WERE THEY LOVERS,SHE STAYED FOR SO LONG IN PRINCE CAMP.
WHAT WAS THEIR DISPUTE?
AND ON FAMMILY JAMM SHE LOOKED THE BEST OF ALL PROTAGEES

He was definitely hittin that

Not this again

Let's just said they had a stormy relationship

Yes, they had a relationship. She's Always in My Hair was written for her. He always had other women as well, but from what I gather Jill was okay with that. My understanding is the final straw for her was when her part in GB was cut to shit. Some have reported that she didn't speak to him during the entire filming.
But regardless, her album was probably the best out of Paisley except for Sheila's. Shame it wasn't better promoted and took so long to come out.

The super fine Jill Jones !!!

Legend goes Jill ran off with Prince during the Dirty Mind tour I think that she was underage when she left home hence the line in Purple Rain ...

Jill: I have something for you.

Prince: What ? A supeona?

Jill had scenes cut from Purple Rain too.

muleFunk said:

I believe they met while she was on the road with Teena Marie as a back-up singer....

also, we're not talking editing cuts here- my understanding is that her whole role in GB was completely rewritten and left with almost nothing at the very last minute. I've read she didn't even know it until she was on the plane to MN.
[Edited 6/22/07 13:10pm]

jill jones is arguably the most talented vocal protegée he's ever had (and may ever have).

Octavius said:

yup.

Octavius said:

Word.

paisley16 said:

Did y'all forget "Rosie Gaines"?

muleFunk said:

Exactly. Damn, ya'll are good. Yeah, Jill was the backup singer for Teena Marie when Teena opened up for P during the Dirty Mind Tour. They hooked up then. Yeah, she was more prominent in the film Purple Rain. But it wasn't P's decesion to have her cut out then. It was Albert's. He felt J.J. was too weak. Anyway, besides P, Jill is really the star vocalist on the 1999 album. She's all over that album. And she's on Vanity6's album and The Time's What Time Is It and Mazarati's album.

I thought she left because they had different ideas about the direction of her second album?

thebanishedone said:

Ms. Lady Cab Driver? of course they were ..

Raze said:

J.J. left cuz she got tired of P's bullshit. I think she was madly in love with P (her mistake) and he took advantage of it. Jill was way too talented to waste it waiting around on P's little punk ass. She should have hooked up with some other producers who respected her as a woman and respected her talent. But she had Prince in her blood, so to speak. He was in her system. So...I think the way he did her in GB was the last straw. That movie and album was whack as hell anyways.

blackguitaristz said:

Interesting. Although I couldn't get into the movie, I found the album - minus the guest singers - very good. There are so many good songs on the album like Joy In Repetition, Question of U, We Can Funk, Thieves in the Temple, Elephants & Flowers. Dag, I need to go listen to it now. I think it gets a bad rap because of the film it is associated with. Were it not a soundtrack, I think it would get more love on its own merit.

Although, "Jill Jones" had a peculiar shape of a body, she was still sexy to boot. She wasn't bad at singing, either.

blackguitaristz said:

I thought she left because he beat her ass

She's related to Berry Gordy too

I love Jill Jones,,,I thought her OWN pinned music is much better in her skin than the Prince-pinned song.

As gar GB, she's non-communicative with everybody on the set,,,speaking to them in FRENCH

I think its no news that Prince wasn't good with his protegees musically(Aside from Manic Monday, his songs for other artists worth shit) but she & Sheila were the "better" ones IMO.

icke4presidant said:

Well, I wouldn't make light of that, if indeed it's true. But that would have something to do with it, if that was the case.

Wonders why people often think that he has had relationships with EVERY female protegees he worked with?

I mean, some of those relationships are confirmed by the ladies themselve: Apolonia and Susannah come to mind, but of course also Mayte and Manuela.

But i really doubt he has had a love / sex relationship with:
- Sheila E: this relationship comes over as a platonic, brother-sister like one
- Jill Jones: i really doubt it, she is too 'feministic', to strong for him
- Boni Boyer and Rosie Gaines: not his age and size-range...
- Ingrid Chavez: she played his love-object in Graffiti Bridge, but i am pretty sure Prince had a relationship with Anna Garcia around that period.
- Rhonda Smith: i just dont see 'it'
- Candy Dulfer: Candy is to 'calvinistic' and straightforward for him.
- The twins: they are really just 'posing material' for an older man i think.

bellanoche said:

Good point. That was the first album of P's that I DIDN'T buy. It was 5 years later before I actually bought that album. Sure, I had heard some tracks off of it from others, but it wasn't anything that made me go hop in my car to Tower Records. I do dig Elephant & Flowers, Joy In Repetition and Question of U. But see, I had already had the boots of those songs, including a different and better version of We Can Funk BEFORE that album was released.And that movie...I was sad for myself that I actually spent bread on that film. I was sitting in the theatre with all of these other P fans, and the vibe was like "Damn...". P was sooo out of touch that even his "fantasy dream world" was sorry. I don't know why the hell WB even fucked with that film. I can see why Madonna was like "Are you serious?...This script is worst than UTCM!". Actually, Madonna DID want to do that film but Sean Penn would have killed her so, that wasn't going to happen.

Riverpoet31 said:

P was dating Jill BEFORE he started working with her.

Riverpoet31 said:

I will bet my house that Prince Roger Nelson has been with Sheila,Jill,and Ingrid.

And I would not bet against those other women. Hell Boni and Rosie both are big but they are nice looking sexy big women.

muleFunk said:

Rosie hates princes

FarrahMoan said:

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I guess they have forgotten Rosie. I am not a big fan of Jill's voice and she certainly was not a better singer than Rosie.

Riverpoet31 said:

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Sheila E: this relationship comes over as a platonic, brother-sister like one

If brothers and sisters are having sex (LOL)

- Jill Jones: i really doubt it, she is too 'feministic', to strong for him
You missed the story from one of the owners of the 1st Ave talking about P picking Jill up and taking her into the mens room.

- Boni Boyer and Rosie Gaines: not his age and size-range...

- Ingrid Chavez: she played his love-object in Graffiti Bridge, but i am pretty sure Prince had a relationship with Anna Garcia around that period.

Wrong according to those in the know he was with her as well.
- Rhonda Smith: i just dont see 'it'
( Unconfirmed Rumor)

- Candy Dulfer: Candy is to 'calvinistic' and straightforward for him.

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FarrahMoan said:

I thought Jill was extremely sexy! Especially in this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKv_l5_6_4

"On the first hot day, I created a little something too hot" He certainly did!

she could've been joking but didn't someone post here recenlty that Sheila said something to the effect of "the sex was good" in reference to Prince on a recent game show or talk show?

i'm hard pressed believe he DIDN'T do Sheila at some point. Jill is a given.
Don't know enough about Ingrid, but she probably gave it up too.

blackguitaristz said:

Yeah, I do love the boot/alternate versions of We Can Funk and Tick Tick Bang, but I still dig the GB versions. You know it's bad when Madonna, queen of crap films, looks at a script and goes WTF?.

rosie gains is a whole lotta woman, i aint much bigger than prince but i would have stepped to big mamma LOL.