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Reply #30 posted 03/05/08 2:47pm

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SquirrelMeat said:

eddy1876 said:

Sorry if this question shows some niavete on my part but where does the term "fam" come from in the first place? Did it originate from the npg music club? Is it an issue of fan semantics like the Trekie/Treker thing? wink


Its the name Prince gave to best describe a particular subsection of his fan base. He was aware that there was a contingent of dysfunctional inbreds which obsessively followed him around and believed every word of his bullshit.

He didn't want to seem politically incorrect, so when he refers to the inbreds, he calls them "The family" or "fam" for short.



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Reply #31 posted 03/07/08 6:24am

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Imago said:

Prince gave an interview to Chris Rock during his Emancipation tour (you know when he was wearing that Hip Hop ensembled mixed with Lime Green crushed velvet gHeyness).





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Reply #32 posted 03/07/08 6:33am

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Did he actually say it means 'family', perhaps it could be short for 'familiar'.
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