more mainstream and tolearble. Prince had image issues out of this world with his black peer group, it hurt him a lil' bit but he ain't give a fuck. Black folks was loyal as fuck to Michael Jackson up until the "Bad" 1987 era...

I don't know fam... My mom and her friends were 50s kids and they all loved Prince when he came out. My mom and her sisters are still group texting about this. I had to click myself off the group text to get work done.
 

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Prince removed his music from all streaming sources and partnered with tidal
 

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Just had to come back in here man. As you listen to his music off and on throughout the day.I just remember us being about eight or nine same time as Mike was tearing it up.We were like dam Prince a weird dude and never really listened to him even tho our uncles had all his shit on vinyl.. But once we got in our teens ....shiiiit.... Prince was that dude..... He truly will be missed. Got a few legends left but damn I'm scared to speak their names lol.Damn.... I remember I'd thought plenty times since Mike died glad Prince doing good.... Dam. R.I.P. never miss someone till their gone.
 

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I don't know if that's true but I was in to Prince and Rick at the Parliament Funkadelic thing..

If it was funky and meaningful oh we was in it..

Was nothing like getting lifted and sitting in the dark listening to Prince.

I don't know fam... My mom and her friends were 50s kids and they all loved Prince when he came out. My mom and her sisters are still group texting about this. I had to click myself off the group text to get work done.

I'm damn near 40 myself. My parents right at 60...Prince was a well KNOWN artist but he wasn't necessarily the type of jernt to get no ack right at da neighborhood spades night if you catch my drift. Most folks assumed he was into men because of his image. Y'all forget how severe homophobia was back then...granted, R&B groups started rocking eyeliner, makeup and soft curly hair by the mid-late 80s but...Prince was a trend-setter. He got the most shit for his look which took away from the impact of his sound, especially down South.

Aside from "Do Me Baby" his first singles didn't get as much attention as Rick James' singles. Purple Rain brought a lot of folks around...Kiss and 1999 brought even more conservative blacks around but by then he had changed his image and other artists were wearing makeup and heeled boots.

If you ask me, Michael bleached and started wearing eyeliner in 1986 to emulate Prince (light skin envy or self hate), not because he had no damned skin disease. All them Jacksons was some self-hating mofos.

michael-jackson-prince-podcast-the-juice-billboard-650.jpg


Just my personal opinion. MJ could have just as easily wore brown makeup on his hands neck and face to even himself out. I also found it weird that MJ named both of his sons PRINCE...despite his claim that it was his grandfather's name or whatever.

MJ claims he rejected a Captain EO feature-length movie but, I don't think he could handle being compared to Purple Rain for his own musical film.
 
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This may surprise a lot of folks but, most black folks born in the 50s (same age as Prince) were not IN to Prince's music. He had a couple of funk bangers but, he didn't really get a whole LOT of play because of his image.

It was all about Rick James from 1978-1983. I can't name a single friend of my parents, nor their siblings (my aunts and uncles) that had Prince on steady rotation. People came around for Kiss in 1986, it was more mainstream and tolearble. Prince had image issues out of this world with his black peer group, it hurt him a lil' bit but he ain't give a fuck. Black folks was loyal as fuck to Michael Jackson up until the "Bad" 1987 era...





Prince been looking bad for years...he knew he was on his last legs. Dude coulda had terminal cancer or some shit for all we know. But TPTB will slander him with the monster to tarnish his legacy.
^^^...and/or whatever pulmonary issues as a result of them early & mid 80s kats going hard on the "partying" shit....

I felt he had a certain hardcore cult/punk rock type of following from his true, core fan base down with him since the late 70s - when he used to rock just a jock strap & the trench coat, singing DoMeBaby a few yrs b4 M'elissaMorgan got her shot @ it in 85.
I was younger, not with the funnystyle looking shit, wasn't really checking for the lyrics neither & definitely not appreciating the musicianship genius of that lil screaming, writing, performing assed, heal wearing lil pinch of a dude.

But that Adore, RasberryBerrea & the whole album from there on in '88 had me listening more closely.
 

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Lot of money being generated of Prince music right now on iTunes and elsewhere. Im just saying....

Hate to bring up the conspiracy shit...but things like that need to be observed.


So you expect people not to buy music from people who just pass away?

Cats always looking for something.
 

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He truly will be missed. Got a few legends left but damn I'm scared to speak their names lol.Damn.... I remember I'd thought plenty times since Mike died glad Prince doing good.... Dam. R.I.P. never miss someone till their gone.

