I absolutely LOVE this damn song! A lot of "Emancipation" is pleasing but largely second rate music. While this definitely isn't his best song ever, I feel very happy, optimistic and free when listening to it. The power of music is crazy. This song just does it for me. I don't hear it being spoke about much. I can't be the only person that feel this way about this song... or am I? lol

P.S. I love that little note he hits after he says "Hoochies, they all wanna do me" ... then he says "But am I really happy?". Does he? I'm not sure. But I love that note!

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I love this song, I listen to it almost everyday, but I hate that talking in the background!

IamFunkay7 said:

I love this song, I listen to it almost everyday, but I hate that talking in the background!

Yes, I found my "Emancipation" CD the other day (can't believe I forgot that I had it) and since I've uploaded it to my iTunes, it gets played a few times a day. Such a picker upper! As far as the talking, eh... I don't even seem to notice it much haha

LIVESexy88 said:

IamFunkay7 said:

I love this song, I listen to it almost everyday, but I hate that talking in the background!

Yes, I found my "Emancipation" CD the other day (can't believe I forgot that I had it) and since I've uploaded it to my iTunes, it gets played a few times a day. Such a picker upper! As far as the talking, eh... I don't even seem to notice it much haha

I didn't either until someone brought it up and then after that I always hear it now. I like that cd very much, White mansion I just love the energy of that song. IT's so 90s but its also just one of them songs, I love when he said "sell my publishing what a laugh! I don't know Bo but I do know math!"

Yep. One of my Top 10. Amazing song.

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Comin' from the land of snow/I guess I'm kind of used to cold

I love this song! Emancipation is in my top five and I am never shy about proclaiming my love for it.

I love it when Prince sings..."At the top of the road."

Happy dont cha know! Here is the man with the blue guitar maybe one day he'll be a star.

I liked this song more when the Emancipation album was released...dont really listen to it much now...no reason...just got everything I needed out of it.

Love it...one of my favs off the album.

Cool song.

Every time I see that title it reminds me of rehab.

^ Rehab from coke?!

TheFreakerFantastic said:

^ Rehab from coke?!

Aye, and not the carbonated stuff.

I can almost hear it being sung 'Big white powder...snorting from the tip of the nose..." lol

Love the optimism of "white mansion" and the rest of Emancipation. A truly underated album in Prince's catalog.

^ Agreed, it's one of my fav P albums now.

White Mansion is totally killer. Probably my favorite song off of Emancipation. It's perfect!

I dig it.

Anybody know where the sample came from, near the beginning and towards the end?

"YO ANITA!!!!! YO CHECK OUT DAT ASS!!!" (Always cracks me up)

Yes "White Mansion" is an excellent track IMO. The Hammond sounds so good on this.

Love, love, love it.

MarquessMarq said:

I dig it.

Anybody know where the sample came from, near the beginning and towards the end?

"YO ANITA!!!!! YO CHECK OUT DAT ASS!!!" (Always cracks me up)

I believe I saw that on Def Comedy Jam

nyse said:

Love the optimism of "white mansion" and the rest of Emancipation. A truly underated album in Prince's catalog.

Agreed. Well, save CD 2 for me. I only dig "One Kiss at a Time" and "Saviour". But the album, as a whole, is the BEST of the whole Symbol trip.

yes one my favs off Emancipation. A glimpse at the true Prince. I've said it before, I'll say it again but Emancipation was the last time I think Prince wrote lyrics that reflected a real person. Since then its been one pose after another with a few exceptions (Reflection for example)

Yes, I love this song (and most of Emancipation). I like Prince when he's depressed (I know this sounds terrible), I think he makes his best music when he's not just thinking about sex, partying or religion.

This song is so good eye love it.....Cant find ur house underneath the snow.....great song...

I love that song, but that woman screaming in the background really dates the music. That was definitely a 90s trend for songs.

Dig that track.

My favourite song on disc 1, White Mansion is all dreams (realised). With its groove along vibe, effects and spiralling synth lines this was a song that was a focus point for me as I was starting to think about my future, leaving childhood behind and starting to build a career. And now several years later it still has the same appeal it held then. I would have loved to see how this one played live. And I loved the self referencing lines that drew attention to what this whole was about “sell my publishing rights? What a laugh. I don’t know Bo but I do know math”.

Bleh.. bland R&B crap