http://www.mtv.com/news/2872859/prince-a-eulogy/

*sorry if this was already posted, I didn't see it on recent threads...I always value Greg Tate's perspective as both musican and commentator of Black Popular Culture...this is a great Eulogy...Long Live Prince Rogers Nelson!

**Only after death are we forced to reckon with unsolvable riddles: How did that much music, wit, and spirit come out of that exsanguinated, stiff, shrunken, and breathless body? How could you just step off? Beloved Prince — nobody gave you permission. Our BFF Tasha Diggs was right about how your sudden and mysterious departure hit us: “This is a death in the family. Prince was like your brother, your cousin, your father, your favorite uncle …” Anybody who’s ever lost close family knows those seven stages of grief aren’t urban myth. On our social media, many are still in a blubbering state of shock, like Mz Nicole, who says, “Still floating in an ocean of grief. I don’t even see a shoreline.” We thought we had partied our way into catharsis the night of with Questlove at Brooklyn Bowl, then Sunday we heard audio of your last testament in ATL, and that raw, prophetic, chain-gang tenor you unleashed snapped us to pieces again.**

[Edited 4/26/16 12:13pm]

Tate's a great writer. He expresses a pain we all feel viscerally. I think he went over the top, which of course under the circumstances is all right.

He wasn't ready.

Nor were we.

(Matos' piece is great too).

Now that is where it's at. 10/10

Neil Kulkarni is the only other eulogy i've seen that can stand up to it:

http://fuckyouneilkulkarn...6-rip.html

Thanks versiongirl & jaawwnn for posting these!