David Bowie-"Prince is the best of the black artists"

[Mike Otherz]

damn, i hate to have to do this with all the Bowie love. but some cac in my twitter feed posted an old rollingstone interview where he said prince stole his, shyt, and that prince was the best of theblack artists. look how they like to keep black artists against only each other and have a head nikka in charge type situation.it cant be prince is the best period, it gotta be nah, he the best black.

David Bowie: Stardust Memories


Like psychedelia: it never goes away.
Yeah. That whole period, I guess. They keep recycling all of us – Roxy, me, Gary Glitter, Marc Bolan. I guess those four were the big ones from England, the champions of the early Seventies and all that. But it really seems to have permeated every area of rock now – something that one of us did is somewhere in all modern music. Which is great. I think that's fabulous.

Like Prince, maybe?
Prince, yeah, sure. I mean, he's probably the most, eclectic artist I've seen since me [laughs]. I think he's a great stealer.



Young Americans, the studio album that followed Diamond Dogs in 1975, marked a brand-new artistic direction for you – deep into black American dance rhythms. What do you make of the current state of black pop?
There's nobody that's knockin' me out. I'm not in there with Lionel anymore. I liked Cameo's "Word Up" and then I heard the album and I just went to sleep. Rap is really the only cutting edge at the moment – Run-D.M.C are my favorites. But I have a tough time with a lot of black music now – it's all a bit dancey, and there's no real underbelly there, you know? I think Prince is probably the best of the current crop.


cac was shytting on a golden era of r&b smh

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

In*

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Bowie predicting the future piffery of Rap


But otherwise

 

[DrexlersFade]

Why am I suppose too give a fukk

Muthafukkas ain't thought about David Bowie ever now he dies and this fake ass generation with they R.I.P. bullshyt but then will turn around and say the Wu trash

Micheal>>>>>Bowie how about that

 

[Insensitive]

Bowie was probably talking about the marked change in Black music.
Post the 70's Black music was recovering from the swagger jacking
Disco did and the effect it had on Black bands.

Funk and Soul bands got caught up in the Disco hate and when Disco died
these genre's and their sounds kind of took a major hit in viability. Black musicians
suffered because of that unfortunately.

Prince probably stood out because his lyrics were raunchy and in your face
and his music had/has a certain roughness and hard edge that pristine and
clean "Black Pop (R&B)" (usually) didn't, likely stemming from him incorporating
Rock/Punk Rock/Nu-Wave into his brand of R&B.
Look at Michael Jackson and his back to back huge albums (Thriller/Off The wall)
vs. (Dirty Mind/Controversy)
Lyrically Michael Jackson wasn't talking about incest or mutual masturbation or any of that.

I'm not sure WHEN this interview came out and he didn't exactly say WHICH musicians
weren't impressing him or "Pushing the envelope" but I can see why he was partial
to prince at the time.

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

I don't actually see where the problem was...the guy interviewing asked his opinion on black pop and he said prince was the best out of the bunch and he weren't really fuccin with the rest like that anymore whats the problem? Thats his opinion...

 

[Mac Casper]

MAJOR FAIL OP, MAJOR FAIL

 

[Mac Casper]

on a side note . . I think there's a good chance that Prince still holds a grudge over this. He doesn't seem like the type to let things go

 

[Mac Casper]

Why am I suppose too give a fukk

Muthafukkas ain't thought about David Bowie ever now he dies and this fake ass generation with they R.I.P. bullshyt but then will turn around and say the Wu trash

Micheal>>>>>Bowie how about that

damn you can really find some small minded people here on The Coli

 

[I love Latina women]

uh oh, open up the floodgates. this should be good

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

damn you can really find some small minded people here on The Coli

Not really. I mean really, who is David Bowie

 

[Mac Casper]

Not really. I mean really, who is David Bowie

be ignorant brehs

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

be ignorant brehs

an ignorance I'm comfortable with

 

[Cake]

Idk why people are faking interest in this dead cross dresser.

 

[DontEemTry]

Bowie was the truth though.

And he had the original bad bytch.