I've followed him 4 more than 20 years...since his passing..I've gone back & watched a lot of videos, footage...live per4mances etc.

Not really listening 2 the music...just watching more of him than I did when he was living.

I've noticed a few things:

- Prince was obviously in pain & it impacted a lot of what he did on stage. For example, the riding of the Walmart cart into the arena b4 the show. We now know why.

- Being wheeled out on a hand truck during the Janelle Monae concert. We now know why.

- There is a cell phone video of him walking through an airport in London from 2004 and he CLEARLY has a limp.

- Welcome 2 America tour, he's standing on the piano singing, and when he would normally jump off. He sat down and slid off the piano.

- Watching recently released concert footage of an aftershow in L.A, when he walks out on stage..dude is limping. NOT PIMPIN' ...limping favoring his hip. Even to the point where there is a stool in the center of the stage waiting 4 him 2 sit down on.

- Riding his bike. The best exercise 4 him & that pain would be riding a bike and we saw him doing that a lot. Also riding a bike would keep him from walking as much.

- Tavis Smiley interview from B.E.T (the first one), Tavis was clowning him 4 tripping over a monitor speaker that was on stage. I personally believe that's when he injured his hip. The heels and splits, jumping around on stage did not help.

From what we now know...if U just go back and watch, the pain was right in front of us people, 4 a long time, I guess we (I) just never paid it much attention. I saw it as his sense of humour ...but he was hiding the pain obviously.

SheilaE said that dude was in a lot of pain constantly. She also said that he wouldn't tell her things & they would fall out because he knew that she would do something about it.

It was right in front of r eye's & that makes me feel some kind of way I guess...that nobody did anything about it. Not that I was searching 4 evidence of his pain, now it just stands out.

Is it me looking 4 it, or have y'all noticed it 2?

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Post here http://prince.org/msg/7/453739