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At Celebration 2023, guests will take a deep dive into understanding the cultural significance of 7 and how it has been reflected throughout history\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWe believe that Prince was the heart of what would become one of the most creative and talented communities in the world. This year, we want to highlight how you, the fam, are continuing the legacy in numerous ways. There will be opportunities to share how your contribution to Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legacy has impacted others, time for creative expression, and a featured panel highlighting some incredible community members making a global impact.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe 2023 Celebration will once again include live music, celebrity panels, in-studio recording sessions, and special opportunities to see and hear historical Prince performances.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eGeneral Admission, VIP and Single Day tickets are on sale now. 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And Prince had Syracuse, New York\u2019s Carrier Dome\u2014the March 30, 1985 Purple Rain Tour stop that was beamed to millions live via satellite and captured for posterity in the Grammy Award-nominated concert film Prince and The Revolution: Live, and which has since gone down in history as one of the most iconic live recordings in pop and rock history.\u00a0\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/42\/regular_meta_image-0deb449343added03fdb1bcfb8d6f80f.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/166\/regular_image-0b6efac5e850b8a63233f584d49c3d35.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/166\/regular_mobile_image-0b6efac5e850b8a63233f584d49c3d35.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eJames Brown had the Apollo. Jimi Hendrix had Monterey Pop. 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Prince\\u0026rsquo;s late-career and Grammy-nominated recording engineer, Chris James, remixed the recently discovered source audio, which had remained archived in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legendary Paisley Park vault for over three decades.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe new release of \\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince and The Revolution: Live\\u003c\/strong\\u003e will be available June 3, 2022, and marks the first time that the concert will be available on vinyl (as a 3-LP set) and on CD (as a 2-CD\/Blu-ray set).\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn conjunction with the physical formats, \\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince and The Revolution: Live\\u003c\/strong\\u003e is also the first Prince release to be made available to supp
79orting digital streaming platforms in spatial audio, as it will be delivered in Dolby Atmos. The first preview track, the jaw-dropping show opener \\u0026ldquo;Let\\u0026rsquo;s Go Crazy,\\u0026rdquo; was made available today.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003ccenter\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003e\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/Prince.lnk.to\/Live1985PR\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePRE-ORDER HERE\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/center\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"svqYueRzAh0\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eAdditionally, a limited run Collector\\u0026#39;s Edition of the iconic performance will be available exclusively from the \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/syracuse-live-1985?cp=103229_111444\\\"\\u003eofficial Prince Store\\u003c\/a\\u003e. Housed in a luxe foil box, the set includes the remixed and remastered audio pressed onto 3 colored LPs (purple, red and gold vinyl), 2 CDs, the Blu-ray video, an expansive 44-page book complete with never-before-seen photos of the Purple Rain Tour, new liner notes highlighting stories and memories from all five members of The Revolution, and a 24 x 36 poster. The Collector\\u0026rsquo;s Edition was designed by Grammy-nominated artist Mathieu Bitton and Grammy-nominated creative director and Prince associate Trevor Guy.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/170\/regular_image-0279c6a2637b3e655ea46153691fc0f5.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/170\/regular_mobile_image-0279c6a2637b3e655ea46153691fc0f5.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eWith this new audio-visually enhanced release of \\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince and The Revolution: Live\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e, both longtime Prince fans and new generations of music lovers are invited to experience the groundbreaking, mesmerizing, creative tour-de-force that Prince brought to the stage with The Revolution during the Purple Rain Tour in an entirely new and immersive way.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Listening back to that Syracuse show, I\\u0026rsquo;m like, wow, we sound like a freight train just coming out of nowhere,\\u0026rdquo; says The Revolution\\u0026rsquo;s BrownMark. \\u0026ldquo;That was powerful. I\\u0026rsquo;ve been to a lot of concerts, and I\\u0026rsquo;ve never seen anything like that.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003ccenter\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/product\/5QLPPR077\/prince-and-the-revolution-live-collectors-edition-box-set-3lp-2cd-bluray?cp=103229_111444\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePRE-ORDER HERE\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/center\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Prince: The Immersive Experience Opens June 9\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2022-03-23T16:56:57.000Z\",\"slug\":\"prince-theimmersiveexperience-superfly\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince: The Immersive Experience Opens June 9\",\"meta_description\":\"Chicago will glow purple this summer when Prince: The Immersive Experience makes its worldwide debut on June 9. Presented by Superfly in partnership with The Prince Estate, attendees will be invited to fully immerse themselves in the music and life of Prince. Tickets go on sale Thursday, March 31 at 10 a.m. CT exclusively at PrinceTheExperience.com.\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eChicago will glow purple this summer when \\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: The Immersive Experience\\u003c\/strong\\u003e makes its worldwide debut on June 9. Presented by Superfly in partnership with The Prince Estate, attendees will be invited to fully immerse themselves in the music and life of Prince. Tickets go on sale Thursday, March 31 at 10 a.m. CT exclusively at \\u003ca href=\\\"http:\/\/PrinceTheExperience.com\\\"\\u003ePrinceTheExperience.com\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eDesigned for music lovers young and old, Prince fans, families and everyone in between, the interactive trip will take visitors through more than 10 multidimensional spaces, where they can experience Prince\\u0026rsquo;s life, creative evolution, and original sound in a new and illuminating way. Step inside the Purple Rain album cover; head into Prince\\u0026rsquo;
79s beloved Paisley Park workspace Studio A to mix an iconic greatest hit; and get down to an audiovisual dance party designed by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s lighting designer, Roy Bennett.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePowered by Bose, the experience will feature speakers and equipment from the world renowned brand that will deliver immersive audio to fans as they explore Prince\\u0026rsquo;s catalog of hits. The Experience will also feature historic wardrobe pieces, photography, instruments, and much more courtesy of The Prince Estate. Prince: The Immersive Experience will be located at The Shops at North Bridge on the Magnificent Mile at 540 N. Michigan Avenue (corner of N. Michigan and E. Ohio St.).\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;It is an absolute honor to partner with The Prince Estate to create an experience that celebrates Prince\\u0026#39;s legendary music and the visionary way that he lived his life. I\\u0026rsquo;m excited for fans to immerse themselves in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s creative world in a way that has never been done before. I know I will forever be changed by working on this project and I hope this interactive trip will inspire visitors to express themselves as passionately as Prince did,\\u0026rdquo; said Superfly Co-Founder Kerry Black, who leads Superfly\\u0026rsquo;s music experiences division.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince: The Immersive Experience will be open in Chicago through October 9. Beginning March 31, guests can reserve timed entry tickets starting at $39.50. Tickets will be available for purchase by visiting \\u003ca href=\\\"http:\/\/PrinceTheExperience.com\\\"\\u003ePrinceTheExperience.com\\u003c\/a\\u003e. VIP and Flex access tickets, as well as corporate and private group bookings, will also be available. For more information on space rentals, email [email protected].\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Record Store Day Drop | The Gold Experience\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2022-02-17T04:45:40.000Z\",\"slug\":\"rsddrop-thegoldexperience\",\"meta_title\":\"Record Store Day Drop: The Gold Experience\",\"meta_description\":\"The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce a special Record Store Day re-release of Prince\u2019s 1995 album The Gold Experience on June 18, 2022. The Record Store Day re-release of The Gold Experience is an homage to the rare US-only promo version of the album that was released in 1995. The two-LP set is pressed onto translucent gold vinyl with a bonus suite of \u201cEye Hate U\u201d remixes on Side D.\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/40\/regular_meta_image-839310791cb0ed948db19e78c1ee3fef.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/161\/regular_image-839310791cb0ed948db19e78c1ee3fef.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/161\/regular_mobile_image-839310791cb0ed948db19e78c1ee3fef.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eToday The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce a special Record Store Day re-release of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s 1995 album \\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e on June 18, 2022. The Record Store Day re-release of The Gold Experience is an homage to the rare US-only promo version of the album that was released in 1995. The two-LP set is pressed onto translucent gold vinyl with a bonus suite of \\u0026ldquo;Eye Hate U\\u0026rdquo; remixes on Side D.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe RSD Drop of \\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e will be available at independent record stores on June 18 as part of their \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/recordstoreday.com\/SpecialRelease\/14644\\\"\\u003eJune Record Store Day Drop\\u003c\/a\\u003e. Additionally, \\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e will be made available on CD for the first time in decades on June 17, while the hit single \\u0026ldquo;The Most Beautiful Girl In The World,\\u0026rdquo; long absent from digital platforms, was made available today, making the complete album available from download partners for the first time. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eTo further celebrate the announcement of this important re-release, the music video for \\u0026ldquo;The Most Beautiful Girl in the World\\u0026rdquo; has been newly-enhanced to High Definition and added to Prince\\u0026rsquo;s official YouTube channel for the very first time.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"FuXbKLiW1UI\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;The Most Beautiful Girl in the World\\u0026rdquo; was initially released in February 1994 in a groundbreaking move by Prince, who wanted to show his longtime label, Warner Bros. Records, that he should be able to release new songs as soon as they were recorded. Released in a unique partnership between Prince\\u0026rsquo;s own NPG Records, Edel Music, and Bellmark Records, \\u0026ldquo;The Most Beautiful Girl in the World\\u0026rdquo; skyrocketed into the Top 10 around the world, hitting Number 1 in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the U.K., and reaching Number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience \\u003c\/em\\u003ewas the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol, and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word \\u0026ldquo;SLAVE\\u0026rdquo; written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads \\u0026ldquo;The Most Beautiful Girl in the World\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Gold\\u0026rdquo; and the defiant single \\u0026ldquo;Eye Hate U,\\u0026rdquo; and the album earned widespread critical acclaim.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eListen to the full album and pre-order\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;on CD \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/GoldExpPR\\\"\\u003eHERE\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Legislation Introduced to Honor Prince with Congressional Gold Medal\",\"title_size\":\"small\",\"date_from\":\"2021-11-03T18:44:38.000Z\",\"slug\":\"congressional-gold-medal\",\"meta_title\":\"Legislation Introduced to Honor Prince with Congressional Gold Medal\",\"meta_description\":\"On Monday, October 25, 2021, the full Minnesota delegation in Congress introduced bipartisan legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Prince Rogers Nelson. The legislation is led by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the Senate and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in the House.\u00a0\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/39\/regular_meta_image-a47ec3eef57dedf1696bc66bf0178296.jpeg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/157\/regular_image-c17277946c7e275c020d14fb371bebe7.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/157\/regular_mobile_image-c17277946c7e275c020d14fb371bebe7.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp style=\\\"text-align: center;\\\"\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cfont size=\\\"-1\\\"\\u003ePhoto by Inez \\u0026amp; Vinoodh\\u003c\/font\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eOn Monday, October 25, 2021, the full Minnesota delegation in Congress introduced bipartisan legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Prince Rogers Nelson. The legislation is led by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the Senate and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in the House.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe bill honors Prince for his \\u0026ldquo;legacy of musical achievement and\\u0026hellip; indelible mark on Minnesota and American culture.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States Congress. Only 163 have been awarded since 1776. If awarded, Prince would be the first pop star of his generation to receive this illustrious honor, and he would join a list of Gold Medal musicians that includes Irving Berlin, Marian Anderson, George and Ira Gershwin, Harry Chapin, Aaron Copland, and Frank Sinatra.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Like so many, I grew up with Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music. I was always proud to say he was from Minnesota,\\u0026rdquo; said Klobuchar. \\u0026ldquo;The world is a whole lot cooler because Prince was in it -- he touched our hearts, opened our minds, and made us want to dance. With this legislation, we honor his memory and contributions as a composer, performer, and music innovator. Purple reigns in Minnesota today and every day because of him.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Prince is a Minnesota icon,\\u0026rdquo; said Omar. \\u0026ldquo;I remember when I first came to America being captivated by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music and impact on the culture. He showed that it was okay to be a short, Black kid from Minneapolis and still change the world. He not only changed the arc of music history; he put Minneapolis on the map. Places like First Avenue, Uptown are landmarks because of Prince. 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79:\"\\u003cp\\u003eRepresentative Ilhan Omar\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Prince was a Minnesotan who left us far too early. He was an internationally-renowned artist, showman, and producer, who thrilled millions of people across the world with his visionary skills as a musician and cultivator of other artist\\u0026rsquo;s talent,\\u0026rdquo; said Smith. \\u0026ldquo;His complete body of work is still being recognized, as new discoveries remind us how important he still is as an artist. \\u0026nbsp;His Paisley Park gave life to a generation of other artists, who without him would not have realized their potential. His importance to American music cannot be measured, and the joy his music continues to bring to me and to millions of fans across the globe makes him an American treasure.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Beloved by generations of Minnesotans and millions of fans around the world, Prince Rogers Nelson is the pride and joy of our great state,\\u0026rdquo; said Craig. \\u0026ldquo;His contributions to American culture are unique and timeless \\u0026ndash; and I couldn\\u0026rsquo;t be prouder to join the bipartisan effort to ensure that one of the finest musicians in history gets the recognition he deserves.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Prince was the embodiment of what it means to be an artist. A risk-taking provocateur, he was a poet at the vanguard of the human experience, telling stories about getting through this thing called life,\\u0026rdquo; said Phillips. \\u0026ldquo;It is fitting to reserve one of the highest civilian honors to such a Minnesotan, and I proudly join my colleagues to award the Congressional Gold Medal to one of MN-03\\u0026rsquo;s most influential citizens.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Minnesotans are incredibly proud of Prince, our beloved cultural icon and a true musical genius. His music left an indelible mark on the cultural fabric of our state and our nation, and his legacy will continue to inspire new generations of musicians to dream big and embrace their inner artist,\\u0026rdquo; said McCollum.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe full Minnesota delegation serve as original cosponsors, including Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) and Representatives Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), Angie Craig (D-MN), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), and Pete Stauber (R-MN).\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eFollowing introduction, legislation bestowing a Congressional Gold Medal must be co-sponsored by two-thirds of the membership of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to be awarded.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate is encouraging all of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s American fans (and fams) to \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find-your-representative\\\"\\u003econtact their local representatives\\u003c\/a\\u003e and \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/senators\/senators-contact.htm\\\"\\u003esenators\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and encourage them to support this monumental commendation of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s talent, cultural impact, and historical legacy. Contact a U.S. Capitol Switchboard operator who can connect you directly with the Senate office at (202) 224-3121.\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Do Me, Baby (Demo) | Exclusive Cassette and 7\\\"\",\"title_size\":\"big\",\"date_from\":\"2021-10-14T18:51:41.000Z\",\"slug\":\"do-me-baby-demo\",\"meta_title\":\"Unheard Prince demo \\\"Do Me Baby (Demo)\\\" released\",\"meta_description\":\"In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Prince\u2019s acclaimed Controversy album, originally released on October 14, 1981, The Prince Estate and Warner Records are pleased to present yet another hidden gem from Prince\u2019s storied Paisley Park vault: a previously unheard 1979 solo demo-recording of his quintessential slow-jam \u201cDo Me, Baby.\u201d\u00a0\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/38\/regular_meta_image-5611b75617cb466911b0b0cf9c044252.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/150\/regular_image-f92e0c7519a8c019dc357a75739638ab.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/150\/regular_mobile_image-f92e0c7519a8c019dc357a75739638ab.jpg\"}
79,\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eIn celebration of the 40th anniversary of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s acclaimed \\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eControversy\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/strong\\u003e album, originally released on October 14, 1981, The Prince Estate and Warner Records are pleased to present yet another hidden gem from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s storied Paisley Park vault: a previously unheard 1979 solo demo-recording of his quintessential slow-jam \\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn addition to its surprise release onto \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/DMBDemo\\\"\\u003estreaming services\\u003c\/a\\u003e, \\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby (Demo)\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e is also available to pre-order in two limited edition physical formats exclusively from the \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/\\\"\\u003eOfficial Prince Store\\u003c\/a\\u003e: a special replica cassette single of \\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby (Demo)\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e (limited to 1,981 units), and an etched 7\\u0026rdquo; single pressed on purple vinyl. The replica cassette matches the original source format stored in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s Paisley Park vault for decades, and the 7\\u0026rdquo; vinyl incorporates Prince\\u0026rsquo;s original hand-written lyrics for the song. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/152\/regular_image-e90117f35e600c71c23a28e2565bd272.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/152\/regular_mobile_image-e90117f35e600c71c23a28e2565bd272.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e is best known as the centerpiece of 1981\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eControversy\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e, but Prince first recorded the song years earlier. A demo featuring Prince and his best friend and creative collaborator Andr\\u0026eacute; Cymone was initially recorded in 1978. Then a year later, Prince fully reimagined the track as a solo recording during the April 1979 recording sessions for \\u003cem\\u003ePrince\\u003c\/em\\u003e at Alpha Studios in North Hollywood, CA, with overdubs added in the same period at Hollywood Sound Records in Hollywood, CA.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eFrom that 2\\u0026quot; multitrack master tape, a cassette rough mix \\u0026ndash; recently discovered in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legendary vault and labeled in the artist\\u0026rsquo;s own handwriting \\u0026ndash; was rendered but ultimately shelved. This special release of \\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby (Demo)\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e has been newly mixed to match the original demo cassette specs by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s GRAMMY-nominated engineer Chris James, and mastered by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s longtime collaborator and multiple GRAMMY-winning engineer Bernie Grundman.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/154\/regular_image-5611b75617cb466911b0b0cf9c044252.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/154\/regular_mobile_image-5611b75617cb466911b0b0cf9c044252.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eAs was typical with Prince, he revisited the song afresh more than two years later when he created an entirely new solo recording of \\u0026ldquo;Do Me, Baby\\u0026rdquo; at Sunset Sound in June 1981. That master recording was released on October 14, 1981, as the epic final song on Side A of \\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eControversy\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eFor more on the 40th anniversary of \\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eControversy\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e, Apple Music is currently spotlighting the album as one of its Essential Albums, and Apple Music Radio is broadcasting a 40th Anniversary Special hosted by Estelle. Celebrate Controversy with Estelle on Apple Music \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/station\/essential-album-controversy\/ra.1588312344\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"yEAZaLRBb90\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 4: We Got 2 Let the Funk Unwind\",\"title_size\":\"small\",\"date_from\":\"2021-08-13T20:19:15.000Z\",\"slug\":\"w2apodcast_ep4\",\"meta_title\":\"Official Prince Podcast: The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 4\",\"meta_description\":\"The Welcome 2 America Tour brought Prince and his band to several cities for lengthy residencies, including the marathon Twenty One Nite Stand at the L.A. Forum in 2011. Hear exclusive live recordings from the Forum alongside memories from NPG bandmates Morris Hayes, Elisa Fiorillo, Shelby J., and Liv Warfield, Prince's former manager Kiran Sharma, and Ebony Magazine editor Harriette Cole, who Prince recruited to join his Welcome 2 America Tour and spotlight his opening acts.\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/36\/regular_meta_image-0175cdd9fe86fb449db0cbb387a37477.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/130\/regular_image-e0b92921ad8236695f75ef639a78ea72.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/130\/regular_mobile_image-e0b92921ad8236695f75ef639a78ea72.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America is an official podcast produced by The Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Subscribe \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003ewherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e, and stream and find the complete transcript for second episode below.\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ciframe allow=\\\"encrypted-media\\\" allowtransparency=\\\"true\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" height=\\\"232\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/27nmcfyVqr5gPDObhUVRK6\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\"\\u003e\\u003c\/iframe\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is The Story of Welcome 2 America, produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Welcome. Welcome 2 America. Welcome 2 America is best described as\\u0026hellip; what we\\u0026rsquo;ve all been waiting for\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Welcome to the final episode of this four-part series on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s 2010 album Welcome 2 America, which has just been released from his vault. I\\u0026rsquo;m your host Andrea Swensson. We\\u0026rsquo;ve spent a lot of time discussing the creation of the album and its powerful messages. For this episode, we\\u0026rsquo;re going to turn our attention to the Welcome 2 America Tour, because the Deluxe Edition of the new album includes a full concert on Blu-ray from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s residency at the Forum in Inglewood, California, in the spring of 2011. Prince announced the Welcome 2 America Tour at a press conference in October 2010.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Bring friends, bring your children, and bring foot spray, cause it\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be funky. Welcome 2 America. Peace.\\u0026rdquo; [applause]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e In this spirit of gathering live in person to celebrate Prince, I wanted to kick off this episode from a very special place -- Prince\\u0026rsquo;s Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota, where a release party for Welcome 2 America was held on July 30. It also happened to be the first time I got to meet one of my co-hosts for this podcast in person - I found Mr. Morris Hayes, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s longtime music director, backstage, waiting to share his memories with fans along with one of the vocalists who recorded and toured with Prince and the NPG in this era, Elisa Fiorillo.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePaisley Park party atmosphere\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHere we are. We\\u0026#39;re at Paisley Park. Welcome to America is out today. And I\\u0026#39;m here with Morris Hayes and Elisa Fiorillo. Hey, guys.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Hey, hey.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHey hey!\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo how are you feeling? Today\\u0026#39;s the big day the release is out. People are about to watch the big video concert for the first time here at Paisley. How are you feeling today?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I\\u0026#39;m excited. And I\\u0026#39;m dying to see what I wore that night. I want to make sure I looked good on
79screen. It\\u0026#39;s gonna be a big screen.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHow about you, Morris?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, it\\u0026#39;s gonna be wonderful to see it from this vantage point. You know, we\\u0026#39;re very excited to be back here at Paisley. And for this momentous occasion. So this is fantastic.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo we\\u0026#39;re going to be talking this episode of the podcast all about the tour, the Welcome to America tour, the big residency at the Forum. I mean, what comes to both your minds when you think about all of those shows back to back at the Forum?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e A lot of work. But 21 nights, I think we were there. And bringing back the Forum and keeping it alive and keeping it in business was the goal. Having young young people come to shows, you know, making ticket sales low enough for everybody to be able to afford it. So that was the goal. And we just had a blast doing it.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAbsolutely. It was a -- it was an incredible time. And really a real cool thing in the city. You know, a lot of people came down, a lot of celebrities came down. And it was just a fun time, you know. So it\\u0026#39;s going to be great to see that tonight and feel all the feels that we had back then, you know, and I\\u0026#39;m looking forward to the crowd and see how they respond to it. I mean, even as COVID rages on, you know, it\\u0026#39;s kind of good to be with people. We\\u0026#39;re trying to be careful and everything like that, but it\\u0026#39;s really, you know, humans aren\\u0026rsquo;t made to be separated like that. And it\\u0026#39;s just good to be amongst friends and amongst, you know, fans and everything. And so, we\\u0026#39;re real happy about that.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAll right, well, let\\u0026#39;s go watch this concert.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Right. Let\\u0026#39;s do it.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Let\\u0026#39;s do this purple thing!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"wMY4NFW7GkI\",\"title\":\"Prince performing \\\"17 Days\\\" at The Forum on April 28, 2011\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAs you heard Elisa mention there, Prince did a Twenty One Nite Stand in LA as part of his Welcome 2 America Tour, and many of those shows were at the Forum. And there was a reason Prince chose that venue for a long residency. To find out more about Prince and the Forum, Morris and I caught up with Prince\\u0026rsquo;s former manager, Kiran Sharma.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We heard on the news or on the grapevine that The Forum was up for sale. And that kind of made Prince a bit sad I think from a community aspect. Like The Forum was such a kind of staple in that community and allowed people to come together, and run by the Bishop it was just a really great sort of scenario and such a great venue in itself. And so I think he was like \\u0026lsquo;is there anything we can do?\\u0026rsquo; And so we went to go and see the Bishop. We had a meeting over at The Forum and I went to go and talk to them. Prince came. We ended up speaking a few times actually to the lady in charge there and the Bishop himself, and said look, \\u0026lsquo;What stage are you at?\\u0026rsquo; And he was like we\\u0026rsquo;ve kind of agreed to sell. So I think we a little bit late to the table with our offering. But he was kind of very much like \\u0026lsquo;I wanna put a spotlight on The Forum\\u0026rsquo; -- and especially for people to be able to enjoy live music at affordable prices and everything else. Those shows, honestly, we really didn\\u0026rsquo;t make any money. It was very break-even; loss at times because you\\u0026rsquo;re putting on this great big show but you\\u0026rsquo;re charging like sometimes $10 a ticket. $20 a ticket. And the reason was it needed to be this affordable price. He wanted as many people to be able to come and see the show and enjoy the show as possible, because for him it was like everyone should be able to experience this.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eGeorge Lopez:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I love that you\\u0026rsquo;re keeping it real by choosing the Forum -- also, tickets are $25. So on behalf of the Latino community, I\\u0026rsquo;d like to say thank you!\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is George Lopez interviewing Prince in 2011.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eGeorge Lopez:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We can eat, and we can drink, and we can see Prince for $25!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Well, I\\u0026rsquo;d like to give props to Live Nation for this event, because $25 is what we used to pay for concerts -- and then somebody called Ticketmaster came in. And so now we\\u0026rsquo;
