As he passed away only four days ago in his Paisley Park home in Minnesota, Chuck D commemorates Prince on CNN sharing the experiences of working with this maestro.
“It’s like when you put [him] in the vernacular of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. For Black folks, he meant everything in the last 50 years to us because he signifies the sign of times in the past, present and future,” Chuck D states.
Prince’s record “Undisputed” features the Public Enemy member and appeared on Prince’s 1999 album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. Cedric the Entertainer recalls the time he first met Prince in one of his shows.
“Later on in my dressing room somebody came in and was like ‘Prince was in the audience. He heard that joke,'” Cedric says. ”
And then he sends a note and tells me he’s inviting me to Paisley Park and all that. It was just crazy. I couldn’t believe he was just sitting in the audience over there in the corner and saw. Since then I’ve been invited to the house several times.” Watch the video for full stories of Chuck D and Cedric the Entertainer on working with Prince.