From the latest issue of Rolling Stone, here's a funny portion of a 2uestlove write up:

His parents were stick Christians, so he wasn't allowed to have explicit albums in the house. To get around them, he used to hide albums under his mattress. "The more I rebelled, the more they tried to God it out of me," he says. "I wasn't allowed to watch cartoons. I wasn't allowed to watch sitcoms. There was extreme hell to pay for anything Prince-related. Between '82 and '87, I went through about nine copies of 1999.

One time, he was at Prince's studio, when he accidentally let slip a curse word. Prince demanded he put $20 in the swear jar. "I was like , 'For what?' He said, 'You cussed. You can't cuss here.' I said , 'Motherfucker, do you know how much punishment I went through because of you? You taught me those words!'

Hahaha! Nice story, thanks for posting.

That's a great response. Cost him $40, though.

Fucking hilarious! Oops...

classic!! wonder what Prince thought of that...maybe he put the $40 in himself

Just finished breakfast, but this story puts a smile on my face for the rest of the day , nice to read!

Also Prince has an rich man's cuss jar!

NouveauDance said:

Also Prince has an rich man's cuss jar!

hahah yeah!

Ha!

umanbing said:

The story makes Prince appear to be a demanding, self-righteous, hypocritical, control freak to me.

But we already knew that.

squirrelgrease said:

That's a great response. Cost him $40, though.

Somebody else, I can't seem to remember who, told the story of Prince's cuss jar, some years ago.

I said then...I'd have a dropped a few hundred in the jar and cussed his ass straight the fuck out!

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

squirrelgrease said:

That's a great response. Cost him $40, though.

Somebody else, I can't seem to remember who, told the story of Prince's cuss jar, some years ago.

I said then...I'd have a dropped a few hundred in the jar and cussed his ass straight the fuck out!

"Emancipation" Meanwhile, he was getting deeper into spirituality.

• RICKY PETERSON: We were doing 'Emancipation,' and he had a cuss jar. He was getting into Jehovah's Witnesses. He was trying to quit cussing himself. George Benson, who's a full-fledged Jehovah's Witness guy, was at Paisley doing a record. He said, 'I don't know about our boy. I don't think our boy's going to make it.' He couldn't get past the part of Prince cussing and trying to get religious after doing a song like 'Sexy MF.' No one knew what Prince was doing. This was right after Mayte lost the baby.

• TOMMY BARBARELLA: Our last real long conversation was a spiritual discussion that went awry. It left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. He's just not interested in things that aren't in accordance with his views. He likes to argue, and he likes to win the argument, which is why [his current religion] seems to work well for him. But he's searching, trying to make sense of it all, trying to get right with God. I'm cool with it as long as I don't get into an argument with him, because he's a very persuasive speaker. I sat up in his office the day after his name change. He talked for about three hours, explaining to me what it meant and why. I walked out of there feeling pretty good. It made sense to me. Later that night, I was like, 'What? Wait a minute. What did he say?'

• WENDY MELVOIN: We tried to put together a [Revolution] reunion tour in 2000, and he declined because of my homosexuality and the fact I'm half-Jewish. It came back: Go have a press conference denouncing your homosexuality and that you're converting to Jehovah. I was like: I guess we'll never hear from him again. And I had to kind of mourn him. It was devastating to think we've kind of lost him.

• ROBYNE ROBINSON: I showed up [at Glam Slam] after closing my art gallery one night and was just bone-tired, and he was in the mood to talk about Jehovah. That's just what he wanted to talk about that day. He said, 'Have you heard the truth?' I said, 'I'm so tired. Dude, not now.' But he likes to talk about a lot of different things. He has a lot of interests, and he reads a lot. He's kind of isolated out there at Paisley Park if there aren't folks out there.

http://www.startribune.co...58206.html

http://prince.org/msg/7/117446

squirrelgrease said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

"Emancipation" Meanwhile, he was getting deeper into spirituality.

