Lana

as in "Lana drew a picture at school today, one that made her mother cry..."

from In A Large Room With No Light

Boni

as in "Boni, it's your house!"

from Forever In My Life, SOTT Live Movie

Michael, Freddie

as in "Does anybody hear us pray, for Michael Brown or Freddy Gray?"

from Baltimore

Martin

as in "Martin wasn't the only one that had a dream, no what I mean?!"

from Northside

Jill

as in "The opera, Jill Scott or the fair, Cyprus if I never get 2 take U swimming there.."

from 4Ever

Nefertiti, Dido, Ray, Stevie

as in "Look at U, how can U not know? Standing over there like a Nefertiti or a queen Dido."

as in "Even Ray Charles can see, Stevie Wonder can too"

from Look At Me, Look At U

Nell

as in "On Ur way 2 Nell's in New York, gonna meet who, heaven knows"

from It's About That Walk

Nona, Moses

as in "Nona is in the backyard, but she got 2 wait, she got 2 get free y'all B4 she can sell her tape"

as in "And the people spake against God and against Moses, where4 have U brought us up 2 Egypt, 2 die in the wilderness?"

from The Return of The Bump Squad

Yosemite, Sam

as in "This one's for Yosemite Sam and the tourists at Disney Land"

from Lady Cab Driver

Jimmy

as in "Jimmy Nothing never went 2 school. They made him pledge allegiance. He said it wasn't cool."

from America

Electra

as in "Now this king he had a subject named Electra..."

from The Ladder

Cain

as in "Perhaps only Cain when he'd slain his brother could ever come close to knowing how.."

from There Is Lonely

Orion

as in "Orion's arms are wide enough 2 hold us both 2gether"

from The Arms of Orion

Vanessa

as in "I clocked the jizz from a friend of Urs named Vanessa Bet"

from Gett Off

Willie

as in "Look over here it's me working 4 Willie"

from Jughead

Tony

as in "Tony, get on the mike" , "Rosie get on the mike"

from Push

RJOrion said:

Lol at Lil Pound Cake and a team of private investigators, playing every song Prince ever made, listenting intently for any evidence of a first name.

well, you've either been obsessed with the man's music since 13 years old or you haven't i guess

Ben, Boni, Frankie

as in "London, what does Big Ben say?"

as in "Not yet Boni..."

as in "Serve it up, Frankie"

from Le Grind

Maurice, Cat

as in "Brother Maurice will be 'round in a minute with a bucket filled, in it squirrel meat"

as in "Maurice, what can I serve U? Squirrel meat? Damn. Cat, what's happening babe?"

from Superfunkycalifragisexy / 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

Tommi, Levi

as in "Tommi Barbarella in the house. Scrub the dishes"

as in "Levi, Levi, fly!"

from Sexy MF

Kate, Naomi, Helena, Carla, Claudia, Shalom, Amber, Christy, Stephanie, Stella, Veleria, Eva.

as in "Kate Moss/Naomi Campbell/Helena Christenssen/Claudia Schiffer/Shalom Harlow/Amber Valetta etc etc"

from Chatounette Control

LILpoundCAKE said:

Anita, Chazz, John, Bo,

as in "Yo Anita! Yo Check out that ass!" (although, this is a sample, not prince's vox)

as in "Sing a tune in Chazz's bar"

as in "9 O Clock see John K"

as in "I don't know Bo but I do know math"

from Big White Mansion

Mary

as in "Skip the Remy and let me have some Mary Tyler Moore of that New Power Soul"

from Mr Happy

Clive

as in "They just wanna see me swing this pretty hair. If there ever comes a time when it just won't grow, I'll do like Clive Davis and buy some mo' "

from Pretty Man (live)

Michael, Morris, Jellybean, Sheila, John, Billy, Christina, Maxwell, CeeLo, Nicole, Valentina.

as in: well, all of them are name checked, look it up yourself

from Old Skool Company

Christian

as in "You are standing there in your Christian Dior dark sunglasses in the pale moonlight"

from Dance 4 Me

Sam, Valentina, Penelope

as in "Your uncle Sam used 2 hold it down everyday"

as in "Hey Valentina telle Ur mama she should gimme a call"

as in "If Penelope wants to Cruz there ain't no way we ain't gon' dance"

from Valentina