Amazing amazing amazing, both of them!

Hate U

B-side "I Hate U" (Quiet Night Mix by Eric Leeds) (7"), "Endorphinmachine" (Japan CD)
Released September 12th, 1995
Format 7" single, 12" single, Cassette single, CD single, CD maxi-single
Recorded Paisley Park Studios, September 1993–1994
Genre Pop, Rock, R&B, Ballad
Length 7" edit: 4:27, Album: 5:58, Extended Remix: 6:17
Label Warner Bros. Records/NPG Records
Writer(s) Prince
Producer Prince, Ricky Peterson

Trivia!
" Hate U" is a song by Prince from his 1995 album The Gold Experience. The track was the lead single in support of the album, released on September 12th, 1995. "I Hate U" was nearly a solo effort from Prince, although he credited Minneapolis musician Ricky Peterson with co-production and arranging, as well as providing additional keyboards.

Beginning with crashing drums, the "NPG Operator" welcomes the listener to "The Hate Experience" (which Prince would later entitle the song's maxi-single), before leading into the first verse where Prince sings in delicate falsetto about a cheating woman, whom he hates "like a day without sunshine". A church-like organ moves the song along, while a musical segment borrowed from "Baby" (a track from his 1978 album For You) provides breaks throughout the track. After the second verse and chorus, the song enters a lengthy middle section which sung/spoken in Prince's normal voice. This section is a "courtroom drama" where Prince submits his evidence of his cheating lover to a judge. When he asks the woman to state her name for the court, he interrupts her with a sample from the album's previous track — "Billy Jack Bitch". Toward the end of the drama, he states that being without her is killing him emotionally and that he actually still loves her. After a final chorus, again using an impassioned falsetto, Prince launches into a brief but effective guitar solo which climaxes and ends the song.

"I Hate U" is, to date, Prince's last original single to reach the U.S. Top 40. (His earlier hit, "1999" did sneak back into the Top 40 in the song's namesake year, peaking at #40, but this was a reissued single, not a new release and in 1996 "Betcha By Golly, Wow!" from Emancipation made the Top 40, but all of the singles from Emancipation were promotional in the U.S. so they were not allowed to chart on the Hot 100 only on the Hot 100 Airplay). "I Hate U" was very successul on the charts it peaked within the top 10 R&B/Hip-Hop & Rhythmic Charts & it reaced #12 on The Billboard Hot 100, unlike the last couple of Prince's singles, "I Hate U" was not successful on Mainstream/Top 40 radio as it didn't chart on the Top 40 Mainstream. In the UK, "I Hate U" peaked at #20.

The single's B-side was a instrumental "Quiet Night Mix" of "I Hate U", featuring long-time collaborator Eric Leeds on saxophone. A maxi-single on CD and vinyl included several remixes of the track. The most notable was an extended remix which omitted the "courtroom drama" and featured Prince delivering much more personal lyrics. A rumor at the time was that the lyrics of this version referred to Carmen Electra whom Prince had worked with and dated for a time. Other versions of the song were various edits. The Japanese CD single was unique in that it included the album version of "Endorphinmachine" as an extra track.
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I Hate U is the song that MADE me a Prince fan

Liked this song when it appeared on the R&B charts. The epitome of a love-tortured soul.

The line " U gave a dog a place to bone,
and now your ass is all alone." is classic.
I like his singing style and the passionate delivery of the remix verson and the deep bassline.One of his best songs, IMO. Probably because it sounds so authentic and real.

i used to have that threw it away something spilled on it and i couldn't get it off I'M SO ANGRY!!!

This song is simply amazing... one of the best TGE has to offer. I'd rank in the top 3 along with Shh and Gold.

It covers so much emotion and in fact is one of Prince's many Gemini/paradox anthems. His conclusion is ultimately that there is a thin line between love and hate.
Take the banter between him & Mary Sharon in the movie "Under the Cherry Moon"

Mary: I... hate U
Christopher: I love u
Mary: U don't love me...
Christopher: Okay then I hate u
Mary: No.... U don't
Christopher: Then I love U

haha, I heard them go back and forth in the movie and reminded me of the song. Makes me wonder how many years in advice Prince thinks up songs

His emotions are so sharp in the song that it just gets inside your mind and can't help but see things his way. Everything he says makes you agree with him. The beginning of the end where he starts, "did u do 2 ur other man the same thing that u did 2 me..."... can't describe it. Makes me so bad for him and I'm feeding all this anger and hate.

In the end, he confesses that he hates her because he still loves her. His guitar solo is basically him wanting to scream at the top of his lungs in pain and agony. So when the song ends, my heart is just racing... all that emotion.

I havent heard the remix enough times to really go too far in-depth with it, but what I can say is that it is an impressive remix because it builds on the foundation of the original and goes more in-depth...

yes

I love this song. I love the "I hate u, because I love" line. My favorite version is the Quiet Night w/ Eric Leeds one. It's soo beautiful

Great song. Haven't we all experienced this?