paulludvig said:

starkitty said:

did Susannah ever actually *say* they were about her? or did others say that? I mean, we know the verses in crystal ball were about her. just because you're over it doesn't mean it didnt happen.

We don't know that

TrevorAyer said:

It's only one of his more interesting interviews because he aggressively trying to protect his mystique with less cryptic talk this time around, and more straight-forward answers. My opinion, but I don't believe for a minute that he hasn't heard the "Condensate" album. I think he listens to everything, especially work from his close friends. As far as his plans on the whole "remastering"/Greatest Hits stuff, i'll keep waiting lol....

scorp84 said:

It's only one of his more interesting interviews because he aggressively trying to protect his mystique with less cryptic talk this time around, and more straight-forward answers. My opinion, but I don't believe for a minute that he hasn't heard the "Condensate" album. I think he listens to everything, especially work from his close friends. As far as his plans on the whole "remastering"/Greatest Hits stuff, i'll keep waiting lol....

I think he claims not to have heard the album to avoid having to have an opinion on the it.

feeluupp said:

Aerogram said:

Guys... He just said people read too much into everything and go and read that answer in the most limited and literal way. The answer to the question is "Hopefully, yeah." This means "yes", he hopes so.

He mentions a greatest hits, this would obviously be just starters if he had his way.

EBONY: Will you be remastering the catalog?

Prince: Hopefully, yeah. A new Greatest Hits. Because I never had anything to do with [The Hits/The B-Sides]. But put great liner notes in it to explain what record came from what and why. Explain the backstory of it. Somebody said “Purple Rain” was inspired by Bob Seger! I said, call him in. “Sit down, man. Y’all got to have everything, huh? Bob Seger?! You gon’ put that in the ether? OK.” [laughter]

But we're talking PRINCE TIME here... Hopefully means... In the near future... In the near future means... Most likely never.

The timing is anyone's guess but what's clear is that he does value his past work -- a nice change from the rumours of him letting it all degrade or even setting fire to the thing one day.

I love hearing details about the music, but when things get personal Prince gets gross. I get the same feeling reading this interview as I did after one of the Rainbow Children listening parties, where Prince "witnessed" to us afterwards for 4 hours. Excited at first, and then slightly nauseated by the end.

I feel like the less I know about Prince, the man, and the further I am away from him as a fan, the better. Otherwise, I won't be able to enjoy the music. His "asshole side" is just too hideous. "What am I supposed to tell your wife?!" Hah! That's just textbook "lil' bitch." Isn't wrath one of the 7 deadly sins? I can't even imagine working for someone like that.

He even makes his faith sound like a device used to control those around him.

IDK, I think I'm just going to go back to Phase 2 and forget this interview ever happened.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I love hearing details about the music, but when things get personal Prince gets gross. I get the same feeling reading this interview as I did after one of the Rainbow Children listening parties, where Prince "witnessed" to us afterwards for 4 hours. Excited at first, and then slightly nauseated by the end.

I feel like the less I know about Prince, the man, and the further I am away from him as a fan, the better. Otherwise, I won't be able to enjoy the music. His "asshole side" is just too hideous. "What am I supposed to tell your wife?!" Hah! That's just textbook "lil' bitch." Isn't wrath one of the 7 deadly sins? I can't even imagine working for someone like that.

He even makes his faith sound like a device used to control those around him.

IDK, I think I'm just going to go back to Phase 2 and forget this interview ever happened.

exactly. i wish i hadn't read this one, but i did. so i'll learn from it and not read another interview
with him again.

it's tainting his music, which i still enjoy massively. so yes, back to Phase 2 and let's try to forget
all about prince and his personal antics.

... He says he doesn't like 2 look back on his past... Yet the whole article is about him looking back and reflecting back bitterly amongst incidents in his past...

PRINCE just give us those remasters already!!

paulludvig said:

lwr001 said:

What an idiot. Oh go on and tell us more about Baby and Lil Wayne, Prince, because I'm sure you have all the details.......