79re showing who the real Ticket Master is, and you know, putting the right price on it. [applause]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis isn\\u0026rsquo;t an elitist thing. My music is for everyone and he wanted everyone to join in the party. So we did a bunch of shows there and then we did some other shows in LA, so it ended up being this kind of residency.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;17 Days\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI remember him talking about -- he said, \\u0026ldquo;Shelby, we\\u0026rsquo;re gonna save The Forum,\\u0026rdquo; and I was like what is he talking about?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is NPG vocalist Shelby J.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I wasn\\u0026rsquo;t familiar with where The Forum was, that it was in Inglewood, that you got an artist like Prince who could perform anywhere. He could\\u0026rsquo;ve been at the Staples Center doing all this stuff. But he\\u0026rsquo;s like no, these shows need to be at The Forum. He thought about stuff like that and he didn\\u0026rsquo;t have to. Says something about his character, his heart, his generosity.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd he saw Fleetwood Mac there when he was younger, remember?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, memories, yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And he was a huge Stevie Nicks fan so I think that memory of like how could you even think about tearing this place down. That was a musical memory of mine, dude. Great shows though.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, really great performances, and I remember the after-shows \\u0026ndash; that little room. He made it like a club.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe ended up setting up shop in LA. We had a place \\u0026ndash; we rented a house on St. Pierre Drive, which was in Bel Air, and that was a very cool house. We had offices in there, we had rehearsal spaces in there. It was a massive entertainment place and we had like Grammy afterparties, Oscar afterparties like all sorts of nights where people can come and jam and hang out, and it was just a really great space. So it was somewhere where he kind of bedded down for six months, I think we were there for in the end \\u0026ndash; six, seven months. But it was a very, very cool experience and just one, I think, that people really appreciated.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, it was a lot of fun. What was great for me of course is Prince had so many guest artists that would come through that was just like a parade of all of these people that he loved and had loved him.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe had the openers like Janelle Monae and Cassandra Wilson and Mint Condition played; Maceo played.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;17 Days\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd it was just like you didn\\u0026rsquo;t know who was gonna be there. CeeLo Green just hopped up and we just played Crazy. And just like stuff \\u0026ndash; it was crazy. It was like a very exciting \\u0026ndash; Prince had me call a couple of my long-time heroes. He called me and said \\u0026lsquo;can you reach out to Kool And The Gang? We wanna change Hollywood Swingin\\u0026rsquo; to Inglewood Swingin.\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026rsquo; I said yeah and then we\\u0026rsquo;d find them. Kiran helped and it\\u0026rsquo;d be like \\u0026ndash;
79 and I\\u0026rsquo;d talk to these people and say \\u0026lsquo;yeah, man, Prince wants to use your song. We wanna play it at The Forum in Inglewood there and we wanna change it to Inglewood. They\\u0026rsquo;re like yeah, if Prince wants to, yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Inglewood Swinging\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Remember Whitney Houston? With her daughter, and they were dancing by the stage. Her and Bobbi Christina were dancing right at the stage and then he got her up to sing. And she was just like \\u0026ldquo;We love you Prince\\u0026rdquo; and had everybody singing \\u0026ldquo;We love you Prince\\u0026rdquo; and everything.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eRemember, we would have different colored nights too. It was like okay, tonight\\u0026rsquo;s red night; tonight\\u0026rsquo;s purple night; tonight\\u0026rsquo;s black and white night and we\\u0026rsquo;d be like trying to figure out what little items we could add to our costumes to make it more white if we needed a little more white. We\\u0026rsquo;d be borrowing everybody\\u0026rsquo;s stuff backstage.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo many good memories like that, like let me have that belt, come on, get this belt, can you zip me up? [laughs]\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Plug my ears in. My ears aren\\u0026rsquo;t in. Hurry up before we go on.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Let\\u0026rsquo;s Go Crazy\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eBecause it was such a anxiety, but it was the greatest anxiety -- like oh my god we\\u0026rsquo;re about to go up onstage.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is NPG vocalist Liv Warfield.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe got like ten minutes. He\\u0026rsquo;s ready to go out onstage, like entrances were always different. Just the hypeness of it was always different. 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I was panicked because I\\u0026rsquo;m thinking there\\u0026rsquo;s nothing to hold onto on that stage. You don\\u0026rsquo;t have a railing to cling to. I\\u0026rsquo;d be holding onto John Blackwell\\u0026rsquo;s head trying not to fall down. Thank God, he just had The Twinz do it. But I was afraid for their lives back there on the back of that cymbal, and we would stand there and they\\u0026rsquo;d ride by us like\\u0026mdash;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThe little wheelies, the little wheelie things they put on their shoes. I\\u0026rsquo;m like okay\\u0026mdash;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd they lit up too.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eGood for you, good for you, because I\\u0026rsquo;d end up in row number three \\u0026ndash; down goes Shelby. So many, so many memories.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo many.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, I thank him too for just always keeping us on our toes. It made us better. It made us stronger. We would get set lists literally right before the show and there would be songs we hadn\\u0026rsquo;t sung in a while and we\\u0026rsquo;re like \\u0026lsquo;oh, \\u0026#39;Dark,\\u0026#39; we gotta learn \\u0026#39;Dark.\\u0026#39; When do we come in?\\u0026rsquo; We\\u0026rsquo;d all be looking at each other like \\u0026lsquo;now?\\u0026rsquo; So things like that, or when he asked me to sing Take Me With You with him and I hadn\\u0026rsquo;
79t sung it in a while, and I\\u0026rsquo;m thinking oh my god. He liked sharing a mic on that song in particular, and I\\u0026rsquo;m like \\u0026lsquo;damn, did I take a breath mint before I got up here?\\u0026rsquo; Our mouths are right next to each other. And one time I wore a ponytail and I accidently turned my head and smacked him in the face and didn\\u0026rsquo;t know it. And after the show he\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026lsquo;don\\u0026rsquo;t ever hit me in the face with your ponytail again.\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eEasy D.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Easy D in the house. That was my nickname.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eEasy D in the hiz house.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eBut it was just the whole experience. He just pushed us to the limit, he trusted us and just that alone speaks volumes about everybody\\u0026rsquo;s talent in that band.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Prince loved showcasing and cultivating talent, and that was something that was especially apparent on the Welcome 2 America Tour. In this period Prince was constantly surrounded by emerging artists, including Janelle Monae, Esparanza Spalding, and Andy Allo, who Prince actually met at one of those Forum shows. Off stage, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legacy of lifting up talented voices continued. We\\u0026rsquo;re going to take a peek behind the curtain of this tour and meet someone with an incredible story about working with Prince in this era.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Hi, I\\u0026rsquo;m Harriette Cole. And I had the distinct honor and pleasure of working with Prince, first when I was the editor-in-chief and creative director of Ebony Magazine. I actually produced my last cover of Ebony before I left, of Prince. And shortly after I left, Prince invited me to join his tour, Welcome 2 America, and interview all of the opening acts and that turned into the idea of creating a magazine which was to be called Intelligentsia.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Harriette\\u0026rsquo;s story reminds me of so many other people\\u0026rsquo;s experiences working with Prince -- they visit Paisley Park once for what they thought would be a one-off meeting; and the next thing they know, they\\u0026rsquo;ve been pulled into the purple orbit to do things for Prince that they never imagined could be possible. As soon as Harriette arrived at Paisley Park in the spring of 2010 to coordinate that cover story for Ebony Magazine, there were signs that this would not be a one-time collaboration.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePrince comes downstairs with a du rag on his head and his Lucite-heeled light-up shoes.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOf course.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He and I started talking and he likes our conversation. And within two minutes we\\u0026rsquo;re talking about God and the universe;
79 not my expectation, but he just goes in and I\\u0026rsquo;m with him toe-to-toe -- and I practice meditation. We talked about meditation and the presence of God and everything. At one point Prince took me upstairs to his reading room, which is a room filled with spiritual books, and took me to the different books and was talking to me about the books. He told me that he would come in here and read spiritual texts and occasionally bring people into the room to talk about life and God and knowledge and life beyond what we think it is. And that was how our conversation started within the first five minutes of me seeing him after I walked into Paisley Park. He takes us downstairs to see the studio that\\u0026rsquo;s downstairs. We see the soundstage. We shoot on the soundstage. We do all kinds of shoots -- and then the shoot is over and it\\u0026rsquo;s time to do the interviews.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAhead of her visit, Harriette had arranged for Prince\\u0026rsquo;s friend Tavis Smiley to conduct the interview with him for the cover story.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo Tavis is sitting with him and me in the engineer\\u0026rsquo;s space of this studio \\u0026ndash; beautiful studio. And so I say \\u0026ldquo;Okay, it\\u0026rsquo;s time for Tavis to do the interview,\\u0026rdquo; and he says, \\u0026ldquo;No, Harriette, I want you to do the interview.\\u0026rdquo; So now, understand, I\\u0026rsquo;m serving as editor-in-chief and creative director of a national magazine, because we have a small staff. I\\u0026rsquo;m doing two full time top jobs and he wants me to write the cover story about Prince. I can\\u0026rsquo;t do that. I don\\u0026rsquo;t have time. And he says, \\u0026ldquo;Well, I want you to do it.\\u0026rdquo; And basically he did not take no for an answer. Whatever was in his mind, that was gonna happen.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAfter a brief negotiation, Harriette realized that not only was she expected to interview Prince without any preparation, but that he wasn\\u0026rsquo;t going to let her tape record his answers -- everything he said had to be written down in her notebook as he spoke.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo I now am scribble\/scrabbling, trying to write down everything I can. It is infuriating but here\\u0026rsquo;s where we are. It\\u0026rsquo;s an honor to be there. I\\u0026rsquo;ve gotta get the interview. After the interview\\u0026rsquo;s done he has Shelby J and someone else was there. They were downstairs practicing. He invited me and Dudley to join him for dinner. Larry Graham and his wife were there. So they had dinner with us too. And he had a chef and we all sat down and had a wonderful meal.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAnd after we eat dinner -- and it\\u0026rsquo;s late. We\\u0026rsquo;re talking about nighttime at this point and it\\u0026rsquo;s like Prince is waking up. And so we think it\\u0026rsquo;s time to go. The photographer\\u0026rsquo;s gone, the stylist \\u0026ndash; whatever -- is gone. Dudley and I, the photo director, we\\u0026rsquo;re still there and so he says come on into the soundstage. So we go in. Shelby J and the other singer come upstairs and Prince puts on a concert for us. There\\u0026rsquo;s an audience of the two of us and Larry Graham and his wife. Okay. Then he invites me to get up onstage to sing with him and it was a phenomenal experience that you cannot imagine.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Stand Up and B Strong\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd I\\u0026rsquo;ve worked in publishing for many years. I started my career at Essence and helped to create two other magazines, then ran Ebony. I\\u0026rsquo;ve met virtually every Black celebrity that there is. So I\\u0026rsquo;m not a star struck kind of person. But you know, Prince is in his own league. So I\\u0026rsquo;m not gonna say I was starstruck, but I was kind of in awe of what was happening. Anyhow, we stay up until who know when in the middle of the night. Finally it\\u0026rsquo;s time to go. We leave, come back. I\\u0026rsquo;m in New York. I write the story and then I have all these questions. His manager, Kiran Sharma, I had met and she was very nice to me and I reached out to her and said, look, there are some key things I need answers to.
79Can you ask him if I can talk to him again or could he write the answers if I provide the questions? He hand wrote the answers.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWow.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, so I got this handwritten response with his encrypted language and we then wrote it exactly \\u0026ndash; we just printed what he said in a sidebar.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/140\/regular_image-290b541cd1f163a0d75ce092d9e26459.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/140\/regular_mobile_image-290b541cd1f163a0d75ce092d9e26459.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSome of these written responses Prince provided to Ebony are included in the album artwork for \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e. In response to one of Harriette\\u0026rsquo;s questions about his religious beliefs, Prince wrote, \\u0026ldquo;The word \\u0026lsquo;religion\\u0026rsquo; has been muddied over the years. It\\u0026rsquo;s safer 2 say that thru xtensive study of Scripture, eye\\u0026rsquo;ve gained a compass in life that eye can rely on. The world is fraught with misin4mation. George Orwell\\u0026rsquo;s vision of the future is here. We all need 2 remain steadfast in faith in the trying times ahead.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I get a call from Kiran, and she said, \\u0026ldquo;Harriette, Prince wants to know what you\\u0026rsquo;re doing. We couldn\\u0026rsquo;t find you.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026rsquo; I\\u0026rsquo;m like \\u0026ldquo;What? Why does Prince wanna know what I\\u0026rsquo;m doing?\\u0026rdquo; So I told her what I was doing and she says, \\u0026ldquo;Well, we have an invitation for you.\\u0026rdquo; So okay. She says, \\u0026ldquo;Prince is about to tour in America for the first time in many years and he\\u0026rsquo;s gonna have all these amazing opening acts and we\\u0026rsquo;d like for you to come on tour with us and interview them.\\u0026rdquo; I was like, \\u0026ldquo;Seriously?\\u0026rdquo; And she said yes. I became part of the tour.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Which Way Is Up?\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePrince hand-picked all of the opening acts on the Welcome 2 America Tour, and was personally invested in promoting these artists\\u0026rsquo; careers alongside his own. He worked closely with Harriette to figure out how they could shine a spotlight on his favorite artists.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI interviewed just about all of the opening acts. I interviewed Lalah Hathaway, Esperanza Spalding, Maceo Parker, who was from James Brown\\u0026rsquo;s band, Cassandra Wilson, Janelle Monae, Mint Condition, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Sheila E., Anthony Hamilton, Chaka Khan and Misty Copeland. The very first person I interviewed was Esperanza Spalding. And she was not famous like she is now. She hadn\\u0026rsquo;t gotten a Grammy yet. One thing about Prince is that he saw -- he was a visionary, and he could see who she was but hadn\\u0026rsquo;t become yet. And I really think that was an incredible gift of his. He could see laser-sharp into the future, and then wondered, \\u0026ldquo;Why don\\u0026rsquo;t you see this? Why don\\u0026rsquo;t you understand this?\\u0026rdquo; Before each interview, I would go into his dressing room wherever we were. And he would come in and we would talk about the artist. And he would tell me his thoughts about the artist and he would tell me what he hoped I would get out of the conversation. So this is a fascinating way of working. I mean, it makes sense, but again, it\\u0026rsquo;s with Prince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAlong the way as we were doing these interviews, we started talking about what are we gonna do with this material? And my background was magazines, and so we got to the point of well, why don\\u0026rsquo;t we make a magazine. And Prince had so many ideas -- just endless giant ideas. But we say
79we are gonna make this magazine. He came up with the name Intelligentsia, again, trying to tap into that philosophical, spiritual, high spiritual life, and creative at the same time. Then he said, \\u0026ldquo;So you go make the magazine, Harriette, you just make it.\\u0026rdquo; He just believed it could happen, and it is true, we did make things happen, but we got into ferocious debates about financing things. So anyway we didn\\u0026rsquo;t make the magazine, but what we did was interview all these incredible people.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThere\\u0026rsquo;s a theme that\\u0026rsquo;s emerged through so many of the interviews that I\\u0026rsquo;ve done, of Prince explicitly wanting to support and amplify and promote Black women, and I\\u0026rsquo;m hearing that in so many of the stories that you\\u0026rsquo;re telling about who he was surrounding himself with in this period, who he had opening for him, even requesting that you are the one to write the cover story for Ebony. Can you talk a little bit about what you observed in that regard?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yes. Prince had tremendous regard for women and particularly Black women, and in an elegant kind of way. I have no idea who he was dating because you just didn\\u0026rsquo;t know that, but you knew that he had female friends that he had, he held in very high esteem. He liked for women to dress up. He loved elegance and glamor and intelligence. So he surrounded himself with very smart, beautiful women. And beauty not in one particular way. From Shelby J., fierce Black woman with a bald head, to Misty Copeland. But Misty could jump up on a baby grand piano on-point. Everyone was incredibly dynamic. There\\u0026rsquo;s a DJ, Rashida, a very close friend of his who just, when she walked through the room you saw her elegance. He became very close to Esperanza. Beautiful, strong, intelligent, elegant Black women. And he really did uplift their greatness.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Brown Skin\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eHarriette Cole: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOne of our big arguments was about possibility. And he said, \\u0026ldquo;You just don\\u0026rsquo;t see how great you are, Harriette. I don\\u0026rsquo;t understand why you don\\u0026rsquo;t see it. I see it. But you have to see it.\\u0026rdquo; We were having a disagreement on how to work together. But ultimately the bigger gift was he just really believed that I could do anything. And that is what he believed about everyone he surrounded himself with. Which was amazing. That\\u0026rsquo;s not how most people are. [laughs]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThroughout the Forum concert that is included in the Welcome 2 America Deluxe Edition, Prince eagerly shares his spotlight with his trio of vocalists, Shelby, Liv, and Elisa, occasionally leaving the stage all together to give them time to shine. Their rendition of Bob Dylan\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Make You Feel My Love,\\u0026rdquo; with NPG bandmate Cassandra O\\u0026rsquo;Neal playing a grand piano and bassist Ida Neilsen joining in on the harmonies, is just stunning.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Make You Feel My Love\\u0026rdquo; (Live at the Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, well he didn\\u0026rsquo;t have to do that. And that\\u0026rsquo;s the beauty. I always say he was so generous with his light. Like I never went to him and said, \\u0026ldquo;Prince, I wanna sing four songs on your show. Call my name. I wanna sing this, I wanna sing that.\\u0026rdquo; I never asked for that. He just, he did it. I said, \\u0026ldquo;These people didn\\u0026rsquo;t come here to see me. They came to see you.\\u0026rdquo; No, no, no. He knew what he wanted. And so at the end of the day, he\\u0026rsquo;s running the ship. But I loved it when he would take his break, because he needed a break too, and he\\u0026rsquo;d be like, \\u0026ldquo;My girls got it.\\u0026rdquo; But it just shows how giving he was to let us shine like that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI think he cared about his culture and he wanted to dive so much into giving back into his culture, it wasn\\u0026rsquo;t even funny. Like being a Black man for him was everything. I really appreciated that about him, like doing it at the Forum. Everything for him was about the historical significance. Having Black artists hit that main, main, main arena stage. You talk about the ultimate form of giving back, it was amazing. Even giving up-and-coming artists like King -- We Are King -- a chance to be on those platforms and those stages. I loved it, because I just got to see how he operated. This is how you keep real music by real musicians going. He wanted the best for African Americans. He did. He just wanted to see our people thrive in every way.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThank y
79ou so much for listening to our four-part series on this captivating time in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s career. The Story of Welcome 2 America is produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. This story was written and co-produced by me, Andrea Swensson. Rosie DuPont was our producer, and Corey Schreppel was our technical director. Thanks also to Trevor Guy, Zach Hochkeppel, Michael Howe, and Duane Tudahl. Order your copy of Welcome 2 America at prince.com. And subscribe to the Official Prince Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Inglewood Swinging\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 3: The Internet is Completely Over\",\"title_size\":\"small\",\"date_from\":\"2021-08-06T17:49:59.000Z\",\"slug\":\"w2apodcast_ep3\",\"meta_title\":\"Official Prince Podcast: The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 3\",\"meta_description\":\"Engineer Jason Agel and tech expert Anil Dash join co-hosts Andrea Swensson and Shelby J. to discuss Prince's final work on Welcome 2 America in 2010 and his growing skepticism about selling music and retaining ownership over his work in the digital era, which he references in lyrics throughout the album.\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/35\/regular_meta_image-64fdce7cab61e4088a36cd0a0956d990.jpeg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/106\/regular_image-85097b24095f4bfc92714384ee5cef35.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/106\/regular_mobile_image-85097b24095f4bfc92714384ee5cef35.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America is an official podcast produced by The Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Subscribe \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003ewherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e, and stream and find the complete transcript for second episode below.\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ciframe allow=\\\"encrypted-media\\\" allowtransparency=\\\"true\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" height=\\\"232\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/2sG3LIse5x9gNxNPUn2ktv\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\"\\u003e\\u003c\/iframe\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is The Story of Welcome 2 America, produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Welcome back to the official Prince podcast! I\\u0026rsquo;m Andrea Swensson, I\\u0026rsquo;m a music journalist in Minneapolis, and in this series we\\u0026rsquo;re exploring the period around when Prince recorded and then shelved his 2010 studio album \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e. It\\u0026rsquo;s just been released from his vault. So far we\\u0026rsquo;ve heard some great stories about the recording process, and also some of the deep conversations Prince was having in 2010 about politics and social change. In this episode, we\\u0026rsquo;re going to try to narrow in on this question of why \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e wasn\\u0026rsquo;t released, especially given how excited Prince seemed about the album itself and the messages it contained.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAnd I\\u0026rsquo;m putting an emphasis on \\u003cem\\u003etry\\u003c\/em\\u003e here, because none of us really know why Prince did what he did. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t have to explain himself to anyone, and he was often moving so quickly that there wasn\\u0026rsquo;t really time to ask why he was doing anything. Everyone around him was mainly focused on the who, and the how, and the when -- and the when was usually right now.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBut we\\u0026rsquo;re going to try. In this episode, we\\u0026rsquo;re going to start by chatting with one of the final people to work on \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e -- and I\\u
790026rsquo;m joined once again for this interview, by my special co-host Shelby J.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is Shelby J, singer\/songwriter\/love and light spreader\/good coffee maker\/gardener\/crocheter extraordinaire. And of course I was a member of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s band, The New Power Generation, for about 10 glorious years.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHey Shelby! I\\u0026rsquo;m so happy to have you back. So one of the final people to work on \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America \\u003c\/em\\u003ecame on board around August 2010.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e My name is Jason Agel. I\\u0026rsquo;m an engineer and producer, and I spent a number of months between 2010 and 2011 taking last-minute trips to Minneapolis to go work with Prince at Paisley Park.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Check the Record\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHow did you feel when you got that call to come out to Minneapolis to Paisley?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I got a call that was kind of cryptic, like, \\u0026lsquo;We have someone in Minneapolis who we can\\u0026rsquo;t tell you who it is and we want you to go \\u0026ndash; he needs someone who\\u0026rsquo;s like a younger engineer.\\u0026rsquo; And I was like it\\u0026rsquo;s Prince, right? Tell me it\\u0026rsquo;s Prince. I remember getting a phone call from someone who would call me and then say, \\u0026lsquo;Alright Prince is gonna call you in a couple minutes and talk to you,\\u0026rsquo; and then that never happened. And then after a couple days of me waiting on street corners nervously for Prince to call me, someone finally just called me and was like, \\u0026lsquo;Alright, you\\u0026rsquo;re gonna go out there and interview with him in person.\\u0026rsquo; I was like okay, alright. And then so, I got out there for an interview and ended up, like, staying there for like, something like 23 or 24 days.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWere you at our classic Country Inn \\u0026amp; Suites?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah. I had a couple tours over there, got to know the staff at the Applebee\\u0026rsquo;s and everything.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Everything, yes, it becomes your community. So you go to Paisley.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah. And then finally Prince comes in at 11 o\\u0026rsquo;clock at night or something, and there\\u0026rsquo;s no interview. He was just like super sweet, said hello and gave me orders of what to do and then like at 2 a.m. he came in to check on me and he was like \\u0026lsquo;Oh, sounds great.\\u0026rsquo; And I was like oh geez, thank God.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Thank God, right?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eJason\\u0026rsquo;s first project was mixing the song \\u0026ldquo;Rich Friends\\u0026rdquo; for Prince, which was intended for a Deluxe Edition of the album \\u003cem\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/em\\u003e that never materialized. Once Prince saw what Jason was capable of, he put him to work mixing the tracks for \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e The next day I got the call from Prince in the hotel. He was like, \\u0026lsquo;Someone will come pick you up,\\u0026rsquo; and then like he pulls up in his little Cadillac with this symbol, and he had a mirrored jacket and funk music was blasting, and I was like this is not really what\\u0026rsquo;s happening.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Yes\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I know. It\\u0026rsquo;s like a movie. It\\u0026rsquo;s like is this really happening?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is like if someone wrote, like, let\\u0026rsquo;s write this character of what an experience working with Prince would be like, and then that\\u0026rsquo;s what happened. He drove me around and it was like the Minnesota Tourism Bureau, like yeah, exactly like\\u0026mdash;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It\\u0026rsquo;s like over there \\u0026ndash; he\\u0026rsquo;s like Caribou Coffee over there, we got Byerly\\u0026rsquo;s over here, going down \\u0026ndash; go to the Arboretum down the street, that\\u0026rsquo;s where we hang sometimes.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026lsquo;The leaves are beautiful in the fall. When you come back in the fall it\\u0026rsquo;ll be beautiful.\\u0026rsquo; I was like oh, alright. I hope I\\u0026rsquo;m coming back.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/110\/regular_image-11fa0f2a30af1
