If that was the case, then why did his sister, Tyka, talk about knowing she would lose him in 2 years. And that Prince told her "He did all he came here to do"...something along those lines?

I look back at Prince's videos and right after 2013 is when I noticed him going down hill.

In 2014, I can tell by his eyes, and his weight loss, something had changed.

Was he in more pain?

Were his records not selling?

All I know is I have cried often just realizing he is gone forever.

musicfan77 said:

If that was the case, then why did his sister, Tyka, talk about knowing she would lose him in 2 years. And that Prince told her "He did all he came here to do"...something along those lines?

I look back at Prince's videos and right after 2013 is when I noticed him going down hill.

In 2014, I can tell by his eyes, and his weight loss, something had changed.

Was he in more pain?

Were his records not selling?

All I know is I have cried often just realizing he is gone forever.

Who knows, personally, I don't trust her one bit.

Like…Whatever floats yer boat, and all. But…Like…I wonder if dwelling on "future plans" that ain't never going to happen, is the healthiest of coping mechanisms…

leadline said:

antonb said:

leadline said:

Who knows, personally, I don't trust her one bit.

Just listen to his interview. Prince went into detail telling him his future plans till at least till the end of this year. Not a man who was thinking he was going to die anytime soon.It is self explanatory. I don't believe her now. We all know that Princes family was his band members. That who he spent the most time with. It is plain and simple. He died of a accidental overdose.

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Like I've said here many times, I take anything that Tyka says with a grain of salt. Keep in mind, no one is allowed to discuss information on Prince's death, because it's still a homicide investigation. Maybe eventually, the truth will come out. I think Tyka said what she was told to say. I'm not saying that Tyka is a bad person and she does not love her brother, but you have to admit, there are some shady things going on.

cloveringold85 said:

antonb said:

leadline said: Just listen to his interview. Prince went into detail telling him his future plans till at least till the end of this year. Not a man who was thinking he was going to die anytime soon.It is self explanatory. I don't believe her now. We all know that Princes family was his band members. That who he spent the most time with. It is plain and simple. He died of a accidental overdose.

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Like I've said here many times, I take anything that Tyka says with a grain of salt. Keep in mind, no one is allowed to discuss information on Prince's death, because it's still a homicide investigation. Maybe eventually, the truth will come out. I think Tyka said what she was told to say. I'm not saying that Tyka is a bad person and she does not love her brother, but you have to admit, there are some shady things going on.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-dr-funk-podcast

Part 2 Listen to what he has to say about Black Is The New Black and what it means. What he thinks about this drug addict crap. Very Interesting.

There is this thing called, The Big Picture. Prince's sister's "two years" comments will naturally seem intentionally vague unless you put them into The Full Context of the matter.

And what is the The Big Picture? It is the only fact that nobody with common sense would dispute. The Big Picture here is — Prince died of an accidental overdose of pain meds.

Surely you don't have a problem understanding, that the sister's "two years" comments are addressing the one and only thing that she knows the entire public already knows. That thing the sister was addressing when she made her "two years" comment, is — Prince died of an accidental overdose of pain meds. Or do you have a problem understanding that?

With that indisputable thing as the context {or as, "The Starting Point", to put it another way}, the sister's expressing that she was not surprised by Prince's accidental death, very clearly means that she was not surprised that Prince would have died from an accidental overdose of pain meds. That's The Starting Point of her "two years" comments.

Therefore, from that Starting Point, if she was not surprised that Prince would have died from an overdose of pain meds, then it would logically follow from that Starting Point, that…

1. She knew for two years that he was suffering from debilitating pain
   
   
2. She knew for two years that he was self-medicating with dangerously powerful opioids
   
   
3. She knew for two years that the opioids he was taking to treat his pain was not being properly administered and not legally prescribed by a licensed doctor
   
   
4. She knew for two years that if doctors were refusing to write him a prescription for opioids, that was more than likely because the doctors knew he'd become addicted
   
   
5. She knew for two years that if he wasn't legally prescribed the opioids from doctors, then she knew that he was more than likely getting them on the blackmarket
   
   
6. She knew for two years that if he was procurring powerful heroine-like opioids through the blackmarket, that there were bound to be fatal risks involved
   
   
7. She knew for two years he was rolling the dice with every counterfeit pill he took, so one day two years ago she asked him, "What the fuck are you doin' taking this deadly shit, Big Bro!?!?! That shit can kill you!"
   
   
8. She knew for two years that Prince's reply to her admonishing him for doing something so risky, was, "I'm not afraid of dying, little Sis. I've done everything I've come here to do. So If I roll snake eyes one day from accidentally taking a sketchy counterfeit pill, then I'm willing to take that risk in order to not be in such excruciating pain."
   