I hate to say this because predicting death is sinister but...given what we know about legacy record sales, it seems the most vile muthafuckas (pedos, rapists, theives) lived the longest from the 60s and 70s and all the nice folks dead as a doornail. (Whitney, MJ, Prince, etc).
 

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aliciakeys Prince was a gift, a genius and a reminder that we have no limits.

Perhaps the most tremendous thing Prince showed us is how music can be the closest expression of freedom. His songs defied all the rules and taught us to let go of boundaries placed on us by the world and by each other.

The only person who can keep chains around us and box us up is ourselves. He never gave in. I'm grateful for his example. I'm that much more free because of Prince.

I hope he's found his place where he can create endless magic, mystery and music forever. The power in his songs moved me always. His music left me changed forever. I've said this before and I'll say it again, there is only one Prince.







  • miguel Thank you for inspiring us all and thank for paving the way for artists like me. I'll never forget you asking me to sing Purple Rain in DC. Party up brother, you did it. #GOAT#ripprince



 

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Man i gotta catch up to this thread, but maaaaayne the "'spiracy theories"are already flying. a mfkr at my job said "flu-like" symptoms is to cover the "real illness." "Prince knew his time was coming, he was in and out of the hospital and this last time he finally got the news that he had 'IT.'".... then he hit me with the "think about it brother." "how does he go from performing in concert to dead just like *snaps* that? Easy (E) had it and look how quick it took him?"....

Man, I can't believe or even hear that shit...but I do find it odd he was in and out of the hospital the past 4-5 months. taking a bunch of over the counter medicines but still couldn't shake "the flu".but then again, when it's time.....it's time.
 

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http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/

The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned. He was 57.

Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning.

Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed.

The singer -- full name Prince Rogers Nelson -- had a medical emergency on April 15th that forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois. But he appeared at a concert the next day to assure his fans he was okay. His people told TMZ he was battling the flu.



Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/#ixzz46TtHRiSm
Damn, RIP
 

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I'm damn near 40 myself. My parents right at 60...Prince was a well KNOWN artist but he wasn't necessarily the type of jernt to get no ack right at da neighborhood spades night if you catch my drift. Most folks assumed he was into men because of his image. Y'all forget how severe homophobia was back then...granted, R&B groups started rocking eyeliner, makeup and soft curly hair by the mid-late 80s but...Prince was a trend-setter. He got the most shit for his look which took away from the impact of his sound, especially down South.

Aside from "Do Me Baby" his first singles didn't get as much attention as Rick James' singles. Purple Rain brought a lot of folks around...Kiss and 1999 brought even more conservative blacks around but by then he had changed his image and other artists were wearing makeup and heeled boots.

If you ask me, Michael bleached and started wearing eyeliner in 1986 to emulate Prince (light skin envy or self hate), not because he had no damned skin disease. All them Jacksons was some self-hating mofos.

michael-jackson-prince-podcast-the-juice-billboard-650.jpg


Just my personal opinion. MJ could have just as easily wore brown makeup on his hands neck and face to even himself out.

We never thought he was into men cause he always had the baddest chicks jockin him.

Nah he wasn't no party music for the most part, he was that sitting around getting lifted or driving music.

Just like Biggie was to party but Pac was to think...Nas Jay

Again you just wasn't around cause as i said earlier

Dude played all his own instruments on his first album

Jimmy Jam and terry lewis got their start with him..

The Time

Jerome Johnson..

if you haven't already listened check out that cut with Cornel I posted..

Prince was a free black man that fought..

And he was deep in to Dr Henry Clark
 

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^^^...and/or whatever pulmonary issues as a result of them early & mid 80s kats going hard on the "partying" shit....

I felt he had a certain hardcore cult/punk rock type of following from his true, core fan base down with him since the late 70s - when he used to rock just a jock strap & the trench coat, singing DoMeBaby a few yrs b4 M'elissaMorgan got her shot @ it in 85.
I was younger, not with the funnystyle looking shit, wasn't really checking for the lyrics neither & definitely not appreciating the musicianship genius of that lil screaming, writing, performing assed, heal wearing lil pinch of a dude.

But that Adore, RasberryBerrea & the whole album from there on in '88 had me listening more closely.

I thought Prince wasn't really into dope like that though? I understood as a teen/early 20s he dibbled and dabbled but by and large was a clean cat...I mean you never really know a person. He had a childhood history of seizures...and them Jehovah's Witnesses don't allow all medical treatments.

I will say, by the time the early 90s rolled around and I became a trained musician myself (school band) I saw the genius of Prince's musicality...given he didn't read sheet music, he was an innovator. He said Miles Davis taught him about how to use "space" in music to create a sound...that the mere ABSENCE of a sound could create a work of art.

