Yeah, I saw the cover of it the other day. Nice picture.

Alexandernvrmind said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

bashraka said:

http://instagram.com/p/ndm8FksJ9s/#

OldFriends4Sale said:

He's looking so fine. Mmm. Mmm.

2elijah said:

Alexandernvrmind said:

I don't think he is very articulate at all.... I often have a hard time following what he is talking about...... And referring to himself as we. No negro the question was about you... Not we. Just write good music and stop frontin' P. Stop working with these whack ass tired girls and start working with men dude. You are seriously playin' yourself. You are in desperate need of some bottom

What a strange response. He was very articulate during the interview. Also, how did you not get the 'We' reference? It was very clear he was referring to African-Americans with inclusion of himself, when he said 'We' in regards to the topic that was being discussed between him and the interviewer. I'd also like to know, how does one's gender determine if they are better musicians? Lol. Your response comes off like you may have some issues with Prince working with female musicians, even though it's common knowledge, that he has worked with various, male musicians throughout his music career. So what's your point?

It would not be a stretch of the imagination to think the original poster thinks Prince is working with women who look good to Prince, and don't really have the true level of talent that someone should have to work with a legend. I don't care what sex somebody is, but I do feel that Bria Valentwho and Andy Alwho were not chose by Prince due to their immense musical ability.

Prince's bands themselves are not chosen based on talent either. He looks for Yes-men/women who don't get upset when a paycheck doesn't arrive, or someone he can easily control. Too bad, because the level of talent Prince has makes it look really weird when somebody of much lesser talent is in the band....Kirk Johnson on drums, Kat Dyson on guitar(She wasn't bad, but hardly a match for Prince's music.), or Rhonda on bass, who was ok, but nowhere near as good as Ida.

Alexandernvrmind said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Prince's innerview with Nile shows how knowledgeable Prince is in muziq history & that he does his research. What bothers me is when people make him out 2 b this space cadet, that only cares about his muziq. Prince is very articulate & no dummy. He can actually write his own column in this magazine if he wanted . This innerview shows how proud he really is of his band NPG! But @ the same time giving respect 2 The Revolution & putting an end to the never ending Revolution reunion rumors(which is fine with me).

But why are u quoting the majority of the innerview? Some here haven't read it yet...

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I don't think he is very articulate at all.... I often have a hard time following what he is talking about...... And referring to himself as we. No negro the question was about you... Not we. Just write good music and stop frontin' P. Stop working with these whack ass tired girls and start working with men dude. You are seriously playin' yourself. You are in desperate need of some bottom

I know he thinks he so cool playing with these (snippet myself, use your imagination) !!! Donna and Ida can play but Hanna no where near John Blackwell.

Anyway, What kind of bottom are you talking about... female booty or music bottom low end or both???

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stillwaiting said:

2elijah said:

Alexandernvrmind said: What a strange response. He was very articulate during the interview. Also, how did you not get the 'We' reference? It was very clear he was referring to African-Americans with inclusion of himself, when he said 'We' in regards to the topic that was being discussed between him and the interviewer. I'd also like to know, how does one's gender determine if they are better musicians? Lol. Your response comes off like you may have some issues with Prince working with female musicians, even though it's common knowledge, that he has worked with various, male musicians throughout his music career. So what's your point?

It would not be a stretch of the imagination to think the original poster thinks Prince is working with women who look good to Prince, and don't really have the true level of talent that someone should have to work with a legend. I don't care what sex somebody is, but I do feel that Bria Valentwho and Andy Alwho were not chose by Prince due to their immense musical ability.

Prince's bands themselves are not chosen based on talent either. He looks for Yes-men/women who don't get upset when a paycheck doesn't arrive, or someone he can easily control. Too bad, because the level of talent Prince has makes it look really weird when somebody of much lesser talent is in the band....Kirk Johnson on drums, Kat Dyson on guitar(She wasn't bad, but hardly a match for Prince's music.), or Rhonda on bass, who was ok, but nowhere near as good as Ida.

And what do you play? You say Rhonda nowhere near good as Ida, really? I think Rhonda can play anything Ida can play but maybe Ida is more into his songs and learning more of his songs than Rhonda was....

babynoz said:

Grog said:

As someone mentioned earlier, the thread is about the COVER, so it's perfectly logical that most comments are about the COVER. If we want to discuss the ARTICLE when we have had a chance to read it, let's start a new thread titled PRINCE ARTICLE IN ESSENCE or something along those lines, o.k.? Otherwise, in the immortal words of Prince himself, "Shut up already, damn!"

Thank you!

I have a hard time passing this cover without puckering up i know it sounds silly but I set it on top of the coffee table and eveytimee it catches me eye I can't help but smile and blow a big KiSS

Amethyst5 said:

bashraka said:

http://instagram.com/p/ndm8FksJ9s/#

3rdeyedude said:

maybe it is a shitty cover because it is a shitty magazine?