   
9. She knew for two years that Prince resigned himself to his own eventual mortality, with the same acceptance and lack of fear that many other enlightened “old souls” often do
   
   
10. She knew that two years full of desperate entreaties to Prince for him to "Get Help!", were falling on deaf ears
    
    
11. ...

If you ponder the sister's "I have been preparing for two years" interview comments within the The Full Context of the one thing that nobody can dispute — {Prince died from an overdose of pain meds} — then it makes perfect sense {to me anyway} that the sister was not surprised on the day Prince died.

Considering the sister's interview comments within the The Big Picture — then it makes perfect sense that the sister would expect that Prince would eventually roll snake eyes sooner or later. Because she knew —{as did the rest of his family}— that Prince was engaged in some fatally risky self-medication.

antonb said:

leadline said:

Who knows, personally, I don't trust her one bit.

Just listen to his interview. Prince went into detail telling him his future plans till at least till the end of this year. Not a man who was thinking he was going to die anytime soon.It is self explanatory. I don't believe her now. We all know that Princes family was his band members. That who he spent the most time with. It is plain and simple. He died of a accidental overdose.

We know what he died from and at no time have I come across anyone who thinks he did not die from an overdose. We know he was seeing Dr. S for withdrawal issues which can go on for as long as a year.

None of this has ever been disputed. What does not make sense is the mislabeled pills and the fact that what he thought was taking was considered mild. In fact the Watson 355 pills had actually been discontinued by the manufacturer back in 2015. Does anyone think maybe he was using Watson 355 to step down and help with the withdrawals and that maybe the worst of that was over. Does anyone think that Prince himself may have only become of aware of how sick he was that weekend after the Moline incident? (Which we still don’t know what happened in Moline because all of the information came from TMZ)

He received RXs from Dr. S the day before and went in for tests. The doctor was bringing him results the day he died and Dr K said he was in a grave medical situation. He would not have needed test to tell him he was using pain pills or he had joint pain. Why is it so hard to believe he had health issues back in 2014 and those issues may have been recurring in the last week of his life? Something recurring would explain that lack of a will and the fact that he was continuing to make plans. Dude was a human capable of being ill like anyone else and in fact joint pain is an illness in and of itself.

I will not go into the effects pain pills can have on the health of people who take them over the long haul. The evidence is out and available to read. No way on God’s green earth is his sister is going to get on T.V and say she knew two years ago when asked directly how long did she think it would take to get over his death. Did some of you even listen to the question she was asked? We have a lot of “I don’t like this person so what they say is bullshit mindset” Because you don’t like someone does not mean what they have to say is incorrect or untrue. ( Never mind that none of us know Tyka and I have yet to hear one person who has encountered her say anything but nice things about her but do not let that stop any of you from your judgements. )

antonb said:

Part 2 is also a fantastic listen. These stories about Prince are amazing. Just reaffirms what a amazing man he was.Loved the story about him telling him to go and be a solo artist. That it was his duty.Prince was music personified.

Co-sign It almost made me cry. We are at such a lost musically without him around.

laurarichardson said:

antonb said:

laurarichardson said:

We know what he died from and at no time have I come across anyone who thinks he did not die from an overdose. We know he was seeing Dr. S for withdrawal issues which can go on for as long as a year.

None of this has ever been disputed. What does not make sense is the mislabeled pills and the fact that what he thought was taking was considered mild. In fact the Watson 355 pills had actually been discontinued by the manufacturer back in 2015. Does anyone think maybe he was using Watson 355 to step down and help with the withdrawals and that maybe the worst of that was over. Does anyone think that Prince himself may have only become of aware of how sick he was that weekend after the Moline incident? (Which we still don’t know what happened in Moline because all of the information came from TMZ)

He received RXs from Dr. S the day before and went in for tests. The doctor was bringing him results the day he died and Dr K said he was in a grave medical situation. He would not have needed test to tell him he was using pain pills or he had joint pain. Why is it so hard to believe he had health issues back in 2014 and those issues may have been recurring in the last week of his life? Something recurring would explain that lack of a will and the fact that he was continuing to make plans. Dude was a human capable of being ill like anyone else and in fact joint pain is an illness in and of itself.

I will not go into the effects pain pills can have on the health of people who take them over the long haul. The evidence is out and available to read. No way on God’s green earth is his sister is going to get on T.V and say she knew two years ago when asked directly how long did she think it would take to get over his death. Did some of you even listen to the question she was asked? We have a lot of “I don’t like this person so what they say is bullshit mindset” Because you don’t like someone does not mean what they have to say is incorrect or untrue. ( Never mind that none of us know Tyka and I have yet to hear one person who has encountered her say anything but nice things about her but do not let that stop any of you from your judgements. )

Jeez, don't need a lecture from you thanks. I have read the reports. I would rather take the facts from people who were most close to him. Ie, people like Adrian. He seems to be pretty adamant about the drug issue.Listen to it yourself.

