What do you guys make of this?

"Tracy Chapman, Bill Cosby, Janet Jackson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Prince, Oprah Winfrey, and Peggy Cooper Cafritz (co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C.) collectively donated approximately US$11 million to ensure the completion of the film. Most of these individuals (excluding Prince and Winfrey) are pictured briefly toward the end of the closing credits."

Well,you´ve already answered your own question...he donated some money but he doesn´t appear in the closing credits...which is not a big surprise since I can´t imagine Prince wearing an X cap.

That was a great effort and I'm proud of Prince for being a contributer to that.

The full credits list at IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title...edits#cast

Go right to the bottom and the contributors are all listed:

Thanks
Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud .... special thanks
Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud .... special thanks
Tracy Chapman .... thank Allah
Peggy Cooper-Cafritz .... thank Allah
Bill Cosby .... thank Allah
David Dinkins .... special thanks
David Dubois .... special thanks
Sheik El Hazar .... special thanks
King Fahd .... special thanks (as King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al Saud)
Aretha Franklin .... thank Jesus
Alex Haley .... in memory of
Early Halloween .... special thanks
Janet Jackson .... thank Allah
Shihab Jamjoon .... special thanks
Magic Johnson .... thank Allah
Quincy Jones .... special thanks
Michael Jordan .... thank Allah
Arthur Klein .... special thanks
Robert A. Materasso .... special thanks (as Dept. Chief Inspector Robert A. Materasso)
Nabil Murad .... special thanks (as His Excellency Nabil Murad)
Prince .... thank Allah
Oliver Stone .... special thanks
Oprah Winfrey .... thank Allah


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Militant said:

When I found out I was very proud of Prince.

Definitely a great film and good of Prince to help Spike out.

Was this common knowledge around the time the movie came out? like, was it in the media and stuff that prince had contributed financially towards the movie?

The company that released the movie would not pay for Spike to film the Mecca scenes. Spike was stuck in Egypt with a movie that was 60% done and was told to return back to the US for post production. Because Lee had such an emotional investment in the film along with the need to do Malcolm justice ,Lee called every major Black entertainer in America and asked for contributions for the movie to be finished. To my knowledge every Black entertainer that he called gave him the cash to finish the film.

Get the frig OUT!!! Boy is my chest sticking out proudly!!!

Militant said:

Yes.
It wasn't a secret that this group banded together
to finance the completion of the movie.