Future Baby Momma is one of my favourite songs off of this album!
i looove it.. i think he sounds sooo amazing when he sings really high like that lol

I like when he says the "Oh yes..." and I love the "look-a-like" line. I hope he has a video for this one. I love his voice in this one.

i find it ironic that folks scream, "you just want another purple rain 2" yet folks revel in the uptenth version of his r7b slow jam.

and i think i just found my response to all those posters.

See: "Future Baby Momma"

funky track

I like it.

I find this one a bit anonymous and similar to things he's done before. However, it's completely saved by some excellent Lynn-programming.

-dennis-

Bewdy said:

But do you like it?

I like this track, though it's far from original. Those 2 beats at the start of the song fool you into thinking "When 2 R In Love" has somehow made its way unto this album. I also hear the echoes of "Thieves/Temple" and "Pink Cashmere" mentioned above, but still: excellent slow song!

except for the spoken part, I quite like this one

As y'all know, Future Baby's Mama's a 4 min. and 37 sec. song. If you go 4 min. and 13 sec. into the song, towards the end when Prince is adlibbing, he imitates a crying baby. Listen when the background sings again: "future baby's mama!" and Prince comes out with "waaaaa waaaaa."

Hahahaha! I'm sure y'all caught on to that. Hey, ya probably already discussed it.

MartyMcFly said:

Hell, I just appreciate the return of his background drum tag, reminiscent of the 80's, esp. his song "something in the water (does not compute).

prodigalfan said:

I have the utmost respect to P and Mayte regarding the loss of their child. But as P sings, "Gotta bend in the Wind but don't break, to keep your man". Could it be that Mayte broke b4 another chance was given.

BobGeorge909 said:

Thanks for the effort, but I've made some corrections.

DevotedPuppy said:

I believe he simply means she has to be strong/flexible as in weathering relationship storms, not that she has to lower her standards or compromise her values. You might say that Mani and Mayte BROKE, rather than BENT, because they hit the road. He's say he wants someone who can make it through trials rather than snap under the pressure.

prodigalfan said:

Considering we don't know for certain WHEN this song was penned, it may have been written FOR mayte adn is just now being released. He could've written this along with Let's Have a Baby, adn then decided the latter song was more fitting for Emancipation and FBM finally found its home on PE. Let's think outside the box before pillorying the man!

yeaaaaa...I have to like this one...VERRRI R&B

mrleeareed said:

Or you might say Mayte & Mani left (broke) because they refused to put up with P's crap (eg. they didn't want to bend that far). Weathering relationship storms is one thing, but I don't think that means look the other way regardless of what the other person does/how they treat you. Tomato/tamahto I guess. (Disclaimer: I do not ascribe to the belief that this song is specifically about Mayte, Mani, or anyone else, I simply find it offensive and sexist.)

gam19566 said:

I never heard that. Lemme go back and take a listen.

This song always makes me think of that song by Fantasia Barrino (of American Idol fame). She had a song on her first album called "Baby Mamas".
[Edited 8/6/07 18:13pm]

Very Cool/Groovin song...This is in my top 3 from the Planet Earth cd
Eye liked it very much from the 1st. listen.

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I still say it is an outtake from Rave.

i heard it an thought 'Not another' . he already got 101 songs like this an too me this is unremarkable an borring . especially after following THE ONE U WANNA C . which is an exciting song .. this kinda music sends me to sleep. i always skip this song . cos as soon as it comes on i feel uncomfortable an aint willing to waste 5 mins of my life playing it lol .. i understand some people like him doing this kinda thing .. but 4 me personally this sucks .. an has way too much bragging in the spoken part . kinda showing off . an trying too hard . material stuff ..i think i made my feelings clear on this song . an dont feel so much different about SOMEWHERE HERE ON EARTH . maybe i am too young to appreciate these type of songs? ... or maybe i just got good taste? .. In a word or 2 .. PREDICTABLEY BORRING

DevotedPuppy said:

Oh please it is neither offensive or sexist

2020 said:

That's your opinion, to which you are entitled; just as I am entitled to mine. The phrase "baby mama" is offensive to me, and you really have no recourse to tell me my opinion is wrong.

DevotedPuppy said:

You are more than entitled to your opinion but to say this song is offensive is what I take issue with. Prince in no way is intending this phrase to be offensive but rather just using an already popular English term.

If you want to take offense i would look to most of the hip-hop artists out there that not only use terms much worse but mean it to be offensive

2020 said:

So because a word/phrase is "already popular English term" it can't be offensive? So any number of deroguatory words like b*tch, n*gg*, sp*c, etc shouldn't be considered offensive b/c they are already popular English terms? I already explained earlier on this thread the many reasons why I feel the term is offensive. The phrase is imbued with meanings that cannot be changed regardless of what Prince meant or may have meant by tacking "future" in front of it. In fact, I'm disappointed that he used the phrase at all b/c I'm sure he's smart enough to know the connotations affiliated with it and he still used it.

I agree that hip-hop/rap lyrics are worse, but where do you think the phrase 'baby mama' came from? While I'm not 100% certain, I'd guess it started in the hip-hop/rap world that you cite as example of more offensive terms. So that says what?

DevotedPuppy said:

That hip-hop is full of offensive language?

Baby mama (also baby-mama and baby-mother) is an African-American Vernacular English term used to describe a mother who is not married to her child's father. The term is included in the Oxford English Dictionary as baby-mama, where it is defined as, "the mother of a man's child, who is not his wife or (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner".

The term originated in Jamaican Creole as baby-mother (pronounced "biebi madda"), with the first printed usage appearing in the Kingston newspaper the the Daily Gleaner in 1966.[1][2] Another Daily Gleaner use dates from November 21, 1989.[2] Peter L. Patrick, a linguistics professor who studies Jamaican English, has said of the terms baby-mother and baby-father, "[they] definitely imply there is not a marriage—not even a common-law marriage, but rather that the child is an 'outside' child".

Baby-mother and baby-mama had entered wide use in American hip-hop lyrics by the mid-1990s.[1] The Outkast song "Ms. Jackson", released in 2000, was dedicated to "all the baby mamas' mamas". American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino released a song entitled "Baby Mama" in 2004. Prince's 2007 CD Release "Planet Earth" features the song "Future Baby Mama" that rose quickly on the R&B charts.


Originally, the term was used by the fathers of children born out of wedlock to describe the mothers of their children, but the term is now in general use to describe any single mother. However, since entering currency in U.S. tabloids, the terms baby-mama and baby-daddy have even begun to be applied to married and engaged celebrities.[1]

I didn't like it when I heard the low quality version 2 or so months ago. But now, its easily the best song on the album.

2020 said:

Where'd you get this? Wikipedia?

Note the parts in bold... "the child is an 'outside child'" opens up a whole discussion about being "the other" which I will not get into (see any number of writings by Foucault, Derrida, Fanon, Said, etc. if you're interested). And it was hip-hop that brought the phrase to America so your point about the phrase being okay and hip-hop being worse is completely pointless because it entered English (US) vernacular from hip-hop!

Love how you completely ignored the first part of my response, but whatever. I'm done discussing it b/c you are only reading what you want to and not considering the larger picture.

"baby mama"

DevotedPuppy said:

In the end its too bad for you cause this is a great song and its too bad your offended by it

As for me and many others - we LOVE it!