Dr Boyce Watkins: Let’s Face it, Essence Magazine has lost it’s “Essence”

May 6, 2014

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

The revelations by former...ance White both intrigued and concerned me. Last year, White revealed that she was fired after battling the magazine’s corporate overseer, Time Warner Inc. According to White, Essence was being pushed in a direction that she felt was designed to dumb down the black woman in America, focusing more on fashion and beauty tips than more serious issues of the day. This is a far cry from what Essence used to be when black people were truly running the show.

Not to say that I was surprised, but I admittedly long for the days when my friend Susan Taylor stood at the helm of the magazine, and Essence represented something black, extraordinary and authentic. There was a time when we fully understood that the power of media wasn’t just for making money, it was also for shaping minds. In fact, Adolph Hitler once said that if you want to control a group of people, all you have to do is control what they read, watch and hear.

For much of my life, when I thought about Essence Magazine, I thought about black women. Now, when I think about Essence, I think about what white people want black women to become. The mind can be under occupation in the same way that one colonizes a foreign country, and in the space of African American media, it’s difficult to argue that we’re not a conquered and imperialized group of people.

The pressure to assimilate is overwhelming when I look at how most of the radio stations our kids listen to are owned by big corporations like Clear Channel, who don’t care that commercialized hip-hop music is teaching young boys how to grow up and become murderers and r*pists. Television Networks like BET seem to believe that it should once again be illegal for black people to learn how to read. Even TV One, the “good version” of BET (a network that most of us respect), is 49% owned by NBC Universal, implying that they remain officially black-owned by a mere technicality.

Essence is one of the latest victims of the perpetual paper chase that turns us into the kinds of economic addicts that are produced by a racially-oppressive capitalist society. As black kids, we grow up believing that our goal in life is to sell our soul to the highest bidder, and that it’s OK to be an asset on someone else’s plantation, as long as our overseers allow us to live in the big house. This opens the door to a life of fancy cars, giant homes and expensive meals at the finest restaurants, where we charge it to the game without realizing that there is a massive debt to be repaid.

Then, one day, you look in the mirror and the person you see no longer has a soul. Like the hooker on the corner who gave her baby away for another vile of crack cocaine, you realize that your worth in this world has been reduced to the size of your paycheck (which can be taken away as soon as they are finished with you). The community you love languishes and dies, while you sit in the warmth of your corporate office with a boss telling you that the plight of “those people” has nothing to do with you.

I understand this well, because I know capitalism. I’ve been teaching Finance at the college level for the last 20 years, and one thing I know for sure is that the powerful temptation of money can lead us to become something that we’re not, and it can literally reshape the structure of our psycho-sociological DNA, turning a righteous mission into an abandoned one. I believe this is what happened to Essence magazine, and quite frankly, it disgusts me.

I wasn’t surprised in the least to hear former Essence editor White say that the corporate captains who own Essence were pulling the strings and dressing the magazine up in black face. I could hear the voices of thousands of black women on our blogs who, through women’s intuition, could tell that something was wrong. I’ll keep things simple: If you want to understand why most corporations or politicians do anything that doesn’t make sense, just follow the money. Its much more profitable to sell beauty tips and relationship advice than it is to discuss controversial topics like racism, poverty or the prison industrial complex. Purely capitalist organizations are not designed to incur these kinds of risks.

I don’t hate Essence Magazine, but I think that we should not define the magazine by what it used to be. Instead, we should define it by what it is. Essence Magazine is NOT a publication designed for the empowerment and independence of African American women. It is a magazine that is run and owned by a big corporation with mostly white shareholders who have positioned the brand to get access to the spending power of African American women. Ladies, the magazine is certainly wired to SERVE you, but it is not wired to LIBERATE you. There is a very big difference between the two.

Susan Taylor left the building long ago and Essence has “evolved.” The painful truth that we must realize is that to truly create black-owned media that empowers the African American community, we must be able to think beyond the financial bottom line. Economic inequality is the last great hurdle of black civil rights, and overcoming starts with the power of OWNERSHIP.

the comments section under the article is pretty interesting too

http://naturallymoi.com/2...s-essence/

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Agree.

purplethunder3121 said:

The Mojo cover was so much nicer than this one...

And much more photoshopped.

YES! I've been saying this since he started dressing like her, even started wearing the fro too. Prince done the same thing when he went through his Lauren Hill phase. Both looks are just plain tacky, in my opinion.

naffi said:

Actually he looks like he is impersonating Andy Allo, wonder if she dressed him? Is the actual article any good?

Let the man be...he looks great. Let the picking apart start with the source..

Anyway, does anyone know where those in the UK can purchase a copy, online?