• RICKY PETERSON: We were doing 'Emancipation,' and he had a cuss jar. He was getting into Jehovah's Witnesses. He was trying to quit cussing himself. George Benson, who's a full-fledged Jehovah's Witness guy, was at Paisley doing a record. He said, 'I don't know about our boy. I don't think our boy's going to make it.' He couldn't get past the part of Prince cussing and trying to get religious after doing a song like 'Sexy MF.' No one knew what Prince was doing. This was right after Mayte lost the baby.

• TOMMY BARBARELLA: Our last real long conversation was a spiritual discussion that went awry. It left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. He's just not interested in things that aren't in accordance with his views. He likes to argue, and he likes to win the argument, which is why [his current religion] seems to work well for him. But he's searching, trying to make sense of it all, trying to get right with God. I'm cool with it as long as I don't get into an argument with him, because he's a very persuasive speaker. I sat up in his office the day after his name change. He talked for about three hours, explaining to me what it meant and why. I walked out of there feeling pretty good. It made sense to me. Later that night, I was like, 'What? Wait a minute. What did he say?'

• WENDY MELVOIN: We tried to put together a [Revolution] reunion tour in 2000, and he declined because of my homosexuality and the fact I'm half-Jewish. It came back: Go have a press conference denouncing your homosexuality and that you're converting to Jehovah. I was like: I guess we'll never hear from him again. And I had to kind of mourn him. It was devastating to think we've kind of lost him.

• ROBYNE ROBINSON: I showed up [at Glam Slam] after closing my art gallery one night and was just bone-tired, and he was in the mood to talk about Jehovah. That's just what he wanted to talk about that day. He said, 'Have you heard the truth?' I said, 'I'm so tired. Dude, not now.' But he likes to talk about a lot of different things. He has a lot of interests, and he reads a lot. He's kind of isolated out there at Paisley Park if there aren't folks out there.

http://www.startribune.co...58206.html

http://prince.org/msg/7/117446

That wasn't it.

squirrelgrease said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

"Emancipation" Meanwhile, he was getting deeper into spirituality.

•• WENDY MELVOIN: We tried to put together a [Revolution] reunion tour in 2000, and he declined because of my homosexuality and the fact I'm half-Jewish. It came back: Go have a press conference denouncing your homosexuality and that you're converting to Jehovah. I was like: I guess we'll never hear from him again. And I had to kind of mourn him. It was devastating to think we've kind of lost him.

If that's how it went down verbatim, that is truly pathetic.

frazetta said:

squirrelgrease said:

If that's how it went down verbatim, that is truly pathetic.

It did and it is.

rdhull said:

From the latest issue of Rolling Stone, here's a funny portion of a 2uestlove write up:

His parents were stick Christians, so he wasn't allowed to have explicit albums in the house. To get around them, he used to hide albums under his mattress. "The more I rebelled, the more they tried to God it out of me," he says. "I wasn't allowed to watch cartoons. I wasn't allowed to watch sitcoms. There was extreme hell to pay for anything Prince-related. Between '82 and '87, I went through about nine copies of 1999.

One time, he was at Prince's studio, when he accidentally let slip a curse word. Prince demanded he put $20 in the swear jar. "I was like , 'For what?' He said, 'You cussed. You can't cuss here.' I said , 'Motherfucker, do you know how much punishment I went through because of you? You taught me those words!'

I hope 2uestlove kept his $20 after that!

There was a Jehovah's Witness family on my block when I was growing up. I remember when they shunned their 14yr old daughter (meaning cut off all communication with her) because she bought a copy of SOTT. Her parents refused to speak to her. Her little sisters wouldn't play with her. After about 9 months or so she had to move to an aunt's house. I thought about her when it came out that Prince was actually a Jehovah's Witness.

That Wendy bit is pretty fucked up.

funksterr said:

There was a Jehovah's Witness family on my block when I was growing up. I remember when they shunned their 14yr old daughter (meaning cut off all communication with her) because she bought a copy of SOTT. Her parents refused to speak to her. Her little sisters wouldn't play with her. After about 9 months or so she had to move to an aunt's house. I thought about her when it came out that Prince was actually a Jehovah's Witness.

Christian Zealotry: Bringing families together since 64 A.D.™

That Wendy bit can't have made that much of an impact, or they had a reconciliation, since this is before Dear Mr. Man, the Brits, their working on PE, and 'the treehouse' meeting, whatever that was

...or, she knows him well , and decided not to take seriously anything he says.

