PRINCE creating his own competition with THE TIME-APPRECIATION
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Minneapolis Funk is one of my fav eras in American music.
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And Rick Stole his Look and Stage presence from the lead singer of The Bar-Kays Larry Dodson.good thread, though all acts were trying to blow each other off the stage during live shows.
Watch any documentary or biopic about music act,and you'll see this
Prince was NOTORIOUS for going so far as stealing parts of Rick James' show when he was opening up for him...and RJ wanted to beat his ass over it.
In the 80's, Rick James asked Prince to open up the "Fire Up Tour." James states in his book, "The Confessions Of Rick James, Memoirs Of A Super Freak," that he had yet to meet Prince. The only thing he had heard about him was that he was shy. James had hoped this was false because if he was shy, he had no business being out on the road with him.
James said he walked through the backstage entrance, Prince was sitting on his group's drums playing some bullshyt beat. James sat down and began playing some serious stuff. He said Prince looked over at him and got his little ass up and walked away.
James adds, "Prince was just starting out and the first time I saw Prince and his band open for me, I felt sorry for him. Here's this little dude wearing high heels, standing there in a trench coat. Then at the end of the set, he'd take off his trench coat and he'd be wearing little girl's bloomers. The guys in the audience booed him to death."
The following weeks of the tour weren't very different from the opening date. Whenever I was on stage I'd see Prince on the side of the stage just staring and watching everything I did, like a kid in school.
One day I walked into the auditorium, getting ready to go on and I heard the crowd chanting loudly. I went to check it out. Here's Prince doing my chants. Not only was he stalking the stage like me, he was doing my trademark funk sign, flipping the microphone and everything. The boy had stolen my whole show. I was pissed and so was my band. This went on night after night, every show I'd see more of my routine. It got to the point I couldn't do the stuff I had always done because Prince was doing it before I came on. It started to look like I was copying him.
Everyone knew what was happening, his management, my management. The atmosphere backstage was not improved by the fact that Prince's band members were not on good terms with my band and my guys wanted to kick their asses. Prince's musicians would stick their noses in the air and not even acknowledge the Stone City Band, even if they were all standing together, waiting for the elevator. Prince's group was a bunch of egotistical a$$holes who never even played on a record. The kid did it all, they were just hired players.
One day, things blew up and management called a meeting. I told Prince's manager, that if Prince did any more of my show he was off the tour. Finally, we all met in Prince's room, Prince, me and our bands. Prince's band was afraid, very afraid. Prince sat on the bed and hardly said a word. He acted like a little bytch while his band and mine patched up our differences.
Soon after this episode. There was a birthday party for me. Prince came, he was sitting at a table with some people not drinking. I walked up to him, grabbed him by the back of the hair and poured cognac down his throat. He spit it out like a little bytch and I laughed and walked away. I loved fukking with him like that.
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This thread is making depressed for not having enough time to listen to all this great music
Pit Bull
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Prince them was on some Wu Tang shyt
Prince and Morris stayed with the dope perms...Morris day was/is the truth..
Sadly if the brotha came out today. Folks would deny his talent and spend more time on social media arguing if he really is black due to his skin color or perm....than talking about his music and style (which was a pass down and head nod of the black bravado soul music of the past)...
Also his vocal style from Eddie Levert
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Prince and Morris stayed with the dope perms...
Prince with Morris Day on the drums
Prince would produce songs under alias names so people could stay off his dikk.
Neo TheInsurrectionistONE
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Prince creating Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis when he fired them from the Time 
should be the name of this thread
should be the name of this thread
Prince creating Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis when he fired them from the Time
should be the name of this thread
They got fired making these two blassics
clyma est mort
R.I.P. Eazy-E
Little purple godlike genius man. Prince was my favorite artist on the planet when I was 14 and Purple Rain was cooking, and he hadn’t even put out his best album (Sign O’The Times) at that point.
