As most of you know prince is asking miko, morris ect... "Did you give?" My thing is how could anyone give if you act like a total control freak. It's not like he would let them come up with tracks on their own have any important say in the tracks and lyrics P wrote for them, yet he questions their contributions. And granted they took the success and songs but it's like if you keep helping certain people then they will become dependent on you what do you expect. Over the years he has preformed the song a lot and it just makes me wonder how could any of the Paisley acts give anything to a control freak like him (outside of W&L of course).

Sinister said:

Maybe he meant, "did u give (music that i like)"

Who knows, these questions are hard.
ask prince

if you could write a thousand songs+++++ you could talk sh*t 2 but you cant and prince can he wrote greats like calhoun sq. mutiny tick tick bang adore crystal ball housequake the days o wild all you do is eat cornbread and watch the nanny onlfetime so dont wonder why just listen and appreciate
now run and tell yo mama bout that

greats indeed..calhoun sq and tick tick????hmmmm i think you need to go back to school mr"cornbread"

calhoun is awesome
or maybe u didnt know
really pay attention 2 tick tick
now listen again
but i cant make u
right
even if i tried
and u probaly wont
dats it 4 now

What the hell are you guys talking about?

kujo said:

Very clear and articulate post there Kujo!!

Why are you all talking shit on this thread?

Sinister said:

Consider that there are other methods of "giving" in music. Like, putting 100% into the performance, recording, etc, of the music. Just because Prince had a vision of music and didn't want somebody else to muss it up does not mean that he didn't want them to come into the song with the strengths that he selected them for... Miko's guitar, Morris' attitude.

Cuz, shoot, anybody can come up with an idea for a song. Prince was like the director, weeding out the crap and pushing the artists to GIVE their best performances.

Harlepolis said:

I am not talking shit just wondering why prince is dissing morris and miko in mutiny when he seems to be such a control freak.

otan said:

yeah but how easy is it for an artist of any kind to give 100% effort if you have so little input. For example on Ice cream castles the time wanted to create that album as a group but prince did what he always does took him, morris and Jessie in the studio and made the tracks. Do you think Morris wanted to perform "If the kid can't make you come"? Not having any real say on that album is one of the reasons he left the time.