Papaj said:

Gohi said:

Can't believe you guys like this shit.

How old are you?

20. Why?

By the way, I wasn't trying to pass off my opinion as fact. I was saying it the same way I would have said "I can't believe you guys don't love this shit!!!" if everyone was bagging on future soul song.

Gohi said:

Papaj said:

How old are you?

20. Why?

No, nothing, just asking. I found your post a bit geriatric:-D

Awesome!

Mars23 said:

Love: Purple Yoda.

Bored to death with: Shelby J. Retire her to obscurity already.

It it possible to have breast implants so big one cannot see over them? Important question I believe this song suggested.

I believe "the surgery" is Lasiks.. "Maybe if your girlfriend didn't have the surgery maybe she can SEE what eye See"

This song is all kinds of awesome. I play it loud in my car while driving around town, but then I noticed I still haven't cleaned the bird sh*t off my car.

This song is PURE AWESOME! It's one to turn up LOUD and just bob that head to the funky dirty groove! I am in love with the middle section where Prince just plays that simple guitar scratch as the vocals blend in the distance! It's a stand out jam that I can play over and over!

And yes...I think the "purple Yoda" line is kick ass! HAHAHA! Go PRINCE!

20TEN is Exceptional!

vainandy said:

Genesia said:

This is the song that finally makes vainandy's head explode.

I heard three song samples on another thread that sounded pretty good and from reading the reviews and descriptions of each song in the other threads, the album sounds like it might be pretty good...that is if those people's descriptions are correct.

However, when I got down to this last song and started reading the reviews and descriptions, it didn't take me but a second to figure out that it must be shit hop. That's all it takes for me to leave this album sitting right in the store when it's released. If a friend of mine buys it, I may have him to make me a copy of all the other songs but my hard earned money is not going to go towards shit hop and I don't care if it's only one song. Prince apparently still has a flea or two left from lying with shit hop dogs but I want my house flea free.

so silly without even hearing it.... it is not hip hop.. It is funky Prince beat and guitar with a great hook and Prince rapping

Alexandernvrmind said:

vainandy said:

I heard three song samples on another thread that sounded pretty good and from reading the reviews and descriptions of each song in the other threads, the album sounds like it might be pretty good...that is if those people's descriptions are correct.

However, when I got down to this last song and started reading the reviews and descriptions, it didn't take me but a second to figure out that it must be shit hop. That's all it takes for me to leave this album sitting right in the store when it's released. If a friend of mine buys it, I may have him to make me a copy of all the other songs but my hard earned money is not going to go towards shit hop and I don't care if it's only one song. Prince apparently still has a flea or two left from lying with shit hop dogs but I want my house flea free.

so silly without even hearing it.... it is not hip hop.. It is funky Prince beat and guitar with a great hook and Prince rapping

Well, that's the same thing droves of people said about "Ole Skool Crappery" and it sounded like pure shit hop and nothing funky whatsoever to me. As for not hearing it yet, that's true but I be damned if I'm going to buy it and then get it home and find out that it's shit hop because my money would have contributed towards it and I've made up my mind that I'm going to stop giving Prince a pass just because he's Prince. I work too hard for my money for it to contribute to a genre I despise that has killed all good mainstream music.

OK, so if it's not shit hop, then let me make it clearer. Does it sound like it would fit in on the radio today? If so, my money is not going towards it.

A consensus. Nice. Surprised more people don't hate it, since there tends to be an anti-rap vibe here at times.

Gohi, irk.

When this track started I was like, "cool, Prince messin' around with a hip-hop boom, boom, bap".... then he started rappin'. I'm sorry, but I don't dig brother man doing any attempt at rap, or speak singin', or whatever you want to call it. I even skip Sign O The Times on that album most of the time. It's just never worked for me. Unfortunate, because the track is slammin'. Prince sounds kinda mad. I've missed that. Just wish he could do it with some sangin'.

