firstly, Newpower Soul is an NPG album. So if you're gonna include that then you
should include Goldnigga and Exodus as well.

secondly, The Black album was not released in 1988, it was released in 1994,
but was originally intended for release in 1987.

thirdly, The Beautiful Experience is an EP or Maxi-Single, not an album.

fourthly, The Truth was released in 1998 as a bonus disc with Crystal Ball,
it was originally intended for release in 1997.


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These days, Prince probably is the only artist that releases one every year, or at least, almost every year.

However, during the days of Prince's reign, almost everyone released an album a year except Michael Jackson and even he released one with his brothers inbetween his own albums. Hell, in 1979, Rick James released two albums.

I don't see what the problem is these days. Since these new artists don't play instruments or come up with original melodies, I don't see why they wouldn't have an album coming out every other month. Back in the day, everyone released an album a year and had to write the songs, come up with an original melody (not a sample of someone else's), get together with the band, rehearse the songs, and go in the studio, record, and do whatever else they had to do. They even made edited versions for the 45s and longer versions for the 12 Inches all in that same year.

These dead asses these days wait two or three years between albums so they can milk the albums for every last cent they can get out of them. It's not about music anymore, it's about money and whoever is dumb enough and has bad enough taste to buy their shit. Hell, I need to get me a recording contract and make a song called "Buy This Shit Suckers". I'm not a musician but, hey, neither are they.

It's absolutely all about the money. This doesn't just apply to hip-hop, or singers who can't play. There are plenty of bands out there taking their sweet time between album releases.

If there is one difference, back in the day an album could easily be 6 to 9 songs. Typical album now is almost double the number of songs, which has made it easier to milk one album for two or three years. Unfortunately increasing the number of songs hasn't necessarilly increased the quality of the albums.