Nice of Billboard to do this. Hour and half of fun:

Kimbra's first album was Musicology. lol

this was amazing

You like Malcolm X, thank Prince.

Very very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting this.

Quest is right, Prince invented the remix. He made the white sounding single sound black on the 12 inch. cool. Clever man.

Carol Cooper is amazing.

Toure' should never talk.

Quest got that rehearsel wrong. Prince yelled at Lisa, put down that fucking magazine. lol

Prince gave Quest some of his old equipment. cool

Questlove and Toure are insufferable. I'm still flabbergasted that Questlove would disrespect Prince's family by tweeting "fuck our goodbyes, I guess" after Prince was cremated and a private funeral was held. The entitlement from that dude is off the charts when it comes to Prince.

bashraka said:

Questlove and Toure are insufferable. I'm still flabbergasted that Questlove would disrespect Prince's family by tweeting "fuck our goodbyes, I guess" after Prince was cremated and a private funeral was held. The entitlement from that dude is off the charts when it comes to Prince.

You can see that the Toure guy is in love. He wanted to be Prince's friend, lover, sister, mother, wife so bad.

filthyrichyuppie said:

bashraka said:

Questlove and Toure are insufferable. I'm still flabbergasted that Questlove would disrespect Prince's family by tweeting "fuck our goodbyes, I guess" after Prince was cremated and a private funeral was held. The entitlement from that dude is off the charts when it comes to Prince.

You can see that the Toure guy is in love. He wanted to be Prince's friend, lover, sister, mother, wife so bad.

Who doesn't?

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A lot of good points made during this. I really liked Carol's and Kimbra's input. Alan seemed to be the most knowledgable, and the one most likely to be an orger.

I got teary-eyed when Toure mentioned the angels in Adore crying on the lovers below. I never really thought about that line before, and how beautiful it is.

The magazine cover shot at the end with Prince looking down, and his birth and death years, milked out even more tears. Talking about him in the past tense still hurts a lot.

JudasLChrist said:

filthyrichyuppie said:

You can see that the Toure guy is in love. He wanted to be Prince's friend, lover, sister, mother, wife so bad.

Who doesn't?

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Speak for yourself.

Listening to it now. At this point I've listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts but this is a standout.

Another thing, this panel desperately needed some queer people on it. I felt pretty eye roll-y once they started talking about Prince and gender.

Also, have none of those scholars ever read Little Richard's autobiography? There's a part where little Richard mentions that he got along in the South cause he was perceived as so effeminate that he wasn't considered a threat to white women. It was one of the most telling / fascinating / fucked up parts of his book... and absolutely relevant to the conversation they were trying to have about Prince's gender performance. I have had random conversations with my musician friends about this, and even people who went off to be scholars. We all read the book.

JudasLChrist said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

One of the best podcasts I've heard so far....and yes that Little Richard book is great.

Looking forward to reading that... thanks for the pointer.

bashraka said:

Questlove and Toure are insufferable. I'm still flabbergasted that Questlove would disrespect Prince's family by tweeting "fuck our goodbyes, I guess" after Prince was cremated and a private funeral was held. The entitlement from that dude is off the charts when it comes to Prince.

I hesitate to comment too much on anyone confirmed to be a friend of the guy especially when Prince was so private and we know the family relationships were so strained, it could well be that Prince had 50+ friends who were closer than blood to him

Was that Alan Leeds in the purple shirt right at the end standing up ?

SchlomoThaHomo said:

A lot of good points made during this. I really liked Carol's and Kimbra's input. Alan seemed to be the most knowledgable, and the one most likely to be an orger.

I got teary-eyed when Toure mentioned the angels in Adore crying on the lovers below. I never really thought about that line before, and how beautiful it is.

The magazine cover shot at the end with Prince looking down, and his birth and death years, milked out even more tears. Talking about him in the past tense still hurts a lot.

know...Me 2...

Alan Light. not Alan Leeds.

You all are jealous about Quest.

I had to watch it a second time. They didn't really pull any punches, or not many at least. There was some self promotion in the beginning, and the bringing up of other celebrities doings but the points were very clear and there was a lot of respect there. Quest did feel like family and he's defensive to say the least.

filthyrichyuppie said:

bashraka said:

Questlove and Toure are insufferable. I'm still flabbergasted that Questlove would disrespect Prince's family by tweeting "fuck our goodbyes, I guess" after Prince was cremated and a private funeral was held. The entitlement from that dude is off the charts when it comes to Prince.

You can see that the Toure guy is in love. He wanted to be Prince's friend, lover, sister, mother, wife so bad.

LMAO...after reading Torure's book, i got the same impression

RJOrion said:

filthyrichyuppie said:

You can see that the Toure guy is in love. He wanted to be Prince's friend, lover, sister, mother, wife so bad.

LMAO...after reading Torure's book, i got the same impression

Toure might be the infamous TAME!?

I think Toure and all I think is

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