dabigdikdangler said:

I feel pissed off about it. Because of Prince I never did drugs. I was 21 before I ever smoked weed and when I started, I promised myself it wouldn't be gateway drug, so it's all I've ever done.

Prince was the sanctified Jehova's Witness dude you couldn't even curse around. Now I find out he was a fucking hypocrit and it doesn't sit well with me. I wouldn't say that anywhere else but here, out of love for the man, but it had to be said.

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But the lesson you took, to stay away from hard drugs, is a really good one. If, later on, he fell short of that, then he just fell short. Life is long, and people lose their way from time to time. It doesn't change the original lesson.

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nursev said:

It still has me freaked out!


But yes, the PP shows were monthly and sometimes weekly over the summer months. And I doubt he had much in the stockmarket as most financial advisors would have made him discuss estate planning.

God, I pray Tyka doesn't fall prey to the same mistakes.

Well, I guess as they say, only the good die young. 💜RIP Prince💜

spastic78 said:

nursev said:

the butterflies was Prince, but that dead dove is something else You may be right about the PP shows though...he did them about monthly

It still has me freaked out! But yes, the PP shows were monthly and sometimes weekly over the summer months. And I doubt he had much in the stockmarket as most financial advisors would have made him discuss estate planning. God, I pray Tyka doesn't fall prey to the same mistakes. Well, I guess as they say, only the good die young. 💜RIP Prince💜

It wouldve freaked me out too What if there isnt alot of money and Tyka has to start selling off other assets? How are us fans gonna react?

KoolEaze said:

A comparison of his photos from 2013 to 2016 show marked deterioration and more make-up. Plus his personal photographer said he stopped using assistants at concerts to help him dress. And a change in his eyes. He also looked relaxed with Demaris but it's a different kind of energy - more paternal.

I don't think Bria necessarily broke his heart -she apparently was not living up to what he thought her potential was so he started cultivating others. However, something around that time -maybe midlife crisis or depression (which he mentions in interviews dating back to 2006) may have started to bother him more.

PP's monthly electric bill must have been at least $10k - PP parties could foot that; my speculations are based on a 2013 lawsuit fine of $3M (for his failure to advertise a perfume) which he could not readily pay.

nursev said:

Let's not think about it. Think positive.

Do Americans have more of an issue with Aids than Britain then? For me it wouldn't bother me if he'd passed from that, after all he was a bit of a lad where the girls were concerned.

And at the end of the day the only things that matter are that he has gone, it was too early and it could possibly have been avoided. But then what did he want at the end?
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the only thing that will bother me is if he had any kids who's lives he was no involved in.

and that is why i think this report of some 30 year old love child is a bit lie.

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nursev said:

spastic78 said:

nursev said: It still has me freaked out! But yes, the PP shows were monthly and sometimes weekly over the summer months. And I doubt he had much in the stockmarket as most financial advisors would have made him discuss estate planning. God, I pray Tyka doesn't fall prey to the same mistakes. Well, I guess as they say, only the good die young. 💜RIP Prince💜

It wouldve freaked me out too What if there isnt alot of money and Tyka has to start selling off other assets? How are us fans gonna react?

I kind of hope someone steps in and buys them out that will respect the art and release it in a way that honors him.

morningsong said:

Bohemian67 said:

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Interesting fact that. I do so hope the 50 written pages will get shared. As is... no editss. A parting letter.

In one of his recent songs he mentioned looking through journals, so one never knows.

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Yes on HitnRun 2 I think the song talks about turning the page, or page two.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

That will make me incredibly sad as well. It always amazed me he was able to dodge that bullet given his activity with the ladies, now I've read at least three different places that he possibly has a son who would be almost an adult by now. I hope this isn't true.

sonshine said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

the only thing that will bother me is if he had any kids who's lives he was no involved in.

and that is why i think this report of some 30 year old love child is a bit lie.