79deeaff12ed0bd973a50.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/110\/regular_mobile_image-11fa0f2a30af1deeaff12ed0bd973a50.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003ccenter\\u003e\\u003csmall\\u003eJason Agel | Publicity image\\u003c\/small\\u003e\\u003c\/center\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It seems like there\\u0026rsquo;s this burst of recording activity in April and May, and that\\u0026rsquo;s when a lot of the initial tracking for \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e happened. And then, Jason, you come in around August and then it seems like there\\u0026rsquo;s this kind of renewed excitement around the album and things are starting to be mixed and sequenced. Did Prince present this collection of songs to you as an album?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, so what would happen was we would pull up these songs that were already there, these \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e tracks which were mostly already put together, and in most cases I would set something up so he could like play a guitar solo on something or set up the mic and I would leave the room. So like Shelby and the rest of the girls could do their vocals and everything like that. And then I would come back and I would dump it all into ProTools off the tape, and I would run off like the rough mixes for it. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t want me to do too much, so like everything we did, we worked very quickly. I thought I was putting together just like rough mixes -- reference mixes, right? So what would happen is, every once in a while he would have me do that for a bunch of the songs. So it definitely was presented as a group of songs in a certain order, because we would go through them and I would print them to the CD player in the back of the room.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;1010 Rin Tin Tin\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThere was one time I didn\\u0026rsquo;t work for a day, which drove me nuts because I was sitting in that parking lot in Chanhassen off the highway with nothing to do... And I come in the next day and like there\\u0026rsquo;s like a bunch of like mics knocked over in the live room and stuff, and he\\u0026rsquo;s like tells me to dump something off the tape, and it\\u0026rsquo;s like just a whole song that he recorded like freshly, probably by himself, I remember coming in and being like, \\u0026lsquo;You recorded all this stuff? I\\u0026rsquo;m over here in the hotel. I don\\u0026rsquo;t get to actually come in and record you like playing all these instruments.\\u0026rsquo; I\\u0026rsquo;m like, \\u0026lsquo;that\\u0026rsquo;s why I\\u0026rsquo;m here, man.\\u0026rsquo; But yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, he would do that sometimes, just like wanna be in the room by himself to do whatever -- to jump from instrument to instrument, record himself even though you\\u0026rsquo;re there or somebody else is there. I could sing something. It\\u0026rsquo;s just like that was the energy he was feeling. It\\u0026#39;s like colors, paint. That\\u0026rsquo;s how I look at it. It\\u0026rsquo;s like some days he would have red\/blue\/green\/yellow. It\\u0026rsquo;d be me, Elisa, Liv, more, and then some days it would be like you know what, this is blue. And it\\u0026rsquo;s blue and that\\u0026rsquo;s it, and the other colors, y\\u0026rsquo;all stay over here in the crayon box over here at the Country Inn \\u0026amp; Suites. Now don\\u0026rsquo;t go too far because I might need you, so stay ready. But that is a true -- for a real creative genius like that he was really, he would really go with the flow like that and you had to be willing to go with the flow and kinda be okay with not knowing.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, that\\u0026rsquo;s definitely true. He was ultimately just doing everything himself and then pulling in the different ingredients as he needed it. He had these songs that he was making and he didn\\u0026rsquo;t tell anyone what he was thinking about them or like what was gonna happen. But he would just collect the best from everybody on his laptop, which was one of the nicest studios I\\u0026rsquo;ve \\u0026nbsp;ever been in, and then he would just have me there to help him sort through it really quickly so that we could hear everything. So some of those tunes are definitely probably just him. Like he could do everything he wanted by himself, like RinTinTin or whatever.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"Z_YFFt9b75s\",\"title\":\"Prince, \\\"1010 (Rin Tin Tin)\\\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWhen you heard the stuff for the first time, like what song hit you? Like oh, man, I remember this, I remember mixing this one, like yes that\\u0026rsquo;s my song.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWell, so it hit me first is like because like what was obviously like the first single -- just the song \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo; -- he mostly recorded himself, but \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo; there\\u0026rsquo;s this one day where he was like, \\u0026lsquo;Alright, set up the microphone\\u0026rsquo; and I was like, \\u0026lsquo;Oh, no, I\\u0026rsquo;m gonna record him actually singing today.\\u0026rsquo; And he came in and so I thought -- like he\\u0026rsquo;s sitting on the couch like next to me; I\\u0026rsquo;m at the computer and I hit \\u0026lsquo;record\\u0026rsquo; and then he just lets his voiceover out. So he doesn\\u0026rsquo;t sing, he just starts like narrating the song. And so that was very unexpected and I just remember just like hearing it like with his head -- his voice in my ears and he\\u0026rsquo;s right there and I\\u0026rsquo;m like oh my god, I\\u0026rsquo;m like okay.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Is this happening right now?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, exactly, yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"HJtxSdTL488\",\"title\":\"Prince, \\\"Welcome 2 America\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI didn\\u0026rsquo;t know we were like necessarily mixing an album.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eRight? Just like we didn\\u0026rsquo;t know we were like making an album like while we were singing. Like we just sing it.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I was putting together -- it was a mixed CD for him to listen to at night as far as I knew. And then there were a few times where I would run off mixes and he would say something like, \\u0026lsquo;Alright, well, this has gotta be right because this is going out to the plant tomorrow to get distributed and manufactured,\\u0026rsquo; and all that stuff. And then it wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t happen. So after a while I\\u0026rsquo;d be like, \\u0026lsquo;Yeah, alright, whatever.\\u0026rsquo; And he\\u0026rsquo;d say the same thing like a week later after like adding vocals on something else. Every time Prince announced new music I was like, \\u0026lsquo;Finally!\\u0026rsquo; And then it was never anything that I worked on.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It was never that, right? But guess what, that day is coming, that day is coming.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, exactly.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Born 2 Die\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eFor the majority of his career, Prince was in a constant flow of writing and recording new songs and releasing them, averaging about an album a year released to the public and countless others archived in his vault. But around the time he worked on \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e, his output shifted. After doing a very limited release of his album \\u003cem\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/em\\u003e in Europe, Prince wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t release another commercial album until 2014, when he simultaneously released his solo album \\u003cem\\u003eArt Official Age\\u003c\/em\\u003e and his 3RDEYEGIRL collaboration \\u003cem\\u003ePLECTRUMELECTRUM\\u003c\/em\\u003e. This break from recording is something Prince actually touched on when he visited the George Lopez Show in 2011.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, I\\u0026rsquo;m in recording rehab now. I\\u0026rsquo;m writing too much. So I\\u0026rsquo;m taking a break -- the industry is going through a lot of changes, and I\\u
790026rsquo;m going to just let that go.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eGeorge Lopez: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eIt has gone through a lot of changes. Do you think the internet -- do you think that\\u0026rsquo;s helped music?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It\\u0026rsquo;s helped the people who sell the music. For an artist, they don\\u0026rsquo;t make the money they used to. And I think we tend not to value things we get for free.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"mcgvcqVHJC0\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe wanted to know more about Prince\\u0026rsquo;s thoughts on emerging technologies and the music industry\\u0026rsquo;s shift to streaming in 2010 -- themes that Prince reflects on throughout Welcome 2 America -- so Shelby and I called up a friend who knows a lot about tech, and a lot about Prince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I\\u0026rsquo;m Anil Dash and I\\u0026rsquo;m a tech guy who runs a company called Glitch. My heart has been in being a fan of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music, and especially his use of technology for decades.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I was thinking, about how
79in 2010, the year that \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e was recorded, Prince was given two lifetime achievement awards, one from BET and one from the Webbys. And it\\u0026rsquo;s just two such interesting points in his career that happened within a few months of each other. And Shelby, I know you were at the BET awards.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Wow. Well, I can tell you that I had seen the advertisement that they were honoring him before we even discussed it. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t even bring it up. We were in rehearsal and he just -- he called me over, real, you know, he would do the biggest things real smooth-like, and he goes \\u0026lsquo;I\\u0026rsquo;m going out to LA for a couple of days. I want you to come with me, bring a couple of dresses and we\\u0026rsquo;re gonna have some fun.\\u0026rsquo; It was just so nice. We were at the Beverly Hills Hotel and it was so beautiful; I\\u0026rsquo;d never stayed there before. But he was just so relaxed. We were in his room. He was playing piano. There was a piano in his room and he was just playing and he was just in a good space. And I pinch myself because it was so like a dream because four days before that I had no idea this is where I was gonna be, with him. I still didn\\u0026rsquo;t know I was gonna be with him sitting beside him at the awards. I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know that until that actually transpired. So when people see my face on TV they\\u0026rsquo;re like \\u0026lsquo;You looked surprised.\\u0026rsquo; I was like I was because I was on Front Street, and he was like \\u0026lsquo;Yeah, you\\u0026rsquo;re gonna be sitting next to me and the camera\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be on us, so just know that everything you do will be seen.\\u0026#39;\\u0026nbsp;And we cut up. We cut up like two kids at the movies where nobody was watching, the playful side of him, the childlike side of him, people could see that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\\\"\\\" class=\\\"giphy-embed\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" height=\\\"270\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/xT8qBeUb4UX9WgII92\\\" width=\\\"480\\\"\\u003e\\u003c\/iframe\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/betawards-bet-awards-2010-xT8qBeUb4UX9WgII92\\\"\\u003evia GIPHY\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat meant a lot to him and he told me it did because giving people their flowers while they could smell them is so important. It\\u0026rsquo;s great to do all this stuff \\u0026ndash; somebody\\u0026rsquo;s gone and everybody\\u0026rsquo;s waving flags. It\\u0026rsquo;s like no, give people their flowers when they can smell them, and show them that you appreciate them and love them for the contributions that they\\u0026rsquo;ve made while they\\u0026rsquo;re here, so they can say thank you back. And he actually got to sit there and be honored by them and he really appreciated that, like his whole heart and his soul, you could see how much that meant to him. \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BET\/status\/1252598162444951553\\\"\\u003eHis speech was super special\\u003c\/a\\u003e; what he said on the stage that night \\u0026ndash; and he meant it. So yeah, it was a real special time.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I think 2010 is such a special moment in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s career because \\u0026ndash; and Shelby had alluded to this too \\u0026ndash; it\\u0026rsquo;s sort of a moment of Prince getting his flowers, which was great to see as fans, and people just rooting for him. And I think that prior for years the building from whether it was opening the Grammys, having the Musicology tour, doing the Superbowl -- there\\u0026rsquo;d been this sort of I think elevation to an elder statesman that had been frankly long overdue. And so now all of a sudden people could see him as the titan that he was -- this just force of nature, and I think that was really wonderful. And there\\u0026rsquo;s this moment in 2010 that is sort of fascinating too because it is institutional recognition. That is
79what the Webbys and to some degree the BET awards are too, is these organizations finally saying okay, it\\u0026rsquo;s time that we recognize what this person has done for us as communities, as institutions, as those things.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAnd also people talk about an EGOT and it\\u0026rsquo;s like that would be nothing for him. But nobody has the back-to-back Webby and BET awards. Only one man is playing in both these lanes at the top of the game and I think that\\u0026rsquo;s so extraordinary. And me being a little bit of a geek, like we saw the Webbys, he had won a Webby for the NPG Music Club before and had already sort of been at least contextualized. It\\u0026rsquo;s like this is a technology pioneer, not just a music innovator. But the lifetime achievement I think was really instructive because it was coming off of a lot of work on \\u003cem\\u003eLotusflow3r\\u003c\/em\\u003e and things like that. And they were miles ahead. People forget. This is before really YouTube has taken off as the dominant force that it is. This is when \\u0026ndash; still nascent days of \\u0026ndash; and even iTunes getting sort of the streaming world. There\\u0026rsquo;s no Spotify in America at this point. And Prince is so far ahead of the game that the Webby award just \\u0026ndash; this is who you look to to see where technology is going. I think that\\u0026rsquo;s really instructive. And then the BET awards \\u0026ndash; I thought it checks so many boxes of things that people have kinda almost forgotten about Prince. I think first and foremost he was always so just upfront and straightforward of like it means a lot to him as a Black man to be recognized as a Black artist by the Black community\\u0026mdash;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eBy his people, yes.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eExactly. And in that moment to also say \\u0026lsquo;and I wanna see Black women onstage\\u0026rsquo;, which he always did. So it\\u0026rsquo;s no coincidence everybody honoring him or Black women. And also just being real, like as a fan, there were so many like the gifs and the memes of that night because it\\u0026rsquo;s Patti kicking off her shoes and Prince \\u0026ndash; who else \\u0026ndash; Prince is not picking up anybody\\u0026rsquo;s shoes in the world but Patti LaBelle. Period. You know what I mean?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat was the best.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/121\/regular_image-1e1745911df13afea3b7bd0a0d6db088.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/121\/regular_mobile_image-1e1745911df13afea3b7bd0a0d6db088.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003ccenter\\u003e\\u003csmall\\u003ePhoto by Kevin Mazur\\u003c\/small\\u003e\\u003c\/center\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Prince\\u0026rsquo;s whole career is full of all these twists and turns and seeming contradictions at times, and there\\u0026rsquo;s something that feels very classically Prince to me about him accepting the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, and the next headline from him is him telling the \\u003cem\\u003eDaily Mirror\\u003c\/em\\u003e that \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/prince-227-1302765\\\"\\u003ethe internet is completely over\\u003c\/a\\u003e. I mean, what did you both make of this statement?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e That was \\u0026ndash; I tell ya as the like tech guy who loves Prince. Everybody in the world sent me this, like \\u0026lsquo;what is your man saying right here?\\u0026rsquo; And I said first of all let\\u0026rsquo;s be clear. This is the man who said he was gonna stop recording because he\\u0026rsquo;s gonna go looking for the ladder. This is the man who spent years shouting at us that Prince was dead. Like he said a lot of things and it made sense in his context and we gotta understand he\\u0026rsquo;s a man that evolved over time. But I think the most clear thing to understand about Prince saying the Internet is over \\u0026ndash; he actually talked to \\u003cem\\u003eThe Guardian\\u003c\/em\\u003e a few years later, I think in 2015. And he said, \\u0026ldquo;Look, I was talking about the ability of an artist to make money in the world in this sort of new Internet environment.\\u0026rdquo; And he closed that statement saying, \\u0026ldquo;But Apple\\u0026rsquo;s doing pretty well, aren\\u0026rsquo;t they?\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eI mean he was very clear about tying this to the history of artists being exploited, especially black artists, and I think he was absolutely right. Streaming was a fundamental change in the economics and he knew that as deeply as anybody in the world did. And he called it, really at the peak of the moment when somebody could make money as an artist online, and also when you could develop as an artist online. People forget now, but this is a moment when Myspace is still around; people are being discovered through that platform. It\\u0026rsquo;s designed to help you find a new star in the way you might if you were going to the clubs or whatever to listen to new artists. And then died. It fell off a cliff right away at that moment. So I think he accurately called the top of the market in terms of when was there gonna be a
79way for you to be an artist who would get discovered and thrive and be able to support yourself through these online media without just being promoted by the platform, because since that point it has become \\u0026ndash; if you\\u0026rsquo;re smiled upon or blessed by really a few players, and these days it\\u0026rsquo;s YouTube or Spotify or iTunes or what have you \\u0026ndash; then you can probably still get by. But everybody else is hoping to build that fan base and work their way up. I think he was dead on about can a musician succeed in this Internet world. And he said \\u0026lsquo;no, not anymore; not in the way we used to.\\u0026rsquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eShelby, does that square with conversations you were having with him at this time?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, because it\\u0026rsquo;s - you know \\u0026ndash; there was so much changing as far as artists trying to use technology to connect with their fans.\\u0026nbsp;He would talk about movies. He\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026lsquo;I can\\u0026rsquo;t go take a Star Wars thing and just decide\\u0026#39; \\u0026ndash; he goes, \\u0026lsquo;intellectual property, that\\u0026rsquo;s protected. You can\\u0026rsquo;t just go and do whatever you want. They\\u0026rsquo;ll be all over you with that. But somewhere along the way the same respect is not given to music, and it being something that is yours; it\\u0026rsquo;s something you created.\\u0026#39; He always referred to movies and \\u003cem\\u003eStar Wars\\u003c\/em\\u003e. He\\u0026rsquo;s like you can\\u0026rsquo;t just go and take, you know \\u0026ndash; George Lucas would be all over \\u0026ndash; and we knew them. We played their wedding. We knew them personally. Hello. But he was right about that. They own that.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He was so far ahead of a casual music fan\\u0026rsquo;s understanding of the Internet as a business that sometimes they couldn\\u0026rsquo;t follow why he was saying what he was saying until years later. Like he saw what streaming was gonna do before most people in America had even heard of streaming music. So he could see that economics. I think one of the things he talked about a lot as he used some of the other services like TIDAL later in his career was like \\u0026lsquo;what other artists are they recommending around me?\\u0026rsquo; He was like, I wanted to be next to Sly Stone. I wanted to be next to James Brown. I wanted to be next to Aretha. I don\\u0026rsquo;t want them just recommending whatever artist the label says to promote next to me. Now we know that all the time. Everybody\\u0026rsquo;s aware that if I go on social media the algorithm is gonna suggest something to me that might be false. It might be a lie, let alone just a bad artist. This might be something that\\u0026rsquo;s actually harmful in the world. And he saw that coming and that was so clear. And I think that\\u0026rsquo;s something that really gets underestimated. people see him with his backside out in the pants and dancing around and everything he did in his career, and there\\u0026rsquo;s all these like stunts. And they don\\u0026rsquo;t realize this is a man that understood at a deep profound level the business forces and the economic forces. In an interview he would talk about his faith and he would talk about what he was playing on his guitar. And then they wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t expect like \\u0026ndash; and here\\u0026rsquo;s this MBA class on music business on the side in the middle of it.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe ask that no one use camera phones, and they honored that request.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is Prince speaking to a room full of media in Paris in the fall of 2009.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eUnlike Americans, who are so obsessed with technology. And we don\\u0026rsquo;t like to have our concerts filmed that way, because it sounds\\u0026rsquo;s so bad. And then you give all the footage to somebody like YouTube, who is run by Universal Publishing, and some of those same lawyers. A lot of people don\\u0026rsquo;t know that, they just see the logos. But we know all the behind the scenes guys.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd it seems they also want to control who becomes popular and who doesn\\u0026rsquo;t. Radio is state controlled, and YouTube and how many hits you get, or how many views you get, rather. And it\\u0026rsquo;s just a system now that is just not enticing to me. So we stick with concerts and we can do new music that way.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"pJcLLJ7M_14?t=208\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I heard this on the tech side coming from people that had one of the big platforms and they had reached out because at that time Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music wasn\\u0026rsquo;t on any of the streaming services. He\\u0026rsquo;d pulled it off and they were like \\u0026lsquo;look, you gotta be here. This is where the fans are gonna be and the future\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be.\\u0026rsquo; And I think it was a really astute thing. They said what they heard back was the truth, which is \\u0026lsquo;you want me to put my work on your platform. You choose the price, you choose how much I get, you choose who it gets distributed to and you can change it anytime unilaterally and all I can say is okay. That doesn\\u0026rsquo;t sound like a good deal.\\u0026rsquo; And he was right!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Son of a slave master still running games. Still running game, you know what I\\u0026rsquo;m saying? It\\u0026rsquo;s just different.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, and there\\u0026rsquo;s a reason there\\u0026rsquo;s a song about it. It\\u0026rsquo;s because he knew it well, he could write the song. That\\u0026rsquo;s such an obvious thing now. But to think about ten years ago, to just sort of rattle it off the top of his head like he knew that like the back of his hand. He knew that\\u0026rsquo;s where that was going.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He was very aware of the powers that be that, like you said, with algorithms and everything else, it\\u0026rsquo;s like technology is great but not when it starts to think for you.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah. We\\u0026rsquo;re not far from which phone you buy decides what music you like.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Oh, how about that?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"98Bx5EIYZew\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd that\\u0026rsquo;s the kind of thing that you can just see him waving everybody off and saying \\u0026lsquo;look, you gotta question this, you gotta interrogate this\\u0026rsquo;. And I think that\\u0026rsquo;s a blessing, is that he taught all of us \\u0026ndash; his fans and supporters \\u0026ndash; so well for so many years that just \\u0026ndash; the scales fall from your eyes. You can see those systems. You could see the things he was speaking to. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHe\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026lsquo;Shelby, think for yourself, like think for yourself\\u0026rsquo;, and I\\u0026rsquo;m like \\u0026ndash; even with him, I would listen to him, but it\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026lsquo;don\\u0026rsquo;t think like I think. Listen to what I say but think for yourself, make your own \\u0026ndash; don\\u0026rsquo;t allow your brain to be brainwashed to where you\\u0026rsquo;re just a cog in the machine.\\u0026rsquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e So, one of the big questions that I\\u0026rsquo;m trying to answer and will probably never get a definitive answer to is why didn\\u0026rsquo;t Prince release \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e. And I wonder if his skepticism about the music industry impacted wanting to even deal with putting out records.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e With \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e \\u0026ndash; I\\u0026rsquo;ve been asked this. Why didn\\u0026rsquo;t Prince put this record out, and the answer is he didn\\u0026rsquo;
79t want to. And I know that sounds real simple, and I\\u0026rsquo;m not being flip, but the more you would know this brother the more you\\u0026rsquo;re gonna understand why Prince did what Prince wanted to do, and you didn\\u0026rsquo;t even have to understand it. It might not make sense to you then. Of course we recorded all this music, we\\u0026rsquo;ve got a tour coming up, and he\\u0026rsquo;s gonna put the record out and we\\u0026rsquo;re gonna sing these songs on this tour. That\\u0026rsquo;s not what he felt. He\\u0026rsquo;s a vessel. I can only imagine what was coming through him, speaking through him at that time. I know he discussed some stuff with Morris about it, basically saying when it\\u0026rsquo;s time it\\u0026rsquo;ll be time, and he\\u0026rsquo;d step away from it. That was it, like when it\\u0026rsquo;s time it\\u0026rsquo;s time; it ain\\u0026rsquo;t time yet. And that\\u0026rsquo;s it. Me personally because I don\\u0026rsquo;t like to speak for him; I never will \\u0026ndash; but I personally believe that he knew that at the time it was not the right time, for several different reasons. I don\\u0026rsquo;t think it would\\u0026rsquo;ve been received the same way. I don\\u0026rsquo;t think it would\\u0026rsquo;ve been absorbed the same way. I don\\u0026rsquo;t think we had been through the things that we needed to go through in the last 11 years. And all of that needed to happen so that when this did come out it would hit a certain way. And I think the timing of this is like perfect. He set it up like come on, man.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou never wanna speculate, and I think a lot of people are like \\u0026lsquo;I know what Prince would do\\u0026rsquo;. Nobody knows. Things change, but one thing I think he was very consistent about is things happen in the right time and things happen the way they should and he trusted his muse and trusted his spirit to get him to the right place at the right time, and so I think it is such a Prince-like answer. It\\u0026rsquo;s like well, it wasn\\u0026rsquo;t the right time until now. And also we do know there were times he held onto songs for five years, ten years, 20 years until it was time, because he \\u0026nbsp;could be that far ahead of the world. And I think that\\u0026rsquo;s something too, where it is a moment of \\u0026lsquo;is the world ready to hear this?\\u0026rsquo; I also think at a practical level that was such an incredible tour. The Welcome 2 America Tour was absolutely unbelievable.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Thank you.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat\\u0026rsquo;s so much just to absorb. And so I\\u0026rsquo;m like that\\u0026rsquo;s enough. That was enough for \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e to be in that moment. And also the hint. We knew as fans, yeah, there\\u0026rsquo;s a record behind this. You can\\u0026rsquo;t have it yet. And so I think there was a little bit of that dramatic buildup we got to enjoy. But the other part I hear in the lyrics of these songs is like \\u0026ndash; even the opening track.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAnil Dash: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHe\\u0026rsquo;s calling out by name these companies \\u0026ndash; technology companies, whatever. We never heard him do that. Most of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s songs, he\\u0026rsquo;s living in his world and his muse and in Paisley Park, like in his environment. But to speak on it by name about things out in the world is almost shocking. It is a dramatic difference from anything he\\u0026rsquo;d written before and it has so much more impact now. Because now these are things we\\u0026rsquo;re all talking about every day. These are all things that we\\u0026rsquo;re paying attention to. And so I think it is right on time.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"wMY4NFW7GkI\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eComing up next on The Story of Welcome 2 America: Morris Hayes will be back to help me co-host our final episode, focusing on the Welcome 2 America Tour and Prince\\u0026rsquo;s epic Twenty One Nite Stand in Los Angeles, including over a dozen shows at The Forum. We\\u0026rsquo;ll listen to live audio from one of those Forum shows, and hear from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s band about these unforgettable star-studded nights in the spring of 2011.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Delirious\\u0026rdquo; (Live at The Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America is produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. \\u0026nbsp;This story was written and co-produced by me, Andrea Swensson. Rosie DuPont is our producer, and Corey Schreppel is our technical director. Thanks also to Trevor Guy, Zach Hochkeppel, Michael Howe, and Duane Tudahl. Order your copy of Welcome 2 America at prince.com. And if you haven\\u0026rsquo;t subscribed yet, search for The Story of Welcome 2 America on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Welcome 2 America is Released\",\"title_size\":\"big\",\"date_from\":\"2021-07-30T18:20:38.000Z\",\"slug\":\"welcome2america-outnow\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince's Welcome 2 America Released by The Prince Estate in Partnership with Legacy Recordings\",\"meta_description\":\"The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, have released the enigmatic 2010 Prince album Welcome 2 America\u2014a powerful creative statement that documents Prince\u2019s concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice. The album, which has received widespread critical acclaim, is available now.\u00a0\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/37\/regular_meta_image-b3120c81b96942cb8a838fd5ef4a9935.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/142\/regular_image-b3120c81b96942cb8a838fd5ef4a9935.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/142\/regular_mobile_image-b3120c81b96942cb8a838fd5ef4a9935.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003ccenter\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Prince made \\u003c\/em\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003cem\\u003e in 2010. It speaks to 2021.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026mdash; The New York Times\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;The record is a gorgeous romp through taut funk grooves and spaced-out R\\u0026amp;B.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026mdash;Wall Street Journal\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;In and of itself, it\\u0026rsquo;s historic\\u0026hellip; a jewel from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s Vault.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026mdash;Rolling Stone\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;These songs are amongst the most socially and politically engaged of his career. As though Prince were updating \\u003c\/em\\u003eSign O\\u0026#39; The Times\\u003cem\\u003e.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; UNCUT\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026quot;Welcome 2 America\\u003cem\\u003e is a delight. The grooves are airtight and joyous.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; New York Magazine\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;A prismatic Prince shines again on \\u003c\/em\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003cem\\u003e.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; NPR\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Available at last, \\u003c\/em\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;suits the present moment so well it might have been written over the tumultuous past year.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; PEOPLE\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;The best album Prince made in the last two decades of his life.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; The Guardian\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Prophetic.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; Sunday Times\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/center\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, have released the enigmatic 2010 Prince album \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026mdash;a powerful creative statement that documents Prince\\u0026rsquo;s concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice. The album, which has received widespread critical acclaim, is \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/welcome-2-america\\\"\\u003eavailable now\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nLeading up to the release, The Prince Estate shared the title track \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America.\\u0026rdquo; Throughout the powerful song, Prince delivers a searing, spoken-word soliloquy set to music about golden parachutes, the superficial nature of social media, reality TV-fueled celebrity culture, and corporate monopolies in the music industry, ultimately concluding that America is the \\u0026ldquo;Land of the free \/ home of the slave.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"PzUQss9cE8Y\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eNext to be released was \\u0026ldquo;Born 2 Die,\\u0026rdquo; a track recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play in the social justice movement. Esquire noted, \\u0026ldquo;\\u0026lsquo;Born 2 Die\\u0026rsquo; is proof that his music remains necessary and timeless.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"febeHW4EO4o\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eLast week, \\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo; was released on the same day that The Prince Estate launched a new season of its Webby-awarded official podcast. \\u0026ldquo;The Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo; takes listeners on a journey into the studios of Paisley Park and out onto the road with Prince in 2010-2011, when he recorded his political and poignant album Welcome 2 America and then archived it, choosing to focus instead on creating unparalleled live concert residencies in cities around the U.S.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America Podcast Episodes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eEpisode 1:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.com\/article\/w2apodcast_ep1\\\"\\u003eThank U for Helping Me Get This Out\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eEpisode 2:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.com\/article\/w2apodcast_ep2\\\"\\u003eWhat It Means 2 B American\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eEpisode 3:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.com\/article\/w2apodcast_ep3\\\"\\u003eThe Internet is Completely Over\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eEpisode 4:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.com\/article\/w2apodcast_ep4\\\"\\u003eWe Got 2 Let the Funk Unwind\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince \\u0026ndash; 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\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n11.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Yes\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n12.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; One Day We Will All B Free\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;* Soul Asylum cover\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince \\u0026ndash; Welcome 2 America (Live at The Forum, April 28, 2011)\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nConcert Performance (Blu-ray)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n1.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Joy In Repetition\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n2.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Brown Skin (India.Arie cover)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n3.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; 17 Days\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Shhh\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n5.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; 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79,\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 2: What It Means 2 B American\",\"title_size\":\"small\",\"date_from\":\"2021-07-29T10:18:38.000Z\",\"slug\":\"w2apodcast_ep2\",\"meta_title\":\"Official Prince Podcast: The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 2\",\"meta_description\":\"In Episode 2 of \\\"The Story of Welcome 2 America\\\" podcast, Prince's longtime music director and keyboardist Morris Hayes joins music journalist Andrea Swensson to co-host an episode about the profound and prescient lyrical content on Welcome 2 America, with invaluable additional insights from Prince's former manager Kiran Sharma and his close friend, the revered academic, philosopher, and activist Dr. Cornel West.\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/34\/regular_meta_image-9ce9d5cc166d093ccae26dfd23185d37.jpg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/79\/regular_image-78c42b09f3c87345af267b846858fa47.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/79\/regular_mobile_image-78c42b09f3c87345af267b846858fa47.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America is an official podcast produced by The Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Subscribe \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003ewherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e, and stream and find the complete transcript for second episode below.\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ciframe allow=\\\"encrypted-media\\\" allowtransparency=\\\"true\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" height=\\\"232\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/2OF9o3YFeALad2Y55aTmsD\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\"\\u003e\\u003c\/iframe\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;One Day We\\u0026rsquo;ll All B Free\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is \\u0026quot;The Story of Welcome 2 America,\\u0026quot; produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.\\u0026nbsp;Welcome to Episode 2 of this series, as we continue our exploration of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s shelved 2010 album \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e, which is being released from his vault of July 30. We spent the first episode talking about how the individual pieces of these songs came together in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s studio at Paisley Park. For this episode, we\\u0026rsquo;re going to get a little further into the lyrics of this album, and learn about the conversations he was having in 2010 about social issues and politics in the U.S. I\\u0026rsquo;m Andrea Swensson, and I\\u0026rsquo;m co-hosting this episode with someone who knew Prince really well: his longtime musical director and bandmate in the NPG, Mr. Morris Hayes. Hey Morris!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Hey Andrea! I\\u0026rsquo;m excited to be here.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eNow Morris, before we get into talking about \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e, I want to make sure people understand just how long you performed and worked with Prince. How many decades was it, again?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHow many decades? Man. I span two decades -- I started in 1992, at the end of 1992, and went to about 2012, with a few years in the middle with Maceo Parker, the legend himself. And you know, so I also worked at the studio, like just doing odd jobs, production assistant, things like this, in the late \\u0026lsquo;80s, while they were filming Graffiti Bridge. So that\\u0026rsquo;s when I started doing whatever I could, you know, just to be in the building, you know?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/83\/regular_image-5b278dd4ab2af9e8af958b29aed5df2f.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/83\/regular_mobile_image-5b278dd4ab2af9e8af958b29aed5df2f.jpeg\"}
