Self calculated promo:

• New Girl episode dedicated to Prince featuring Prince playing Prince...
• 3rd Eye Girl girlband, twitter, youtube videos, interviews...
• Paisly Park concerts
• Lawsuits against fans, then dropping them few days later

Other:
Troy Gua dolls, the book by Touré, and D'Angelo supposedly coming back with a new album that might compete with Prince if it's released around the same time doesn't give Prince less attention either. Old labelmates The Family/FDeluxe and The Time/The Original 7even also created some buzz a few years back. Now Andre Cymone is soon to release his own album. Clearly something is happening. And it all points back to the Purple Empire.

new D'Angelo music - thats funny.