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That will make me incredibly sad as well. It always amazed me he was able to dodge that bullet given his activity with the ladies, now I've read at least three different places that he possibly has a son who would be almost an adult by now. I hope this isn't true.

So far I´m surprised that I haven´t really seen any such accusations at all, at least not ones that I could take seriously. That one guy named Caesar something has been mentioned prior to Prince passing away.

Do you remember where you read those articles?

I feel like we're not being told the whole story.

Listen to Londell McMillan's final words, in this short clip:
https://twitter.com/NewDa...41376?s=09

Anybody got a link to the full interview?

GirlBrother said:

I feel like we're not being told the whole story. Listen to Londell McMillan's final words, in this short clip: https://twitter.com/NewDa...41376?s=09 Anybody got a link to the full interview?

I can´t turn up the volume right now. Did he say "...some problems we now know..." or "...some problems we don´t know." ?

Now they're reporting the shitty cocaine story as if it's certain fact. The muck raking is getting worse.

NorthC said:

Yep, and I've always found that interesting regarding Prince. We knew of Whitney's problems though I thought a lot of them were exaggerated until she died. Michael always had former employees throwing him under the bus. But Prince never did. His past employees tend to be very quiet.

KoolEaze said:

He said...

"And... Erm... I spoke to him Sunday, and he said that everything was perfect. Er... But apparently he had some... some problems that we now know what led to his passing."

That was at 06:04 a.m. on the day Prince died, so McMillan wouldn't have had time to choose his words more carefully.

NinaB said:

The rumor that he had a child I heard a very long time ago. I'm gonna say around 1980,1981. It was before the 1999 and Purple Rain album. In the Right On! magazine days. I think that's when read the rumor.

GirlBrother said:

KoolEaze said:

I can´t turn up the volume right now. Did he say "...some problems we now know..." or "...some problems we don´t know." ?

He said... "And... Erm... I spoke to him Sunday, and he said that everything was perfect. Er... But apparently he had some... some problems that we now know what led to his passing." That was at 06:04 a.m. on the day Prince died, so McMillan wouldn't have had time to choose his words more carefully.

Isn't it obvious you have "some problems" if you die...

paulludvig said:

Yes.

Mintchip said:

dabigdikdangler said:

I feel pissed off about it. Because of Prince I never did drugs. I was 21 before I ever smoked weed and when I started, I promised myself it wouldn't be gateway drug, so it's all I've ever done.

Prince was the sanctified Jehova's Witness dude you couldn't even curse around. Now I find out he was a fucking hypocrit and it doesn't sit well with me. I wouldn't say that anywhere else but here, out of love for the man, but it had to be said.

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But the lesson you took, to stay away from hard drugs, is a really good one. If, later on, he fell short of that, then he just fell short. Life is long, and people lose their way from time to time. It doesn't change the original lesson.

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You're absolutely right, well said.

I can't find the full video, but I found a transcript:

http://transcripts.cnn.co...ay.01.html

GirlBrother said:

Why can't they say? And why so cryptic? They should all feel guilty as hell for not being a better friend. Dang! Guess I'm in the anger phase now..

But seriously, Prince wanted to teach people to be the best that they could be..he'd want it to be a teachable moment for us all.


And yet all of this screams epilepsy (seizures) as most people (including me) don't reveal it to people. I don't think any of my friends or even family know I had a couple of seizures in the last 5 years. And I had to start taking meds again which made me lose weight...why? Because once people know that's all they ask/wonder about...maybe that's why they are "protecting" his legacy. Whatever it was Tyka seems pretty resigned and accepting of it..

spastic78 said:

He was definitely skirting around saying what those problems were.

I'm angry too.

I browsed McMillan's Twitter feed earlier, and even that annoyed me.

https://twitter.com/Londe...illan?s=09

You know, he owns a magazine, and up until a few hours ago had never heard of The Onion. That made me question his capability in any capacity.

