I just read all the reviews under the dicograohy section. It's pretty great for telling you who played what.

For e.g For you was not a one man album. Prince was helped with vocal arrangments and some keyboards as well as lyrics for two songs. Andre also claimed the bassline for 'for you' was based on what he came up with during a jam. Engineers however said he didn't perfrom on the album.
From 1989 Prince has used a lot of uncredited samples including 'little miss lover' from hendrix!

Lisa and wendy composed the music for mountains(apart from weird ending) and prince wrote the lyrics, melody and vocal arrangements.

'Sometimes it snows in april' was written by prince but lisa and wendy contributed guitar and piano; that's why they haveing writing credits(although not on album).

I pretty bummed out that Sheila E did the drums on most of lovesexy and 'u got that look'.The best thing about Alphabet st is the funky drums.

It was Prince who did the live drums on 'Take me with you'
Gett off was a solo track but Prince used a sample(uncredited) from en vogue for the drums .

I was suprised i never knew Prince used samples. Most album titled Prince & the(insert group) were mainly prince solo albums for the most part(great to know i only want to listen to Prince) apart from TGE which was more of a group effort(music wise) but p wrote all the songs.

I'm looking at my Parade CD jacket and it says Produced, Composed, Arragned and performed by Prince and the Revolution. "Kiss" arranged by David Z and even I, who took a long break from Prince, know he uses samples.

Thanks for the info, it breaks it down more in detail.
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wonder505 said:

exactly; that was w & l issue; individual song credits. The P albums should of listed who played on each song.

Hasn't Prince criticed rappers using sample?

mikek1 said:

I think he was referring to the fact that, that is all rappers do. Very few and rarely rappers (I know there are some) who actually create music, and in the beginning there was a huge problem with rappers using samples totally without permission, and then there was the issue, of rapping "bitches and hoes" type lyrics over sampled music, which many of the original artist may not like.

I personally don't have a problem with sampled music. Just that now-a-days, the sampling has gone overboard. Now I'm hearing samples of samples-which to me is very bad.
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wonder505 said:

sampling in rap and pop is responsible for the downward spiral of music since the early 90's. Why hire REAL musicians when you can go by a CD of royalty free samples and use them OVER and OVER again. Very sad.