This track started alright, then he started rapping, I mean there's some Prince songs where he rapped and it's OK I guess, this isn't. Plus the song ended before it could really get down. It's not too bad as I initially thought but compared to the best songs on it, it still renders as a turd to me. Plus the way he just ended it was just "wtf?"

vainandy said:

Alexandernvrmind said:

so silly without even hearing it.... it is not hip hop.. It is funky Prince beat and guitar with a great hook and Prince rapping

Well, that's the same thing droves of people said about "Ole Skool Crappery" and it sounded like pure shit hop and nothing funky whatsoever to me. As for not hearing it yet, that's true but I be damned if I'm going to buy it and then get it home and find out that it's shit hop because my money would have contributed towards it and I've made up my mind that I'm going to stop giving Prince a pass just because he's Prince. I work too hard for my money for it to contribute to a genre I despise that has killed all good mainstream music.

OK, so if it's not shit hop, then let me make it clearer. Does it sound like it would fit in on the radio today? If so, my money is not going towards it.

this conversation is over.... there was nothing remotely hip hop about Ol Skool... only on a Prince fan board could some fan of Prince when he does rock music only confuse the two

There was nothing and I mean nothing remotely hip about Ol Skool music much less the lyrics or title which of course pay homage to OLD SCHOOL Music! Lawd have mercy

Uhh. If you don't hear a nod to hip-hop in the beat used on this track you're definitely in denial.

vainandy said:

Genesia said:

This is the song that finally makes vainandy's head explode.

I heard three song samples on another thread that sounded pretty good and from reading the reviews and descriptions of each song in the other threads, the album sounds like it might be pretty good...that is if those people's descriptions are correct.

However, when I got down to this last song and started reading the reviews and descriptions, it didn't take me but a second to figure out that it must be shit hop. That's all it takes for me to leave this album sitting right in the store when it's released. If a friend of mine buys it, I may have him to make me a copy of all the other songs but my hard earned money is not going to go towards shit hop and I don't care if it's only one song. Prince apparently still has a flea or two left from lying with shit hop dogs but I want my house flea free.

I knew you wouldn't let me down.

Alexandernvrmind said:

vainandy said:

Well, that's the same thing droves of people said about "Ole Skool Crappery" and it sounded like pure shit hop and nothing funky whatsoever to me. As for not hearing it yet, that's true but I be damned if I'm going to buy it and then get it home and find out that it's shit hop because my money would have contributed towards it and I've made up my mind that I'm going to stop giving Prince a pass just because he's Prince. I work too hard for my money for it to contribute to a genre I despise that has killed all good mainstream music.

OK, so if it's not shit hop, then let me make it clearer. Does it sound like it would fit in on the radio today? If so, my money is not going towards it.

this conversation is over.... there was nothing remotely hip hop about Ol Skool... only on a Prince fan board could some fan of Prince when he does rock music only confuse the two

There was nothing and I mean nothing remotely hip about Ol Skool music much less the lyrics or title which of course pay homage to OLD SCHOOL Music! Lawd have mercy

I am not one of Prince's rock fans that discovered him beginning with "Little Red Corvette" by no means. I am one of his funk fans that got into him in 1979 and I was pissed to see him crossover in 1982. If it had been up to me, he would have been known only to R&B radio forever like all my other favorite funk artists so you are definately barking up the wrong tree with that "rock fan" comment.

And as far as "Ole Skool Crappery" goes, it reminds me of some trashy Dr. Dre or Snoop Doogy Dogg type shit hop. Yeah, he pays homage to old school music but he does it in a shit hop sounding way. He's a walking contradiction. Even the line "where's the drummer" directed to the current artists, well hell Prince, where the hell is your drummer on the very song you're asking them. It was truly a sellout song hoping to attract young listeners with it's shitty sound and still hold onto older listeners with it's message. In other words, it was Prince playing both ends of the stick. Well, I'm a believer in someone practicing what they preach.

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Cerebus said:

Uhh. If you don't hear a nod to hip-hop in the beat used on this track you're definitely in denial.

Yanno? So what was Prince doing, talk-singing? He obviously was rapping and the song was another pseudo hip-hop track disguised with funk guitar and synths.

Yeah, I called it speak-singing up above. It's not really a straight rap. But it is Prince doin' his version of funky hip-hop, which I've never enjoyed.

