rogifan said:

Londell did say on Twitter today that he's not going to allow Prince's music to be messed with (i.e. no remixes). Hopefully he's serious and has the power to stop anyone else from messing with it.

I see that. It's nice but i'm fairly sure if push comes to shove he won't have the power. All these things are happening already (Prince 4ever, meeting with Jay Z) and he only seems to find out after the fact.

I'm not gonna start tweeting at him giving out to him, he doesn't deserve that, but I'm not a huge fan of how he's going about the Prince business at the moment. He's putting himself out there as the legal expert on Prince's estate, the one to be trusted who always has the facts, and then instead of educating people on what's going on he's just giving out to them for not reading 400 music biz books and knowing the business inside out. Sure if we did that we wouldn't need to be following him in the first place.

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jaawwnn said:

laurarichardson said:

jaawwnn said:

rogifan said:

I see that. It's nice but i'm fairly sure if push comes to shove he won't have the power. All these things are happening already (Prince 4ever, meeting with Jay Z) and he only seems to find out after the fact.

I'm not gonna start tweeting at him giving out to him, he doesn't deserve that, but I'm not a huge fan of how he's going about the Prince business at the moment. He's putting himself out there as the legal expert on Prince's estate, the one to be trusted who always has the facts, and then instead of educating people on what's going on he's just giving out to them for not reading 400 music biz books and knowing the business inside out. Sure if we did that we wouldn't need to be following him in the first place.

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// It is not his job to educate us. It is his job to monitize the estate. The court has to approve what he does or he will get thrown off the job.

Yeah I guess so. I really should just start ignoring him, it'll be better for all of us.

*there*, unfollowed. Problem solved.

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cloveringold85 said:

jaawwnn said:

laurarichardson said:

jaawwnn said: // It is not his job to educate us. It is his job to monitize the estate. The court has to approve what he does or he will get thrown off the job.

Yeah I guess so. I really should just start ignoring him, it'll be better for all of us.

*there*, unfollowed. Problem solved.

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I'm sure Londell is trying his best to protect Prince's music, making sure it does not get into the wrong hands. I knew this was gonna get messy. I pray that everything works out in the end, for Prince's estate and his previous recordings and the vault/unreleased music. I can't even begin to imagine what a nightmare this is for those involved.

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Prince knew the music business very well, and knew Londell for many years, and I'm guessing Londell probably has a better understanding (or a pretty good one), than say, someone like Jay-Z, who was not a close friend of Prince, and he only seems to be interested in gaining control over Prince's music for the money.

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Prince was right when he told Apollonia and other's; the vultures and jubilant judas will cry and make you feel sorry for them. Sad, just all very sad. Sorry for my ramblings.

laurarichardson said:

cloveringold85 said:

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Woo....that's a good one! Personally, I don't know how Prince did it. I don't know how he juggled so much and dealt with so many people in his career & personal life. He was really something -- he seemed to manage his stress very well -- you never saw him get mad.

-- I don't know how he did it. The only the thing you hear anyone say about him being angry was about sound issues at the shows.

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Personally, I don't know how he did it. I know I couldn't do it.

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Yes, he would get pissed when something would go wrong with sound or production. That drives a musician batty!!

don't forget, because Mr. McMillan is an attorney, sworn to protect the confidentiality of the legal actions he undertakes, he BETTER not go tweeting around in detail about what's up!!!

XxAxX said:

don't forget, because Mr. McMillan is an attorney, sworn to protect the confidentiality of the legal actions he undertakes, he BETTER not go tweeting around in detail about what's up!!!

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Yes, true. He shouldn't be tweeting anything--you're right!!

Does that include the 40mill vault music?Because i cant imagine someone paying that with stipulations added

I see that many are not members of Facebook Prince sites.

One of the best NPGMC Rebirthed has lawyers that are explaining every bit of legal information.

Like Lauraricharson said Prince was not a dummy with his money .There is a document that was made available to the courts showing some type of post mortum estate planning. That document has not been revealed as of yet but it has been presented to the court.

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muleFunk said:

I see that many are not members of Facebook Prince sites.

One of the best NPGMC Rebirthed has lawyers that are explaining every bit of legal information.

Like Lauraricharson said there is a document that was made available to the courts showing some type of post mortum estate planning. That document has not been revealed as of yet but it has been presented to the court.

So much for people who think he didn't know what he was doing. Planning ahead.

muleFunk said:

I see that many are not members of Facebook Prince sites.

One of the best NPGMC Rebirthed has lawyers that are explaining every bit of legal information.

Like Lauraricharson said there is a document that was made available to the courts showing some type of post mortum estate planning. That document has not been revealed as of yet but it has been presented to the court.

What?

Are you sure that is what Laura said?

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

muleFunk said:

I see that many are not members of Facebook Prince sites.