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I mean, nevertheless, it was a lot of work, as you can imagine, with anything with Prince, I think you have to be prepared for whatever happens, you know. So it was a tough gig at times.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOh I\\u0026rsquo;m sure. Your perspective on this whole Welcome 2 America album is invaluable, because you were one of the first people who actually got to hear some of these raw tracks Prince had been recording. So he\\u0026rsquo;d been working at Paisley Park in early 2010 with the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, the drummer Chris Coleman, and his NPG vocalists Shelby, Liv, and Elisa. Morris, what do you remember about hearing these songs from Welcome 2 America for the first time?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWell, it was kinda cool. He called me like he normally does: \\u0026lsquo;Hey man, can you come by Paisley? I want you to hear something\\u0026rsquo; Yeah, sure, no big deal. That\\u0026rsquo;s something that would happen all the time. But this time I get there and he\\u0026rsquo;s sitting out in the car and he\\u0026rsquo;s got -- I used to call it the Batmobile. He had this little black convertible and it had a pretty nice sound system in it. And so he tells me to hop in when I get there. And he starts playing this. Now at this point everything is done, I mean as far as basic tracks. He\\u0026rsquo;s got the basic tracks there, and he\\u0026rsquo;s flowing already -- got bass, drum, guitar and he\\u0026rsquo;s got the singers on and it\\u0026rsquo;s some scratch vocals but mostly completed vocals. And he\\u0026rsquo;s just kinda going through each song, song by song, telling me how this one came around, and was talking about Tal, how she --\\u0026nbsp;like yeah, this girl was like severe, like she\\u0026rsquo;s dope and everything. And so I was like wow, okay, so I\\u0026rsquo;m like wow, this is crazy. I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know he was even working with these guys. Because he tells me at first, he said, \\u0026quot;what I want you to do is just like take this record, just over-produce it, just do what you wanna do. I\\u0026rsquo;ll take anything away that I don\\u0026rsquo;t need, and just do your thing. Do what you do.\\u0026quot;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe all know how many hit albums that Prince had made over his career. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t need me or anybody to come and co-produce, produce, or do anything for him. He had already done records for years that were smashes on his own, so he didn\\u0026rsquo;t have to call me for that. But he just allowed me to have my perspective, and I think that was a beautiful gesture on his part. And the fact that he let me take it home and work on it -- which, the problem with Prince was he was very impatient and rough, man. So we were recording and he\\u0026rsquo;d be like \\u0026ldquo;Come on, let\\u0026rsquo;s go, let\\u0026rsquo;s go, let\\u0026rsquo;s go, use that sound, use that sound! And I\\u0026rsquo;m like, okay, let me dial through all of the clap sounds, and he is not waiting for me to dial through no clap sounds, man. He\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026ldquo;Use that one!\\u0026rdquo; So it was great that I got to take it home, take a track home and bring it back the next day, and he\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026lsquo;Yeah, that\\u0026rsquo;s great; \\u0026lsquo;Hot Summer,\\u0026rsquo; that\\u0026rsquo;s great; yeah, I like this song now!\\u0026rdquo; It was a sublime experience.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e For this episode, we are going to get deeper on the lyrical content of Welcome 2 America. Morris, I\\u0026rsquo;m so excited to hear your thoughts on this, and we also have a couple of very special guests joining us -- starting with one of your old friends, Kiran Sharma, who was Prince\\u0026rsquo;s manager from 2009 to 2014.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYes! Kiran Sharma! Kiran is a longtime friend, and I was very excited to have her come on board. You know Prince had asked me about, if I knew someone that c
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We would have talks about the brand and his brand and what it meant and how it\\u0026rsquo;s shown to the world. We\\u0026rsquo;d look into publishing. We\\u0026rsquo;d look into records sales\/distribution. Because of the speed at which he worked, he was just always forward-thinking and there was just so much to do every day for everyone. And it\\u0026rsquo;s not just directed at me. He would have everyone\\u0026rsquo;s next day mapped out across the board. He must have been exhausted all the time, because of having to think about what every single person in the band, and my role, and every aspect of what we needed to be doing the next day was huge. We were all really -- if we\\u0026rsquo;re being really honest about everything -- we were all there just to facilitate this -- him, and his output.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e That\\u0026rsquo;s a great way to look at it -- his output. That\\u0026rsquo;s interesting, yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, and so on all levels -- and my part was one of those parts. We all had a different part to play and, you know, I always considered myself a facilitator for what he needed to be done. And if he could\\u0026rsquo;ve done it all himself I\\u0026rsquo;m sure he would\\u0026rsquo;ve. But he would always say to me \\u0026ndash; he would always say \\u0026lsquo;this is your responsibility; you need to take care of all of that. I\\u0026rsquo;m just the guitar player. And I\\u0026rsquo;d be like, okay.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Check the Record\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is \\u0026ldquo;Check the Record\\u0026rdquo; from \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I would love to hear more about specific conversations that were had. I do get the sense that this was a point where he was really thinking about what he wanted to say next in his work, and also what role he wanted to play in the movement or in the political situation in America. What was on his mind? What was he saying?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThere was a couple of times that he was like, \\u0026ldquo;Can we reach out to Obama?\\u0026rdquo; He wanted to have a meeting with him. And so twice, actually, I reached out to the White House -- and I think he had probably done that before, but at least in my time we had two dates that we scheduled, and then both times they were cancelled for various reasons. But I think at that time he felt like there was an opportunity for things that he cared about to be heard. That was everything through obviously arts and music and specifically the entertainment industry and what was happening within in. But it was also education ... we didn\\u0026rsquo;t actually have that meeting, unfortunately, because we were moving quite fast at that time. There was a lot of touring. But I know it was definitely something that he was thinking about. Morris, did he talk to you much about those kinds of issues?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, well I know the one thing was -- I think, as Black folks, we were all elated about President Obama and the prospect of having this first Black president. I can tell you Prince had a slightly different take on it in terms of, like, I think his whole thing was \\u0026ldquo;No, no, no, we\\u0026rsquo;
79re not gonna give him a pass on just that.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWe\\u0026rsquo;re gonna talk to him and see what really can be done in a meaningful way. And I mean it\\u0026rsquo;s all well and good that we got our first African American president, however we have to take the opportunity to really speak truth to power and really try to see what we can, as a community, get from this new president. Let\\u0026rsquo;s see what it is for real. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t take anything at face value, and just think that it was just gonna be everything was hokey doke now because we got this guy in. And so I don\\u0026rsquo;t want people to get the wrong impression. He could be cool with anybody, but he would absolutely speak truth to power. He wasn\\u0026rsquo;t scared of nobody.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;1010 (Rin Tin Tin)\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou mentioned education being one of his priorities. What were some of the other things that he had hoped to talk to Obama about, or that he was really wanting to advance?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWell, I know Prince loved kids. He always was concerned about kids. He was concerned about education, about music education. He always said, you know, we want kids to not forget these different things and be able to pick up an instrument and learn music. But also just things going on in the neighborhood. And the thing about it, if you don\\u0026rsquo;t have a good situation at home, it\\u0026rsquo;s very difficult to really thrive and do well anywhere else. So I think he was focused on just anything that\\u0026rsquo;s gonna improve life with family, and things of that nature. And what Prince was very cool about is any of us that lived different places, if we happened to do a concert in our hometowns, he\\u0026rsquo;d give Shelby a big check or give Blackwell a check. He\\u0026rsquo;d give us all money, or he\\u0026rsquo;d ask me if I\\u0026rsquo;d find three different charities in Chicago that he could give a bunch of money to. He\\u0026rsquo;d say, \\u0026lsquo;Just find me three places and we\\u0026rsquo;re just gonna give them some money,\\u0026rsquo; just like that. And so knowing what he cares about, then you\\u0026rsquo;d just look for things that -- anything that\\u0026rsquo;s helping kids, anything that\\u0026rsquo;s helping families. And then he\\u0026rsquo;d just make an assessment and say yeah, we\\u0026rsquo;re gonna hand them some money. And do that. So that was a real big deal of his. But the most part I think a lot of things that he did were very anonymous.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It was. I think the only time he did a big press thing was when we did the money to the Harlem Children Zone. But that was very much because we were in New York and he thought, well, it\\u0026rsquo;s a big platform and it was the beginning of the tour and it was a big platform to spread awareness. And he very much tried to make it not about him on the day, and brought all the kids from the Harlem Children Zone in early so they could come and they could run around stage and play all the instruments, and the band came out and he came out and he spoke to all of them about sort of honing a craft and learning a skill and picking up instruments because in the way that the entertainment industry was changing he was a big believer that you have to still play, you have to learn, and have that kind of true, real music talent.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, absolutely.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"HJtxSdTL488\",\"title\":\"Prince, \\\"Welcome 2 America\\\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThinking about this album -- and you both heard it back then, and then now have had a chance to hear it again 11 years later -- are the lyrics mirroring these conversations that he was having at that time?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWell, for me, I know we definitely would talk about a lot of those things, and not just in a vacuum. I think lots of times Prince would talk about the things with these cellphones, with technology, with ownership. It was a big thing for Prince, was ownership, even dating back from slave -- the period in the \\u0026lsquo;90s when he was doing the whole thing with the slave on the face. It was always about making people aware that if you don\\u0026rsquo;t own your work, if you don\\u0026rsquo;t own your own situation, then you don\\u0026rsquo;t have anything. And I think this was a continuation from that and from what he was thinking, and always looking at teaching -- just empower people. That was a big thing for Prince, that like whenever he would meet with any of these new artists, you know, Alicia Keys, any of these folks, the conversation he\\u0026rsquo;d have was centered mostly around owning your own material, owning your publishing and all of your rights, you know.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThis is \\u0026ldquo;Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)\\u0026rdquo; from Welcome 2 America.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat was a big thing for him, and so this was a sustained attack on that type of thing, and I think like \\u0026ldquo;Son Of A Slave Owner\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America,\\u0026rdquo; he was going in. He really let people know that this is what you gotta do.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd it was on all levels, wasn\\u0026rsquo;t it? It was on everything from like Instagram and the way people portray themselves to like the banking system, to education, and all the kinds of contradictions that we live in today. And it was all about bettering yourself in order to better your community and everyone else, and not to fall for sort of the --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAs we called it, the \\u0026lsquo;hokey doke.\\u0026rsquo; Don\\u0026rsquo;t fall for the hokey doke.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e [laughs] The hokey doke. Yes, exactly.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Kiran, from talking to you I get the sense there was a really pivotal moment at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009. And Morris, you were in attendance for this as well. So I would love to hear, from both of you, memories of that specific night.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e That was an amazing night for both of us. We talk about that quite often and it was -- for me, what came out of it, because of the topics of discussion, it was the beginning of this sort of thought process for Prince, and this sense of kind of this new sort of influence. It was part of the night. We were in Montreux, weren\\u0026rsquo;t we, Morris?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And after the show, like with lots of shows, lots of guests come along, and Cornel West and Tavis Smiley were there dancing a lot all through the show like crazy; it was amazing. But afterward, as we would often do, we would go back to the hotel and hang out and have dinner, and we did on this night with Tavis and Cornel and Morris and I and we ended up sort of starting off the evening ordering pasta and having dinner and having a very nice prayer around the table. And then just talking and talking and talking about literally everything -- but powerful conversations that were just so inspiring. And this went on \\u0026lsquo;til daylight the next day. I think it was eight o\\u0026rsquo;clock in the morning when we looked out the window and we looked over Lake Geneva, didn\\u0026rsquo;t we?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah. And at one point it was just like we were kids. We crawled out of the window -- like all of us grown men and a lady in a nice dress.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And heels, climbing over a hedge in the back.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We wanted to get on the roof.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Now I remember how
79it happened, because Prince disappeared and we were sort of left chatting, and this was now eight o\\u0026rsquo;clock in the morning and he disappeared and then all of a sudden all I hear is \\u0026ldquo;Sharma!\\u0026rdquo; And so I go into the bedroom and I\\u0026rsquo;m looking around. I can\\u0026rsquo;t see him and then I hear this \\u0026ldquo;Sharma!\\u0026rdquo; I\\u0026rsquo;m like, where\\u0026rsquo;s it coming from? So I go out. These patio doors are open, so I go out onto the terrace and I\\u0026rsquo;m standing there and I still can\\u0026rsquo;t see him, and I hear \\u0026ldquo;Sharma!\\u0026rdquo; And over this like hedge, he\\u0026rsquo;s crawled out -- he\\u0026rsquo;s like climbed over this hedge, which was maybe a meter and a half tall, and he\\u0026rsquo;s standing on the rooftop of the hotel behind the sign.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/104\/regular_image-fdf538b3f37ba2a1e5f0ed9943e20a1a.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/104\/regular_mobile_image-fdf538b3f37ba2a1e5f0ed9943e20a1a.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e A giant sign.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e A giant yellow light sign, yeah, and he\\u0026rsquo;s standing on the roof and he\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026ldquo;Go get everyone.\\u0026rdquo; And he\\u0026rsquo;s like \\u0026ldquo;Go get everyone,\\u0026rdquo; and I\\u0026rsquo;m like \\u0026ldquo;Okay.\\u0026rdquo; So we all get back and I remember you all helping me.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I\\u0026rsquo;m like \\u0026lsquo;what in the world?\\u0026rsquo; But it was great. Once we got on the roof we just looked around Montreux and just --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI remember we sat there like children and we felt like children because it was a bit naughty. But it was very fun. It was one of those very memorable nights.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I mean I have a lot of moments with Prince, but that right there was like something you\\u0026rsquo;d just see in a movie, like a movie scene. It was just like something like this, like you could see it, like Stand By Me or something. It was just one of those type of things.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eIt was lovely because it was lots of the universal conversations, and it was all of everything that was happened at the time -- Obama -- and it was just lots of very interesting company and conversation because obviously, speaking with Cornel, it was just very enlightening, at least for me because growing up in England and then spending lots of time in America, it was just very enlightening.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo Kiran, did you say that Prince had actually written a song that night after this conversation, the memorable night at Montreux?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eKiran Sharma: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, he sort of talked about how he had stayed up writing all night, which is very cool. And I remember we all went to bed. Morris went to go and get his flight. I went to sleep at around like whenever, 8:30, whenever it was, 9:00, and I remember just getting a call at 11:00, going \\u0026ldquo;Hey, you up?\\u0026rdquo; and I was like \\u0026ldquo;I am now,\\u0026rdquo; and he was like \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;ve just been writing for the last couple of hours,\\u0026rdquo; and he seemed so happy and excited about the future. And it was really lovely to see. He had already finished recording pretty much all of \\u003cem\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/em\\u003e at that point, the \\u003cem\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/em\\u003e album. So he was thinking about what was coming next and he was already in the mindset of what he was gonna do next with \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e -- and I think these were the kinds of conversations he was having with a lot of people, and that kind of led into that quite neatly.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eMorris, as I was listening to you and Kiran talk about this night at the Montreux festival, I had this overwhelming thought:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou know, we have to talk to Dr. Cornel West.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We have to talk to Dr. West! Who else to help us understand what Prince was thinking and saying at this moment when he began working on this record. 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79,\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWell one of the first things that I recall is that Brother Prince just never slept. I never saw him get a wink. After the concert, he\\u0026rsquo;s like Louis Armstrong or like James Brown, he enacted kenosis. He left every fiber of his being right there on the stage, and yet right after, he\\u0026rsquo;s ready to hit the road and got more energy. So it\\u0026rsquo;s like the more he gave -- which was everything -- the more he had and received, which was everything. And you see that\\u0026rsquo;s the benchmark of real genius. And you see -- I mean, Curtis Mayfield was like that. James Brown was like that. Aretha was like that. Mahalia was like that. James Cleveland was like that. All of the great artists, they enact this kenosis and they are able to give it all. So that\\u0026rsquo;s Montreux. Now I also remember spending time with Quincy. Do you remember that, Brother Morris?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYes, sir.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We spent some time with Quincy Jones as well, and then of course Brother Tavis was there. We had a wonderful time with Tavis. But I think there was a side of Prince that a lot of the world didn\\u0026rsquo;t know, and that was his jazz side.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Joy in Repetition\\u0026rdquo; (Live at The Forum)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He could sit there and just play the piano all by himself and move from popular music to jazz; then you get to Montreux and have a jazz show. Then the next show is funk and rhythm and blues and silky soul. The multidimensional character of his genius was just too much for the world. It\\u0026rsquo;s too much for the world. But if you could embrace all of it, hoo, Lord have mercy; you got a Prince experience.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd doctor, you hit on something that was extraordinarily poignant. I don\\u0026rsquo;t think a lot of people don\\u0026rsquo;t realize that with all the artists they share that similar DNA that is the thing that causes them to go up and beyond the average mortal. You know what I mean?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat\\u0026rsquo;s true.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAll of the great artists -- Michael Jackson, all of the ones that had like all of these great qualities, they all had that one ethic, that work ethic, that thing that drove them to be the best and try to be top in the field.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCornel West: And you see what underlies that for me. You see it in James Brown. We gonna rock that stage and leave everything we got in us there. Bootsy was the same way when I was blessed to be on the stage with Bootsy. But what underlies that for me, and y\\u0026rsquo;all tell me what you think, is authorizing a better world and space than the world and space people find themselves. So through kenosis, through emptying yourself, you allow folk to see and feel different worlds. It\\u0026rsquo;s like Sun Ra, gonna take you to the planet; like George Clinton, gonna put you on the mothership. Prince is gonna, like Sly Stone, take you higher. Like Prince and Sly Stone all intertwined. Of course you got Larry Graham sitting up there with his genius mediating between Sly and the Family Stone and Prince himself. But it authorizes a better world and it touches us at the depths of our humanity. I don\\u0026rsquo;t care what color, what sexual orientation, what national identity you are, you can open yourself and be touched by their cause, by their kenosis, their emptying such that you do feel as if there\\u0026rsquo;s an alternative reality, an alternative world you have access to if only for a moment, if only in the music. The great August Wilson used to say, \\u0026lsquo;Everything all right on the stage is an attempt to authorize a different reality through the language, through the styles, through the words and dialogues of a great people.\\u0026rsquo; And he\\u0026rsquo;s absolutely right about that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat is so spot on, and it actually reminds me of one of the songs on this record. It\\u0026rsquo;s called \\u0026ldquo;1000 Light Years From Here,\\u0026rdquo; and the lyrics are really about imagining a different place, and as you say, a brighter future, a different way of being with each other in community with each other, and I actually wanted to read you a little bit of this verse and get your reaction to what --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOh, lord, lord yes.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e -- to what you think about this. \\u0026ldquo;We can live underwater \/ It ain\\u0026rsquo;
79t hard when U\\u0026rsquo;ve never been a part \/ Of the country, on dry land \/ We used 2 B smarter \/ We taught \\u0026lsquo;em what they know \/ And now got 2 show \/ What it means 2 B American.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;1000 Light Years From Here\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eLord have mercy. Prince\\u0026rsquo;s genius was working on a lot of different levels there. One is this sense of what the great Robin B.G. Kelly calls \\u0026lsquo;Freedom Dreams.\\u0026rsquo; That to dream of a different space and a different historical moment than the one we\\u0026rsquo;re in is an enactment of a dream of freedom. It\\u0026rsquo;s like Commodore\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Zoom.\\u0026rdquo; We gonna take you away. Well I\\u0026rsquo;d like to go away. I dream of a freedom -- I\\u0026rsquo;ve taught in prisons for 41 years and that\\u0026rsquo;s one of the anthems of the brothers, is \\u0026ldquo;Zoom,\\u0026rdquo; by the Commodores.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"3FFok7oW2sI\",\"title\":\"\\\"Zoom\\\" by The Commodores\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eLike \\u003cem\\u003eFlying Home\\u003c\/em\\u003e -- Ralph Ellison\\u0026rsquo;s great story; Tony Morrison\\u0026rsquo;s \\u003cem\\u003eSong of Solomon\\u003c\/em\\u003e -- flying away. Well, Prince is part of that tradition. How you gonna fly away, transcend and then tell the truth about the country, tell the truth about the circumstances in which you find yourself now as you ascend? It\\u0026rsquo;s like Coltrane\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Ascension.\\u0026rdquo; Where you goin\\u0026rsquo;, \\u0026lsquo;Trane? Get on the train. Get on this love train and see where \\u0026lsquo;Trane takes you.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"Gio8aXWUvIU\",\"title\":\"John Coltrane, \\\"Ascension\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eGet on this love train and see where Prince takes you. Get on this love train and see where Aretha takes you. And it\\u0026rsquo;s true. You see it in Leonard Cohen. You see it in Dylan. But the highest level -- I mean, Prince, we have to just be honest about this. Prince is the greatest genius and giant of his generation, of the greatest tradition in the modern world of artistic creativity, spiritual fortitude, and moral courage. And that\\u0026rsquo;s the Black musical tradition.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eSee, there\\u0026rsquo;s no other people in the history of the modern world who have been hated chronically and systemically for 400 years to keep dishing up the highest levels of love. There\\u0026rsquo;s no other people who\\u0026rsquo;ve been terrorized for 400 years every day that keep dishing out the highest levels of the freedom dream. There\\u0026rsquo;s no other people who\\u0026rsquo;ve been traumatized for 400 years every day, and keep producing wounded healers, because that\\u0026rsquo;s what Prince was. He was wounded. Go back to the stories -- Sister Mattie, Brother John, and the bullies on the playground, and he\\u0026rsquo;s wrestling with his wounds and his scars and his bruises just like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAnd what you gonna do with your wounds? I\\u0026rsquo;m gonna take you somewhere, and just like in the lyrics you read, Sister Andrea, I\\u0026rsquo;m gonna heal you as I educate you, as I enrich you, as I empower you, as I enable you, but you\\u0026rsquo;ll never forget about the funk from which you come. Because all of us in the funk. You in space and time; you in history; you subject to catastrophe. Catastrophe is on its way to your house one way or the other. Death of a loved one. That\\u0026rsquo;s catastrophe. White supremacy \\u0026ndash; catastrophe. Male supremacy \\u0026ndash; catastrophe. Poverty \\u0026ndash; catastrophe.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;One Day We\\u0026rsquo;ll All B Free\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eBut in the midst of that catastrophe, like Prince, like the great figures of the Black musical tradition, he gonna take you somewhere. Like the Staple Singers [sings \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;ll take you there\\u0026rdquo;] connected to Curtis -- where you gonna take us? To a place of deep love, courage, community, joy, fun. But we ain\\u0026rsquo;t gonna fake the funk. That\\u0026rsquo;s when Prince gives his indictment of America, right there in those lines. Pow pow pow pow pow. Then he just keep on movin\\u0026rsquo;; he just keep on movin\\u0026rsquo;. Yes indeed, indeed.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"IhHBr7nMMio\",\"title\":\"The Staple Singers, \\\"I'll Take You There\\\"\",\"credit\"
