and understood that he was putting down "prince, and he was being pretty funny in that video also "fuck all yall" part is so cute!

I didnt understand something about the lyrics when he said
Said he wanted 2 sing a song
Boutta black chile
Going buckwild
And they just laughed in his face.

hmm, was that saying that P wanted 2 make a hit about P Control and they said he cant do it? I dunno. Confusing. Im up early in da monin askin P questions like a nut.

I don't think it's P.Control.

I thought it was Love Sign - they wouldn't let him release that as a single because TMBGITW was a one off.

Love Sign was a *single*, it would have done really, really well.

I know a lot of people who know that song from seeing the video on MTV and thought it was great.

I assume it's about TMBGITW

I thought the lyrics were:

Told 'em he wanted 2 sing a song about a black child goin' buck wild
And they just laughed in his face
Talk 2 your lawyer but U got no case
What U need 2 do is keep your place
Next time U pull a card, it better be a ace motherfucker
Or U can lay face down (face down!)

I heard somewhere that an executive at Warners said Prince was incapable of producing another hit, and the next day he wrote "The Most Beautiful Girl" and put it out independently which was of course a massive hit. (hence the 'next time U pull a card, it better be an ace bit - of course he did pull an ace!) After that Prince wanted to put out 'Get Wild' and the Exodus album independently, but Warners put their foot down and said under any name he was still working for them and the album still had to be a Warners album. (Hence the 'buck wild' and 'talk 2 your lawyer' bits).

Correct me if I'm wrong.

>After that Prince wanted to put out 'Get Wild' and the Exodus album independently, but Warners put their foot down and said under any name he was still working for them and the album still had to be a Warners album. (Hence the 'buck wild' and 'talk 2 your lawyer' bits).<

Hmm... yeah, that makes sense. That may not be true, but it makes the most sense. Very interesting...

Oh ok that's cool! I 4got about that ordeal. I dont know y he wanted 2 put out "Get Wild" of alll songs... :confused:

Lovesign, i dont know if peeps would've done big with that one. Maybe the remix (that appeared on Crystal Ball). Whn I played Lovesign remix 2 people in school, they really liked it.

P is still in everyway capable of makin da hitz, but im glad he's not commercializing himself no mo

I personally believe this part of Face Down concerns Warners refusal to release GoldNigga, the concept(ish) record which personifies and attempts to ratify the bitches and bucks element of a tiny minority of African American males whilst also hitting out at how record companies treat the African American race as a second class people.
The "next time u pull a card it betta be an ace" refers to the pressure WB were putting P under following the success of D&P to follow it up with a similar commercial sound.
He gave them GoldNigga as a follow up, but according to numerous sourses, three high -ranking WB suits laughed in his face as he played it to them.
Hence, the madness that followed which buried his commercial career once and (quite possibly) for all.
[This message was edited Mon Sep 15 15:14:08 PDT 2003 by Number23]