"Prince' asked me to keep some secrets. I may still have a few, truth be told."

OH WHO GIVES A FUCK? NOBODY. That's why the interview is on Ebony.com and the album is on Tidal.............. just sayin'.

It's refreshing to hear him talk about music for once instead of money. That was actually rather interesting for a change.

The interviewer: I give him credit. He tried. He almost got something. He mined a few nuggets.

The interviewee: clearly loony toons. He's so far up his own ass he can't even put together a coherent thought, let alone a sentence.

EroticDreamer said:

That was painful to read.

Prince sounds crazy

You must be new..

Eric Leed's face after reading P's comments about how forgettable his performing was..

theblueangel said:

He comes across as a very sad, very bitter, very delusional old man in this interview. Especially the remark about Doug E. Fresh's quote regarding Rakim. So Prince measures the quality of his artistic output based on how few friends he has? He should keep that to himself, because that's really pathetic.

Having a ton of friends is overrated anyway. You just need a few solid people that you can trust, and the rest can be acquaintances. If you have too many friends you can never get things that require time and cultivation done.

First of all, , at this gem about HNR:P1

"When this does well, nobody gloats, we go about our business."

But we’ll do another one. And this is a way for Josh to step up. ’Cause he’s not gonna stay around here forever. So I gotta work with him while I can. And you remember: Teddy Riley was under somebody before; Pharrell was under somebody before. Jimmy and Terry were under me.

Did Prince just tell on his ownself??

What former bandmember said they were "coming for the vault"?? Or did Prince just pull that nugget right out of his own ass?

funksterr said:

What former bandmember said they were "coming for the vault"?? Or did Prince just pull that nugget right out of his own ass?

He said an engineer

Prince said:

This bass is wicked, you understand? That’s why none of ’em will come to the gig anymore. They’ll just stand in the back, because they know what they said. Making up all these names about people and giving credit where credit ain’t due.Kendrick [Lamar], this is his year now...

WTF? You couldn't pay me to write that shit down. If I was there for the interview, I would have told Prince to take his meds and call me back when he is coherent. Like, how can they stand in the back, if they won't come to the gigs? And.. what does Kendrick... Lamar... have to do with anything? It's Larry Graham's Nephew's year, but Mr I'mSoIntoContemporaryCulture clearly doesn't know it.

lezama said:

funksterr said:

What former bandmember said they were "coming for the vault"?? Or did Prince just pull that nugget right out of his own ass?

He said an engineer

Ok what engineer said they were coming for the vault?

funksterr said:

lezama said:

He said an engineer

Ok what engineer said they were coming for the vault?

There are only a handful of engineers that were trusted enough to stick around for more than one project so it was likely someone that was in and out fairly quickly.

Love the music, but, am not fond of Prince at all. He is, in my humble opinion, batshit crazy. I have been a huge fan since 1979 and have followed his carrer and think he is losing it.

When people would ask me the question, "Who would you love to sit down and have a chat with?" I would always answer, "Prince." - Now - not a chance. The less I know about him the better.

feeluupp said:

What he said about Susan Rogers was pretty brash... Has their relationship been strained for a while, I thought she left at a mutual repsect?

"There was one engineer who said that their sole purpose in life was to get the stuff out of the vault, and get it copied so it wasn’t lost to the world. I’m trying to figure out if that’s illegal. Should I fear for my safety that you might need some medical attention? You want to come up in my vault and you feel like that belongs to you and that’s your purpose? You better find something to do. That’s scary."

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I think that if anyone who I employed decided they know better than MYSELF what to do with the music I solely created and wanted to appropriate themselves with it for the "sake of History" I would be SERIOUSLY pissed and tell them to f"ck off and mind their own biz.. so I think Prince was quite a gentleman about the whole thing

Regardless of her talent that woman seems to be a bit of a koo koo imho...

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