http://www.angelfire.com/...and_D.html

Found it.

For the lazy lightweights who just want the Prince related portion:

D: Take Prince as an example. The shit that he’s doing now isn’t purely Prince.
B: I wouldn’t tell Prince what to do, but I would love to hear him make a record, just him and a piano that’s out of tune. He has so much soul and it’s caught up in the machines of production. His records always had a slickness that I liked, that I thought was cool.
D: He need to bring out the old drums, and a piano, and that old guitar he used to play, not that big symbol joint.
B: I say just give him a two-string guitar and see what happens. He’s such a genius that he needs a little limitation.
D: That’s dope. Motherfuckers don’t think like that.
B: People would go nuts if he did that. They want the pure, unadulterated Prince. If you’re in the game long enough, you begin to think you need to have all the accoutrements of fame and what sounds good.
D: He thinks he needs to go farther, to top what he’s already done.
B: He needs to go under what he’s done.
D: He needs to go back to the ABCs.


F: He got so preoccupied with the politics of it—not being on a major label, not having major distribution—he lost vision of the music. And now that he’s back on a major label, he’s thinking he has to let it all hang out, bringing in the extra musicians, producers, whatnot.
D: My theory about it, I think the forces that used to be around when he was making great shit aren’t really around him anymore. He had Wendy and Lisa, who were very integral. You had The Time and Morris Day that was lighting a fire in his ass every night.
B: That has a lot to do with your music, who you surround yourself with. A lot of my music comes out of the personality of the people I was hanging around with. That’s why so much of my album is silly, because I had the guys from my band hanging out, making jokes, causing all kinds of trouble. After a while you’re just on the mic trying to make them laugh, and that’s how it comes out.

Essence - thanks for the edited version. I'm not familiar with "Beck" or "F."

AnimalKingdom said:

You've never heard of Beck Hansen the singer?

F=Fader magazine, i.e. interviewer.

DAYMN, can he speak without cussing 4 once?? Lord

I Read the Story a Year&Half Back.I agree with Both.Beck said He fell off from Prince after 88.Both think alot of Him&I think it's cool when Fellow Artists are being Direct&Not just fronting.

Essence said:

Nope!

That's the biggest pile of hoarse shit that I've ever heard.

calldapplwondery83 said:

man i agree with d' (shit that rhymes!). never liked that ugly thing.

Let's wait and see if either of those guys are still doin' it 25 years from now, and ask them what they think then.

Beck's bio and album reviews: http://allmusic.com/cg/am...6ibkg96ak0

herbthe4 said:

i say 50 bucks plus a cold heineken that they WILL be around in 25 years from now! who's in?

purpleone said:

2027? We'll be waiting for D's fifth or sixth album probably.