"I'm never really out of control.
Really, I'm so much better."

oh no, now we're going to see them everywhere. "Clouds" is another word for smoking meth. I don't think he used, but the lyric is "we're getting high on something, that doesn't require clouds". Ummmm.

Here we go again...

where's Kcool when you need that superbig eyeroll gif?

IstenSzek said:

Mintchip said:

yeah well, if prince smoked pot then how do you guys explain "breakfast can wait"?

well?

IstenSzek said:

yeah well, if prince smoked pot then how do you guys explain "breakfast can wait"?

well?

There you have it, irrefutable proof!

don't blame me! I didn't make up the drug lingo. I just know it, from a past life. I don't think he smoked anything; his voice was too good. Although he was up all the time...

Se7en said:

Mintchip said:

oh no, now we're going to see them everywhere. "Clouds" is another word for smoking meth. I don't think he used, but the lyric is "we're getting high on something, that doesn't require clouds". Ummmm.

Why would this imply meth, and not simply pot? Seems like an extreme interpretation!

Aerogram said:

IstenSzek said:

yeah well, if prince smoked pot then how do you guys explain "breakfast can wait"?

well?

There you have it, irrefutable proof!

well, don't thank me, thank my dear old friend Mrs Common Sense

Mintchip said:

oh no, now we're going to see them everywhere. "Clouds" is another word for smoking meth. I don't think he used, but the lyric is "we're getting high on something, that doesn't require clouds". Ummmm.

Drug terminology usually has lots of different meanings, clouds could easily be referencing smoke clouds as much as anything else (actually I've never heard anybody say "clouds" and be referring to meth, but that's just my personal experience.)

I remember him making some subtle references to weed in the 90s, but never really confirming anything. I remember an interview where they had asked him about smoking weed, and he replied with something like "I'm open 2 all experiences".

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Kind of surprised that nobody mentioned Prince pulling Purple Music out of the vault for the piano tour.

'welcome to the freedom galaxy. how many of these you need?

don't need no reefer. don't need cocaine. purple music does the same to my brain and i'm high. i'm high.

don't need computer. no telephone. just need this music and some land of my own and i'm high. so high.

ain't got no theory. ain't got no rules. just let the purple music tell this room what to do and i'm high. so high.

every subject. any key. purple music can't be judged. it just happens naturally. it's alright.

don't need no critics. no point of view. i just need another funky break and everything is cool and i'm high. so high.'

Holy shit, I back up my phone to a meth lab!

"Light us up and take a hit"... Clearly his songs are riddled with drug references and not, as we first thought, a twist that refers to something else completely.