Adorecream said:

Most famous to me was Rick James, lines along the lines of ( I may not quote them perfectly word for word, so please don't get all pedantic on my ass).

"That little science fiction creep doesn't even want to be black, its my job to keep reality over him", "i felt sorry for the guy, running around the stage in little girls knickers singing about incest, my audiences murdered him" - In fact he won them over and Rick got Jealous.

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Bob Marley in 1979 met Prince, when his manager Don Taylor had Prince for a few months - Prince showed up in his bikini briefs and Bob said "He a chi chi baggy man" - Jamaican slang for a homosexual or a transvestite. Jamaica is known as one of the most homophobic places on earth outside of Islam, where gayness is punished by jail and death, many gay tourists are murdered by local men. Buju Banton also talked about murdering gays in a 1992 song and Shabba Ranks also denounced it on a TV show in 1994 which sunk his career. In fact Prince was not gay, just effeminate and in the hyper masculine society of the Jamaican black, this is tantamount to being gay.

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Someone else said in the 1980s, either Boy George or Kylie Minogue, said Prince looked like a Hispanic Runt dipped in pubic hair and someone else said he was a toothpick wrapped in a purple doily.

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Laura Winslow also said on the debut 1989 episode of Family Matters that Prince was the one who wore Purple Underwear, I wonder if that counted as a diss.

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Will Smith on Fresh Prince of Bel Air criticised Carlton in a photography assignment that was due started taking auto shots of his face and started posing and primping for the camera. Will said "Yo Carlton this is a photography assignment, not a Prince video"

LOL I never knew that Bob Marley felt that way. Either way, I can't really imagine them ever collaborating so it probably wouldn't have worked out.

Boy George is usually credited to the 'pubic hair' comment but he also used to catcall Prince at concerts (and Prince would sneer back at him). Kylie Minogue supposedly had a huge crush on him and had pictures of him in her room, but turned him down when he wanted to date in the 90s because she realized he only wanted to do it for the bragging rights, not because he actually liked her.

Averett said:

Madonna said famously:

"[He] was a little troll," she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. "He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don't eat. They annoy me."

Someone is getting ready to throw a dinner knife

I thought that was Lisa Kudrow talking to him for a second. There's a photoshopped pic of this with Michael Jackson in her place

herb4 said:

I know Howard Stern, Elton John and Axl Rose/Slash have all said derogatory things to one degree or another and they're all still fairly relevant. Who was the NBA player that sued him for fucking up his apartment a few years back?

Elton John not only performed with Prince in London. Elton showed up to other concerts in 2009 to see Prince perform. The NBA player was mad about the unauthorized changes to his rental house, but Prince tipped him 1 million dollars to put it back the way it was. Which was more than enough to do that. NBA player was very pleased.

CharismaDove said:

SoulAlive said:

Militant said: Slash saw Prince at the American Music Awards in 1990 and tried to talk to him, but Prince ignored him."I didn't really care", Slash said."He looked like a fag that night"

I've heard Elton praise Prince. Howard Stern has a notoriously love-hate relationship with Prince The Man, but he likes the music. I'm pretty sure Axl and Prince jammed together before (or I've read something positive about P from him)

I've also read that the reason Prince ignored Slash was because he was super high/drunk and acting like an idiot. IDK. But they supposedly jammed later on together so I'm betting both moved on. "He looked like a fag that night" LOL

Slash is such an idiot.I would have ignored him,too

The Steve Albini comment recently was pretty bad. It seemed to come out of nowhere and you really shouldn't be allowed to accuse someone of beating women just because you like being seen as a hardass yourself. Nobody can take it away from the guy that he wouldn't be respected and admired in the alternative music circles, although he's known to be very hard to deal with.

I also read a recent Tricky interview that had him calling Prince a "has-been" and that Prince looked laughable posing as a popstar. Tricky is known to have been a big fan of Prince in the past, so it was a bit unexpected. In the same interview he dissed Lenny Kravitz pretty badly too - Lenny had wanted to work with Tricky, but Tricky's answer to him had been really rude ( "why don't you come to my studio?", "what for?" ).

Oh, yeah, Tricky's totally a has-been himself.

elephant said:

elephant said:

I have read Keith Richards having pops at Prince a few times. It seems Jagger was a fan and Richards wasn't.

I remember in the late 80s,Keith Richards said something like "Prince is the Monkees of this generation....his whole thing is,he just likes to fool the industry...play games with his music"

CharismaDove said:

Averett said:

Madonna said famously:

"[He] was a little troll," she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. "He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don't eat. They annoy me."

Someone is getting ready to throw a dinner knife

I thought that was Lisa Kudrow talking to him for a second. There's a photoshopped pic of this with Michael Jackson in her place

And here I thought it might be Suzanne Somers

Arsenio dissed Prince at an awards show in the 90's. He was introducing Fresh Prince for something and said "Ok ya'll this the Fresh Prince not the stale Prince". I'm surprised that went under Prince's radar

SanDiegoFunkDaddy said:

Arsenio dissed Prince at an awards show in the 90's. He was introducing Fresh Prince for something and said "Ok ya'll this the Fresh Prince not the stale Prince". I'm surprised that went under Prince's radar

That just sounds like a bad joke, a play on words, not a diss to Prince.

Yes the Arsenio comment was referring to the Fresh Prince not being so fresh. We all know that Arsenio and Prince are good friends and very tight. They were back then and they still are today.

Averett said:

Madonna said famously:

"[He] was a little troll," she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. "He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don't eat. They annoy me."

Someone is getting ready to throw a dinner knife

But Prince respected her 'frankness' too though

off all musicicans he seems to get the LEAST of any artist

OldFriends4Sale said:

Militant said:

SanDiegoFunkDaddy said:

Arsenio dissed Prince at an awards show in the 90's. He was introducing Fresh Prince for something and said "Ok ya'll this the Fresh Prince not the stale Prince". I'm surprised that went under Prince's radar

That just sounds like a bad joke, a play on words, not a diss to Prince.

Naw it was a deliberate swipe at Prince. In the context of the show Prince was mentioned earlier about something. Arsenio is too witty to say a joke that corny. I think it was in 1990 after Graffiti Bridge flopped

metallicjigolo said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

But Prince respected her 'frankness' too though

Madonna's date is looking at Prince like he wants to do him after dinner.

One more Madonna and Prince pic just to show a little more love between them despite Madonna's snarky ways