piepie1976 said:

Upon thinking about it, Prince probably used Ice Cube in an attempt to ultimately have his anti-gang message reach gang culture. At the time, Cube was more associated with gangsta rap and "Boyz N The Hood" than anything else. That's my guess.

I think not Any man that would use "I Wanna Be Your Lover" as a opening for one of his movies is definitely a Prince fan and not just using it as a front

nursev said:

piepie1976 said:

Upon thinking about it, Prince probably used Ice Cube in an attempt to ultimately have his anti-gang message reach gang culture. At the time, Cube was more associated with gangsta rap and "Boyz N The Hood" than anything else. That's my guess.

I think not Any man that would use "I Wanna Be Your Lover" as a opening for one of his movies is definitely a Prince fan and not just using it as a front

I'm not denying he was a Prince fan. I'm talking about Prince specifically selecting Cube to direct a video with that specific message, especially when he wasn't even a director. I feel like it wasn't an accident or just a whimsical decision.

nursev said:

Is that Cube on the magazine Prince has open?

The video was credied as - Directed by: Ice Cube

Even though i bet he had very little to do with it

piepie1976 said:

nursev said:

I think not Any man that would use "I Wanna Be Your Lover" as a opening for one of his movies is definitely a Prince fan and not just using it as a front

I'm not denying he was a Prince fan. I'm talking about Prince specifically selecting Cube to direct a video with that specific message, especially when he wasn't even a director. I feel like it wasn't an accident or just a whimsical decision.

Was it his first directing job?

mplsmike said:

nursev said:

Is that Cube on the magazine Prince has open?

The video was credied as - Directed by: Ice Cube

Even though i bet he had very little to do with it

Thanks-he did a good job and secretly I think he was a fan before directing the video

Eyeofthelotus said:

did you hear the Shock G's Silky Smooth Remix?

makes me do the humpy hump dance

It's a Bad Ass Jam

My understanding is that Prince wanted to release this as a single but it was blocked by Warners. Shame, it would have been a huge hit.

Mong said:

My understanding is that Prince wanted to release this as a single but it was blocked by Warners. Shame, it would have been a huge hit.

He was under contract to them, and didn't want to put it out on WB, so it wasn't like they were being huge dicks about it, they let him do MBGITW.

It feels like such a 90s song! I like it

the sign caught on, but not meaning "love"

I like the 1800newfunk version a lot more than the CB remix

nursev said:

piepie1976 said:

I'm not denying he was a Prince fan. I'm talking about Prince specifically selecting Cube to direct a video with that specific message, especially when he wasn't even a director. I feel like it wasn't an accident or just a whimsical decision.

Was it his first directing job?

He directed a Color Me Badd video around that time too. I think it was for the song "Time and Chance".

That love sign looks like a gun? I though the love sign is a heart?? Wtf, I used to love the song, and i think that sign he's doing on the video is shit.

who wants to bet that Ice Cube never got paid

I don't think Ice-Cube did get paid.

The video is very badly edited. Jumps all over the place, like an a.d.d. hangover.

Notice Prince gets out of bed with his hair all perfect..lol

This was his second creative period. The songs just kept coming. That beef with Warners was very helpful--for us!

NouveauDance said:

Mong said:

My understanding is that Prince wanted to release this as a single but it was blocked by Warners. Shame, it would have been a huge hit.

He was under contract to them, and didn't want to put it out on WB, so it wasn't like they were being huge dicks about it, they let him do MBGITW.

I appreciate this, but considering that there were US and EU promos of the single as well as considerable primetime UK Radio 1 airplay of the track, it's definitely a hit that never was and would have given Prince much commerical impetus re his career.

Mong said:

NouveauDance said:

He was under contract to them, and didn't want to put it out on WB, so it wasn't like they were being huge dicks about it, they let him do MBGITW.

I appreciate this, but considering that there were US and EU promos of the single as well as considerable primetime UK Radio 1 airplay of the track, it's definitely a hit that never was and would have given Prince much commerical impetus re his career.

Well he should've put it on Come then he could've done just that (Who am I kidding, like Prince would've promoted it any way then!)

novabrkr said:

funksterr said:

If LoveSign was overlooked it's only because Prince was beefing with his label and didn't promote it well on his own. Lovesign was a pretty good song, but 90's Prince music was mostly embarrassingly bad.

"Mostly"?

So at least over 50% of his 90s output was "embarrassingly bad"?

I hope you don't expect everyone to agree with you.

Oh yeah. I mean that. Graffiti Bridge, , Come, Gold Experience, Emancipation are all terrible albums. I don't listen to them. I have no idea who does. Only the really super Prince FAMS can get into 90's Prince.

VinnyM27 said:

Only recently discovered this one and I know it's offically credited to Nona Gaye, but it's a Prince song with her guest vocals, really. I love this track. Would've loved to heard more like it (although the albums that came after, "Come" and "The Gold Experience", are much better). What do most orgers think about it?

Actually the material on Come and TGE were done before Lovesign, released later, but recorded before.

piepie1976 said:

Still love it. My friends and me used to go to Erotic City at Glam Slam in Minneapolis, which was an after hours 18+ party in the upper room of the club. Anyway, he came and debuted the video and song one night and everyone was super excited about it. He kept walking back and forth across the dance floor with a Tootsie Pop in his mouth, looking excactly like he did in the video, one time walking right in between me and this girl I was dancing with. Such a cool place to be for an 18 yr old Prince fan. PS - I wonder why he chose Ice Cube to direct?

I think it was something as simple as Ice Cube using that line "I bought a house next to Prince" on one of this tracks which Prince later sampled. Sort of a weird 6 degree connection which didn't last very long but produced a slick and cool video. I also remember reading that Prince wanted to do with 'Love Sign' the same thing he did with 'TMBGITW' and release it through Bellmark as a single but Warners was dead against it. They didn't want him scoring another hit that wasn't on their label.

thedance said:

I love the original single/ 1800NewFunk version.

Amazing video too, Prince playing the eye bass....!

funksterr said:

purplenuts said:

Another one of those overlooked Prince gems that dissproves the theory from the uninformed that Prince music in the 90s was anything less than the Prince music in the 80s.

If LoveSign was overlooked it's only because Prince was beefing with his label and didn't promote it well on his own. Lovesign was a pretty good song, but 90's Prince music was mostly embarrassingly bad.

Actually "Lovesign" was on its way 2 become a hit. But Warners seized Prince of releasing it as a single. Because of the mega success of "TMBGITW".So it was scrapped. But 2 me it was a hit anyway. It got major airplay on radio & the BET network. Luckily we got a good video from Ice Cube out of it. In exchange Ice Cube gave Prince a favor 4 "given" him Robin Power in his video "Its a Good day".