I hope so. I think its kind of weak for Prince to use a microphone as if some gangsta he never was or will be.

There's much more to being gangsta than a microphone shaped like a pistol. I'm sure people weren't mistaking Prince as a hardcore rapper because he had that mic in his hand.

I think it's out because Prince shot his mouth off one too many times....get it...shot his mou....gun micro.....come on, this is quality material....ah to hell with ya!

TheBigBang said:

Obviously, because he isn't a rapper. So why the gun mic? are we going in circles here?
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I don't care if he was trying to be "gangsta." I thought it was just a cool prop.

The gun microphone is long gone - Didn't he get rid of it around the time he got into JW - probably after the JOTY tour around 98/99.

It was definately borne from his desire to fit in with the Gangsta rap era, when he drafted in Big Fun (AKA The Gameboyz).

I get Skywalker's point though about the sci-fi element of P-Funk, I never thought of that before.

I think the gun mic was Prince telling every1 that music was his weapon.

kape said:

yup.

NouveauDance said:

I'm close to absolutely certain he used it on his tour of Australia in 2003.

latekate said:

he used it at the RRHOF performance too.

BobGeorge909 said:

He sure did and looked good with it

BobGeorge909 said:

And the musicology tour.

The gun-mic is all in how you look at it.

Could be Prince wantin to be "gangsta".

Could be a subtle message about using a gun for something other than violence.

Could be cause he thinks it looks cool.

Universaluv said:

He's sporting it on the Rehearsal/Interview for Musicology dvd during the rehearsal part of the dvd.

I don't think he considers it a "gun" anymore - that's why he still uses it. For him it's just a microphone that he can use to point at the audience so they can sing along. And it's cool when he spins it

Amd the other "gun"???

Ummmmm.....he used in on the Musicology Tour, atleast in Omaha.

NouveauDance said:[quote]The gun microphone is long gone - Didn't he get rid of it around the time he got into JW - probably after the JOTY tour around 98/99.

I never knew that. I thought he went off the idea in 98/99 because it was an image of violence or something.


My memory ain't what it used to be..

In a soundcheck during the ONA tour in June, 2002, a girl asked Prince if he still had the gun mic. He repeated the words "The gun mic" and then laughed. He never said anything about it. We thought it was funny shit.

Either I am up too late Canadian time 1:32. Or that is the funniest thing Ive heard lol. I better lie down now!

I love the gun microphone. He still uses it occassionally. I don't think he ever intended it to be interpreted as him being some kind of hard core thug.

He uses the gun mic to shoot his "verbal" and "lyrical bullets".

From what 3121 sounds like he'll have a full magazine for the first time in a while. Rave, NPS, a lot of the internet release stuff all shot out and unfurled that big red annoying "Bang" flag from the gun.

setyrmindphree said:

What...instead of shooting blanks you mean?

Oh come onnnnn - someone was gonna say it sooner or later!

kape said:

then shouldn't it have been in the shape of a key, because as we know -
music is the key to set ourselves free, from depression, drugs, and the increase of poverty.....

tripp said:

If they laughed at the name change...could you imagine if he went on tour pointed a key at the audience? "My name is Prince and I am FonKEY. He would have been locked up and the key given to Mayte.