79:\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;One Day We\\u0026rsquo;ll All B Free\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou\\u0026rsquo;re absolutely right, doctor, and I can attest to -- you know, Prince used to tell me growing up how it was with his stepdad, how it was with different cats used to beat him up and take turns beating him up because they\\u0026rsquo;d say, \\u0026ldquo;It\\u0026rsquo;s your turn to beat up Prince today -- you beat him yesterday.\\u0026rdquo; So he told me that and I just was like wow, that\\u0026rsquo;s just crazy, man. But through it all he knew he was on a mission.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat\\u0026rsquo;s exactly right.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHe had something to do that was greater -- even greater than himself. And so I think, doctor, it\\u0026rsquo;s just great to hear, you know, you and Prince were such good friends and you know so much history and knowledge about so many different artists that you just pinned this guy just spot on because I\\u0026rsquo;m telling ya, the day-to-day conversations, that\\u0026rsquo;s exactly what I take away from Prince and how he wrote and how he looked at life and what he thought was important. Especially when it comes to education -- and he wanted to bring people also into that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAbsolutely. I mean, people, they look at me as an educator because I teach and write, but Prince exemplified the highest levels of what education really is and really means. It\\u0026rsquo;s the formation of attention. It\\u0026rsquo;s cultivation of a critical consciousness. It\\u0026rsquo;s the maturation of a compassionate soul. He was a spiritual seeker. He was an intellectual explorer. And he was an artistic artist -- let me put it this way, he was an artist forever in-process. And that\\u0026rsquo;s what education really is. He fuses the spirituality of questioning with the spirituality of loving. And that\\u0026rsquo;s crucial because love is about vulnerability; it\\u0026rsquo;s about intimacy; it\\u0026rsquo;s about opening yourself. But questioning is a very dangerous thing because it means you transgress the boundaries and it means you have to have the courage to be yourself enough, given all your wounds and scars, that you got to have the courage to be yourself, to step out on the edge of the cliff, of what Shirley Caesar called \\u0026ldquo;Steppin\\u0026rsquo; out on nothin\\u0026rsquo; and landin\\u0026rsquo; on somethin\\u0026rsquo;.\\u0026rdquo; But the other side that\\u0026rsquo;s so deep about Prince was his unapologetically Black, unapologetically human, unapologetically himself as a particular Black man. A free Black man.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eCorrect.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAll three levels. So you got particularity: he ain\\u0026rsquo;t denying it. Specificity: he ain\\u0026rsquo;t denying it. This is a Black thing, y\\u0026rsquo;all. James Brown is different than Mick Jagger. We love Mick, but Mick needs to sit down when James hits the stage. Anybody\\u0026rsquo;d know that.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eDr. West, I do have a question, though, man. How did you and Prince l meet?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eI think we actually met through Tavis because Prince and Brother Tavis were close.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd then it became a kind of independent thing in terms of our communications and so forth. But I was always very, very blessed, profoundly blessed to have his brotherhood and his friendship. I remember I was doing my third album, I\\u0026rsquo;ll never forget that Prince -- we asked Prince to use his music for my spoken word. I mean I wasn\\u0026rsquo;
79t -- I ain\\u0026rsquo;t no hip-hop artist, but I was doing my spoken word that was pretty political. And he said \\u0026lsquo;I don\\u0026rsquo;t really use my music for hip-hop stuff, Brother West, but I\\u0026rsquo;d do it for you. I know you got the right spirit and everything\\u0026rsquo; I said, \\u0026lsquo;Brother, that\\u0026rsquo;s one of the greatest honors I have in my life, just to have your song and what -- I mean Harvard don\\u0026rsquo;t mean nothin\\u0026rsquo; compared to that kind of association with Prince. You see what I mean? It\\u0026rsquo;s also true, too, about this remark about Curtis Mayfield.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Born 2 Die\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"febeHW4EO4o\",\"title\":\"Prince, \\\"Born 2 Die\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePrince told me about this record, when he called up and told me to come through -- and you know Prince had such a great respect and deep love for you, Dr. West, because he\\u0026rsquo;d always talk about you. And, you know, Prince is funny, man. When he was in a great mood he\\u0026rsquo;d be like very animated and using his voices, like, \\u0026ldquo;Now see, Morris, this song right here, this one got smoke on it.\\u0026rdquo; And we\\u0026rsquo;d be talking and it\\u0026rsquo;d be funny. We get to this one, \\u0026ldquo;Born 2 Die,\\u0026rdquo; and he said \\u0026ldquo;Let me tell you about how I got this one.\\u0026rdquo; He said, \\u0026ldquo;I was on YouTube\\u0026rdquo; -- because Prince would just sometimes just like binge on YouTube and go down the wormhole and he said \\u0026ldquo;I love Dr. West and I was watching a lot of Dr. West and I came across this one where he was talking about Curtis Mayfield,\\u0026rdquo; and when he said that he said, \\u0026ldquo;Dr. West was like \\u0026lsquo;Prince, that\\u0026rsquo;s my brother; he\\u0026rsquo;s a good brother -- he ain\\u0026rsquo;t no Curtis Mayfield.\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026rdquo; And he said \\u0026ldquo;Oh, really?\\u0026rdquo; He said \\u0026ldquo;I had to get Dr. West on this one.\\u0026rdquo; He said \\u0026ldquo;I had to get him.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I love it, I love it, I love it.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHe played the track for me and I was like \\u0026ldquo;Oh, snap.\\u0026rdquo; I said, \\u0026ldquo;Prince, I got you, man. I know where you\\u0026rsquo;re going, I know where you\\u0026rsquo;re going, I know where you\\u0026rsquo;re going.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou understood. But you could see the connection to \\u0026ldquo;Superfly\\u0026rdquo;? You can see the connection to the \\u0026ldquo;Cocaine\\u0026rdquo; song -- \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;m so glad I got my own, my life is a natural high.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"uISHLcdD1cE\",\"title\":\"Curtis Mayfield, \\\"No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song)\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, I\\u0026rsquo;m so glad he did it because I\\u0026rsquo;m telling you, man, it\\u0026rsquo;s one of my favorite tracks on that record.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThat\\u0026rsquo;s a cold jam, man, and it\\u0026rsquo;s got a Curtis Mayfield vibe that it\\u0026rsquo;s so rich -- but it puts a smile on Curtis\\u0026rsquo;s face from the grave. You know how rare that is, man? I called him King. He called himself Prince. I said \\u0026lsquo;Why you underestimate yourself, brother? You a king too.\\u0026rdquo; Lester Young was the Prez. The Duke was the Duke;
79 you know what I mean? Latifa\\u0026rsquo;s the Queen. Aretha\\u0026rsquo;s the Queen. Beyonce: Queen. That\\u0026rsquo;s our royalty. That\\u0026rsquo;s our nobility. You the king. \\u0026ldquo;Well, no, Prince is cool for me, named after Prince Nelson.\\u0026rdquo; We understand, brother, we love you, Prince. We shall never ever ever ever ever forget you and your genius and your love.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThank you so much, brother.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This has been such a treat.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eIndeed. Love ya, love ya, little brother. Love ya, Sister Andrea. Appreciate you too.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAudio: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eComing up next on \\u0026quot;The Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026quot;: Shelby J will return to co-host an episode about Prince\\u0026rsquo;s thoughts on emerging technologies in this era -- something that he was writing about throughout the \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e album. We\\u0026rsquo;ll also chat with the engineer Jason Agel, who Prince tapped to mix the record in the fall of 2010.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eJason Agel: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eLike I said, I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know we were like necessarily mixing an album, right?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Just like we didn\\u0026rsquo;t know we were making an album while we were singing -- like, we just sing it. [laughs]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u0026quot;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026quot; is produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. \\u0026nbsp;This story was written and co-produced by me, Andrea Swensson. Morris Hayes was my co-host. Anna Weggel is our producer, and Corey Schreppel is our technical director. Thanks also to Trevor Guy, Zach Hochkeppel, Michael Howe, and Duane Tudahl.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/welcome-2-america\\\"\\u003eOrder your copy of \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e at prince.com\\u003c\/a\\u003e. And if you haven\\u0026rsquo;t subscribed yet, search for \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;The Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo; on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 1: Thank U 4 Helping Me Get This Out\",\"title_size\":\"small\",\"date_from\":\"2021-07-22T12:33:35.000Z\",\"slug\":\"w2apodcast_ep1\",\"meta_title\":\"Official Prince Podcast: The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 1\",\"meta_description\":\"The Story of Welcome 2 America is an official podcast produced by The Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.\",\"meta_image\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/post\/33\/regular_meta_image-dde05a868ccf6662426406e817682955.jpeg\",\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/66\/regular_image-e7d0d4de4c4535dbbdb54bd6960f485d.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/66\/regular_mobile_image-e7d0d4de4c4535dbbdb54bd6960f485d.jpeg\"},\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eThe Story of Welcome 2 America is an official podcast produced by The Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Subscribe \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003ewherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e, and find the complete transcript for the first episode below.\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003ciframe allow=\\\"encrypted-media\\\" allowtransparency=\\\"true\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" height=\\\"232\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/3rbnpRoxzqWA0lJ7Pqil41\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\"\\u003e\\u003c\/iframe\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;I make records all the time, there\\u0026rsquo;s tons of stuff in the vault. We\\u0026rsquo;ll see if it\\u0026rsquo;ll come out one of these days.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMu
79sic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is \\u0026quot;The Story of Welcome 2 America,\\u0026quot; produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.\\u0026nbsp;Welcome back to the Official Prince Podcast! This is the first of four episodes that we\\u0026rsquo;ve put together for you to celebrate the intriguing 2010 album \\u003cem\\u003e\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/welcome-2-america\\\"\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e, which is being released from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s vault for the very first time on July 30. I\\u0026rsquo;m Andrea Swensson, I\\u0026rsquo;m a music journalist in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s hometown of Minneapolis, and I\\u0026rsquo;m excited to be co-hosting this episode with a very special guest, the talented vocalist, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur Shelby J!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Hey everyone! I\\u0026rsquo;m so happy to be here.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHey Shelby. Now, I know that the Prince fans and fams listening are familiar with you, but for the uninitiated, can you tell us how long you worked with Prince?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yes! I sang with Prince and the NPG from the end of 2006, doing live shows, til right up until about 2015, and then I was going into Paisley as he was listening to songs for my album, just visiting him and spending time one on one, up until our last time hanging, which was in January 2016.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Wow.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd I know you were heavily involved in the making of \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e because your voice is heard all throughout this album.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYes it is! I am so grateful and thankful. You know, I always say how Prince was so generous with his light, and he pushed my vocal way up to lead on certain songs like \\u0026quot;Son of a Slave Master\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;-- I remember sitting him and going over that, all of those lyrics, and he\\u0026rsquo;s got me singing the whole song. And then, you know, my vocals, my voice, that deep tenor, raspy kind of Mavis-y voice, you can hear it all throughout the record, so it\\u0026rsquo;s a real honor. It\\u0026rsquo;s a real honor.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Before we get too far, I feel like we need to play more of these unreleased songs for the people listening. So we\\u0026rsquo;ve been checking out the title track \\u0026ldquo;Welcome 2 America.\\u0026rdquo; What should we cue up next?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Well, you know my favorite song is \\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book,\\u0026rdquo; I\\u0026rsquo;m just saying! \\u0026ldquo;1000 Light Years From Here\\u0026rdquo; too -- but we\\u0026rsquo;ll be getting into that one later. How about we start with \\u0026ldquo;Check the Record\\u0026rdquo;?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Check the Record\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eShelby, this release is especially cool because it\\u0026rsquo;s the first time that a complete unreleased album has been issued from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s vault -- he recorded these songs in the spring and fall of 2010, around the time that he was giving away his album \\u003cem\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/em\\u003e as a free covermount across Europe. But by the time you all hit the road for the Welcome 2 America Tour, the album of the same name had been archived in the vault. What has it been like for you to hear this work again, 11 years later?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It\\u0026rsquo;s really a time capsule, you know? It\\u0026rsquo;s like, we did this stuff, 10, 11 years ago, and hearing it for the first time is like going back in time, remembering what we were doing on those specific days. Meals we would have, conversations we would have, it brought all those memories back.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e To kick things off, I thought we should go back to the beginning and tell folks about how these songs first took shape. And from what I\\u0026rsquo;ve gathered, a lot of these stories all lead back to the same place: a suburban hotel in Chanhassen, Minnesota, just down the street from Paisley Park.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYes, the Country Inn and Suites! That\\u0026rsquo;s our home away from home. We basically lived there. It was like our dorm. Everybody that recorded with Prince, we\\u0026rsquo;d have like 20, 30 rooms at a time, when the whole band was there, and we got to know all the staff, they would let us store stuff there. It was really our home away from home. When I go back to Minneapolis and I\\u
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And then Prince called me and the first question wasn\\u0026rsquo;t \\u0026ldquo;how are you?\\u0026rdquo; -- it was, \\u0026ldquo;Do you like the drum rolls of Jack DeJohnette?\\u0026rdquo; And I was like, \\u0026ldquo;Of course I do!\\u0026rdquo; And we became friends after that.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eWhat a line.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, and then he went on to tell me that him and Larry Graham have been watching my YouTube videos on repeat.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"VK14So3O5_k\",\"title\":\"Prince found this video of Tal Wilkenfeld performing \\\"Stratus\\\" with Jeff Beck\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Prince and Tal started jamming together in 2008, and by the next year Prince had asked Tal to recruit a drummer for a potential trio project.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou know, I was touring a lot at this time with Jeff Beck and Herbie [Hancock]. There was a lot going on and he had a lot going on. And I remember at one point he said, \\u0026ldquo;Okay, I want you to find me a drummer for this trio. I really wanna put this trio together.\\u0026rdquo; And so I wanted to audition drummers but I didn\\u0026rsquo;t wanna like psych them out, because if you walk into an audition and you know it\\u0026rsquo;s an audition, you just don\\u0026rsquo;t quite play the same. So I called a few drummers up. Chris Coleman was one of them and then there was two or three other people, and I just said, \\u0026ldquo;Hey, do you wanna get together and jam?\\u0026rdquo; And I thought, well, if they say no to me, then they\\u0026rsquo;re saying no to a great gig but they don\\u0026rsquo;t even know they\\u0026rsquo;re saying no to it. That was my test.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e So I get a random text message from Tal --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is Chris Coleman.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e -- she was like \\u0026lsquo;hey, you wanna come over and jam? I just wanna hang out. And I was like, yeah sure, no worries.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e So we jammed and I sent recordings to Prince, and Prince picked him.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know then \\u0026ndash; that she sent three different drummers and he ended up choosing me. So yeah, so no pressure, no pressure at all. [laughs]\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e The first time Chris and Tal went to Paisley Park to jam with Prince as a trio was December 4, 2009. Chris arrived first.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e When I first got there it was like straight into the studio. And you don\\u0026rsquo;t know what to expect, you know? Crazy thing, right? So super chill -- no lights, no cameras, no entourage. It was just super chill. So I show up and Rick, his assistant at the time, he says, \\u0026ldquo;Come with me. I want you to check out these drums.\\u0026rdquo; I\\u0026rsquo;m secretly silently freaking out, you know. He says check out the drums so I checked out the drums and Rick says, \\u0026ldquo;Yeah, well P says\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ndash; he calls him P \\u0026ndash; \\u0026ldquo;so P says, \\u0026lsquo;If you don\\u0026rsquo;t like it we can go to the store.\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And this is all before you\\u0026rsquo;d even met him.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He hasn\\u0026rsquo;t even come in the room yet. So Rick and I jump in the car and we head to Guitar Center and you can imagine. I\\u0026rsquo;m with his assistant. We\\u0026rsquo;
79re going to Guitar Center to buy me drums and I\\u0026rsquo;m just kinda like looking up like \\u0026lsquo;really, God? Really?\\u0026rsquo; Like you fixing me? He\\u0026rsquo;s like, fixed.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOne surreal Guitar Center shopping experience later, Chris was back at Paisley Park setting up a brand new drum kit in the Soundstage when he finally met Prince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I reach down, I\\u0026rsquo;m messing with this double pedal and I heard someone walking up onstage. When I come up he\\u0026rsquo;s standing right there and I went \\u0026lsquo;Hey, how you doin\\u0026rsquo;?\\u0026rsquo; and the first thing out of his mouth was -- he looks at the drums and he goes, \\u0026ldquo;I wondered what kind of color you were gonna buy. Nice.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e What color was it?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It was like a silver sparkle, which means they look good under any light.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e As Chris chatted with Prince, he realized that before he could even adjust to being in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s presence, the two of them were about to start jamming.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It was just surreal. Rick is putting the bass over his neck while we\\u0026rsquo;re talking and I\\u0026rsquo;m going no, no, no. I\\u0026rsquo;m sending like an SMS Zoom link to my heart like yo, do not stop right now; just keep beating; I know you\\u0026rsquo;re beating super fast. Just don\\u0026rsquo;t give up, like don\\u0026rsquo;t give out on me right now, I really need you. [laughs] This type of vibe. And then he starts playing. You remember the song \\u0026ldquo;777-9311\\u0026rdquo;?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Oh yeah.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e The Time, \\u0026ldquo;777-9311\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e [sings] Now I kid you not, I felt like the angels were there like sitting with me. I\\u0026rsquo;m so serious, and they were just looking at me like \\u0026lsquo;you can play this, remember?\\u0026rsquo; I think he was kinda shocked, you know? When I started playing it, he was playing the bass and he looked at me and looked at the drums like oh, okay, you know this song. And honestly for me personally I think that\\u0026rsquo;s what sealed the deal. Because after that he immediately went to referencing certain artists and styles of music like James Brown and all that, and I said \\u0026ldquo;Yo, James is my favorite.\\u0026rdquo; I just started off in a groove and he started playing with me. And that was it, like we were two peas in a pod.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eOnce Tal arrived at Paisley Park, the new trio started to feel each other out on stage.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;1000 Light Years From Here\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It sounded like how I\\u0026rsquo;d imagined a trio would sound with Prince. It just felt natural and organic and it actually happened a lot quicker than I would\\u0026rsquo;ve assumed it would happen. Because we got together once for a few days in that rehearsal hall and then the next time we were there we were recording, and literally tracked the whole album in a matter of days, between two trips that were almost back to back.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMu
79sic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;1000 Light Years From Here\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePrince brought Tal and Chris back to Paisley Park for those recording sessions in March and April of 2010. Once Tal and Chris set up in Studio A with Prince, they learned just how quickly Prince worked\\u0026mdash;and how much he enjoyed keeping everyone around him on their toes.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We didn\\u0026rsquo;t know the songs ahead of time. We didn\\u0026rsquo;t know the chords, we didn\\u0026rsquo;t know nothing. Like the stuff that we did in the rehearsal hall had nothing to do with what we did in the studio. So basically, like, in the studio he would just say \\u0026ldquo;Okay, it\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be this chord, this chord, and then I\\u0026rsquo;ll point when the next section\\u0026rdquo; -- and then \\u0026ldquo;Okay, let\\u0026rsquo;s go; roll the tape.\\u0026rdquo; And we\\u0026rsquo;d start recording, not knowing where the song was going even, and what section was coming up next or anything. And he wasn\\u0026rsquo;t singing along. He would just occasionally get on the mic and say \\u0026ldquo;chorus\\u0026rdquo; or \\u0026ldquo;bridge\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;lose the snare,\\u0026rdquo; or \\u0026ldquo;snare.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Like on Same Page Different Book he\\u0026rsquo;d point to me and say \\u0026lsquo;bass fill\\u0026rsquo; but I never knew that that was coming up, like it ended up happening four times in the song but every time he\\u0026rsquo;d just point to me. I\\u0026rsquo;d be like oh, okay, like I didn\\u0026rsquo;t expect the whole song to be filled with these solo bass fills.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Here\\u0026rsquo;s the crazy thing. A lot of that we recorded, there were no vocals.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eReally?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAt all. Oh, yeah. I didn\\u0026rsquo;t hear vocals until the first listening party.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And also, like, he would only do something once or twice, like there was one take for most of this album; maybe a second take, but usually just one take. And he wasn\\u0026rsquo;t into doing punches. We were recording to tape. So if there was a mistake -- I mean, seldom was there a mistake, but if there was something you wanted to maybe change or improve upon he would say no. [laughs] So that was fun. I learned a lot from that. I learned about just committing to what I was playing in the moment without any doubts, because there wasn\\u0026rsquo;t a second chance. And I just learned that confidence, but like kinesthetically learned it, not like because he said \\u0026ldquo;be confident\\u0026rdquo;; just learned it from the experience of being on the edge and just not knowing what\\u0026rsquo;s happening next. And I think he loved that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eHe\\u0026rsquo;s old school, like you just flow with him. Like he\\u0026rsquo;s not like, \\u0026ldquo;Okay there\\u0026rsquo;s an itinerary coming and you\\u0026rsquo;ll have from 3 to 9\\u0026hellip;\\u0026rdquo; It\\u0026rsquo;s just like, just go with the flow. We\\u0026rsquo;re in his playground, that type of thing. I feel like I had a special flow with him because I felt like we valued a lot of the same things. Play from your heart, make it funky, just be cool about it, have fun and be human.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/71\/regular_image-f211aa49fe507ef3292c9112f576900f.jpeg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/71\/regular_mobile_image-f211aa49fe507ef3292c9112f576900f.jpeg\"}
79,\"credit\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eElisa Fiorillo, Liv Warfield, and Shelby J. | Photo by Kevin Mazur\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eShelby, I know you had a front row seat to a lot of musicians coming and going from Paisley Park over the years. Does this all square with what you\\u0026rsquo;ve learned about working with Prince? Because what Chris is saying there reminds me of something that you\\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned Prince saying a lot: \\u0026ldquo;Be like water.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;1010 Rin Tin Tin\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003ePrince would tell me to be like water all the time. Like, \\u0026ldquo;Shelby, just flow. You don\\u0026rsquo;t have to think so much, you just learn to let go, and learn to be like water. And I take that with me now, in my life, how I approach things. I hear him in my head when I\\u0026rsquo;m looking five different directions, and I don\\u0026rsquo;t know what to do, and all this stuff is going on, and life can get a little chaotic. I hear him in my head saying, \\u0026ldquo;Shelby, be like water.\\u0026rdquo; You know? \\u0026ldquo;Just flow.\\u0026rdquo; And it instantly relaxes me. Instantly. Some of the best advice I ever got.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo at the same time that Prince, Tal and Chris were laying down their tracks as a live trio, he would also be rehearsing his trio of vocalists and getting you all ready to record your parts. Shelby, what do you say we call up your fellow NPG vocalists to hear what they remember about these sessions?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eLet\\u0026rsquo;s do it!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Yes\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Y\\u0026rsquo;all remember \\u0026ldquo;Yes\\u0026rdquo;? Remember that note? He wanted us to hold it and because we would do so many vocals around the mic at the same time, like they would do during Aretha\\u0026rsquo;s times everybody had to get their note right. It wasn\\u0026rsquo;t Elisa go in, Liv go in. Like we would do stuff, the three of us around a mic.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo if one person messed up the other two people had to do it over too.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e This is the singer Elisa Fiorillo Dease --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I can just remember sitting next to Elisa. Elisa smiles when she sings so I\\u0026rsquo;m just looking at her.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And this is the singer Liv Warfield.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And on the song \\u0026ldquo;Yes,\\u0026rdquo; he wanted that last note held even though we change and go yeah-eyeah-eyeah-eyeah-eyaeah and try to figure out a place to breathe. I was like I have never held a note that long in my natural life.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eDo you remember when he showed out and said, \\u0026ldquo;You can\\u0026rsquo;t do it?\\u0026rdquo; [sings] Do you remember him singing in front of us? And holding it out?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Oh, that\\u0026rsquo;s right.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We\\u0026rsquo;re like it can\\u0026rsquo;t be done. He\\u0026rsquo;
79s like yes it can and I\\u0026rsquo;m gonna show you. [sings]\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd I\\u0026rsquo;m just like \\u0026lsquo;what?\\u0026rsquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I\\u0026rsquo;m like well you better breathe some more, Shelby, do your lung exercises or something, honey, because he wants that note held, and we did it. If you listen to the record you can hear like yeah-eyeah-eyeah-eyeah-eyaeah...\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Yes\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eShelby, Liv and Elisa are the vocalists that you hear alongside Prince on all but one of the songs on Welcome 2 America. As a trio, the singers spent countless hours in the studio and on the road with Prince, and they have stories for days.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eThe three of us together are a force, and I know that Prince could hear that and feel that. When you listen to the album you can hear it. We were his crayons. And he put us wherever he wanted us and he knew, like, ok, put a little bit of Liv here, okay put a little bit of Liv right there, put a little bit of Elisa right here, put a little bit of Shelby right here -- \\u0026lsquo;what\\u0026rsquo;s the deal, daddy?\\u0026rsquo;-- he knew.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Born 2 Die\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I think he understood that we could handle it, but I also know that he knew that we respected him so much and loved him so much that we were able to flow like water, like the trust was there. That\\u0026rsquo;s why he would call Shelby: \\u0026lsquo;You got the girls?\\u0026rsquo; We were there, we were always there. He trusted that. There\\u0026rsquo;s something to say for that, that you could walk into a studio with -- just having anybody there, and be like okay, I know my girls got it. And there\\u0026rsquo;s something to say for that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah. Real talk, real talk.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e When Prince began recording the songs for Welcome 2 America, he called on his vocalists to contribute in major ways. In addition to providing backing vocals and harmonies, they also each had a chance to sing lead, and even rap. Before they went into the studio with Prince, though, they spent long nights rehearsing their parts in their hotel.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I have to hear more about your time at the Country Inn and Suites -- rehearsing your vocals together in Shelby\\u0026rsquo;s room, was it? Tell me -- I just wanna hear everything about that whole process.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e She had the candles lit. She was ready. She called us in, we went, she had gotten a call from Prince -- \\u0026lsquo;Get the girls to learn this\\u0026rsquo; -- we sat there. We worked. It was great.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e We worked. We worked. For hours.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, we did, we really did for hours before rehearsal. Before rehearsal we would rehearse -- okay? And so I would feel like a sense of pressure to make sure the vocals were right because I knew if it wasn\\u0026rsquo;t he was gonna call me and tell me uh-uh. You know: \\u0026ldquo;Y\\u0026rsquo;all rehearsed two hours. Rehearse three and a half next time.\\u0026rdquo; We would go and rehearse in my room two, three hours before we went over the Paisley so we would be ready.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It even continued at Paisley. Remember the little round area with the little, you know -- where we used to eat?\\u0026nbsp;The band would be rehearsing and we knew that at any moment Prince was gonna pop his head in and we didn\\u0026rsquo;t wanna look like we were just sitting in there, so we\\u0026rsquo;re like \\u0026ldquo;Let\\u0026rsquo;s just go over this again,\\u0026rdquo;
79 like we were insane, like we were constant. No wonder we blend so well.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, going into the bathroom --\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, we sang in the bathroom -- the acoustics were good.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Airports!\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eEverything. And that\\u0026rsquo;s the thing too. This is a relationship we all had to form with each other. I mean to be around each other this long, leaving our families and stuff like that, like we became a family to each other and it was a lot. With him you had to have very much of a sense of an understanding of the love and appreciation you have to have for music, because you were kinda being pulled in a way that people normally would not be pulled. And not everybody can handle that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I wanna know from Liv and Elisa what their favorite song is on the Welcome 2 America album and why.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo; for sure.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It\\u0026rsquo;s so funky, right?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eSo how much advance warning did you get that you were about to rap on a Prince song?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e None. Not really, none. Like, \\u0026lsquo;I need a rap right here; go out in the hallway and write it.\\u0026rsquo; Okay. Yeah. Who does that? That\\u0026#39;s the one thing I think all of us can agree on. Like, this man would make me believe in myself more than I even believed in myself, and show me that I could do things that I didn\\u0026rsquo;t think I could do. He didn\\u0026rsquo;t ask to see it or anything, and I just got on the mic. He trusted me, and I got on the mic and did it and he loved it and it was like oh, snap! Okay, I\\u0026rsquo;m rapping. I got bars. I got bars.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He\\u0026rsquo;d take us in his Mercedes black SUV and I remember it being late, actually. I remember all the heads bobbin\\u0026rsquo; in the car, as we\\u0026rsquo;re driving and listening to it, just funking out. We were driving along this one road and I was sure we were gonna hit a deer or something because it was dark out, but we didn\\u0026rsquo;t care. We were just funking up in the car and I was thinking to myself \\u0026ldquo;this should be on the radio, damn.\\u0026rdquo; The one that I thought, this is it, this is gonna bring him back. I really felt that. And I was mad that it never came out. Now it\\u0026rsquo;s coming out and I hope that\\u0026rsquo;s the biggest one. I hope I was right.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Same Page, Different Book\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Speaking of songs on the radio, there is one song that was released on \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.thecurrent.org\/\\\"\\u003eThe Current\\u003c\/a\\u003e, \\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo; -- and Liv, you have a big shine on that song. I love the hook on that one. What do you remember about that song coming together?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMu
