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Im really enjoying reading and watching people post their experience working with prince.

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I just watched a video from shamelessmaya

Loved hearing her personal insight working with prince.

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Wedged flipflops with socks made me laugh. lol

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Please share any personal or articles here x

Nice video.

Omg I looked up that video that she mentions briefly about the ones he sent her from youtube the 'how to eat a watermelon' and it's so odd but funny hahaha I got a chuckle out of it

There's an interesting article that showed up online from a blogger that Prince apparently either hired or invited to write over the course of about a year and a half. It's an excerpt from a book that's upcoming, from what I can tell...? This is cool as it talks about Prince's last night before he died https://docs.google.com/d...zCALaM/pub

jasopig said:

There's an interesting article that showed up online from a blogger that Prince apparently either hired or invited to write over the course of about a year and a half. It's an excerpt from a book that's upcoming, from what I can tell...? This is cool as it talks about Prince's last night before he died https://docs.google.com/d...zCALaM/pub

So he did think about his past, Mayte and his son. I bet he did not want to be friends because it hurt too much.

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laurarichardson said:

jasopig said:

There's an interesting article that showed up online from a blogger that Prince apparently either hired or invited to write over the course of about a year and a half. It's an excerpt from a book that's upcoming, from what I can tell...? This is cool as it talks about Prince's last night before he died https://docs.google.com/d...zCALaM/pub

--/ Who the hell is this. Do you think this is made up? I mean he was supposed to be writing a book. So why have somebody else write.

No clue. I saw the link on a group in facebook, no real details. Can't find anything about an upcoming book with the name on amazon or anything either.

WHOAH.

But he was writing the book with somebody else, wasn't he?

Man... I've got The Art of Racing in the Rain sitting right here on my shelf - my dad kept pushing it on me, but I never bothered 'cause I also thought the title was kinda dumb.

I'm gonna start reading it tonight...

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laurarichardson said:

jasopig said: --/ Who the hell is this. Do you think this is made up? I mean he was supposed to be writing a book. So why have somebody else write.

No clue. I saw the link on a group in facebook, no real details. Can't find anything about an upcoming book with the name on amazon or anything either.

That litte excerpt, if legit, is one of the most interesting and most personal Prince related texts I´ve read in a long time....especially the part about him opening up about his grieving process and how the Rainbow Children was his eulogy for his son.

And those eerie hints of him wanting to teach his son how to play basketball and how he says it in the present tense, or how he admits that he started believing in time again.

It´s strange that this has not been discussed on this website before.

This does not look like the biography he talked about but like a whole different book.

Sounds very interesting so far.

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KoolEaze said:

jasopig said:

There's an interesting article that showed up online from a blogger that Prince apparently either hired or invited to write over the course of about a year and a half. It's an excerpt from a book that's upcoming, from what I can tell...? This is cool as it talks about Prince's last night before he died https://docs.google.com/d...zCALaM/pub

This is almost too interesting and on the nose to be true. Can you provde any more info?

How did you come across this? Links to the blogger?

Gorkerina said:

Can this thread be stickied? I know there is already a Prince tribute/articles thread, but this one is kind of different. It can be specifically for collaborator/employee interviews and stories. It could turn into a great resource.

PurpleMusic07 said:

Can this thread be stickied? I know there is already a Prince tribute/articles thread, but this one is kind of different. It can be specifically for collaborator/employee interviews and stories. It could turn into a great resource.

I definitely agree, one silver lining to shittiness of the past two weeks has been the chance to hear these incredible stories from past associates, and I think it would be great to have a thread that collects them all together. I really enjoyed the interview John Blackwell gave to a radio station, he had some fantastic stories, does anyone know if that's online? I've got an offline copy but I realise that's not that helpful

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Another vote for fanfiction! No way P would devulge that knida stuff.

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Boydie said:

This "blog post" by MJC really is a tricky one On the one hand the writing is good and there is clearly a relationship of some kind there - so you can see why Prince could have chosen him However, it is almost "too" well written with hints at secrets to be revealed and "exclusive" revelations I really do hope it is true and a book gives us an insight into the last year or so - but my "spidey senses" are tingling...

Yeah...it really isn't. The dialog isn't too bad, but the rest of it's awfully purple.

Another vote here for this being fan fiction. An interesting and rather touching read, but still...I'm not buying that it's genuine.

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The author sure has a great memory for remembering quotes. (unless somewhere it was specifically stated the dialogue was paraphrased, and I've forgotten). The most serious, deep and important conversations I've ever had in my life I remember a few direct quotes from, yes...but not entire complete sentences and back-and-forth exchanges.

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If this turns out to be legitimate, my apologies to the author. But at this point I'm calling it a fake.

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KoolEaze said:

I vote fan fiction too, a nice read nonetheless. *sigh*

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Gorkerina said:

Temporarily (?) reverting back to Shamelessmaya's recounting of her time with Prince, I found a snazzy photo of Prince wearing the wedge, thong platform flip-flops with white "pantyhose"! Maybe not a new one to most, but not one I'd seen before...

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lol aww. Looooveeeee you for posting this lol

The John Blackwell interview was hilarious. I almost fell over laughing when he spoke about them going to Subway. He really valued his time with P...John was treated very well.