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Diamonds & Pearls "Oral History" (BBC) This is great reading! Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. | |
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Mix of new and old quotes, but nicely done. Tommy speaks in such a melancholy way about Prince. So sad how Prince treated him later on. | |
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cool piece. i like oral histories like this.
but the stuff about prince and rap misses the point that like with most things, he was totally contradictory.
sorry but no, prince had sheila e and cat rap on his songs. he then had tc ellis and released a WHOLE ALBUM from tc ellis on his own label.
does that sound like someone who didnt want anything to do with rap? (whether prince had any good taste or idea about rap and what kinda rappers work well with his music is another matter... cat and sheila were a better fit than tony IMO, but even then they were used sparingly rather than spread across entire albums). all that aside, listening to the D&P beginnings set, you can hear that prince was doing a lot of rapping himself already, which probably would have fitted better, but either way, he was obv thinking about hip hop a lot already during this period. you cant really get rid of it. [Edited 10/22/23 2:20am] | |
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Prince wasn't down with 'Gangsta Rap'. | |
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true and fair enough, but he hired the game boyz cos they were playing around doing digital undergrounds humpty dance, so he must have known there were other types of rap out there. anyway, it doesnt matter. he (as with tc ellis) wanted a rapper with a big daddy kane kind of voice, ie big, boomy, commanding, not like cat or sheila (and not feminine). and well thats what he got! | |
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How did he treat him later on? | |
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Thank you for the interesting read. The quotes are excellent! I wonder where the BBC got the 300 copies of the Gett off JUN7 promo number from though. They usually check facts and that number seems light... | |
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