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Thread started 07/04/23 12:15am

funkbabyandthe
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your fave tony m parts?

In anticipation of the d+p sde, and thinkpieces on tony, what are your favourite tony m moments?

I think he had a good voice actually, though too much of it, and it becomes too contrasting with princes voice, which had the opposite kind of texture/grain

So i genuinely like his lines on gett off, he really adds to that song perfectly

Shame there was not more of that kind of sparse interplay

But i dont mind his verses on sexy mf and my name is prince
Not like either song is serious, both are kinda silly, so its not like a guest rap gets in the way of anything.

I dont mind him doing chants like wave your hands in the air either.
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Reply #1 posted 07/04/23 12:53am

BlueShakooo

Love: Gett Off
Like: Sexy M. F.
Hate: Push, My Name is Prince, The Sacrifice of Victor
(though I really like those songs, Tony makes it hard for me to listen to them).
[Edited 7/4/23 1:49am]
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Reply #2 posted 07/04/23 2:55am

LILpoundCAKE

Something Funky This House Comes


cool

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Reply #3 posted 07/04/23 2:56am

RJOrion

Tony M's best performance = "The Flow"
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Reply #4 posted 07/04/23 2:57am

Rzeplica

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Waiting for Ernest to bore us for the millionth time by telling us how he edited Tony M out from "Diamonds And Pearls" and the Symbol album decades ago zzzz 🤢😴🤮
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Reply #5 posted 07/04/23 3:24am

Landonfunkmonk
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I don't mind Tony.

I think Goldnigga is a great album.

My Name is Prince is my favourite Tony performance.
Something BIG Is Coming.
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Reply #6 posted 07/04/23 5:20am

lustmealways

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black mf in the house

tony m fucking rocks and the hate is unwarranted.

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Reply #7 posted 07/04/23 6:49am

lurker316

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Willing and Able
My Name is Prince
The Flow

You didn't ask, but Tony M raps I strongly dislike: Daddy Pop, Live 4 Love, Love 2 the 9s, The Max, The Sacrifice of Victor.


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Reply #8 posted 07/04/23 7:24am

RJOrion

"Love 2 The 9s" didnt need any rap at all...Prince, Tony M and Mayte ALL desecrated that beautiful masterpiece by rapping on it..

And wtf does "lemme see that booty boom" even mean??
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Reply #9 posted 07/04/23 7:30am

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RJOrion said:

"Love 2 The 9s" didnt need any rap at all...Prince, Tony M and Mayte ALL desecrated that beautiful masterpiece by rapping on it.. And wtf does "lemme see that booty boom" even mean??

Yeah, ouch on L2T9's.... just ouch on a beautiful one

The only one I can take is Sexy MF because it feels like it 'belongs',

I have a hard time when it seems like there is a rap part tacked on to the end of a random song which for me drastically damages 91-93

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Reply #10 posted 07/04/23 8:11am

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RJOrion said:

"Love 2 The 9s" didnt need any rap at all...Prince, Tony M and Mayte ALL desecrated that beautiful masterpiece by rapping on it.. And wtf does "lemme see that booty boom" even mean??



Co-sign. Also, the weak Fat Boyz style record scratching was already out of date. I actually don't mind Prince speaking over the last third of the song. I consider that talking, not rapping, because it doesn't have the inflection of a proper rap.




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Reply #11 posted 07/04/23 8:59am

funkbabyandthe
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Love 2 the 9s and daddy pop both have great climaxes but get ruined by unnecessary rapping
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Reply #12 posted 07/04/23 11:13am

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The best Tony M rap performance goes toooooo:

"My Name Is Prince"

The worst in on that (Alt. Dub Version) of "Martika's Kitchen"

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #13 posted 07/04/23 1:48pm

paisleyparkgir
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He ruined Willing And Able for me.

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Reply #14 posted 07/04/23 2:13pm

TrivialPursuit

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My favorite Tony M. moment is when he left the band.

[Edited 7/4/23 14:15pm]

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #15 posted 07/04/23 2:14pm

TrivialPursuit

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paisleyparkgirl said:

He ruined Willing And Able for me.


You know - there's a leaked version of that song without him in it. It just sorta plays on without that part.

And when I talk about how I edited his ass out of 99% of Prince's music, that song was the hardest. It still doesn't totally sit right with me. BUT now that the other version is out there, I could sorta piece it together and have a more fluid segue of erasing vocals.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #16 posted 07/04/23 2:20pm

funkbabyandthe
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also, tony and the other game boyz had cool outfits.

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Reply #17 posted 07/04/23 2:44pm

lurker316

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

also, tony and the other game boyz had cool outfits.



