PurpleKnight said:

One of the coolest Prince songs ever.

Co-sign.

The a capella version is awesome!

MattyJam said:

This is definately in my top 10 Prince songs of all time.

I love the album version, I adore the live version and the video is cool as fuck!

I love to play this song on the way home from a bad day at work and sing along, especially the end. It always makes me feel better.

I love the X-tended Rap Money remix with the rap from 18 and Over at the end.

I especially LOVED seeing him perform it on the Chris Rock Show! He and Kirky J...hilarious!

PsychedelicMama said:

I especially LOVED seeing him perform it on the Chris Rock Show! He and Kirky J...hilarious!

mayrain said:

Here is another one of my Favorite Prince Songs! Does the org Love it, Like it, or Hate It?

Check, check, 1 2, check
U know what he's sayin'?

Face down! {x2}

Somebody once told him that he wouldn't take Prince through the ringer
Let him go down as a washed up singer
Ain't that a bitch?
Thinkin' all along that he wanted 2 be rich
Never respected the root of all evil and he still don't 2 this day, huh
Bury him face down, let the motherfuckers kiss a ass, OK?

Face down! {x2}

Told 'em he wanted 2 sing a song about a black child goin' buck wild
And they just laughed in his face
Talk 2 your lawyer but U got no case
What U need 2 do is keep your place
Next time U pull a card, it better be a ace motherfucker
Or U can lay face down (Face down!)

1 2
Face down! 1 2

Horn {x2}
Bass {x2}

Him and her meaning who I'm singin' about
And his psychoanalyst kinda saw the catalyst
As the devil with the blue jeans on, huh
Ain't it kinda funny when U see the dawn?
Sign the name they gave ya
But when them motherfuckers turn around ass up, U're what?

Face down! 1 2
Face down! New Power Generation in the house, bury 'em all
Face down! Yes, oh Lord
Face down!

Orchestra {x3}
Face down!
Orchestra
Face down!

It's in his will, I read it
He shot 2 kill, he said it
4 those who know the number and don't call
Hmph, fuck all y'all

Face down! {x3}

I know Prince doesn't say bad words anymore but I do love this song.

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I once saw a live version (NYC or Vegas) on the internet in which he gets down on bass at the end of this song after an amazing buildup. He is playing the bass while straddling it between his legs and he eventually plays it on one leg. Incredible. Anyone know the concert or video? I know it was prior to his lyric censorship.

Timmy84 said:

His best funk "rap" song IMHO.

Better than Days of Wild??! No sir! I cannot co-sign on that!

I have to say this first:

D&P and aren't 90s albums for me. They're part of a "transition" in my book.

OK, here I go:

BEST SONG HE RELEASED IN THE WHOLE 1990s. There. I said it.

PSSSHHH: Days Of Wild could beat FD. But this is another story, and will be told in another thread.

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Hmmm.....

Thought about it again.. and i think what i wrote earlier is bullcrap.. Still love the song.

just noticed he's wearing the same boots in this video (when he plays the violin with the silly look on his face) as he did for one shot of the ebony photo shoot - the big black yeti boots.

all hail the time-travellin yeti boots

Love it!!!!

My favourite Prince flavours Angry and Nasty

I know someone that has the coffin used in the video.

TRUTH69 said:

I know someone that has the coffin used in the video.

It isn't Prince is it?

Who's playing bass on the Roseland version? I know Rhonda in on the Chris Rock Show, but since it's lip synched, who's to say. I mean, I know she's capable of playing that well, but in the full-length live version, towards the beginning, Prince keeps making little asides (i.e. "Wait a minute!") that sound like maybe he's playing it.

Does anyone have any opinions, insight, intel? The NYTimes review of the show says he does play bass for part of the show, but doesn't say which songs.

Love it! A kick ass Prince song!! HE was so badass on it!!

Love it