79sic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"tiAhTus8RRs\",\"title\":\"Prince, \\\"Hot Summer\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I remember \\u0026ldquo;Liv, I want you to sing this: \\u0026lsquo;Hot Summer,\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026rdquo; but in his falsetto! I remember him singing that back to me and I was like okay?! And then when I finally heard it I honestly -- I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know where it was going and then I finally listened back and I was like wow, this is crazy, like I really love the fact that everything else was so serious, but then it just came to this fun, kind of like feel-good vibe.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Oh, Hot Summer\\u0026rdquo; -- I love it. You come in strong, you come in strong on that and it makes me think like we\\u0026rsquo;re all at the beach doing the twist. That\\u0026rsquo;s just what I feel. I\\u0026rsquo;m like, we all like Annette Funicello and them beach movies. I\\u0026rsquo;m like, we all at the beach throwing beach balls and doing the twist. That\\u0026rsquo;s just what I feel when I hear that song. So I say it\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be a hot purple summer. That\\u0026rsquo;s what I say.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And do you remember we got in the car and went down to the lake that day?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I do.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e All those people were outside and I\\u0026rsquo;m thinking it\\u0026rsquo;s broad daylight, they\\u0026rsquo;re gonna see him. But we didn\\u0026rsquo;t care. We had the windows rolled down and we were playing \\u0026quot;Hot Summer.\\u0026quot; There\\u0026rsquo;s nothing like driving in a car and listening to music and I think he agreed. That\\u0026rsquo;s like one of the tests that you do when you listen to a mix.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Exactly, yup.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e You know, it has to sound good in a car.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYeah, man, because people listen to their music in their cars, mostly.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I liked when he would play a mix back to us in the control room and he would dance around and be so sure of himself, and then he\\u0026rsquo;d just stop it midway, just like yeah, that\\u0026rsquo;s enough. That\\u0026rsquo;s all you get to hear.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eYou have to play the whole thing. Don\\u0026rsquo;t just give us a snippet!\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t even play \\u0026ldquo;When She Comes,\\u0026rdquo; remember? We weren\\u0026rsquo;t even allowed to sing that.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e He wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t let us sing on it and he wouldn\\u0026rsquo;t play it. We sang on everything else but not on that. He was like \\u0026lsquo;no, I got that.\\u0026rsquo; So that\\u0026rsquo;s all Prince, all Prince all day. With his little grown self. I said, \\u0026ldquo;Ooh, Prince!\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;When She Comes\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I wanted to al
79so ask about \\u0026ldquo;Stand Up And B Strong,\\u0026rdquo; which starts with Elisa before Prince comes in. What was that like to record?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Well, I think it was somebody else\\u0026rsquo;s song, right?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, it\\u0026rsquo;s a \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=mFPnG1Ze5qY\\u0026amp;feature=share\\\"\\u003ecover\\u003c\/a\\u003e. Soul Asylum.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"mFPnG1Ze5qY\",\"title\":\"Soul Asylum, \\\"Stand Up and B Strong\\\"\",\"credit\":\"\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Yeah, Soul Asylum, but I didn\\u0026rsquo;t even know that at the time. It\\u0026rsquo;s such a pop song compared to the other stuff that we had been working on.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Stand Up and B Strong\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd with the album -- with us doing the vocals in 2010, I wanted to ask you guys, like, I know how I felt. It felt like a time capsule because I forgot most of the stuff we did. It\\u0026rsquo;s like we had done so much more stuff between 2010 and hearing it in 2021, it\\u0026rsquo;s like I\\u0026rsquo;m hearing it for the first time, even though I know that\\u0026rsquo;s us. So when you heard it for the first time and listened down, what were some of the things that it sparked for you, the memories and things like that? How did you feel listening to it, you know, top to bottom?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eElisa Fiorillo:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I had forgotten half of the things that I said or sang because we sang it once, basically, and it was recorded. He was having so much fun just orchestrating. It was like a chemistry that he was creating with us, with this record. And he could see the fruition. He could see what was gonna come in the future I think, with us being on stage together. It was the family, it was just the connection with everyone. You guys held me up so many times where I\\u0026rsquo;d be breaking down missing my daughter so I just think of the family, the unit that we had and how strong it was, and that\\u0026rsquo;s the memories I -- I listened, and that\\u0026rsquo;s what I remembered.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e How about you, Liv?\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I agree a lot with Elisa. I think for me, because the atmosphere was so new, it was mind-blowing for me. I was in shock and it was a good shock because I felt like I was just being like, okay, time to grow up. Time to musically grow up. And time to be taught; time to listen; time to really be aware of everything. Aware of not even musically, just aware of life\\u0026rsquo;s surroundings. And also just the beauty of family. I think Prince really, really, really, really loved us, and loved his music family.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e And with listening now, everybody\\u0026rsquo;s got their own different careers and people are doing stuff with their own bands and Elisa\\u0026rsquo;s doing shows and Liv\\u0026rsquo;s preparing for shows, I\\u0026rsquo;m recording, about to get back out there -- we\\u0026rsquo;re coming out of this pandemic, and everybody\\u0026rsquo;s ready for real music. I mean, the timing of this couldn\\u0026rsquo;t be better because people are hungry for real music by real musicians. And we listen to this now, and I know how I felt listening to it in 2021. Isn\\u0026rsquo;t it amazing how relevant it is? And how he\\u0026rsquo;s tapping on stuff like everything that happened during the election, everything that happened with -- you know, you have George Floyd, you have all of this stuff that\\u0026rsquo;s happening in the world. People are now talking more about Black Wall Street. He was talking about that in 2010. He put me onto that. I didn\\u0026rsquo;t know what that was. The Harlem Renaissance, and all of this stuff. He\\u0026rsquo;s laying it out there, 2010. To me it was like, this man is prophetic. And I don\\u0026rsquo;t throw that word \\u0026lsquo;prophet\\u0026rsquo; around easily, but this brother right here?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e 100%.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eShelby J: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAnd like I said, it ain\\u0026rsquo;t milk; it don\\u0026rsquo;t expire. And it\\u0026rsquo;s even better now because it\\u0026rsquo;s gonna be -- I think peoples\\u0026rsquo; ears and eyes are open coming out of the pandemic. Everything people have been through, their eyes and their ears are open. They\\u0026rsquo;re gonna be able to really receive what he\\u0026rsquo;s saying on this album.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eLiv Warfield: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eExactly.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMu
79sic:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026ldquo;Stand Up and B Strong\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e It was clear to those around him that Prince was excited about this new batch of songs. He would invite Chris Coleman and Tal Wilkenfeld to come back to Paisley Park at the end of May 2010 to listen to the finished album. But unbeknownst to either of them at the time, that would be their final visit to Paisley Park and their last time seeing Prince. Although Prince would continue working on \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e through the end of the year, his communication with Tal and Chris stopped that summer, and the album would be archived in the vault by winter.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eChris Coleman:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e Timing is everything and I don\\u0026#39;t know what his reasons were for not putting it out then. I got no indication of why. I just remembered him saying he was happy. He was happy with us, he was really happy, because he said it. He said, \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;ve been waiting to get this sound out. Thank you so much. Like you really helped me get this sound out. This is different from any other thing I\\u0026rsquo;ve done and I\\u0026rsquo;ve been sitting on this for a while.\\u0026rdquo; And it\\u0026rsquo;s crazy. When you listen to the songs, how it speaks to the times of what we\\u0026rsquo;re going through in this country right now. It sounds like he just wrote this, like he was watching the news and -- you know what I\\u0026rsquo;m saying? Like be strong. \\u0026quot;Welcome 2 America.\\u0026quot; He\\u0026rsquo;s telling true stories, you know? You can fact check those! He meant this. And now it makes sense when he said to me on the last day on the last song, \\u0026ldquo;Thank you so much. I\\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to get this out. I\\u0026rsquo;ve been trying to get this out.\\u0026rdquo; I think he was more or less \\u0026ldquo;out of me,\\u0026rdquo; like not just out in the world but just this sound, like \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;ve got this sound stuck in my head.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTal Wilkenfeld:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e I remember the last time I saw him. I have a vivid memory of him sitting at this desk and I walked in and he thanked me and he just said, like, \\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;ve been looking for this sound for years and I\\u0026rsquo;m grateful that you helped me find it.\\u0026rdquo; It was the sweetest thing, and so sad that that\\u0026rsquo;s my last memory. I mean, that\\u0026rsquo;s an honor that we could be of any assistance.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusic: \\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;Running Game\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eComing up next on The Story of Welcome 2 America: I\\u0026rsquo;ll be joined by another special guest co-host, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s longtime musical director Morris Hayes, who co-produced many of the Welcome 2 America tracks. We\\u0026rsquo;ll talk to more of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s collaborators to dig deeper into the meaning of the lyrics on this record -- and how they relate to the real-time conversations Prince was having in 2010 about politics, racism, and a burgeoning new social justice movement. And who better to join us than one of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s closest friends in this era: the renowned activist, artist, and educator Dr. Cornel West.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eBut the other side that\\u0026rsquo;s so deep about Prince was he was unapologetically Black, unapologetically human, unapologetically himself as a particular Black man. A free Black Man.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eMorris Hayes: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eCorrect.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eCornel West: \\u003c\/strong\\u003eAll three levels.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eAndrea Swensson:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;The Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026quot; is produced by the Prince Estate and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. This story was written and co-produced by me, Andrea Swensson. Shelby J. was my co-host. Anna Weggel is our producer, and Corey Schreppel is our technical director. Thanks also to Trevor Guy, Zach Hochkeppel, Michael Howe, and Duane Tudahl. \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/welcome-2-america\\\"\\u003eOrder your copy of \\u003cem\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u003c\/em\\u003e at prince.com\\u003c\/a\\u003e. And if you haven\\u0026rsquo;t subscribed yet, search for \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\"\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;The Story of Welcome 2 America\\u0026rdquo; on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]}
79,{\"title\":\"Prince x Paris Saint-Germain\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2021-05-07T23:28:07.000Z\",\"slug\":\"psg\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince x Paris Saint-Germain\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince x Paris Saint-Germain\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Prince Estate and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) are honored to announce an\\u0026nbsp;exclusive partnership to commemorate global superstar Prince. The distinguished\\u0026nbsp;and internationally celebrated football club is paying\\u0026nbsp;tribute to the \\u0026ldquo;Prince\\u0026nbsp;of the Parc\\u0026rdquo; by releasing an exclusive limited-edition 7\\u0026rdquo; vinyl and two\\u0026nbsp;limited-edition apparel capsules. The limited-edition vinyl is available now\\u0026nbsp;from PSG\\u0026rsquo;s Paris Megastore (curbside) and online at\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.psg.fr\/en\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePSG.fr\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;the \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/store\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eofficial Prince store\\u003c\/a\\u003e;\\u0026nbsp;the apparel collections will be\\u0026nbsp;available exclusively from the PSG Megastore, the PSG Champs-Elys\\u0026eacute;es store and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.psg.fr\/en\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePSG.fr\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;beginning May 24th.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe 7\\u0026rdquo; vinyl,\\u0026nbsp;released in collaboration with Warner Records, features the hit songs\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;Partyman,\\u0026rdquo; originally issued on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s 1989 soundtrack to the film\\u0026nbsp;Batman,\\u0026nbsp;and a previously unreleased live version of the song \\u0026ldquo;Cool,\\u0026rdquo; taken from\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s final\\u0026nbsp;live performance in Paris at Le Z\\u0026eacute;nith on June 1, 2014. In\\u0026nbsp;tribute to The Purple One, the limited edition 7\\u0026rdquo; has been pressed on\\u0026nbsp;collectible purple vinyl at MPO in France.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIn addition,\\u0026nbsp;Paris Saint-Germain has collaborated with GRAMMY-nominated creative director\\u0026nbsp;and Prince associate Trevor Guy and Prince\\u0026rsquo;s personal late-career clothing\\u0026nbsp;designers, Cathy Robinson and Lori Marcuz of Toronto based studio\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.callandresponseclothing.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eCall \\u0026amp;\\u0026nbsp;Response\\u003c\/a\\u003e, to develop a bespoke premium fashion\\u0026nbsp;capsule that honors Prince\\u0026rsquo;s status as an unparalleled style icon.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe exclusive\\u0026nbsp;collection includes: official 2020-21 PSG (fourth kit) jerseys embellished with\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s characteristic symbol alongside gold and metallic hand-sewn leather\\u0026nbsp;overlays; hand-dyed viscose-knit purple shirts; pattern stitched multi-layered\\u0026nbsp;neoprene jogger sets; premium Italian-leather hoodies with embroidered Prince\\u0026nbsp;symbol and hand-dyed purple silk lining;
79 and Italian-leather bucket hats with embossed\\u0026nbsp;croc pattern and hand-dyed purple silk lining.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe limited\\u0026nbsp;edition pieces have been hand-crafted in Toronto and combine design elements,\\u0026nbsp;materials and artistry that are emblematic of the clothing Prince wore between\\u0026nbsp;2011 to 2016. Prince\\u0026rsquo;s style on and off stage was reflective of his\\u0026nbsp;collaboration with Robinson and Marcuz through this period, wearing pieces they\\u0026nbsp;created at the GRAMMYs, Brit Awards, Oscars, Billboard Music Awards, Saturday\\u0026nbsp;Night Live and throughout the totality of his incendiary HITNRUN performances\\u0026nbsp;with 3RDEYEGIRL, a group The Guardian defined as \\u0026ldquo;one of the greatest funk-rock\\u0026nbsp;bands ever.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAlongside the\\u0026nbsp;premium Call \\u0026amp; Response capsule, Paris Saint-Germain is also launching a \\u0026ldquo;Prince\\u0026nbsp;of the Parc\\u0026rdquo; streetwear essentials collection, consisting of Prince-inspired\\u0026nbsp;t-shirts, crewnecks, hoodies and hats.\\u0026nbsp;Limited quantities will soon be sent\\u0026nbsp;to various Paris\\u0026nbsp;Saint-Germain stores in Japan and the United States.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPrince had a\\u0026nbsp;strong affinity for Paris \\u0026ndash; the City of Light, culture, fashion, and music. The\\u0026nbsp;enigmatic icon kept an apartment in Paris for many years and performed\\u0026nbsp;countless concerts in the French capital starting in the mid-1980s, including\\u0026nbsp;pop-up\\u0026nbsp;club shows, late-night afterparties, and a historic June 16, 1990 performance\\u0026nbsp;at the Parc des Princes stadium, the home of Paris Saint-Germain.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[{\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"small\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/218\/small_source-48638ca6be001cf98db606e83cb12cd6.jpg\",\"small_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/218\/small_mobile_source-48638ca6be001cf98db606e83cb12cd6.jpg\",\"regular\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/218\/small_source-48638ca6be001cf98db606e83cb12cd6.jpg\",\"regular_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/218\/regular_mobile_source-48638ca6be001cf98db606e83cb12cd6.jpg\",\"video\":null}]},{\"title\":\"Prince x Urban Decay\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2021-05-06T17:16:19.000Z\",\"slug\":\"urbandecay\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince x Urban Decay\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince x Urban Decay\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe Prince Estate and Urban Decay will soon unveil an exclusive limited-edition\\u0026nbsp;cosmetics capsule inspired by the creative genius and personal style of Prince.\\u0026nbsp;The Purple One\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;signature color is highlighted alongside\\u0026nbsp;gold and black in the collection created to honor his\\u0026nbsp;vibrant self-expression. With meticulous attention to detail and a constant desire for refinement\\u0026nbsp;and reinvention, Prince owned his looks unapologetically, never shy\\u0026nbsp;to live by his own rules. The\\u0026nbsp;elements in this collection will inspire fans and those getting to know Prince to live boldly and\\u0026nbsp;without limits. The Prince x Urban Decay capsule will be available May, 27.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe collection and the overall campaign was designed in close collaboration with key members\\u0026nbsp;of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s artistic camp, including\\u0026nbsp;creative director Trevor Guy; his beloved muse and close\\u0026nbsp;friend, Damaris Lewis, who\\u0026nbsp;began touring with him in 2012; and renowned\\u0026nbsp;photographer\/director Randee St. Nicholas who captured art for the campaign and was a close\\u0026nbsp;collaborator with Prince for three decades.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;I\\u0026rsquo;m very\\u0026nbsp;excited for this collection. I hope it inspires you to make your own rules, just as Prince\\u0026nbsp;did for so many decades,\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;says Damaris Lewis. The multi-talented actress, model, and dancer\\u0026nbsp;first joined Prince\\u0026rsquo;s band\\u0026nbsp;the New\\u0026nbsp;Power Generation in 2012 on his Welcome 2 Australia Tour\\u0026nbsp;and continued performing alongside him during the final chapters of his prolific career.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;It\\u0026rsquo;s incredibly important to carry on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legacy in a way that truly gets it right,\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;says\\u0026nbsp;Randee St. Nicholas.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;He challenged you to rise to his level of work ethic and intensity\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ndash;\\u0026nbsp;
79not in a\\u0026nbsp;way that was threatening or\\u0026nbsp;fearful, you just didn\\u0026rsquo;t want to disappoint him. He made you want to\\u0026nbsp;be your best, perform at the highest caliber and step outside of your comfort zone. When\\u0026nbsp;shooting, it was important to embody this boldness and\\u0026nbsp;freedom.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWende Zomnir, Urban Decay brand co-founder and a Prince fangirl dating back to the\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026lsquo;80s,\\u0026nbsp;added that paying homage to Prince made sense for many different reasons. \\u0026ldquo;We couldn\\u0026rsquo;t\\u0026nbsp;possibly imitate someone as\\u0026nbsp;legendary as Prince, and to compare him to a palette would diminish\\u0026nbsp;what he represents. It\\u0026rsquo;s easy to say why this collection makes sense on the surface \\u0026ndash;\\u0026nbsp;his makeup\\u0026nbsp;looks and our shared love of purple\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ndash;\\u0026nbsp;but we did\\u0026nbsp;our best to reflect his energy on a deeper level.\\u0026nbsp;We found his ethos of not asking permission to be who he was and owning it so boldly aligned\\u0026nbsp;with our values of breaking the mold and championing all forms of\\u0026nbsp;beauty.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFor more information and to subscribe for updates visit\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.urbandecay.com\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eUrban Decay\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e#UDxPrince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/64\/regular_image-bafe8565c63b5d77b2b890c86c2885fb.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/64\/regular_mobile_image-bafe8565c63b5d77b2b890c86c2885fb.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[{\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"small\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/217\/small_source-d43275f9959f638c69428c906a69d361.jpg\",\"small_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/217\/small_mobile_source-d43275f9959f638c69428c906a69d361.jpg\",\"regular\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/217\/small_source-d43275f9959f638c69428c906a69d361.jpg\",\"regular_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/217\/regular_mobile_source-d43275f9959f638c69428c906a69d361.jpg\",\"video\":null}]}
79,{\"title\":\"Welcome 2 America | Lyrics\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2021-04-08T10:00:01.000Z\",\"slug\":\"w2a_lyrics\",\"meta_title\":\"Welcome 2 America\",\"meta_description\":\"Lyrics\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp style=\\\"margin:0cm\\\"\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eWelcome 2 America\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPrince: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTal Wilkenfeld: Bass\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nChris Coleman: Drums\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nMr. Hayes: Keyboards, Percussion\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nLiv Warfield: Vocals\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nShelby J.: Vocals\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nElisa Fiorillo: Vocals\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCo-Produced by Mr. Hayes\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cu\\u003e_____________\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp style=\\\"margin:0cm\\\"\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWelcome\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWhere U can fail at Ur job, get fired, rehired\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAnd get a 7 hundred billion dollar tip\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCome on in, sit right down, and fill up Ur pockets, yeah\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nMass media, in4mation overload\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(The following message is brought to you by Diacom)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nDistracted by the features of the iPhone\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGot an application, 2 fix Ur situation\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIn other words, taken by a pretty face\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSomebody\\u0026rsquo;s watching U, Eye c U, Eye c U\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHook up later at the iPad\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOr we can meet at my place\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA (x3)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWhere everything and nothing that Google says is hip\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(The sales tax 4 the following item will b raised immediately:\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCigarettes, soda, gas, liquor, and medicinal weed...)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWe will not raise Ur taxes\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nRead our lips\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWelcome 2 the big show\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEverybody\\u0026rsquo;s lookin\\u0026rsquo; 4 somethin\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWhen there ain\\u0026rsquo;t no place 2 go\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nXcept inside America, that\\u0026rsquo;s the only place Eye know\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTrans4mation happens deep within: yes or no?\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nYes!\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n1 of our greatest exports was a thing called jazz\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nU think 2day\\u0026rsquo;s music will last?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(Dismantle all monopolies, dismantle all monopolies)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWelcome\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHope and change\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEverything takes 4ever\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe truth is a new minority\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTruth\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAwww, WELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n2day we\\u0026rsquo;d like 2 discuss America\\u0026rsquo;s plan 2 fix the educational system\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Pledge of Allegiance will now read as follows:\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEye pledge allegiance 2 the earth,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOf the United States of the Universe\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThere is no arguing with the book\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(When am Eye going 2 learn something new?)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThere is no arguing with the book\\u
790026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(Who\\u0026rsquo;s going 2 teach it 2 me? U?)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThere is no arguing with the book\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(What\\u0026rsquo;s that outside my windowsill?)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThere is no arguing\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(Could it b our free will?)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nU say yes, Eye say no. Let love flow\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAmerica can provide many opportunities\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4 the young female who wishes 2 work\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4 the state!\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4 her own advancement up from the underclass\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n2 become 1\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGo 2 school 2 become a celebrity\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n(F-A-M-O-U-S)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBut don\\u0026rsquo;t b late\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBecause everybody and their mama\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGot a sex tape\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWe snatch bass players\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nNot purses\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nKeep playing\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIt gets worse\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nLand of the free\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHome of the brave. Oops, Eye mean\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nLand of the free\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHome of the slave\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGet down on Ur knees. Hit me\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWELCOME 2 AMERICA\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWelcome 2 the big show\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEverybody\\u0026rsquo;s lookin\\u0026rsquo; 4 somethin\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWhen there ain\\u0026rsquo;t no place 2 go\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nXcept inside America\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThat\\u0026rsquo;s the only place Eye know\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThat\\u0026rsquo;s it U\\u0026rsquo;all. U can either learn Chinese\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOr get down on Ur knees\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTrans4mation happens deep within:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nYES or NO?\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp style=\\\"margin:0cm\\\"\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp style=\\\"margin:0cm\\\"\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003e_____________\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp style=\\\"margin:0cm\\\"\\u003ePublished by NPG Music Publishing, LLC., adm. by Universal Music\\u0026nbsp;Works (GMR). \\u0026copy; 2021 NPG Records, Inc., Under Exclusive License to Sony Music\\u0026nbsp;Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"TikTok | Catalog Partnership \",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2020-06-26T19:16:01.000Z\",\"slug\":\"tiktok\",\"meta_title\":\"TikTok\",\"meta_description\":\"TikTok\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp style=\\\"text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\\\"\\u003ePrince once said, \\u0026ldquo;Try to\\u0026nbsp;create. I\\u0026nbsp;want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp style=\\\"text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\\\"\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBeginning June 26, 2020, TikTok users can now create videos of their lives soundtracked to their favorite Prince songs. Additionally, the official Prince TikTok account (\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@prince.4.ever\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\[email protected]\\u003c\/a\\u003e) will begin offering archival\\u0026nbsp;footage of Prince performances, interviews, and video excerpts from his long career.\\u0026nbsp;The new account will emphasize Prince\\u0026rsquo;s lifelong activism and fierce devotion to societal equality.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Prince was known for breaking boundaries and TikTok has proven to do so as well. With the addition of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s full catalogue on TikTok, it is our hope that a new generation of global fans can find meaning in\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music, and be inspired to create,\\u0026rdquo; said Troy Carter, Entertainment Advisor of The Prince Estate.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTikTok is the first short-form video app to gain global access to Prince\\u0026rsquo;s discography, and The Prince Estate will offer special programming on the app in the coming days and weeks. Check out TikTok\\u0026#39;s Sounds page\\u0026nbsp;
