FunkyMoon said:

I love it! I've had it on repeat, the song needs a funky extended mix.

I love it. PURPLE JEDI!

Cerebus said:

Does anybody have an actual CD? Is the track really number 77? Meaning, do you have to skip through tracks 10-76 to get to it?

You know how this guy is with the number 7 and shit? He thought naming this track number 77 instead of 10 was cute probably.

Track 77.

this is my fav! great sound would love more stuff like this, but hay this is Prince who knows whats next.

Sounds like a lazy, lets introduce Larry after a 5 minute jam song. One of the only two songs I probably wont listen to much on this album.

Solid composition (the album) from the begining until everybody loves me + this (doesnt fit to me). Im grateful my fav artist is still giving us more to listen to and this is creative and fresh. Two tracks out of 10 is unheard of these days. Love it, thanks P!

rapper said:

Sounds like a lazy, lets introduce Larry after a 5 minute jam song. One of the only two songs I probably wont listen to much on this album.

Solid composition (the album) from the begining until everybody loves me + this (doesnt fit to me). Im grateful my fav artist is still giving us more to listen to and this is creative and fresh. Two tracks out of 10 is unheard of these days. Love it, thanks P!

I thought that bass sounded familiar...

Great track. Reminded me of the feel of 3121. Wish he would do more of this - more futuristic and far out. Please do more of this!

MantuaPharoah said:

Whooooaaaaa ooooo oooo OOOO oooo.... Hangin' Tough!!!!

Let Down mtv

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ZusIOLDRs8

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Contemporary. A perfect mix of Prince and more current sounds.

Love the 'Purple Yoda'; the fierceness of it.

Pure electro-funk. But how this is anything like 'Old Skool Company' is beyond me. 'It is funk and electronic therefore it sounds like ... .' Like comparing 'Hot Thing' to 'Illusion, Coma, Pimp and Circumstance'.

Everyones entitled to their opinion, but some of the reviews here are utter shite. People seem determined not to like the album.

vainandy said:

Rapping itself is fine because in the early 1980s, rap was basically just spoken lyrics rather than sung lyrics over funk so rap was actually funky back then. It's when hip hop got it's own sound that it became shit hop....stripped completely of damn near all instruments and the only thing remaining are those damn weak ass drum machines that just barely tap which never get past midtempo and sound like an annoying grandfather clock just ticking at a slow pace. And that's not even getting into the ignorant attitude they started having.

Agree 100%. Where did the fucking beat go?!...

Probably the closest this album has gotten to having an "OMG!" moment similar to how I felt when I first hear the first few bars of Cheslea Rodgers on July 15th 2007. However where that track kept up it's energy and awesome thorughout, just as Laydown starts to feel like it's really starting to go somehwere.... stops! If this was longer and less Prince-hop clean this could perhaps have been funking amazing. :/

That said, a little faster and dirtier and this could totally blow the roof off a live gig.

xlr8r said:

Same type of feeling as Ol Skool Company but better.

I don't really hear that comparison, but OSC is definately the better of the two tracks.

One for the sub. That bass is incredible. This was instantly my fav of the 10. Agree that it sits somewhat odly in the set and so I can see why it's hidden.

Maybe a hint of the next album?

vegasE said:

One for the sub. That bass is incredible. This was instantly my fav of the 10. Agree that it sits somewhat odly in the set and so I can see why it's hidden.

Maybe a hint of the next album?

I so hope it's a hint of the next album. If there was a purple yoda music machine vote I'd vote for this kinda thing.

OK, since some of y'all love it so much, I bet you didn't even notice he was giving some props to the song "Funkytown" in it. Remember that song was created by another Minneapolis musician. Apparently "Funkytown" was somewhere in Minneapolis too lmao...

The song is kinda funny with his lyrics: "purple Yoda", "boo", "bounce bounce come on now"...

"The purple bounce bounce"...

Face Down for the Kingdom Hall crowd. Not such a diss, I like Face Down.

Dsoul said:

Face Down for the Kingdom Hall crowd. Not such a diss, I like Face Down.

I listened to "Face Down" a month ago and that shit still knocks!!!!

"It's in his will, I read it

Fuck all y'all.'"

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I want more from the Purple Yoda

It's not even in the same league as Face Down.

That's insulting.

My favorite song on the album. Its a bad mamma jamma and me likey.

It hits so hard and the lyrics go right along with it. I do like the idea of this being a fight song for the Vikings, this would definitely get Favre to come back as an old decrepid QB.

SavonOsco said:

Hip Hop heads will hear this and know he was listening to Santogold's "Creator"....(YouTube her to compare the songs) He didn't even changed her melody..just slowed the tempo a little and added his flavor to it and Im loving the track!! I'm just glad that he even did a song of this type (Santogold/M.I.A electro-hip hop)...Show he still can expand his creativity at a time he was sometimes sounding stale

totally

SavonOsco said:

Hip Hop heads will hear this and know he was listening to Santogold's "Creator"....(YouTube her to compare the songs) He didn't even changed her melody..just slowed the tempo a little and added his flavor to it and Im loving the track!! I'm just glad that he even did a song of this type (Santogold/M.I.A electro-hip hop)...Show he still can expand his creativity at a time he was sometimes sounding stale

MAN... now that you mentioned it I definitely hear Santogold but of course if she was singing this, I'd be going nuts in my chair getting DOWN to it!

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♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ Let's go crazy

Let's get nuts

Let's look 4 the Purple Yoda

Till they put us in the truck

Let's go!!!! ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫

Timmy84 said:

SavonOsco said:

Hip Hop heads will hear this and know he was listening to Santogold's "Creator"....(YouTube her to compare the songs) He didn't even changed her melody..just slowed the tempo a little and added his flavor to it and Im loving the track!! I'm just glad that he even did a song of this type (Santogold/M.I.A electro-hip hop)...Show he still can expand his creativity at a time he was sometimes sounding stale

MAN... now that you mentioned it I definitely hear Santogold but of course if she was singing this, I'd be going nuts in my chair getting DOWN to it!

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right on!!

Timmy84 said:

Dsoul said:

Face Down for the Kingdom Hall crowd. Not such a diss, I like Face Down.

I listened to "Face Down" a month ago and that shit still knocks!!!!

"It's in his will, I read it

He shot to kill, he said:

'Those who have the number and don't call

Fuck all y'all.'"

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That's one of my favorite music videos because he plays violin and saxophone (my instrument.

It makes me all excited everytime I see it.

MattyJam said:

xlr8r said:

Same type of feeling as Ol Skool Company but better.

I don't really hear that comparison, but OSC is definately the better of the two tracks.

No? It has that 'menace' vibe to me. One is dark ala Black Album (OSC) while the other is Lovesexy Positivy-ish (Laydown) imo.

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Nancy, proud of you. You usually wait until the legit album comes out. lol

2freaky4church1 said:

Nancy, proud of you. You usually wait until the legit album comes out. lol