I'm in shock...I haven't been a hardcore fan in 20 years but shit, I grew up on his music fa sho.
 

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Hunting for Prince's vault

By Mobeen AzharBBC, Minneapolis
  • 20 March 2015
  • From the sectionMagazine
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What's the difference between a stalker and a super-fan?
There is the popstar Prince, the androgynous, multi-instrumentalist who sings about sex and spirituality in the same breath. And then there is Prince the enigma. It's this second Prince that has created a great pop-culture mystery - the story of a vault holding thousands of unreleased songs.

Prince grew up in Minneapolis and that's still where he records most of his music. Following the success of his blockbuster Purple Rain in 1984 he was able to build his own recording utopia, Paisley Park.

Since then, much of Prince's music has been recorded within its walls, making it a place of pilgrimage for fans. The building is at the centre of one particular legend - the idea that if Prince was to die tomorrow, he has so much unreleased music, he could release an album a year for the next 100 years.

Does it exist?
I've been hearing about the legendary vault for years. Some say it's an urban myth. Others claim to have actually seen it. Susan Rogers, Prince's former sound engineer sets the record straight.

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What is in it?
Prince once described his creativity as a curse, explaining: "If I didn't make music, I'd die." He records something almost every day.

Hans Martin-Buff, Prince's engineer from 1996-2000: I remember someone asking Prince why he was working on a weekend. He laughed and said, 'This might be work for Hans, but it's not work for me.' I never knew I had a day off, until the day had passed. I carried a pager. It could beep at any time of the day or night. If Prince wanted to record, I would set everything up and he would go for it. He'd move from drums to bass to guitar to keys and vocals. He could start working on a song from scratch and have it completely mixed within one session. It was completely normal to work through the night. In the same way that most people have a conversation about their day, Prince creates music. It's effortless for him.

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Eric Leeds, a saxophonist who's performed with Prince on and off for three decades: We would just go into the studio and jam every night and just record everything. We worked on a whole bunch of instrumentals and Prince threw it all to me and said, "Make me an album." I actually sequenced the record. There was one 45-minute jam called Junk Music. The project was going to be called The Flesh and it was the greatest thing in the world in Prince's mind. That lasted about three days. Then Prince got bored and the record got shelved. There's no question about his speed. In 2004 we made an album called NEWS which did make it to release. That entire album was recorded pretty much as you hear it. It probably took an hour.

Susan Rogers recalls Prince's real-life heartbreak being the inspiration for a particularly magical night of recording: He came into studio and recorded this ballad. It starts with spoken word. Prince is speaking to Wally, a dancer in his crew. He's telling him, "I want go out tonight and meet someone new." He goes into this chorus. It's beautiful, just beautiful. There's a crescendo. The song gets huge. It breaks down. He says, "I'm not going out any more." The background vocal arrangements, the expression of it was just gorgeous. Of course he played all the instruments. We finished recording the song and then Prince said to me, "Erase it."' He said it very calmly. I could feel the fan in me screaming "No!" I said, "Think about it. Wait til tomorrow at least." He reached over and hit record. He erased it. It was gone.

There was perhaps a four-year period where every song he would record would make me think, "This is the greatest thing he's ever done." Projects would just bleed into one another. There was Crystal Ball and Dream Factory and at one point he was saving songs for a kind of super-album called The Dawn. Before we'd go on tour I would take a map and plot out a route so I could mark where the closest recording studios would be. It was common for Prince to want to record after performing for two or three hours. He'd either do an after show or go into a studio to record."

How much is there?
Speaking to those who have been in the studio with Prince, it soon became apparent that only a small amount of recorded work has been released.

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Brent Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who has collaborated with Prince since the 80s: "I think over 70% of the music we've worked on for Prince is yet to be released. There are lot of songs that were sent to us clearly with the idea that they would never be released. They were almost comical songs that he would work out with his horn players. There was lot of wild horn parts and experimentation with samples."

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Alan Leeds, Prince's former manager recalls a conversation with Prince in the early 90s in which Prince said he'd "just burn everything" one day. But there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of the vault too. Prince himself has teased fans, name-checking unreleased songs in his album liner notes and suggesting they could be released at "a later date". In 2012, he released a YouTube clip of new guitarist Donna Grantis auditioning to be part of his band. The clip ended with the text: "Every good thing in the vault… coming 2013." But of course 2013 passed without the flood of music that was promised.

Since his debut, Prince has released an average of one album a year, with two full-length releases coming out on the same day in 2014. But many fans and musical historians want to put together the missing pieces of the Prince puzzle. Only then will anyone be able to truly grasp the breadth of his creative energies.

