I can't listen to this song without cracking a smile or laughing. Nothing but genius

It's the main reason I gave away my Black album, for free!

It makes me laugh but in a an unsure kinda scared way

Dayclear said:

Why oh why did U do that?!

Was it an unofficial edition at least?

My favorite pimp.A definite hilite of Lovesexy tour 4 me. So cool.

I love the song! I giggle all the way through it.

"Oh, no! The n's got a laser!"

Luv it...funny.....in a scary sort of way. Luv the way he recycles the chord sequence from U Got the Look.

Cuz all you do is suck up food and heat! Say What? Oh Yeah. For someone who cant stand them TV dinners, you sure do eat enough of those mother fuckers!

Now go in there and put on the new wig I bought you. No no, the redish brown one.

But of course it's ALL about the phone call, cuz that's when he fucks your shit up!

I'll kick your ass...twice!

rnljs said:

It IS funny.

"bob! ain't that a bitch!?"

I LOVE this song. One of my faves by Prince. I know a lot of people who likes P that doesn't like this cut. I was dating a girl who adored Prince and every time I played this song in my car, she would get upset. She would say shit like "This doesn't sound like something Prince would do..This is violent...Prince..he isn't violent." I was like "Prince is rough and he's crazy. This is a side of Prince too." But she didn't want to hear it. When the gunshots break out, she acted like P had kicked down her door and shit. She definately thought P was this lil' angel. Totally above doing a track like this. I was like "But Prince wrote this...THAT'S Prince talking!" So I put Annie Christian, Lady Cab Driver and Shockadelica right behind Bob George. "Get up, nasty bitch, Get up!" Then I would be like "See, THAT'S Prince".

Really dig this song. It's funny as hell. Not only that, it's just a cool ass song. I like whne he performed it on the Lovesexy tour in Germany also.

"I pay the rent in this ragedy mothafucka"

i love this skinny mf with the low voice..my atavar

OHH man i rember when i got my bootleg copy of this,.....loved everything about it, the crazy drumbeat, the voices, the humor,....He was the basdest mf in the planet when he created this, orginal funky and funny.
in 87 nobody was even in his league, he was in his prime, Prince at his best.
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I don't understand this song. Can someone share their take on this concept, message, circumstance?

Twinkly1 said:

I dont think it had one

Twinkly1 said:

Yeah, The concept: It's about P being this crazed thug who's paranoid to the 9th degree and who went off on his woman. The message: P was letting folks see a side of him that has always been there and what perhaps what he has seen around him from the street. The message is him displaying violence. It's not clear if he actually shoots his woman or if he just shoots in the house where they are. The circumstance: P's character in the song goes off and it perhaps has a violent end. For who? Who knows...It's gangsta though, that's for sure. Prince style.

I think the main thing about this song is, that at the time Nothing sounded anything like it, the sparse thuding of the drumbeat ( later used as part of an exrended remix version of Madonnas " Like a Prayer " and later the beat to her "Music" sounds very similar.
I think the point was, finding a funky beat and mocking gangsta rap, like in "dead on it" but a lot funkier.

Now it doesnt sound as revolutionary now, but its still funky and its still funny.
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Still one of the highest creative points he comercially put out there.... I want more crazy creative stuff like this!

Thanks I get it now and I can see why you all liked it, its very unique and dark. I wasn't sure if it was Prince the voice seems like a big, thick, scary looking dude.

eireboy34 said:

And about a billion other Prince songs

violetblues said:

Those days... glory days. 'Bob George' is a great song and 'The Black Album' is underrated these days.