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Because that is the conerstone of P's music. It is pretty damm strange to be a Prince fan and dislike funk.

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As usual you don't know what the hell your talking about. I don't understand people being Prince fans and hating on funk. Since funk would be the cornerstone of P's music.

In addtion, since I do listen to rock and associate with many different racial groups going back to my high school years almost 20 years ago. I think I can say that most rockers don't like anything outside of Rock.

Perhaps younger people out of my generation are different but, they obviously are not running the record labels or radio networks. Shit even black bands that step out from RnB and Funk and try to do rock can't get signed to a lable or get radio airplay. Kind of makes me think that it is racism and just having a closed mind to other styles of music.

Now come on with more of your off the wall comments. It would not be a day at P org without someone living in a fantasy world about race and how things work.

No one said anything about disliking funk. It's a "if it's not funk, it sucks" mentality. And for your information, Prince started selling significantly more albums when a rock audience started buying them, so you're struck down on two counts.

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I don't have that mentality and I find most of the people on this board to have an open mind about types of music. However,some orgers and people I run into who are mainly Rock fans don't give funk a listen or the musicians any credit.

Some of you don't even bother to check out the YouTube.com Funkadelic videos. Judging by the small numbers of people checking out those topics. Your missing out big time on some incredible music.

"Prince started selling significantly more albums when a rock audience started buying them, so you're struck down on two counts.[/"


You must be in your 20's. P was selling out large venues in predominately black urban areas before P.R came out. It is marketing to a large audience via a movie they made a rock audience take note.

no, it was Little Red Corvette in 1983 that did it, and it also got him into bigger venues.

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No he was selling out large venues prior to WB putting LRC out as a single. I was around back them so I do know what I am talking about.

yes, but more than half of his audience, at his peak, came to him after he became a rock artist. so what ARE you talking about? you say its ridiculous that people would dislike funk and be Prince fans, yet MOST of the people that got into him do so because he was primarily a rock artist in those years.

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P has loads of fans before PR and loads after and P is not just a rock artist.
His music really cuts across a lot of different styles.

Anyone who thinks Prince is just a rock artist is only listening to PR and nothing else. Which is disturbing since that recording is over 20 years old.

How old are you? Because you don't seem to know much about P's music.

This is not my experience. I know plenty of white music heads into Rock and Roll that understand about dance music, old R+B, funk... I personally hate current hip hop and R+B, I like the old stuff. But that aint always true. When that Lauryn Hill record came out way back when I plyed the SHIT out of it. D'angelo, too.

I think you are overgeneralising. I can think of hip hop people who have no appreciation for AC/DC or early Slayer. Or David Sylvian records or Wagner Operas, or less macho varients of hip hop like Anticon. I don't think white skinned Rockers in general are against other forms of music.

You gotta admit that current r+b and hip hop fucking sux though, right? I mean don't tell me I'm supposed to pay any respect to a vacuous FAKER like Mariah Carey. You aint sayiong that, are ya?

you really need to pull your head out of your ass. i said that he gained MORE fans (in fact, he more than doubled, tripled, quadrupled, his album sales) when he became a predominantely rock-based artist, so it isn't ridiculous, as you say it is, for someone to be a fan of Prince but not be enamored with funk.