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This may surprise a lot of folks but, most black folks born in the 50s (same age as Prince) were not IN to Prince's music. He had a couple of funk bangers but, he didn't really get a whole LOT of play because of his image.

It was all about Rick James from 1978-1983. I can't name a single friend of my parents, nor their siblings (my aunts and uncles) that had Prince on steady rotation. People came around for Kiss in 1986, it was more mainstream and tolearble. Prince had image issues out of this world with his black peer group, it hurt him a lil' bit but he ain't give a fuck. Black folks was loyal as fuck to Michael Jackson up until the "Bad" 1987 era...





Prince been looking bad for years...he knew he was on his last legs. Dude coulda had terminal cancer or some shit for all we know. But TPTB will slander him with the monster to tarnish his legacy.

Peace 7,

I agree with you about Rick James being the man and on fire.

I grew up in Detroit and in Detroit people loved MJ and Rick James. But the mutha fuckas who was down with Prince was all the way. And Prince would rock the town whenever he came to perform. "Soft and Wet"and "Sexy Dancer" were early jams that brought alot of people into the Prince Camp.

The "Dirty Mind" album in 1980 had more of a punk-rock funk feel. It was raw as a bitch, but pure genius. The cut WHEN YOU WERE MINE" sexual overtone but nothing as strong as the other album cuts.

Then when "Controversy" hit in 1981. PRINCE came back super raw but with growth in this playing and songwriting. That brought alot of people in but alienated some but "DO ME BABY" was a ballad I heard played all over. (For the old school Detroit heads) The Climax, Lands-down, Watts-Club Mozambique, Studio 54, Cheeks, UBQ, The Lady, Big Man's and Babes. And he had "LET'S WORK" a straight up get on the floor and party jam. This drew alot of new people in and cemented his fan base.

Then when PRINCE came back in 1982 with "1999" this was in my opinion his masterpiece. With 1999, Little Red Corvette, DMSR and International Lover. All songs heard on every mainstream dance floor and all over the radio. The album had not one song to skip. Just drop the needle and let it play.

This album brought the grandma, granddads, uncles, aunts and others who might have felt PRINCE was to wild and raw for their taste. This blew PRINCE to the moon.

I will agree the person who was buying "OFF THE WALL" was probably not the same demographic for "DIRTY MIND". Just like those who checking for a new nippsey hustle release probably ain't sitting on the edge of their seat for new material from the "R" and visa versa.

But good music is good music and it crosses all types of barriers and age being one of them. So, your Aunt Lula or Uncle Bobby 65 + still smoking fire and sipp'in on something was probably fuck'in with MJ, Rick James, Parliament, Leon Haywood, Al Green and yes PRINCE from day 1.
 
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Dude just walked in the Warriors game like he owned the place just a few weeks ago.
Still can't believe it.



Man, he OWNED whatever room, arena...building he walked in!! That mfkr just had that "it factor." The confidence in his walk and (I hate how this word has been over used into oblivion), swag....he walked in like "I'm the shit" everywhere, haha
 

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I thought Prince wasn't really into dope like that though? I understood as a teen/early 20s he dibbled and dabbled but by and large was a clean cat...I mean you never really know a person. He had a childhood history of seizures...and them Jehovah's Witnesses don't allow all medical treatments.

I will say, by the time the early 90s rolled around and I became a trained musician myself (school band) I saw the genius of Prince's musicality...given he didn't read sheet music, he was an innovator. He said Miles Davis taught him about how to use "space" in music to create a sound...that the mere ABSENCE of a sound could create a work of art.

I'm in shock...I haven't been a hardcore fan in 20 years but shit, I grew up on his music fa sho.
Iono wtf that man did or did not do...I'm just saying what I was sayin.....
^^^This to the t^^^^^ but a few yrs earlier, even though while learning more music & playing @ higher levels, I was also being exposed to Purple Rain by his hardcover junkie type of fans giddy off of him doing the Prince.

Same here but his PimpHand was so strong, trying to find those joints from "88 are damn near impossile as well as impressive.
Grad & Biz school footnote impressive
 

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May his legacy continue to be untarnished, his contribution to music continue into the ages, and lastly may the brother rest in peace!! Thanks for doing it your way.
 

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Man, he OWNED whatever room, arena...building he walked in!! That mfkr just had that "it factor." The confidence in his walk and (I hate how this word has been over used into oblivion), swag....he walked in like "I'm the shit" everywhere, haha

Its style! Mutha fucka can follow all types of trends. Kats with style continue to be themselves.
 
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