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now we know there's 10 traxs and the history behind million dollar show

Ugh, it's an interesting read but it's just more of the usual breathless, sycophantic pre-release stuff. You can pretty much see it was mainly written by prince.

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Nice. And fans even got a couple of shout-outs: one from Josh, and the other is when the writer actually solicits fact-checking help from the Prince.org community . Y'all are building up quite the reputation. Got these journalists running scared LOL - just kidding. But I actually thought that was super cool of the writer to mention us in his article, showing the 'Purple Collective' some love.

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Would have liked to have had more words from Prince but it was nice to have those bits of an interview.

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I wants me one of those moon phases tees. For real.

inspireof said:

now we know there's 10 traxs and the history behind million dollar show

I don't get his thinking on this. Yes, of course it is good for the TV show to get Prince performing and of course they would be able to sell better advertising for this broadcast and make themselves more $$ but there are benefits to the artists in playing these things too. They get promotion for their albums and then greater sales.

Maybe Prince doesn't need to do this because his album will get exposure anyway and he's got enough money to not have to bother but to sugget that artists are stupid for doing these things seems a bit off to me.

TheEnglishGent said:

inspireof said:

now we know there's 10 traxs and the history behind million dollar show

I don't get his thinking on this. Yes, of course it is good for the TV show to get Prince performing and of course they would be able to sell better advertising for this broadcast and make themselves more $$ but there are benefits to the artists in playing these things too. They get promotion for their albums and then greater sales.

Maybe Prince doesn't need to do this because his album will get exposure anyway and he's got enough money to not have to bother but to sugget that artists are stupid for doing these things seems a bit off to me.

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Of course it's idiotic. There was a fairly unknown band on Letterman's show earlier this year and that one performance just made them blow up all over the place.

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But we're talking about Prince, someone who contributes a new track to a TV show and doesn't have it for sale until a month later WHEN NOBODY REMEMBERS.

THANKS for the link.

Again....another new interesting interview....I like the fact that Prince seems like he is opening up to the world at large...The Rakim shout out...The Kendrick love...The fact that dude is willing to let someone else handle the boards on a few tracks....I have no beef with this....

Thanks for posting that.

That was very interesting and would definitely peak my interest in the album if I was a casual fan.

murph said:

Again....another new interesting interview....I like the fact that Prince seems like he is opening up to the world at large...

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PE also got promo interviews that seemed copy-pasted from each other.

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The Rakim shout out...

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Hilarious. Dude learned about Rakim from Doug E Fresh. Now, AFAIK Prince started hanging with Fresh in 1998. Which is more than a decade after Rakim became well-known.

BartVanHemelen said:

Hilarious. Dude learned about Rakim from Doug E Fresh. Now, AFAIK Prince started hanging with Fresh in 1998. Which is more than a decade after Rakim became well-known.

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So another decade for Eric B to get known to mr Prince?

That shows how connected he is to our reality....

Makes me frown, makes me wonder about him.

So what about KRS-ONE?

Other performers in a similar realm?

BartVanHemelen said:

Hilarious. Dude learned about Rakim from Doug E Fresh. Now, AFAIK Prince started hanging with Fresh in 1998. Which is more than a decade after Rakim became well-known.

Not strictly true. Prince was playing a version of Eric B & Rakim's "Don't Sweat The Technique" live in 1994.

Rioub said:

BartVanHemelen said:

Hilarious. Dude learned about Rakim from Doug E Fresh. Now, AFAIK Prince started hanging with Fresh in 1998. Which is more than a decade after Rakim became well-known.

Not strictly true. Prince was playing a version of Eric B & Rakim's "Don't Sweat The Technique" live in 1994.

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But was he aware of the source of that music and did he know the source well enough?

udo said:

BartVanHemelen said:

Hilarious. Dude learned about Rakim from Doug E Fresh. Now, AFAIK Prince started hanging with Fresh in 1998. Which is more than a decade after Rakim became well-known.

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So another decade for Eric B to get known to mr Prince?

That shows how connected he is to our reality....

Makes me frown, makes me wonder about him.

So what about KRS-ONE?

Other performers in a similar realm?

eric b was also at the rave launchh... he was speaking on more ndepth learning from dougie

lwr001 said:

eric b was also at the rave launchh... he was speaking on more ndepth learning from dougie

Because there were no record stores in Minneapolis, just as with While My Guitar Gently Weeps - which he had never heard before the RHOF sent him a copy of The White Album.

Pentacle said:

lwr001 said:

eric b was also at the rave launchh... he was speaking on more ndepth learning from dougie

Because there were no record stores in Minneapolis, just as with While My Guitar Gently Weeps - which he had never heard before the RHOF sent him a copy of The White Album.

also, i am pretty sure when my sis worked for defjam back in tthe day,, therese stoulie (sp) reached out to her many times for records, cds, videos etc for him while on tour...she qcatually has a thank you note from him and he gave us txts to act 1 at radio city,, seating with bibby whitney and madonna,,he aint that sheltered as you all seem to think

lwr001 said:

Pentacle said:

Because there were no record stores in Minneapolis, just as with While My Guitar Gently Weeps - which he had never heard before the RHOF sent him a copy of The White Album.

also, i am pretty sure when my sis worked for defjam back in tthe day,, therese stoulie (sp) reached out to her many times for records, cds, videos etc for him while on tour...she qcatually has a thank you note from him and he gave us txts to act 1 at radio city,, seating with bibby whitney and madonna,,he aint that sheltered as you all seem to think

So why the strange remark about Rakim then...?

Pentacle said:

lwr001 said:

also, i am pretty sure when my sis worked for defjam back in tthe day,, therese stoulie (sp) reached out to her many times for records, cds, videos etc for him while on tour...she qcatually has a thank you note from him and he gave us txts to act 1 at radio city,, seating with bibby whitney and madonna,,he aint that sheltered as you all seem to think

So why the strange remark about Rakim then...?

because even for me ,, spmetimes uo ned to dig into a catalog to get a greater appreciation ,,,outside of the one song that was popular what can you tell me about him..dougie schooled him