Remember this is the same guy who initially thought rap was a passing fad. Between 1979 until 1987 did you ever hear Prince rapping? And "Annie Christian" doesn't count since he was just talking in that one. You could call it "rapping" because that's the street analogy of "talk" but until "Housequake", there wasn't anything that render anything of hip-hop. Starting with "Housequake" he began turning a corner into hip-hop almost embracing it. But before 1987, he stayed far away from hip-hop. People gonna act like every hip-hop song Prince does is good.

I think his best raps were "Sexy MF" and "Pussy Control" (and to a lesser degree "Facedown") but that's as far as I go with Prince and hip-hop merging together. I'm a hip-hop fan but this is something I couldn't fully enjoy. Plus I wished it hadn't ended so abruptly as it did. It's a low point. And it's not just because of it being a hip-hop song.

Cerebus said:

Yeah, I called it speak-singing up above. It's not really a straight rap. But it is Prince doin' his version of funky hip-hop, which I've never enjoyed.

Yeah you can say it is because in a way he's rapping and in another he's kinda just saying the words. I think he just said "I'm just gonna lay down a funk track and then do this and that'll be it, take it or leave it."

You know what would've made this song better, if he had not only sung it but had used the high pitched voice in it.

[Edited 7/9/10 14:48pm]

Timmy84 said:

Remember this is the same guy who initially thought rap was a passing fad. Between 1979 until 1987 did you ever hear Prince rapping? And "Annie Christian" doesn't count since he was just talking in that one. You could call it "rapping" because that's the street analogy of "talk" but until "Housequake", there wasn't anything that render anything of hip-hop. Starting with "Housequake" he began turning a corner into hip-hop almost embracing it. But before 1987, he stayed far away from hip-hop. People gonna act like every hip-hop song Prince does is good.

I think his best raps were "Sexy MF" and "Pussy Control" (and to a lesser degree "Facedown") but that's as far as I go with Prince and hip-hop merging together. I'm a hip-hop fan but this is something I couldn't fully enjoy. Plus I wished it hadn't ended so abruptly as it did. It's a low point. And it's not just because of it being a hip-hop song.

Rapping itself is fine because in the early 1980s, rap was basically just spoken lyrics rather than sung lyrics over funk so rap was actually funky back then. It's when hip hop got it's own sound that it became shit hop....stripped completely of damn near all instruments and the only thing remaining are those damn weak ass drum machines that just barely tap which never get past midtempo and sound like an annoying grandfather clock just ticking at a slow pace. And that's not even getting into the ignorant attitude they started having.

Timmy84 said:

Remember this is the same guy who initially thought rap was a passing fad. Between 1979 until 1987 did you ever hear Prince rapping? And "Annie Christian" doesn't count since he was just talking in that one. You could call it "rapping" because that's the street analogy of "talk" but until "Housequake", there wasn't anything that render anything of hip-hop. Starting with "Housequake" he began turning a corner into hip-hop almost embracing it. But before 1987, he stayed far away from hip-hop. People gonna act like every hip-hop song Prince does is good.

I think his best raps were "Sexy MF" and "Pussy Control" (and to a lesser degree "Facedown") but that's as far as I go with Prince and hip-hop merging together. I'm a hip-hop fan but this is something I couldn't fully enjoy. Plus I wished it hadn't ended so abruptly as it did. It's a low point. And it's not just because of it being a hip-hop song.

Uh Irresitable Bitch

love it, doesn't it remind anyone of Facedown?

love it, doesn't it remind anyone of Facedown?

Cerebus said:

Uhh. If you don't hear a nod to hip-hop in the beat used on this track you're definitely in denial.

I heard Queen's We Will Rock You when the track opened!

But yeah... definitely a hip hop vibe - but hip hop evolved from funk...

Whilst Prince rapping verges on cheesy, the funk is too strong on this! Just listen to that bass guitar!

This song is embarrassing. As such, it's the perfect closer to 20ten.

Calls to bounce in 2010, by a dude who's 53 and a Jehovah's Witness. If Prince is waiting for the apocalypse, he need look no further than this song.

funkyhead said:

love it, doesn't it remind anyone of Facedown?

!!! I was JUST about to say that.

Try singing some FACE DOWWNNNs during the chorus.

Maybe if someone did a kick ass remix of this song it could be a hit.