79to delve into a new career-spanning Prince playlist, curated by the Estate, which offers highlights from every era of his formidable discography.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFollow Prince on TikTok: \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@prince.4.ever\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\[email protected]\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nJoin the part using the hashtag \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/prince4ever\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003e#Prince4ever\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Sign O' The Times | Remastered and Expanded Edition \",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2020-06-25T15:23:01.000Z\",\"slug\":\"sott\",\"meta_title\":\"SOTT | Remastered and Expanded Edition\",\"meta_description\":\"SOTT | Remastered and Expanded Edition \",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;I feel that we\\u0026rsquo;re on the brink of\\u0026nbsp;something. It is going to be strict and wild and pretty.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026mdash;\\u003cstrong\\u003e Prince, 1986\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOverflowing with musical ideas and topical lyrics that sound\\u0026nbsp;just as relevant today as they did when they were initially released, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;iconic double album\\u0026nbsp;Sign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times\\u0026nbsp;captured\\u0026nbsp;the artist in a period of\\u0026nbsp;complete reinvention. The final 16-track album included just some of the\\u0026nbsp;countless songs Prince recorded in the prolific period of 1985-1987, which saw\\u0026nbsp;the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the\\u0026nbsp;construction of his innovative\\u0026nbsp;recording complex,\\u0026nbsp;Paisley\\u0026nbsp;Park, and the\\u0026nbsp;creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums\\u0026nbsp;Dream Factory,\\u0026nbsp;Camille,\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;Crystal Ball.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThis September\\u0026nbsp;25,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/b\\u003e, in partnership with\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eWarner Records\\u003c\/b\\u003e, will reissue\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eSign\\u0026nbsp;O\\u0026rsquo; The Times\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;via all physical, digital and streaming partners, with the\\u0026nbsp;classic album remastered for the very first time, and featuring\\u0026nbsp;63 previously\\u0026nbsp;unreleased tracks, as well as a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert\\u0026nbsp;performance from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legendary vault that illuminate his wide-ranging and\\u0026nbsp;prolific creativity in this era. Pre-order\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/store\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe reissue suite\\u0026nbsp;will be comprised of the following formats:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eSuper\\u0026nbsp;Deluxe Edition\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(8CD+DVD \/ 13LP+DVD \/ audio-only download and streaming)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eDeluxe Edition\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/b\\u003e(3CD \/ 4LP 180g\\u0026nbsp;vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eRemastered album\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(2CD \/ 2LP\\u0026nbsp;180g peach vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFollowing the\\u0026nbsp;successful release of the\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;Super Deluxe Edition in the fall of 2019,\\u0026nbsp;the\\u0026nbsp;Sign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times\\u0026nbsp;Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive\\u0026nbsp;to date into Prince\\u0026rsquo;s vault, and includes a total of 92 audio tracks\\u0026nbsp;across\\u0026nbsp;eight CDs and 13 180g vinyl records.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Super Deluxe\\u0026nbsp;Edition brings fans all the audio material that Prince officially released in\\u0026nbsp;1987, as well as 45 previously unissued studio songs recorded between May 1979\\u0026nbsp;and July 1987, and a complete live audio\\u0026nbsp;performance from the June 20, 1987\\u0026nbsp;stop on the Sign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times Tour at Stadium Galgenwaard in Utrecht, The\\u0026nbsp;Netherlands.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIn addition, both\\u0026nbsp;CD and vinyl sets also boast a brand-new DVD containing the complete,\\u0026nbsp;previously unreleased New Year\\u0026rsquo;
79s Eve benefit concert at Paisley Park on\\u0026nbsp;December 31, 1987, which was Prince\\u0026rsquo;s final performance of\\u0026nbsp;the Sign O\\u0026rsquo; The\\u0026nbsp;Times Tour stage show and his only on-stage collaboration with jazz legend\\u0026nbsp;Miles Davis.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Super Deluxe\\u0026nbsp;Edition set also features a 120-page hardcover book containing Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;previously unseen handwritten lyrics for many of the songs from the era,\\u0026nbsp;including the hits \\u0026ldquo;U Got The Look,\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ldquo;I Could Never Take\\u0026nbsp;The Place Of Your\\u0026nbsp;Man,\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Hot Thing,\\u0026rdquo; iconic unseen images from the era taken by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;primary photographer in the mid-1980s to early 90s, Jeff Katz, plus images of archive\\u0026nbsp;assets including original analog tape reels\\u0026nbsp;and studio tracking sheets.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Super Deluxe\\u0026nbsp;Edition book is completed with brand-new liner notes by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s creative peers\\u0026nbsp;and friends Dave Chappelle\\u0026nbsp;(in conversation with\\u0026nbsp;photographer Mathieu Bitton)\\u0026nbsp;and Lenny Kravitz; Prince\\u0026rsquo;s longtime\\u0026nbsp;engineer\\u0026nbsp;Susan Rogers; Daphne A. Brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of\\u0026nbsp;African American Studies, American Studies and Women\\u0026rsquo;s, Gender \\u0026amp; Sexuality\\u0026nbsp;Studies at Yale University; Minneapolis radio host and author Andrea\\u0026nbsp;Swensson, host\\u0026nbsp;of the Official Prince Podcast; and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;Sign O\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026nbsp;The Times\\u0026nbsp;Super Deluxe Edition shines a forensic light on the creative\\u0026nbsp;output of this truly unique musician, songwriter, producer, and performer at a\\u0026nbsp;pivotal point in his career and demonstrates why his\\u0026nbsp;unsurpassed body of work\\u0026nbsp;continues to generate so much love and passion around the world.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAs a companion\\u0026nbsp;collector piece, fans have the opportunity to order a numbered 7\\u0026rdquo; singles boxed\\u0026nbsp;set, strictly limited to 1,987 units, and manufactured by\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/thirdmanpressing.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eThird Man Pressing\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;in Detroit. Containing remastered audio for all four\\u0026nbsp;official 7\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;singles released in 1987, as well as the two official Warner Records promo\\u0026nbsp;singles, the set contains a brand new 7\\u0026rdquo; single comprising two versions of the\\u0026nbsp;previously unreleased track \\u0026ldquo;Witness 4 The Prosecution\\u0026rdquo;. The\\u0026nbsp;set is available\\u0026nbsp;to order now, exclusively via the official\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;Store\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;Third Man Records Store, and is expected to ship on or before August\\u0026nbsp;14.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Witness 4 The\\u0026nbsp;Prosecution (Version 1)\\u0026rdquo; is now available on all digital download and streaming\\u0026nbsp;platforms. Featured on the Super Deluxe set, the track was recorded on March\\u0026nbsp;14, 1986 at Prince\\u0026rsquo;s Galpin Blvd. home studio and\\u0026nbsp;was originally intended for\\u0026nbsp;inclusion on the halted Dream Factory album. Listen\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/W4TPV1\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/60\/regular_image-3dfb2c12706a98039c2b6de95aae4549.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/60\/regular_mobile_image-3dfb2c12706a98039c2b6de95aae4549.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Up All Nite with Prince | Official Podcast\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2020-05-29T09:00:09.000Z\",\"slug\":\"up-all-nite-with-prince\",\"meta_title\":\"Up All Nite with Prince | Official Podcast\",\"meta_description\":\"Up All Nite with Prince | Official Podcast\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e and \\u003cstrong\\u003eLegacy\\u
790026nbsp;Recordings\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce the\\u0026nbsp;release of a new podcast miniseries titled\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eUp\\u0026nbsp;All Nite with\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, produced with 89.3\\u0026nbsp;The Current.\\u0026nbsp;These episodes, which mark the next chapter in The\\u0026nbsp;Prince Estate\\u0026rsquo;s ongoing \\u003cstrong\\u003eOfficial Prince Podcast\\u003c\/strong\\u003e feed, were created by the same\\u0026nbsp;team that crafted the Webby\\u0026nbsp;Award-nominated podcast\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/TheStoryOf1999\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: The Story of 1999\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;The first episode of the new miniseries is available now.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nListen \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/podcastPR\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHosted by Andrea Swensson,\\u0026nbsp;an author and historian of\\u0026nbsp;Minnesota music,\\u0026nbsp;this two-episode special explores Prince\\u0026rsquo;s prolific and\\u0026nbsp;reflective period of 2001 and 2002, when he launched his\\u0026nbsp;trailblazing NPG Music\\u0026nbsp;Club and released\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children,\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;, and a\\u0026nbsp;collection of live recordings from the One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip; Tour.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe podcast coincides with the reissue of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s early\\u0026nbsp;2000s material, including the new expanded 4CD+DVD anthology\\u0026nbsp;Up All Nite with Prince: The One Nite\\u0026nbsp;Alone\\u0026nbsp;Collection\\u0026nbsp;plus the vinyl reissues\\u0026nbsp;for\\u0026nbsp;The\\u0026nbsp;Rainbow Children,\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;One\\u0026nbsp;Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;, the 4\\u0026nbsp;LP set\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;Live!\\u0026nbsp;and the double\\u0026nbsp;LP\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone: The Aftershow\\u0026hellip;It Ain\\u0026#39;t Over!\\u0026nbsp; The physical reissues can\\u0026nbsp;be purchased\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/2001-2002PR\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and can be streamed via all DSPs\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/2001-2002streamPR\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe turn of\\u0026nbsp;the millennium was an intriguing era of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s career. For casual fans who\\u0026nbsp;weren\\u0026rsquo;t subscribed to his NPG Music Club, it\\u0026rsquo;s also one of the most\\u0026nbsp;misunderstood. This was a time when Prince was\\u0026nbsp;existing away from the glare of\\u0026nbsp;the mainstream spotlight, connecting directly with his fans online and in\\u0026nbsp;intimate theater concerts on his One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip; Tour. It gave him the room to\\u0026nbsp;spread out, think deeply\\u0026nbsp;about his work, and find a more authentic creative\\u0026nbsp;path.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;He was provoking the audience and his fans to be open minded, to\\u0026nbsp;listen to different music,\\u0026rdquo; Prince\\u0026rsquo;s keyboardist Renato Neto says in the\\u0026nbsp;podcast\\u0026nbsp;Up All Nite with Prince, while his longtime live engineer\\u0026nbsp;Scottie Baldwin remarks, \\u0026ldquo;He was just brewing onstage. The composition was\\u0026nbsp;free. He was free.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIt was also an era when Prince began hosting his\\u0026nbsp;annual Celebration events at\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.paisleypark.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePaisley Park\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and inviting\\u0026nbsp;up-and-coming artists to perform\\u0026mdash;including Oscar and Grammy award winning\\u0026nbsp;artist\\u0026nbsp;Common.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;Performing at Paisley Park was my first\\u0026nbsp;experience of really getting to be around Prince, and that\\u0026rsquo;s something that I\\u0026nbsp;value as one of my greatest life moments,\\u0026rdquo; Common shares in the first episode\\u0026nbsp;of\\u0026nbsp;Up All Nite\\u0026nbsp;with Prince.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTo\\u0026nbsp;subscribe, search for\\u0026nbsp;Up All Nite with Prince\\u0026nbsp;on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or\\u0026nbsp;your preferred podcasting platform.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Legacy Reissues | The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone...\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2020-02-20T15:26:15.000Z\",\"slug\":\"legacy-reissues-rainbow-children\",\"meta_title\":\"Legacy Reissues | The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone...\",\"meta_description\":\"Legacy Reissues | The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone...\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e and \\u003cstrong\\u003eLegacy Recordings\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce the first roun
79d of physical titles to be issued in 2020 in the ongoing definitive Prince catalog reissue project. These titles come from the incredibly intriguing and fertile period of 2001 and 2002 and will be available on Friday, April 17. Pre-order titles \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/store\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe new batch includes two very different studio albums released just six months apart\\u0026mdash;2001\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Rainbow Children\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and 2002\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eOne Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026ndash; plus Prince\\u0026#39;s first official live albums from the tour that occurred in between those two releases.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eOne Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;the 4 LP set\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eOne Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;Live!\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and the double LP\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone: The Aftershow\\u0026hellip;It Ain\\u0026#39;t Over!\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;will each get their first-ever vinyl release in limited-edition purple, while sought-after title\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003ewill be available on CD for the first time in decades and on a crystal-clear double LP with limited-edition custom rainbow slipmat.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn addition, the five disc collection\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eUp All Nite with Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;will make the CDs for these sought-after releases widely available for the first time. Combined in a beautiful slipcase with a 48-page bound book,\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;\\u0026nbsp;and the two live albums are packaged with the long-out-of-print bonus DVD\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince Live at The Aladdin Las Vegas\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003efor an amazing document of the musical breadth of early 21st\\u0026nbsp;century Prince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWatch \\u0026ldquo;Pop Life (Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas)\\u0026rdquo; \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/Prince.lnk.to\/PopLive\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince\\u0026#39;s 24th studio album,\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;was initially sold on Prince\\u0026#39;s trailblazing website the NPG Music Club, and was commercially released on November 20, 2001 on NPG Records. It was the first album (outside of the works he distributed through his NPG Music Club) to be released under the name Prince since he had changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, and it was his first fully independent release to be issued without any major label backing.\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;is a concept album intertwining Prince\\u0026#39;s recurring themes of spirituality and sexuality, love and social consciousness, set in a metaphoric utopian narrative. Musically, the album showcased a new jazz-influenced direction for Prince, with live drums and expansive horn charts. The album\\u0026#39;s original cover artwork \\u0026ndash; the Cbabi Bayoc painting\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;The Reine Keis Quintet\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ndash; holds a place of honor at Prince\\u0026#39;s \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/paisleypark.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePaisley Park\\u003c\/a\\u003e to this day, and is displayed in his NPG Music Club Room. One of the songs from\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children, \\u0026quot;The Work, Pt. 1,\\u0026quot; was released by Prince as a free download on the controversial file-sharing service Napster; this move, along with direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming and download options on the NPG Music Club, solidified Prince\\u0026#39;s reputation as a\\u0026nbsp;digital music\\u0026nbsp;pioneer.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince\\u0026#39;s 25th studio album,\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone..., was released on May 14, 2002 by NPG Records and features the artist singing and accompanying himself on piano, making only occasional use of other instruments. The album includes favorites like \\u0026quot;U\\u0026#39;re Gonna C Me\\u0026quot; and a cover of \\u0026quot;A Case Of U,\\u0026quot; written by one of Prince\\u0026#39;s biggest musical influences, Joni Mitchell.\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;was initially released as a gift to members of the NPG Music Club, and was available as a separate album and included in the limited edition\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone... Live!\\u0026nbsp;box set.\\u0026nbsp;While\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;was never sold in stores, it became a highly-desirable release. Original CD copies are collectible rarities, and many fans have only heard the album through MP3 file-sharing.\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;will be released as a single LP pressed on purple vinyl.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBetween the release of\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone...\\u0026nbsp;, Prince embarked on his One Nite Alone... Tour, which countered the solo intimacy of his album with an electrifying series of live concerts showcasing the full talents of Prince\\u0026#39;s ever-expanding New Power Generation band, featuring backing musicians Sheila E., Maceo Parker, Eric Leeds, Candy Dulfer, Greg Boyer, Renato Neto, John Blackwell, and Rhonda Smith. Comprised of transcendent highlights from nine different shows in March and April 2002,\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone... Live!\\u0026nbsp;was the first official live album of Prince\\u0026#39;s career, and clocks in at more than 2 hours. The 27 tracks include selections from\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;(\\u0026quot;Muse 2 The Pharaoh,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;1+1+1 Is 3\\u0026quot;) as well as journeys through Prince\\u0026#39;s extensive back catalog, played with the full NPG as well as several solo piano excursions (\\u0026quot;When U Were Mine,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Raspberry Beret,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Adore,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;The Beautiful Ones,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Nothing Compares 2 U\\u0026quot;).\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone... Live!\\u0026nbsp;will be released as 4LPs pressed on purple vinyl.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eOne Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain\\u0026#39;t Over!\\u0026nbsp;will also be available for the first time as a 2LP set,\\u0026nbsp;pressed on purple vinyl.\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip; The Aftershow\\u0026nbsp;includes highlights from three of Prince\\u0026#39;s epic late-night aftershow performances. Previously unavailable as a physical stand-alone release,\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone... The Aftershow\\u0026nbsp;was originally released on CD as part of the\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone... Live!\\u0026nbsp;box set. The album features an hour of amazing jams and includes guest appearances by George Clinton and Musiq Soulchild.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn addition to making\\u0026nbsp;Prince Live at The Aladdin Las Vegas\\u0026nbsp;physically available as part of the\\u0026nbsp;Up All Nite with Prince\\u0026nbsp;set, The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings will roll out individual music videos for songs from\\u0026nbsp;Prince Live at The Aladdin Las Vegas\\u0026nbsp;on digital services from February 20 through April 17.\\u0026nbsp;Featuring largely the same line-up from\\u0026nbsp;One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;Live!\\u0026nbsp;(plus guest vocalist Nikka Costa), the setlist includes favorites from\\u0026nbsp;The Rainbow Children\\u0026nbsp;(\\u0026quot;1+1+1 Is 3,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;The Everlasting Now\\u0026quot;) plus incredible Prince deep cuts (\\u0026quot;Strange Relationship,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Gotta Broken Heart Again,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Pop Life\\u0026quot;) and even covers of James Brown (\\u0026quot;Pass The Peas\\u0026quot;) and Led Zeppelin (\\u0026quot;Whole Lotta Love\\u0026quot;). The first video out today is \\u0026ldquo;Pop Life,\\u0026rdquo; a favorite from\\u0026nbsp;Around The World In A Day\\u0026nbsp;and can be viewed \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/Prince.lnk.to\/PopLive\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"1999 Designer Collection | x Call \\u0026 Response\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-12-03T21:15:41.000Z\",\"slug\":\"1999-designer-collection\",\"meta_title\":\"1999 Designer Collection | x Call \\u0026 Response\",\"meta_description\":\"1999 Designer Collection | x Call \\u0026 Response\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Prince Estate is pleased to announce a special collaboration with Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;trusted late-career clothing designers,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.callandresponseclothing.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eCall \\u0026amp; Response\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;Coinciding with the release of the highly\\u0026nbsp;anticipated Super Deluxe reissue of\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s iconic double album,\\u0026nbsp;1999,\\u0026nbsp;the Estate has commissioned the Toronto design duo of Cathy Robinson and Lori\\u0026nbsp;Marcuz\\u0026mdash;known by their studio name Call \\u0026amp; Response\\u0026mdash;to create an\\u0026nbsp;evocative,\\u0026nbsp;hand-crafted collection of custom jackets, vests and hand-dyed tunics\\u0026nbsp;exclusively for Prince\\u0026rsquo;s fans.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nStarting in the early 2010s, as\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music morphed into a rawer, more rock-oriented blues sound, his dress\\u0026nbsp;code followed suit. By the time he assembled his hard-driving trio 3RDEYEGIRL,\\u0026nbsp;Prince had started wearing an\\u0026nbsp;evolving collection of textured, distressed\\u0026nbsp;jackets that resembled the \\u0026lsquo;60s wardrobes of Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the\\u0026nbsp;Family Stone.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThough the public didn\\u0026rsquo;t know it\\u0026nbsp;at the time, these striking jackets were a signature creation of Call \\u0026amp;\\u0026nbsp;Response, who outfitted Prince in countless pieces from 2011-2016.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;We got this call: Can we put a\\u0026nbsp;box together? And we put just about anything we could think of in the box, and\\u0026nbsp;shot it off,\\u0026rdquo; Cathy remembers. \\u0026ldquo;And we got a call\\u0026mdash;fairly late-night\\u0026mdash;saying he\\u0026nbsp;loved the clothes, and he\\u0026#39;d like to\\u0026nbsp;buy them all, and would we be interested in\\u0026nbsp;working with him in the future?\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSoon they went from sending Prince collections of items they had already\\u0026nbsp;created to designing pieces just for him, filling their studio with the sound\\u0026nbsp;of his music and the artists who inspired him as they stitched together layers\\u0026nbsp;of metallic and burnished leathers, pieces of antique textiles, and textured\\u0026nbsp;fabrics, and shipping off boxes to Paisley Park for Prince and the musicians he\\u0026nbsp;was working with including 3RDEYEGIRL, Andy Allo, Liv Warfield, and\\u0026nbsp;Judith\\u0026nbsp;Hill.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPrince clearly liked what he saw. He began wearing their pieces at all of his\\u
790026nbsp;public appearances: including his incendiary HITNRUN shows with 3RDEYEGIRL; the\\u0026nbsp;Grammys, where he strolled out in an unforgettable layered\\u0026nbsp;studded-leather\\u0026nbsp;jacket; Jimmy Kimmel Live; the Billboard Music Awards; Late Night with Jimmy\\u0026nbsp;Fallon; and Saturday Night Live.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAs Sally Singer wrote in Vogue,\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;The Call \\u0026amp; Response\\u0026nbsp;duo\\u0026rsquo;s relationship with Prince was so remote yet passionate, a long-distance\\u0026nbsp;love affair of a most original stripe.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;And the unique nature of their collaboration and the rush\\u0026nbsp;to finish new pieces for Prince opened a whole new side of their work. Cathy\\u0026nbsp;explains, \\u0026ldquo;It was\\u0026nbsp;like\\u0026nbsp;being in the middle of a creative maelstrom. There was no time to think, no\\u0026nbsp;time to plan. We were walking a tightrope of design.\\u0026nbsp;We would listen to him,\\u0026nbsp;his influences and those he influenced and feel it filter through our hands\\u0026nbsp;into garments. There were no mood boards, no story lines, just raw visceral\\u0026nbsp;design.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWith all of the excitement\\u0026nbsp;surrounding the expanded reissue of\\u0026nbsp;1999,\\u0026nbsp;Cathy and Lori were honored to continue to create new pieces based on their\\u0026nbsp;profound creative connection to Prince and their appreciation of his\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;era.\\u0026nbsp;The pieces evoke some of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;trademark fashion elements from the era\\u0026mdash;including his famous shiny, studded\\u0026nbsp;purple trench coat\\u0026mdash;but are updated with Call \\u0026amp; Response\\u0026rsquo;s attention to\\u0026nbsp;textured fabrics, overlays, and detail.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCathy explains, \\u0026ldquo;For us, this is a true collaboration. We have infused what\\u0026nbsp;we understood of Prince through the eyes of\\u0026nbsp;1999.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;We are not trying to make costume, but wearable clothing with a nod between the\\u0026nbsp;Prince we knew and the one\\u0026nbsp;that came before.\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSee\\u0026nbsp;the full line of Call \\u0026amp; Response\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;designs\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/dept\/1999-designer-collection\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[{\"width\":300,\"height\":450,\"small\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/208\/small_source-1094078d5c6e2930489c41bf7835e906.jpg\",\"small_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/208\/small_mobile_source-1094078d5c6e2930489c41bf7835e906.jpg\",\"regular\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/208\/small_source-1094078d5c6e2930489c41bf7835e906.jpg\",\"regular_mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/image\/208\/regular_mobile_source-1094078d5c6e2930489c41bf7835e906.jpg\",\"video\":null}]},{\"title\":\"Prince: The Story of 1999 | Official Podcast\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-11-19T18:58:31.000Z\",\"slug\":\"1999-podcast\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince: The Story of 1999 | Official Podcast\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince: The Story of 1999 | Official Podcast\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eToday, The Prince Estate and Warner Records released the first episode\\u0026nbsp;in a four-part podcast series titled\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince: The Story of 1999,\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;produced with \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.thecurrent.org\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003e89.3 The Current\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eListen\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/TheStoryOf1999\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eHere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe podcast,\\u0026nbsp;which is hosted by The Current\\u0026rsquo;s Andrea Swensson, comes ahead of the reissue of\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s iconic\\u0026nbsp;1999, on November 29th\\u0026nbsp;via NPG\\u0026nbsp;Records\/Warner Records. The timeless album is remastered for the very\\u0026nbsp;first\\u0026nbsp;time and features 35 previously unreleased tracks from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legendary\\u0026nbsp;vault that showcase the boundless creative flow Prince had tapped into during\\u0026nbsp;this era.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eReleased in\\u0026nbsp;1982, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s landmark double album\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;solidified his genre-defying Minneapolis Sound and changed the course of pop\\u0026nbsp;music for the next decade.\\u0026nbsp;Prince: The Story of 1999, gives\\u0026nbsp;listeners an inside look at\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s musical world like never before. Listeners\\u0026nbsp;will get a first-hand account about the making of\\u0026nbsp;1999, from\\u0026nbsp;musicians, friends, and scholars, who also discuss the emergence of Prince as\\u0026nbsp;an unprecedented creative force\\u0026nbsp;alongside never-before-heard music from\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s storied vault. This unique audio experience will offer fans an\\u
790026nbsp;exclusive sampling of the unreleased music that will be included on the Super\\u0026nbsp;Deluxe Edition of the\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;reissue.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Current\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;Andrea Swensson, is an author and historian of Minnesota\\u0026nbsp;music, particularly in the works and life of Prince. Swensson is one of four\\u0026nbsp;esteemed contributors to the liner notes of the\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;reissue.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;It\\u0026rsquo;s been such\\u0026nbsp;a treat to take a deep dive into these vault tracks and speak to collaborators\\u0026nbsp;about the pivotal period of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s career when he introduced his Minneapolis\\u0026nbsp;Sound to the world,\\u0026rdquo; said Swensson, who also hosts\\u0026nbsp;The Current\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;Local Show. \\u0026ldquo;Prince and The Current had a special\\u0026nbsp;relationship, and it means the world to us to see this partnership continue and\\u0026nbsp;to work in collaboration with The Prince Estate.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPrince shared a\\u
790026nbsp;close connection to The Current during his life, and the station served as a\\u0026nbsp;musical home for millions of fans upon his passing. The Current continues to honor\\u0026nbsp;his life, music and legacy on\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.thecurrent.org\/listen\/purple-current\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ePurple Current\\u003c\/a\\u003e, a\\u0026nbsp;stream dedicated to the music he\\u0026nbsp;inspired. Given these strong connections, a partnership on a project of this\\u0026nbsp;depth was a natural step \\u0026ndash; sharing deeper insights and celebrating the genius\\u0026nbsp;that is Prince.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eTo subscribe,\\u0026nbsp;search for\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;Prince: The Story\\u0026nbsp;of 1999\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or\\u0026nbsp;your preferred podcasting platform.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eEpisode\\u0026nbsp;Timeline\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eNovember 19 \\u0026ndash; Episode 1:\\u0026nbsp;My Mind Says Prepare to Fight\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nNovember 26 \\u0026ndash; Episode 2:\\u0026nbsp;Rearrange\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nDecember 3 \\u0026ndash; Episode 3:\\u0026nbsp;The Idolmaker\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nDecember 10 \\u0026ndash; Episode 4:\\u0026nbsp;Let\\u0026rsquo;s Work\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Current will\\u0026nbsp;also air the four episodes of\\u0026nbsp;Prince: The Story of 1999\\u0026nbsp;on Nov. 19, Nov.\\u0026nbsp;26, Dec. 3, and Dec. 10 at 8pm CT.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePre-order\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/Prince1999\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e, available in three formats:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eSuper Deluxe\\u0026nbsp;Edition (5CD+DVD \/ 10LP+DVD \/ audio-only download and streaming)\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eDeluxe Edition\\u0026nbsp;(2CD \/ 4LP 180g vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eRemastered album\\u0026nbsp;(1CD \/ 2LP 180g Purple Vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/55\/regular_image-4ce8c4141130969b7317799ff8032c4e.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/55\/regular_mobile_image-4ce8c4141130969b7317799ff8032c4e.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"I Feel For You (Acoustic Demo) | Exclusive 7\\\"\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-10-18T03:47:08.000Z\",\"slug\":\"i-feel-for-you\",\"meta_title\":\"I Feel For You (Acoustic Demo)\",\"meta_description\":\"I Feel For You (Acoustic Demo)\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eIn honor of the \\u003cstrong\\u003e40th anniversary \\u003c\/strong\\u003eof Prince\\u0026rsquo;s \\u003cstrong\\u003esecond\\u0026nbsp;album\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026mdash; which was released on\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eOctober 19, 1979\\u003c\/strong\\u003e \\u0026mdash; The Prince Estate and Warner Records are\\u0026nbsp;pleased to announce\\u0026nbsp;the surprise release of a previously unheard, solo acoustic demo recording of\\u0026nbsp;the Grammy-winning\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;track \\u0026ldquo;\\u003cstrong\\u003eI\\u0026nbsp;Feel for You\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026rdquo; available on \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/IFeelForYou\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003estreaming services\\u003c\/a\\u003e and as a\\u0026nbsp;limited-run 7\\u0026rdquo; vinyl single.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;new two-track single includes the acoustic demo of \\u0026ldquo;I Feel for You\\u0026rdquo; on the\\u0026nbsp;A-side and the original studio recording on the B-side, and is available as a\\u0026nbsp;Made to Order commemorative purple 7\\u0026quot; release exclusively at\\u0026nbsp;PRINCE.com\\u0026nbsp;for the next seven days - buy it\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/store\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e now.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe special, stripped-down demo recording captures a 20-year-old Prince in a\\u
