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Thread started 10/20/16 4:06pm

CandaceS

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Is "Who's Bad" a Prince song?

I may be late to one or more parties, if so please just clue me in and don't beat me up too badly smile ...

So I just listened to a song (posted quite publicly at the moment on a popular site...) supposedly titled "Who's Bad?" It is being promoted as an unreleased Prince song. The lyrics include the line "you're such a beautiful badass."

Is this actually a Prince song? It doesn't sound like it to me but I figured I would ask the experts here. Neither "Who's Bad?", "Badass", nor "Beautiful Badass" appear in the song list on Princevault.com. :confused:

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Reply #1 posted 10/20/16 4:24pm

paisleypark4

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CandaceS said:

I may be late to one or more parties, if so please just clue me in and don't beat me up too badly ...

So I just listened to a song (posted quite publicly at the moment on a popular site...) supposedly titled "Who's Bad?" It is being promoted as an unreleased Prince song. The lyrics include the line "you're such a beautiful badass."

Is this actually a Prince song? It doesn't sound like it to me but I figured I would ask the experts here. Neither "Who's Bad?", "Badass", nor "Beautiful Badass" appear in the song list on Princevault.com. :confused:

That would be a no.= from me. and my off top of my head research. Never known there was a circulating track of that name whatsoever.

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Reply #2 posted 10/20/16 7:05pm

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It's obviously not Prince. I'd say it's been deliberately mislabled "Prince - Who's Bad? (unreleased)" to get more views. At 2:27 it clearly states it's by Yacharmi Smith.

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Reply #3 posted 10/21/16 5:49am

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airth said:

It's obviously not Prince. I'd say it's been deliberately mislabled "Prince - Who's Bad? (unreleased)" to get more views. At 2:27 it clearly states it's by Yacharmi Smith.

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