I have listend to it and once again no one who worked with or actually knew him has said anything about him being addicted but he did not look good those last few months and you are the one discounting what his own sister is saying about his health. I do not think pain pills were the major issue he was dealing with. I am not lecturing anyone but stating the facts.

laurarichardson said:

antonb said:

laurarichardson said: Jeez, don't need a lecture from you thanks. I have read the reports. I would rather take the facts from people who were most close to him. Ie, people like Adrian. He seems to be pretty adamant about the drug issue.Listen to it yourself.

I have listend to it and once again no one who worked with or actually knew him has said anything about him being addicted but he did not look good those last few months and you are the one discounting what his own sister is saying about his health. I do not think pain pills were the major issue he was dealing with. I am not lecturing anyone but stating the facts.

"Not looking good the last few months" is a subjective thing, mostly spawned by those looking at live unclear pictures from the Piano and Mic shows, a lot of those pics, while he was performing emotional songs like Purple Rain, etc, in horrible light with crazy shadow all over the place. That and folks projecting onto those pictures. Again, subjective.....what is not nearly as subjective, and holds much more relevance, are those that knew him in real life, worked with him daily, and had visual contact with him up to or near the end. The street on the feet hold the cards, everything I have heard from that side is all positive with Prince showing no physical signs of a problem. Thinking one thing or thinking another are not facts, especially when we all have virtually nothing to go on.

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leadline said:

antonb said:

U-h-h-h…I just reread this site's TOS — for like the sixth time now since I joined. And I didn't see anything along the lines of "The only opinions allowed to be expressed on this site, are those that can be expressed in 140 characters or less…"

Are you sure you're not confusing this Discussion Board with Tweeter? Or whatever it's called?

phatphuk said:

great interviews, wouldn't have minded if they'd delved a bit deeper into what he thinks happened.

rogifan said:

What about the orchestral stuff he was working on? Was that part of this project or something different?

That was for the 3rdeyegirl sophomore release.

The small bits of info, and the anecdotes are cool to hear, but the thing is waaaay too long considering the little amount of info given. Lots of reiterating, and then reiterating again, and not enough of getting to the point.

Both parts could have been combined into one hour-long podcast with some decent editing. I felt like I was listening to a lot of pointless rambling, and that Adrian didn't really have a ton of info about Black Is The New Black that hadn't already been divulged.

Of course I know what I was doing! I was replying to the question that musicfan77 asked — with a thorough answer.

Trust me, my friend. You were the furthest thing from my mind when I posted my reply to musicfan77. So you need to get over yourself. Not everything is about you.

…And you might want to read up on this to recalibrate your bearings…

rogifan said:

Just listened to this episode and wow Adrian didn't hold back re: Prince and drugs. Props to him for speaking out. I didn't know Adrian was a drug dealer when he was younger and had family members who were addicts. The guy knows of what he speaks. I has to laugh when he said he'd come to Paisley to eat healthy and lose weight.

What did he say?

paulludvig said:

rogifan said:

Just listened to this episode and wow Adrian didn't hold back re: Prince and drugs. Props to him for speaking out. I didn't know Adrian was a drug dealer when he was younger and had family members who were addicts. The guy knows of what he speaks. I has to laugh when he said he'd come to Paisley to eat healthy and lose weight.

What did he say?

adrian said that he can spot a drug addict or former drug addict immediately because he's been around so many of them; family, freinds etc. he said that because of this he believed that there was no way that prince was an addict. he kept saying thieves in the temple and then gave prince props for being a shit with WB. adrian feels that WB have been preparing for this(prince's death) and now they can release whatever they want-music prince wanted them to have and music that he didn't want them to have. the rest is about 'black is the new black'.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

wavesofbliss said:

paulludvig said:

What did he say?

adrian said that he can spot a drug addict or former drug addict immediately because he's been around so many of them; family, freinds etc. he said that because of this he believed that there was no way that prince was an addict. he kept saying thieves in the temple and then gave prince props for being a shit with WB. adrian feels that WB have been preparing for this(prince's death) and now they can release whatever they want-music prince wanted them to have and music that he didn't want them to have. the rest is about 'black is the new black'.

Wow!

For the love of God, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT PRINCE DIED FROM INGESTING ILLEGAL FENTANYL AND OTHER PILLS THAT WERE LACED WITH A DEADLY COCKTAIL OF DRUGS (U47700) and others!!

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We already know this! Now, do you have anything NEW to add, Fatty?

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Nah, didn't think so!

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