But yeah, that Wendy bit....

[Edited 12/12/11 12:44pm]

or maybe he privately retracted those sentiments, who knows?

Fact is, its one thing to play that trump card. It's another to actually have to live with it. Who knows, maybe he's come down from the pulpit and modified himself to go forward. Prince gets what Prince wants.

@ ?uest's comeback. Gotta admire Ahmir for showing his cajones to Prince during that incident.

"MOTHERFUCKER YOU TAUGHT ME THOSE WORDS!"

Timmy84 said:

@ ?uest's comeback. Gotta admire Ahmir for showing his cajones to Prince during that incident.

"MOTHERFUCKER YOU TAUGHT ME THOSE WORDS!"

Yeah, he didn't puss out like I did.

Questlove's response was definitely a classic.

I would have paid to have seen the look on Prince's face after he said THAT to him - nevermind his reaction to D'Mumblo's "Voodoo" album we all know what that resulted in.

anc282 said:

Questlove's response was definitely a classic.

I would have paid to have seen the look on Prince's face after he said THAT to him - nevermind his reaction to D'Mumblo's "Voodoo" album we all know what that resulted in.

The Rainbow Children?

squirrelgrease said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

"Emancipation" Meanwhile, he was getting deeper into spirituality.

• RICKY PETERSON: We were doing 'Emancipation,' and he had a cuss jar. He was getting into Jehovah's Witnesses. He was trying to quit cussing himself. George Benson, who's a full-fledged Jehovah's Witness guy, was at Paisley doing a record. He said, 'I don't know about our boy. I don't think our boy's going to make it.' He couldn't get past the part of Prince cussing and trying to get religious after doing a song like 'Sexy MF.' No one knew what Prince was doing. This was right after Mayte lost the baby.

• TOMMY BARBARELLA: Our last real long conversation was a spiritual discussion that went awry. It left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. He's just not interested in things that aren't in accordance with his views. He likes to argue, and he likes to win the argument, which is why [his current religion] seems to work well for him. But he's searching, trying to make sense of it all, trying to get right with God. I'm cool with it as long as I don't get into an argument with him, because he's a very persuasive speaker. I sat up in his office the day after his name change. He talked for about three hours, explaining to me what it meant and why. I walked out of there feeling pretty good. It made sense to me. Later that night, I was like, 'What? Wait a minute. What did he say?'

• WENDY MELVOIN: We tried to put together a [Revolution] reunion tour in 2000, and he declined because of my homosexuality and the fact I'm half-Jewish. It came back: Go have a press conference denouncing your homosexuality and that you're converting to Jehovah. I was like: I guess we'll never hear from him again. And I had to kind of mourn him. It was devastating to think we've kind of lost him.

• ROBYNE ROBINSON: I showed up [at Glam Slam] after closing my art gallery one night and was just bone-tired, and he was in the mood to talk about Jehovah. That's just what he wanted to talk about that day. He said, 'Have you heard the truth?' I said, 'I'm so tired. Dude, not now.' But he likes to talk about a lot of different things. He has a lot of interests, and he reads a lot. He's kind of isolated out there at Paisley Park if there aren't folks out there.

http://www.startribune.co...58206.html

Both highlighted items sound like my husband and I. Hubby being Prince and me being Tommy and Robyne.

Especially Robyne...'bout spit out my gum reading that. "I'm so tired. Dude, not now."

NouveauDance said:

That Wendy bit can't have made that much of an impact, or they had a reconciliation, since this is before Dear Mr. Man, the Brits, their working on PE, and 'the treehouse' meeting, whatever that was

Do you mean Reflection?

rdhull said:

anc282 said:

Questlove's response was definitely a classic.

I would have paid to have seen the look on Prince's face after he said THAT to him - nevermind his reaction to D'Mumblo's "Voodoo" album we all know what that resulted in.

The Rainbow Children?

"The Rainbow Children" was exactly what I was referring to. Also, didn't Prince diss Questlove and D'Angelo in the remix to "Undisputed" and then again in the "Daisy Chain"? ("Funky like a junky with cornrows.")