Pajamas?



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Reply #18 posted 07/04/23 2:45pm

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paisleyparkgirl said:

He ruined Willing And Able for me.



Willing and Able is one of the few Tony raps I don't mind. Granted, the song would be better without it. But I don't think it totally ruins the song. It has a nice, mellow, sing-songy quality that isn't totally offensive to my ears.



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Reply #19 posted 07/04/23 3:07pm

funkbabyandthe
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lurker316 said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

He ruined Willing And Able for me.



Willing and Able is one of the few Tony raps I don't mind. Granted, the song would be better without it. But I don't think it totally ruins the song. It has a nice, mellow, sing-songy quality that isn't totally offensive to my ears.



yeah, that one kinda fits the mood

i mean, is it essential? no. but then, most guest raps arent that essential (in my view... i mean do i need jay-z on umbrella? no. do i need clipse on like i love u? no. do i need petey pablo on goodies? definitely no).

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Reply #20 posted 07/04/23 4:42pm

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I only like him on Goldnigga. I like rap so his other appearances are far too egregiously cornball, I'd rather have Prince rapping. Goldnigga with the overall vibe his stuff feels more smooth beat poetry-esque than his/Prince's attempt at Top 40 "bars".

[Edited 7/4/23 16:42pm]

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Reply #21 posted 07/04/23 6:10pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

He ruined Willing And Able for me.


You know - there's a leaked version of that song without him in it. It just sorta plays on without that part.=

Oh that's nice ! I hope I find it one day !

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Reply #22 posted 07/05/23 4:40am

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paisleyparkgirl said:



TrivialPursuit said:




paisleyparkgirl said:


He ruined Willing And Able for me.




You know - there's a leaked version of that song without him in it. It just sorta plays on without that part.=





Oh that's nice ! I hope I find it one day !



It's on Diamonds & Pearls Beginnings. It's FBG free release, so look for a download or share, don't buy it.
blah blah blah
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Reply #23 posted 07/05/23 5:22am

EnglishGent2

What's your favourite fart to smell when inside an elevator?

The orger formerly known as https://prince.org/profil...nglishGent
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Reply #24 posted 07/05/23 3:54pm

Doozer

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Duece & A Quarter, secretly kind of love it.

Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/
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Reply #25 posted 07/05/23 9:49pm

TrivialPursuit

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EnglishGent2 said:

What's your favourite fart to smell when inside an elevator?


Everybody loves their own brand.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #26 posted 07/05/23 11:02pm

LittleBigFan

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Call The Law! Not perfect but great b-side with tip-top drums and guitar. And Tony raps a half-decent story about selling spaghetti.
I think the choir wanna sing
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Reply #27 posted 07/06/23 5:13am

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There's gotta be at least one if not 2-3 complete Tony M. solo LPs produced by DJ Jazzy Nelson the Originale phresh Prince himself in the Vault, right?

Those leaked/hypothetical D&P SDE tracklists are flat-out wrong not including any of them, and the fans are even worse not demanding it from the estate either.

Hey, I have no interest in D&P Deluxe but if you're gonna do it you gotta do right. Don't be ashamed of the friggin' era while trying to sell us on it. It needs a Tony M. bonus disc with them crazy dope fly super fresh super phat Prince block rockin' beats, because I mean what exactly are we commemorating here? Last I checked Tony M. defined D&P era, you just gonna try and pretend it wasn't literally the Tony M era of the Prince discography? A worse snub than absolutely nobody demanding the "51 Hours" white label featuring Diamond & Pearl be included with the seventeen different edits of "Gett Off".

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Reply #28 posted 07/06/23 5:55am

funkbabyandthe
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i mean, yeah, if we are wanting the SDEs to be definitive, and do the eras COMPLETE justice, then everything should be in there. or at least it needs to be representative. i need 70 mins of pure tony. there has to be in fact MORE songs with MORE tony than we know. maybe they are good? either way, the public must be allowed to decide.

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Reply #29 posted 07/06/23 7:41am

dodger07

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

i mean, yeah, if we are wanting the SDEs to be definitive, and do the eras COMPLETE justice, then everything should be in there. or at least it needs to be representative. i need 70 mins of pure tony. there has to be in fact MORE songs with MORE tony than we know. maybe they are good? either way, the public must be allowed to decide.

There is a lot more with Tony on. P used him on a lot of projects. Like Day Tripper with Margie Cox/Flash as well as Martika, Mavis, Carmen.

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There was talk at the time of including Mary J and Tupac in the Goldnigga project.

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He also had 2 tracks included on the Hoop Dreams album. These had no P involvement but Eric Leeds and Ricky & Paul Peterson were.

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