First: thEn

Second, he did two gospel records (according to Prince's own validation):

TrivialPursuit said:

littlemissG said:

I say there would be a third, fourth, and more if our Prince somehow survived.

He was preachy A.F. in a lot of his music post-The Rainbow Children. Compile the right songs and you got #3, easily.

littlemissG said:

Besides the music, I think he would have gone Reverend Al Green without the grits. Pulpit, choir, the whole nine.

I'd disagree. He had plenty of time to do all that, and didn't. In fact, he already did to some extent. There are photos & reports of him attending big Jehovah's WItness conferences w/ the Grahams. His bullshit version New World Translation Bible is pictured in 21 Nights if memory serves. Prince would have never delved into some full-on preacher mode like Al Green did, or even close. Too cool fah dat!

TrivialPursuit said:

littlemissG said:

TrivialPursuit said:

First: thEn

Second, he did two gospel records (according to Prince's own validation):

I say there would be a third, fourth, and more if our Prince somehow survived.

There is a Rainbow Children sequel in the vault, IIRC.

I saw a video on youtube where Prince was straight up preaching. Who knows what the future might have held for him? The Ladder.

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He did in a sense, and the stage was his pulpit.

But I don't think he became more progressively evangelistic in his music

Not any more in the 2000s as in the 1980s

Do Jehovah's Witnesses have pastors or elders what positions do they hold?

No way Jose would P become a Pastor.

He was still singing lyrics about "rubbery tatas" and "rub it on her back" and I could go on and on.....

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

No way Jose would P become a Pastor.

He was still singing lyrics about "rubbery tatas" and "rub it on her back" and I could go on and on.....

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littlemissG said:

Let me give you an very close example of what I am talking about: Denise Matthews aka Vanity. Also didn’t Seuality get changed to Spiritality in recent years? At concerts you get instrumental teases or Sexy MF, and a kiss in the mike since he joined the Witnesses. Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, Musicology, Deliverence always. I agree The Rainbow Children 2 and other heavily gospel tracks that may be in the vault would sbe released and performed, yes certainly. Rubber ‘tatas’ songs I think would be ‘I am past that’ or changed by Prince if he were still here with us. [Edited 1/25/18 9:54am]

Aint Gonna Miss U When U're Gone was released in 2013 with 3EG ..............so I dont think he was past that....

Ain't Gonna Miss You When You're Gone includes lyrics that say he wasn't gonna miss whoever he was "dissin'" in part because of the way she spoke on Holy Days.

But as for Prince, well, he was incredibly deeply enthusiastic about his religious experience and what it was doing for him in his life in the early 2000s, to the point of having conversations with Pastor and his audience at that sound check someone posted a while back, and during other shows, and he was definitely trying to convert us all. (smiles)

He mellowed later though, to an open path of spirituality, while retaining many of his religion's tenets.

In the end, he was, well...Prince.

He became himself.

His highest self which he could attain on this earth.

"You are actually everything and anything that you can think of
All of it is you."

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After Graffiti Bridge I've been waiting to see if he would go all preacher, I don't mean simply converting and getting serious about it, I mean literally opening his own church and the having a converted congregation that hangs on his every word, the whole nine yards. I was so relieved he didn't go that route.