Convince me why I should like Prince. Not even over MJ but just in general.

[Techniec]

I can't really fukk with his 90s shyt but in the 80s he was unquestionably second only to Michael

Honestly just listen to every album he dropped from his debut until 88 ish, that Batman album was when he fell off

 

[Taadow]

Anyway (I got time today):

Prince is the artist/talent who should not exist. But not only did he exist, he excelled.

Just on paper, Prince is a:

- short
- skinny
- light-skinded
- sensitive
- soft-spoken
- Midwestern

…nicca, who was trying to be a rock star, in the 70s/80s.
That was a tall task…but he did it.

And he defied genres.
You could go to a Prince show and get a whole show of the guitar rock jams,
or a whole show of the new wave hits, or a whole show of funk.
One thing people slept on about Prince imo is just how much rapping he did,
especially before hip-hop was the force it is right now.

I think the fact that he was so versatile is ironically why people can’t understand him
retroactively- you kinda had to be there. Everybody has their Prince album they like
more than the others because he doesn’t have a particular box he fits in. He was 5 different
niccas over the course of his career.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

I can't really fukk with his 90s shyt but in the 80s he was unquestionably second only to Michael

Honestly just listen to every album he dropped from his debut until 88 ish, that Batman album was when he fell off

Off the strength of the coli I'm a do a prince run.

 

[Techniec]

Off the strength of the coli I'm a do a prince run.

Can you look up a profile on Spotify?

If so, holla at me Black Friday Radio, I got a six hour 60 + track Prince and Co playlist, just his 70-80s shyt

 

[Techniec]

Just a brief introduction

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Just a brief introduction

I'm a be on it tomorrow i promise.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I’ll be honest, just listening to his discography won’t do him justice. If you saw him live, you’d understand. The next best thing is to watch his concerts online.

I’d recommend the Sign O’ Times concert and then the LoveSexy (my favorite album) tour.

But, definitely listen to his albums from his debut up until the Batman album. Also, he had many B-sides which is on his greatest hits album.

Once you go through them, you can see why he fell off in the 90s. Record label drama withstanding, it’s hard to maintain that consistent level of greatness.

Oh and of course watch the Purple Rain movie. It’s not the greatest but you get to see some prime 80s dime titties which is worth the watch.

 

[O.G Bobby Johnson]

I never understood it either. All the OG's rocked with him pretty heavy too despite his feminine portrayal.

Talented nonetheless but just a tad bit overrated imo.

 

[Techniec]

I never understood it either. All the OG's rocked with him pretty heavy too despite his feminine portrayal.

Talented nonetheless but just a tad bit overrated imo.

Have you tried a deep dive into his catalogue

 

[darryl]

You Michael Jackson dikkriders are so annoying on here

 

[RhodyRum]

U never had a girlfriend growing up

Depends on the decade you were dating chicks though. If you were a teenager to 20s from the mid 90s to 2000s you really weren't dealing with chicks that were into Prince like that and I never felt I needed his music on any of my sexxxing mixtapes. Not to say I didn't like his music, but chicks weren't dropping draws for a Prince track at that time


On the other hand 112, Dru Hill, D'Angelo,and Jodeci (and a few others I'm forgetting right now) were mixtape game-changers for that era

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[Techniec]

I was born in the early 80s but I'm not a black American, so outside of his big 80s hits I didn't know Prince like that, and virtually no one around me did growing up

I had to go out of my way to get into Prince, and even then i was in my early 20s when I really started digging through his records

 

[desjardins]

He had big hits and social impact in the 80s but I never knew people rated him on the same level as MJ
I was too young during his prime decade, too many other artists were more appealing to kids.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

@BelowTheMasonDixon

Prince is a musician that did every popular form of black music in the 20th century (except ragtime) and mostly excelled:
- Jazz (His Madhouse records, 'And That Says What' and 'Wally' on the Expanded Sign o' the Times record etc.)
- Blues ('Thieves in the Temple', 'Alphabet Street', 'Old Friends 4 Sale')
- Gospel ('The Cross', 'Still Would Stand All Time', 'U Make My Sun Shine' etc.)
- Rhythm and Blues ('I Wanna Be Your Lover', 'Adore', 'Scandalous', 'Kiss' etc.)
- Rock (‘Little Red Corvette’, 'Let's Go Crazy', 'Purple Rain', 'Temptation' etc.)
- Hip Hop ('p*ssy Control', 'Push', 'Get Off' etc.)
- House/Techno ('Cream-Housebangers', 'The Future', 'All the Critics Love U in New York', 'Erotic City' etc.)

On top of that he was a virtuoso guitar and keyboard player (he also played the drum and could program drum machines too)


And he could dance


He also had a 5 1/2 or 6 octave vocal range:


It's like Prince was made in a lab. It's like God said, I wanna combine James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone.

We're not worthy.