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Thread started 04/06/15 11:52pm

SoftSkarlettLo
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Prince rapping in the 1980s?

The extended/album version of the song "Girls & Boys" - there's a part where Prince is talking, but the way he talks, it sounds like rap as he is talking rhymically.

What do you think?

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Reply #1 posted 04/07/15 1:46am

NouveauDance

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Yep. Going back a little further - Irresistible Bitch also falls under the same not-rapping-but-"rapping" genre.

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Reply #2 posted 04/07/15 2:54am

SoulAlive

"Lady Cab Driver" has a rap to it....sorta

and of course,Prince wrote Vanity 6's "If A Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)".Brenda's lines can be considered an early version of rap.

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Reply #3 posted 04/07/15 3:41am

jraw

Dead on It

Bob George

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Reply #4 posted 04/07/15 3:50am

LittlePurpleYo
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"I don't rap, I do rhythmic speaking." - Prince

In other words, his efforts to avoid criticism as a shitty rapper.

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Reply #5 posted 04/08/15 8:56am

sulls

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I like the "rap" in Lust U Always. Wish I could understand all of what he's saying. There's also the spoken portion of Automatic.

"I like to watch."
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Reply #6 posted 04/08/15 9:13am

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SoulAlive said:

"Lady Cab Driver" has a rap to it....sorta

and of course,Prince wrote Vanity 6's "If A Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)".Brenda's lines can be considered an early version of rap.

"Tramp, take a bath in puke," might be one of my favorite lines. As well as, "I'll take off my underwear, shove it in your mouth, and you'd love it cuz you got no taste." lol lol lol God, he was a sick little man. In the best way possible.

"That's when stars collide. When there's space for what u want, and ur heart is open wide."
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