Nearly every tweet he's made since Prince's passing, has been about Prince... A man he parted ways with, a decade ago.

If you read that full CNN transcript that I linked to, he actually believes that the Emancipation album was named as a tribute to him.

And... He's hiring staff apparently, so he's evidently expecting more work to come his way soon... I can't imagine what kind of litigious messy work he wants to get his hands on.

I may be way off-base, but he seems like a bit of an under-qualified fame-whore leech.

But I guess I could just be in the "anger stage."

KoolEaze said:

In the carver Co sheriff's report of calls they received regarding paisley park over the years there are two separate instances when a woman called asking them to contact PP for her due to an issue with a child they have with Prince? I agree it sounds sketchy but why would someone make that up when it would be so easy to disprove?

sonshine said:

KoolEaze said:

So far I´m surprised that I haven´t really seen any such accusations at all, at least not ones that I could take seriously. That one guy named Caesar something has been mentioned prior to Prince passing away.

Do you remember where you read those articles?

In the carver Co sheriff's report of calls they received regarding paisley park over the years there are two separate instances when a woman called asking them to contact PP for her due to an issue with a child they have with Prince? I agree it sounds sketchy but why would someone make that up when it would be so easy to disprove?

So they call 911? You think that is a reasonable person who thinks and acts in reasonable ways?

At the end of the day none of it really matters. Ignore the BS.

nursev said:

How do you feel about it? Some of it bothers me and it makes me have to get in defense mode of our Prince So what is too much for you?

One snarky aside - I'm so glad that I'm not seeing Bria too much. Sometimes she's mentioned, but there've been no "On the Today show, the woman who says she was the one, Bria Valenteuwinp whatever."

Too soon??

All in all I agree the press for the most part since he's passed hasn't been that bad, nor was it when he was,still with us. The sheriff's dept said nice things about him and his staff. He kept a low profile for sure and I guess personally I believed he was too smart and protective of his privacy to be off doing stupid shit that would make the news. He was a good guy and a straight shooter. That's the image I have of him. When my oldest son first suggested to me that he was on drugs I was very angry and defensive. And then as more news came that was drug related I was devastated. Why? Why did they have to get him too? He seemed to smart for that shit. He seemed like he would get the last laugh and not succumb like so many others. I know we still don't know and I hope it's not what it's starting to look like because that just hurts too much. I don't love or admire him any less. It won't change my feelings or opinion about him one bit. But it will make me especially sad. Looking back tho I was shocked by his appearance at an awards show last fall. He looked older and thinner and reminded me in some ways of another famous musician who recently died in his tour bus only a few miles from PP last fall which was not surprisingly related to drugs. Scott Weiland struggled with addiction for a long time deteriorating right before the public's eyes looking thinner and more frail all the time. The way Prince's face had aged and his thinness seemed familiar that way. I blamed it on the afro

The National Enquirer issue really sucks. I had someone say to me they saw this in the grocery and it said Prince had AIDS, is it true? That magazine is prominently displayed at every checkout lane in grocery stores all over the country. Imagine how many people see that headline 'Prince had AIDS!' and they assume that story to be true. Funny how the Enquirer's supposed "last photo" of Prince is several years old too. What crap.

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At my local grocery some people had taken the Enquirer mag and turned the cover over backwards or tossed the mag aside in protest. Someone even took a copy of the Enquirer and made a point of placing it on a shelf where all the trash bags were.

I am staying clear of gossip & tabloids, but all the personal accounts, all the stories linking him to charity... that's what I want to hear. The people who have come forth with that information should garner respect, they want Prince remembered for the right reasons. I am especially touched by all the letters that members of Prince's community left at Paisley Park... "Thanks for stopping by our school." "Thanks for donating musical instruments." "Thanks for handing Halloween candy out to our kids." "Thanks for being a great spiritual brother in our congregation." "Thanks for the donation." Etc etc etc
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