MTV.com
12/10/08

As the Grammy Awards progressed on Sunday night (February 10), one man was making headlines of his own backstage: the Time's Morris Day.

The frontman/lothario, who duetted with Rihanna early in the show, said of the singer: "I think she's a sexy young lady. I have kids as old as her ... But I enjoyed it. That did not stop me from noticing."

He had a less flattering — although sympathetic — comment about her onstage pouting: "When the groove hits you, you get ugly for a minute. It's like you broke wind. "

Since the Time are noted for their cool ("Cool" is also the name of one of their best songs), he talked about how some of today's artists measure up.

"I don't see Kanye as being cool — very talented, but not cool."

Chris Brown? "He's very hyper, but talented. Give him about 10 years and we'll see. There are some cool people out there. I think Snoop is cool. Puffy's cool. It's embodiment — it's gotta be in you. I'm so cool that even when I'm sweating, it's a cold sweat."

After noting how impressed he was with his own group's performance, Day continued: "I don't know if you were able to watch [our set] because you were too busy eating sandwiches and potato chips, but we had a good time," he told reporters with a laugh. "I still do the dance moves every day, I just happened to do it on the Grammy stage tonight."

When asked if he spoke with longtime friend and foil Prince backstage, Day answered, "I asked him, 'How's the family?' ... He didn't say nothing." (Day and Prince are old friends and rivals — Day split from Prince's camp not long after the blockbuster success of 1984's "Purple Rain," but reunited for 1990's "Graffiti Bridge" and the Time have opened for Prince at several shows in recent years.)

Asked if he was going to kick it with Prince backstage, he replied: "Am I interested in kicking him backstage?"

Day also said the Time have a new album done and plan to tour. "That was fun. Where's the sandwich boxes?" he said before leaving the media room.

Copycat said:

Nice reference.

I would have paid good money to see Morris walk on stage while P was up there and go,"let's go crazy, LET'S GET nuuu-uuuts," and walk off.
[Edited 2/10/08 21:57pm]

morris said the same thing 2 prince in purple rain when they was gettin ready 2 go onstage and prince didnt answer there is no beef bewteen them 2

kaptainkrunk said:

everybody be nice now

Copycat said:

Oh shit, now Kanye's gonna be beefing with Morris..or not.

thread will be moved to associated artist forum.....

What an interview!

Rhondab said:

"Jerome....."

Why does Morris remind me of that ONE UNCLE people always have in the family that tries to be a gigalo-ladies man until he's in a walker ? You know the ones, the ones Chris rock calls "the old dude in the club"; they still wear those large cut suits with those damn Stacy Adams and have to wear a do rag at night to keep their waves slicked down . He probably uses "VITALIS" hair tonic (just like my vain, old ass father)

Morris was clean though, and hs hair was together...in that very old school, Steve Harvey kinda way (gotta love it)

Morris Day, man that joker is crazy . You gotta love him.

Jezebel said:

If Kanye West has talent, I'm a Space Shuttle pilot.

morris should beat prince to a bloody pulp for how prince deliberately sabotaged the time

FuNkeNsteiN said:

that the most frightening thing i've seen all day!

Raze said:

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TheMightyCelestial said:

LOL!!