One of the best NPGMC Rebirthed has lawyers that are explaining every bit of legal information.

Like Lauraricharson said there is a document that was made available to the courts showing some type of post mortum estate planning. That document has not been revealed as of yet but it has been presented to the court.

What?

Are you sure that is what Laura said?

No .

Let me restate that.

Laura stated that Prince was not a dummy with money.

was there an actual contract with TIDAL /jay z????

muleFunk said:

Laura stated that Prince was not a dummy with money.

There is no mention of a Trust in any of the Estate filings.

That doesnt mean there isnt a Trust.

However, if there is a Trust it did not cover all of P's assets or the Estate would not have been opened.

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

muleFunk said:

Laura stated that Prince was not a dummy with money.

There is no mention of a Trust in any of the Estate filings.

That doesnt mean there isnt a Trust.

However, if there is a Trust it did not cover all of P's assets or the Estate would not have been opened.

this!! what i've been saying from the start. maybe p was "smart w/money" after he pissed so much of it away in the late 80's early 90's butthat's different form having your estate in order. he obviously didn't do the latter.

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destinyc1 said:

If you wish to know the music business & how it impacts artists, it requires u all to do some homework & research -- not posting false info.L Londell McMillan

Why the fuck doesn't he just release an actual statement?!

rap said:

destinyc1 said:

If you wish to know the music business & how it impacts artists, it requires u all to do some homework & research -- not posting false info.L Londell McMillan

Why the fuck doesn't he just release an actual statement?!

been this from the start, too. and if McM and /or the estate are not ready to do so they can keep quiet! this drizzling of info and quasi-info is unecessary.

Lord Of Mercy ....The lyric's Of "Gold " Comes to mind.......... o Much........... In this time of life when the clock......... gives a Time......I pray that there's another that starts ...in/on " The Other Side of Heaven.......... tipping the Hour Glass ....pouring out sum....(peace)

This is Just to much..... Hopes Prince is sumwhere NU....Enjoy Ur life~ away~...

The Ladder.....

Honeybabe~...In another Time In ~ Space Eye will Call Ur name....I pray this (fighting) will cease...

and The MUsiC Can PLAY~

Judging by some of the reaction here on The Org, as ever, Londell's tweet is neother cryptic or out of turn. There is so much lame knee-jerk pant-wetting ignorance on display here as always and he's right on both scores. If, as some suspect, Prince once checked the 'fam' sites out, he must have been well-disconnected by the time the shit festered enough to bring about PFU which itself was the finest example of rabid fandom grabbing hold of the wrong end of the stick and starting to beat around the bush with it.
Prince was kickin' Google ass, not closing down fandom, and he was doing it in advance of everybody else seeing that Google had been conning its users into doing the 'copyright violation', under the holy aegis of 'sharing', while becoming a company that dwarfs the value of all entertainment companies PUT TOGETHER and paying out zilcho to artists and tax authorities.
For Londell to comment that he sees why P disconnected from certain quarters must be something he says in considerable understatement.
Prince's vision gets overlauded when it should have been plain to see for anyone that 'sharing' had become the ultimate in social engineering for profit.

rogifan said:

Londell did say on Twitter today that he's not going to allow Prince's music to be messed with (i.e. no remixes). Hopefully he's serious and has the power to stop anyone else from messing with it.

Did he specifically say, no remixes, or is that your interpretation?

TheEnglishGent said:

XSX said:

rogifan said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Thanks for the reply. We have to be clear on these things otherwise, in two weeks or so we'll have people insisting that Londell said there would never be any remixes.

I certainly hope there aren't.

No idea why your post wasn't quoted properly!

rogifan said:

I listened to a podcast from Roland Martin. This was a Prince tribute he did right afte Prince passed away. One of the people he interviewed was Londell who said the last time he talked to Prince was the Sunday before he passed away. Was Prince still using his services? Or did they just stay friends after Londell stopped representing him?

I think they stayed friends and maybe he went to him for advice from time to time. I did wonder if Londell knows more about P's health stituation then he has let on because he did show up on the immediatly.

laurarichardson said:

rogifan said:

I listened to a podcast from Roland Martin. This was a Prince tribute he did right afte Prince passed away. One of the people he interviewed was Londell who said the last time he talked to Prince was the Sunday before he passed away. Was Prince still using his services? Or did they just stay friends after Londell stopped representing him?

I think they stayed friends and maybe he went to him for advice from time to time. I did wonder if Londell knows more about P's health stituation then he has let on because he did show up on the immediatly.

I believe he did. I've also wondered if perhaps Prince has left a lot more instruction than we know of about what he wanted done...like perhaps he wanted Londell to handle the music piece of things and Bremer to be involved too. Not a will, but something that does document his wishes about things he held important. It's not a stretch to think this since we've heard he had told others what he wanted done at PP.