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2uestlove, Prince, and the cuss jar. 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!' "Climb in my fur." | |
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Hahaha! Nice story, thanks for posting. | |
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If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Fucking hilarious! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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classic!! wonder what Prince thought of that...maybe he put the $40 in himself | |
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Just finished breakfast, but this story puts a smile on my face for the rest of the day Have a look at 'The W2A: Euro Tour Song Survey' http://prince.org/msg/12/362417 | |
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Also Prince has an rich man's cuss jar! | |
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hahah yeah! | |
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Ha! Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act. -- Kenneth Rexroth | |
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The story makes Prince appear to be a demanding, self-righteous, hypocritical, control freak to me. ![]() ...bing ain't lie. | |
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But we already knew that. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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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! I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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It did and it is. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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I hope 2uestlove kept his $20 after that! ~Using the Fat Albert emoticon 'cause no one else is... ![]() | |
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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. | |
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That Wendy bit is pretty fucked up. | |
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Christian Zealotry: Bringing families together since 64 A.D.™ If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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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 | |
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...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] "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." O.Wilde | |
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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. | |
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"MOTHERFUCKER YOU TAUGHT ME THOSE WORDS!" | |
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Yeah, he didn't puss out like I did. "Climb in my fur." | |
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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. | |
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The Rainbow Children? "Climb in my fur." | |
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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."
I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Do you mean Reflection? The wooh is on the one! | |
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"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.") | |
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