790026nbsp;raw, intimate moment, and begins with the sound of the artist pressing the\\u0026nbsp;record button on a cassette tape recorder\\u0026nbsp;and picking up an acoustic guitar.\\u0026nbsp;The recording was created in the winter of 1978-1979, around the time Prince\\u0026nbsp;was preparing to make his solo debut at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis,\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;it was recently rediscovered on one of the countless cassette tapes stored\\u0026nbsp;in his legendary vault.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;I was blown away,\\u0026rdquo; says Prince vault archivist Michael Howe. \\u0026ldquo;Here is\\u0026nbsp;20-year-old Prince thinking aloud, feeling his way through the song. You hear\\u0026nbsp;his incredible talent shining through on acoustic\\u0026nbsp;guitar, which is not\\u0026nbsp;something he typically showcased, and his guide vocal is astonishingly great.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;fully produced, studio recording of \\u0026ldquo;I Feel For You\\u0026rdquo; was included on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;second album,\\u0026nbsp;Prince. It would become\\u0026nbsp;a hit a few years later, when it was covered by Chaka Khan and released\\u0026nbsp;as the\\u0026nbsp;title track of her solo album,\\u0026nbsp;I Feel for\\u0026nbsp;You, in 1984. Her version, which featured a cameo by the rapper Melle Mel,\\u0026nbsp;became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned two Grammys\\u0026mdash;including a\\u0026nbsp;Grammy Award for Best R\\u0026amp;B Song that honored Prince\\u0026rsquo;s contributions as\\u0026nbsp;songwriter.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/53\/regular_image-3e1846e8f96f621e11583904e66d5574.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/53\/regular_mobile_image-3e1846e8f96f621e11583904e66d5574.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\\u003cp\\u003ePhoto Credit: The Prince Estate | Jurgen Reisch\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"1999 | Remastered and Expanded Edition\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-09-10T21:15:59.000Z\",\"slug\":\"1999\",\"meta_title\":\"1999 | Remastered and Expanded Edition \",\"meta_description\":\"1999 | Remastered and Expanded Edition \",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;I didn\\u0026rsquo;t want to do a double album, but\\u0026nbsp;I just kept writing... I always compare songwriting to a girl walking in the\\u0026nbsp;door. You don\\u0026rsquo;t know what she\\u0026rsquo;s going to look like, but all of a sudden she\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;there.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince, November 1982\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eConsidered one of the most iconic and influential\\u0026nbsp;double albums in rock history, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;was released at a major turning point in the artist\\u0026rsquo;s career. After years of\\u0026nbsp;being\\u0026nbsp;relegated to the R\\u0026amp;B charts, he experienced his first true crossover\\u0026nbsp;moment with the mega-hits \\u0026ldquo;Little Red Corvette,\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ldquo;1999,\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Delirious,\\u0026ldquo;\\u0026nbsp;shattering barriers with his revolutionary blend of rock, funk, R\\u0026amp;B and new\\u0026nbsp;wave\\u0026nbsp;pop, and making history by being one of the first black artists to have\\u0026nbsp;their videos in heavy rotation on MTV.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe songs included on\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;were just a small sampling of the\\u0026nbsp;work that was pouring out of Prince in the intensely prolific period of 1981\\u0026nbsp;and 1982. In addition to his own material, he was also working up tracks that\\u0026nbsp;he would\\u0026nbsp;give to his prot\\u0026eacute;g\\u0026eacute;s Vanity 6 and The Time, and recording dozens of\\u0026nbsp;songs\\u0026nbsp;that would be stored for\\u0026nbsp;possible later use, archiving them in his growing vault of unreleased material.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThis\\u0026nbsp;November 29, \\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, in partnership with \\u003cstrong\\u003eWarner Records\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, will\\u0026nbsp;reissue\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e1999\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;via all physical, digital and streaming partners, with the\\u0026nbsp;timeless album remastered for the very first time, along with 35 previously\\u0026nbsp;unreleased tracks\\u0026nbsp;from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s legendary vault\\u0026nbsp;that showcase the creative flow Prince had tapped into\\u0026nbsp;during\\u0026nbsp;this era.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;reissue suite will be comprised of the following formats:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eSuper Deluxe Edition\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(5CD+DVD \/ 10LP+DVD \/ audio-only download\\u0026nbsp;and streaming)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eDeluxe Edition\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e(2CD \/ 4LP 180g vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eRemastered album\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003e(1CD \/ 2LP 180g Purple Vinyl \/ download and streaming)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive to date into\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s vault and includes a total of 65 audio tracks across five CDs and ten\\u0026nbsp;180g vinyl records.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;Super Deluxe Edition brings fans all the audio material that Prince officially\\u0026nbsp;released in and around 1982, as well as 23 previously unissued studio tracks\\u0026nbsp;recorded between November 1981 and January 1983, and a\\u0026nbsp;complete live audio\\u0026nbsp;performance of the\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;tour recorded at the late show (the second of two\\u0026nbsp;that day) in Detroit, MI on November 30, 1982.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nIn\\u0026nbsp;
79addition, both CD and vinyl sets also boast a brand-new DVD containing another\\u0026nbsp;complete, previously unreleased concert from the\\u0026nbsp;1999\\u0026nbsp;tour, recorded in\\u0026nbsp;multi-cam live at the Houston Summit on December 29, 1982.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Super Deluxe Edition set also features Prince\\u0026rsquo;s previously unseen\\u0026nbsp;handwritten lyrics for several songs from the era, including the hit \\u0026ldquo;Little\\u0026nbsp;Red Corvette,\\u0026rdquo; plus images of the analog tape reels from the vault and rare\\u0026nbsp;photography from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s early \\u0026lsquo;80s photographer, Allen Beaulieu. 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79Someone told me that Van Halen did their first record in a\\u0026nbsp;week,\\u0026quot; Prince told the\\u0026nbsp;Los Angeles Times\\u0026nbsp;of\\u0026nbsp;the album\\u0026#39;s quick\\u0026nbsp;creation. \\u0026quot;That\\u0026#39;s what we were going for - spontaneity,\\u0026nbsp;seeing how fast and hard we could thrash it out.\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;Chaos and\\u0026nbsp;Disorder\\u0026nbsp;proved Prince\\u0026#39;s enduring connection to his global\\u0026nbsp;audience of listeners. Even without promotion, the album reached #14 in the\\u0026nbsp;U.K. and #26 on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts while the album\\u0026#39;s only single,\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;Dinner With Delores,\\u0026quot; hit the Top 40 charts in the U.K. (the only\\u0026nbsp;country where it was released).\\u0026nbsp;The current release marks the\\u0026nbsp;reissue of the long out-of-print CD and the first\\u0026nbsp;time\\u0026nbsp;Chaos and Disorder\\u0026nbsp;has been\\u0026nbsp;available on vinyl.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFirst released in\\u0026nbsp;November 1996 (just four months after\\u0026nbsp;Chaos and Disorder),\\u0026nbsp;Emancipation\\u0026nbsp;is as expansive and ambitious as anything Prince ever recorded. A triple\\u0026nbsp;album - each 12 song disc showcasing exactly one hour of music -\\u0026nbsp;Emancipation\\u0026nbsp;found Prince celebrating life, love and\\u0026nbsp;music on his own terms. \\u0026quot;This is my most important record,\\u0026quot; he told\\u0026nbsp;the\\u0026nbsp;Minneapolis Star Tribune\\u0026nbsp;at the time. \\u0026quot;I\\u0026#39;m free, and my\\u0026nbsp;music is free.\\u0026quot; The album represents the incredible variety of his\\u0026nbsp;influences and moods. Romance and family are key themes (\\u0026quot;Somebody\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;Somebody,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;The Holy River,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;The Love We Make\\u0026quot;).\\u0026nbsp;Prince reflects on technology (\\u0026quot;My Computer\\u0026quot;) and sex (\\u0026quot;In This\\u0026nbsp;Bed Eye Scream\\u0026quot;), and offers new, upbeat grooves\\u0026nbsp;(\\u0026quot;Face Down,\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;Jam Of The Year\\u0026quot;) as well as four unique covers (Bonnie Raitt\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;I Can\\u0026#39;t Make You Love Me,\\u0026quot; the Philly soul classics \\u0026quot;Betcha By\\u0026nbsp;Golly Wow\\u0026quot; and \\u0026quot;La, La, La Means I Love U,\\u0026rdquo; and Joan Osborne\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;then-current rock hit \\u0026quot;One Of Us\\u0026quot;).\\u0026nbsp;Available for the first time on\\u0026nbsp;vinyl,\\u0026nbsp;Emancipation\\u0026nbsp;will include 6LPs - each with printed jackets and printed interior sleeves.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEmancipation\\u0026nbsp;
79was celebrated with a concert at Paisley Park on November 12, 1996, that was\\u0026nbsp;broadcast simultaneously on MTV, VH1, and BET. A press release issued by NPG\\u0026nbsp;Records after the event called the concert \\u0026quot;a liberating\\u0026nbsp;performance.\\u0026quot; The\\u0026nbsp;album debuted at #11 on the Billboard 200 charts and\\u0026nbsp;sold over 500,000 copies, making it the fourth-best-selling triple album of all\\u0026nbsp;time in the U.S. Prince supported\\u0026nbsp;Emancipation\\u0026nbsp;with\\u0026nbsp;the wildly successful six-month-long Jam of the Year Tour.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Holly Rock | Official Video \",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-07-25T12:00:31.000Z\",\"slug\":\"hollyrock\",\"meta_title\":\"Holly Rock | Official Music Video\",\"meta_description\":\"Holly Rock | Official Music Video\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e and \\u003cstrong\\u003eWarner Records\\u003c\/strong\\u003e are proud to announce the\\u0026nbsp;release of \\u0026ldquo;\\u003cstrong\\u003eHolly Rock\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026rdquo;, a song originally written and recorded for Sheila E.,\\u0026nbsp;and the second single from the critically\\u0026nbsp;acclaimed album\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eOriginals\\u003c\/strong\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe basic tracking\\u0026nbsp;for \\u0026ldquo;Holly Rock\\u0026rdquo; took place at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles at the end\\u0026nbsp;of April 1985 - the very same week that Prince also recorded \\u0026ldquo;Kiss\\u0026rdquo; for his own\\u0026nbsp;Parade\\u0026nbsp;album.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe \\u0026ldquo;Holly Rock\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;single, now presented for streaming and download in a 3\\u0026rsquo;47\\u0026rdquo; edit version, is\\u0026nbsp;accompanied by a vibrant new animated video, created by London-based Electric\\u0026nbsp;Light Studios, and co-produced by The\\u0026nbsp;Prince Estate and Warner Records.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;Holly Rock\\u0026rdquo; was\\u0026nbsp;recorded for inclusion on the original soundtrack for the 1985 movie\\u0026nbsp;Krush\\u0026nbsp;Groove. While Prince gave Sheila E. sole writing and producer credit, he\\u0026nbsp;actually produced the track himself and co-wrote it with\\u0026nbsp;Sheila. Though not a\\u0026nbsp;hit at the time, the electrifying full six and half-minute version has become a\\u0026nbsp;firm fan favourite due to the scarcity of copies of the soundtrack.\\u0026nbsp;Originals\\u0026nbsp;is the first time that \\u0026ldquo;Holly Rock\\u0026rdquo; has appeared on\\u0026nbsp;a Prince-related album and\\u0026nbsp;been made available digitally.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOriginals\\u0026nbsp;is a 15-track album featuring 14 previously\\u0026nbsp;unreleased recordings that illuminate the vital, behind-the-scenes role Prince\\u0026nbsp;played in other artists\\u0026rsquo; careers featuring his original versions of tracks such\\u0026nbsp;as \\u0026ldquo;The\\u0026nbsp;Glamorous Life\\u0026rdquo;, \\u0026ldquo;Manic Monday\\u0026rdquo;, The Time\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Jungle Love\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Love\\u0026hellip;\\u0026nbsp;Thy Will Be Done\\u0026rdquo;, as well as deep cuts like Vanity 6\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Make-Up\\u0026rdquo; and Jill\\u0026nbsp;Jones\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Baby, You\\u0026rsquo;re A Trip\\u0026rdquo;. The album also features Prince\\u0026rsquo;s original\\u0026nbsp;1984\\u0026nbsp;version of \\u0026ldquo;Nothing Compares 2 U,\\u0026rdquo; released in 2018 as a standalone single.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOriginals\\u0026nbsp;is available now from Warner Records via all\\u0026nbsp;download and streaming partners and physically on CD, 180 gram 2LP, and limited\\u0026nbsp;edition Deluxe CD+2LP Purple Vinyl set.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026quot;
79Hearing Prince sing these songs brings you close to the pulse of the\\u0026nbsp;artistry: transgressive, funky, sexy, a testament to his genius.\\u0026quot;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003ePitchfork\\u0026nbsp;- 9.5\/10, Best New Reissue\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;(Originals) shows the\\u0026nbsp;breadth and brilliance of his compositional talents.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Guardian\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026ldquo;He put as much love into these tracks as he\\u0026nbsp;put into his own, he knew who he was and where he was going from the very start\\u0026nbsp;- the rest of us just needed to catch up with him.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003ePeggy\\u0026nbsp;McCreary \\u0026ndash; Recording engineer\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"video\",\"image\":null,\"youtube_code\":\"HaphX02vY6k\",\"title\":\"Holly Rock | Official Music Video\",\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Cloud Guitar | Replica Models (Pre-Order)\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-06-28T02:34:36.000Z\",\"slug\":\"cloudguitar\",\"meta_title\":\"Cloud Guitar | Pre-Order\",\"meta_description\":\"Cloud Guitar | Pre-Order\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eOf all the instruments that\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;played throughout his career, the iconic \\u003cstrong\\u003eCloud guitar\\u003c\/strong\\u003e has one of the most alluring and mysterious backstories.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe Cloud first entered the public\\u0026rsquo;s consciousness as the object of The Kid\\u0026rsquo;s affection in\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePurple Rain\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, and the way Prince\\u0026rsquo;s character in the film pines after the distinctive satin curves of the guitar as it sits in a display window speaks\\u0026nbsp;to just how mesmerized he was by this instrument.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince first came across the model for the Cloud while browsing in a guitar shop with his childhood friend and first bassist, Andr\\u0026eacute; Cymone, in the late 1970s when Prince was at the very beginning of his solo career. The two\\u0026nbsp;musicians were intrigued by a custom bass guitar with hand-carved curves and swirls, and the way it resembled a classical instrument more than one you would see in the hands of a rock or funk musician. Prince purchased the\\u0026nbsp;bass for Andr\\u0026eacute; to play, and it can be seen in the 1979 video for \\u0026quot;Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn 1983, when it came time for Prince to choose an instrument to play in his first film, he brought the Cloud bass to a young Minneapolis luthier named Dave Rusan, who worked at Prince\\u0026rsquo;s favorite local guitar shop, Knut Koupee\\u0026nbsp;Music. Recreating the bass as a prop to use in the film took months, and only four copies of the original white Cloud guitar were made by Rusan \\u0026mdash; but his Cloud guitars laid the groundwork for one of the most intriguing stage\\u0026nbsp;instruments of the 1980s.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eDave Rusan understood the signi\ufb01cance of a well-crafted guitar to an artist like Prince. \\u0026ldquo;It\\u0026rsquo;s so much more than just part of a costume. It\\u0026rsquo;s a means of expression, power, identity,\\u0026rdquo; he told\\u0026nbsp;Premier Guitar.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince had the Cloud guitar remade many times throughout his career in different colors and finishes, and the instrument re-emerged at several key points in his artistic evolution. Prince would call on the company Schecter to\\u0026nbsp;repair his Clouds and manufacture new replicas for his use, including a run that was sold to fans on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s HitnRun Tour.\\u0026nbsp;
79\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn recent years, the Schecter replicas of the iconic Cloud guitar have only been available to purchase in-person at Paisley Park. But starting today, players around the world can purchase these exclusive, authentic Cloud\\u0026nbsp;guitars from\\u0026nbsp;the\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/store\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eOfficial Prince Store\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Prince - Originals | New Release\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-04-25T11:06:15.000Z\",\"slug\":\"prince-originals\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince - Originals | New Release\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince - Originals | New Release\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003ePrince\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping\\u0026nbsp;recording artist, and music\\u0026nbsp;business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he\\u0026nbsp;spent in the spotlight over his four-decade-long career, Prince also worked\\u0026nbsp;tirelessly behind the scenes to\\u0026nbsp;nurture talent and pen songs for the rising\\u0026nbsp;artists he respected.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThis June,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eThe Prince\\u0026nbsp;Estate\\u003c\/b\\u003e, in partnership with\\u003cb\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;Warner\\u0026nbsp;Bros. Records\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eTIDAL\\u003c\/b\\u003e, will\\u0026nbsp;release\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eOriginals\\u003c\/b\\u003e, a 15-track album featuring 14 previously\\u0026nbsp;unreleased\\u0026nbsp;recordings that illuminate the vital, behind-the-scenes role Prince played in\\u0026nbsp;other artists\\u0026rsquo; careers. Pre-Order the album \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/OriginalsMP\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp; The tracks were selected collaboratively\\u0026nbsp;by\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eTroy Carter\\u003c\/b\\u003e, on behalf of\\u0026nbsp;The Prince Estate, and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cb\\u003eJAY-Z\\u003c\/b\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nStarting\\u0026nbsp;June\\u0026nbsp;7,\\u0026nbsp;Originals\\u0026nbsp;will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days. In\\u0026nbsp;the spirit of sharing Prince\\u0026rsquo;s music with his fans as he wanted, the\\u0026nbsp;album will\\u0026nbsp;be available to stream in Master quality via TIDAL\\u0026rsquo;s HiFi subscription tier.\\u0026nbsp;Members will be able to hear the recordings just as the Artist\\u0026nbsp;intended the\\u0026nbsp;tracks to sound.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOn June 21st, Warner Bros. Records will\\u0026nbsp;release this extraordinary body of work, sourced directly from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s vast\\u0026nbsp;archive of Vault recordings, via all\\u0026nbsp;download and streaming partners and\\u0026nbsp;physically on CD, while 180 gram 2LP and limited edition Deluxe CD+2LP formats\\u0026nbsp;will follow on July 19th. Pre-order the album\\u0026nbsp;here.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBy the mid-1980s, Prince was dominating the charts even as a\\u0026nbsp;writer\/producer with songs he\\u0026rsquo;d composed and recorded for others.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;In addition to\\u0026nbsp;releasing nine of his most\\u0026nbsp;commercially successful full-length albums, he also wrote and recorded endless\\u0026nbsp;reels of material for proteges The Time,\\u0026nbsp;Vanity 6, Sheila E., Apollonia 6, Jill\\u0026nbsp;Jones, the Family, and Mazarati. Occasionally, Prince\\u0026rsquo;s original demo\\u0026nbsp;recordings would be used as master takes on\\u0026nbsp;their albums, with only minor\\u0026nbsp;alterations to the instrumentation and a replacement of the vocal tracks. Other\\u0026nbsp;times, artists would rely on his demos to\\u0026nbsp;guide them through their own recording\\u0026nbsp;process, with Prince\\u0026rsquo;
79s initial take informing their final version of his\\u0026nbsp;song.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;The aggregate effect was a\\u0026nbsp;complete\\u0026nbsp;saturation and transformation of the pop music landscape, with Prince\\u0026nbsp;both leading and subverting mainstream culture.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSeveral of the iconic songs found on\\u0026nbsp;Originals\\u0026nbsp;were considerable hits for the artists who recorded them.\\u0026nbsp;Sheila E.\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;The Glamorous Life\\u0026rdquo; reached #1 on\\u0026nbsp;the dance charts in 1984, while\\u0026nbsp;the enormous success of \\u0026ldquo;Manic Monday\\u0026rdquo; propelled the single and its\\u0026nbsp;accompanying album, The Bangles\\u0026rsquo;\\u0026nbsp;Different\\u0026nbsp;Light, to the #2 spot on the pop charts. The Time\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;Ice Cream Castle,\\u0026nbsp;featuring the top 20 \\u0026ldquo;Jungle Love\\u0026rdquo;, spent a\\u0026nbsp;whopping 57 weeks on the Billboard\\u0026nbsp;200. And in 1991, Martika enjoyed\\u0026nbsp;international success with \\u0026ldquo;Love\\u0026hellip; Thy Will Be Done\\u0026rdquo;, a top 10 hit in France,\\u0026nbsp;Australia, the UK and the USA.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOriginals\\u0026nbsp;pulls\\u0026nbsp;back the curtain to reveal the origins of these familiar songs, in addition to\\u0026nbsp;deeper album cuts such as Vanity 6\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;Make-Up,\\u0026rdquo; Jill Jones\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;Baby, You\\u0026rsquo;re a\\u0026nbsp;Trip,\\u0026rdquo; and Kenny Rogers\\u0026rsquo; \\u0026ldquo;You\\u0026rsquo;re My Love.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;The album also features\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s majestic original 1984 version of \\u0026ldquo;Nothing Compares 2 U,\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;released in\\u0026nbsp;2018 as a standalone single.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTrack Listing\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/u\\u003e:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003col\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eSex Shooter\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eJungle Love\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eManic Monday\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eNoon Rendezvous\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eMake-Up\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003e100 MPH\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eYou\\u0026#39;re My Love\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eHolly Rock\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eBaby, You\\u0026rsquo;re a Trip\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eThe Glamorous Life\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eGigolos Get Lonely Too\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eLove\\u0026hellip; Thy Will Be Done\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eDear Michaelangelo\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eWouldn\\u0026rsquo;t You Love to Love Me?\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eNothing Compares 2 U\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ol\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/41\/regular_image-4cbf41ee226e06d8b93845ee50987ccc.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/41\/regular_mobile_image-4cbf41ee226e06d8b93845ee50987ccc.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe Prince Estate | Allen Beaulieu\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Prince - The Beautiful Ones | Official Memoir\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-04-22T22:11:22.000Z\",\"slug\":\"the-beautiful-ones\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince - The Beautiful Ones (Official Memoir)\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince - The Beautiful Ones (Official Memoir)\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e is thrilled to announce that on \\u003cstrong\\u003eOctober\\u0026nbsp;29, 2019\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/546812\/the-beautiful-ones-by-prince\/9780399589652\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eRandom House\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/a\\u003e will be publishing \\u003cstrong\\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL ONES\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;by\\u0026nbsp;Prince, the American artistic visionary \\u0026mdash; singer, songwriter, musician, producer,\\u0026nbsp;actor, and\\u0026nbsp;filmmaker. Originally acquired from Prince in 2016, this newly\\u0026nbsp;envisioned memoir will feature never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks\\u
790026nbsp;and lyric sheets written in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s own hand, and the early pages of the\\u0026nbsp;memoir\\u0026nbsp;Prince began writing before his passing, framed by an introduction from\\u0026nbsp;Dan Piepenbring, the writer handpicked by Prince to collaborate on this\\u0026nbsp;project. World rights were acquired by Chris Jackson from Esther Newberg and\\u0026nbsp;Dan Kirschen at ICM Partners. The memoir is being published in an exclusive\\u0026nbsp;partnership and in collaboration with the Prince Estate.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL ONES\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;is the deeply personal\\u0026nbsp;account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time\\u0026nbsp;story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an\\u0026nbsp;artistic vision, and a\\u0026nbsp;life, before the hits and the fame that would come to\\u0026nbsp;define him. The book will span from Prince\\u0026rsquo;s childhood to his early years as a\\u0026nbsp;musician to the cusp of international stardom, using Prince\\u0026rsquo;s own writings, a\\u0026nbsp;scrapbook of his\\u0026nbsp;personal photos, and the original handwritten lyric sheets for\\u0026nbsp;many of his most iconic songs, which he kept at Paisley Park. The book depicts\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s evolution through deeply revealing, never-before-shared images and\\u0026nbsp;memories and culminates with his original handwritten treatment for his\\u0026nbsp;masterwork,\\u0026nbsp;Purple Rain. The memoir will be framed by Piepenbring\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;riveting, moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;in his final days\\u0026mdash;a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to\\u0026nbsp;reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery\\u0026nbsp;and mystique he\\u0026rsquo;d so carefully cultivated\\u0026mdash;and by annotations that provide\\u0026nbsp;context to the book\\u0026rsquo;s images.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nChris Jackson comments, \\u0026ldquo;Prince is a towering figure in global\\u0026nbsp;culture and his music has been the soundtrack for untold numbers of\\u0026nbsp;people\\u0026mdash;including me\\u0026mdash;for more than a generation; his creative genius has\\u0026nbsp;provided the\\u0026nbsp;musical landscape of our lives. His death was an unfathomable\\u0026nbsp;loss, but this book\\u0026mdash;full of writing from his own hand and images that he\\u0026nbsp;carefully preserved at Paisley Park\\u0026mdash;is a beautiful tribute to his life. It\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;also much more\\u0026nbsp;than that: it\\u0026rsquo;s a genuinely moving and energizing literary work,\\u0026nbsp;full of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s ideas and vision, his voice and image. It\\u0026rsquo;s a treasure not\\u0026nbsp;just for Prince fans but for anyone who wants to see one of our greatest\\u0026nbsp;creative artists\\u0026nbsp;and original minds at work on his greatest creation: himself.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTHE BEAUTIFUL ONES \\u003c\/strong\\u003eis available to pre-order today from the \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.prince.com\/product\/5QAMPR053\/prince-memoir-the-beautiful-ones?cp=103229_105206\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eOfficial Prince Store\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"image\",\"image\":{\"desktop\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/39\/regular_image-a174eaaa0a9f7db152fa5b5c271d58a3.jpg\",\"mobile\":\"https:\/\/backend.princeestate.com\/storage\/content_block\/39\/regular_mobile_image-a174eaaa0a9f7db152fa5b5c271d58a3.jpg\"},\"credit\":\"\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Legacy Reissues | Rave Un2, Rave In2 \\u0026 Ultimate Rave\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2019-02-22T04:32:14.000Z\",\"slug\":\"legacy-reissues-rave\",\"meta_title\":\"Legacy Reissues | Rave Un2, Rave In2 \\u0026 Ultimate Rave\",\"meta_description\":\"Legacy Reissues | Rave Un2, Rave In2 \\u0026 Ultimate Rave\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;
79\\u003cstrong\\u003eLegacy\\u0026nbsp;Recordings\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a division of\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eSony Music\\u0026nbsp;Entertainment\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, are pleased to announce the next round of physical titles\\u0026nbsp;set for release as part of the ongoing and definitive Prince\\u0026nbsp;catalog project. Next\\u0026nbsp;up will be Prince\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eUltimate Rave\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;on \\u003cstrong\\u003eFriday, April 26\\u003c\/strong\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nA 3-disc bundle of the artist\\u0026#39;s pivotal new\\u0026nbsp;millennium\\u0026nbsp;pop party dance music,\\u0026nbsp;Ultimate Rave\\u0026nbsp;brings\\u0026nbsp;together CDs of 1999\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eRave Un2 the Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and its\\u0026nbsp;2001 remix\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eRave In2 the Joy Fantastic\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003ealongside a DVD\\u0026nbsp;containing the full-length\\u0026nbsp;performance version of\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince In\\u0026nbsp;Concert:\\u0026nbsp;Rave Un2\\u0026nbsp;the Year 2000\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;epic 1999 New Year\\u0026#39;s Eve party, originally captured for on-demand pay-per-view\\u0026nbsp;airing during the dawning of Y2K.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAlso available on April 26, both\\u0026nbsp;Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;Rave In2 the Joy\\u0026nbsp;Fantastic\\u0026nbsp;on vinyl, marking the first ever vinyl release\\u0026nbsp;for\\u0026nbsp;Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic. Each of the vinyl titles\\u0026nbsp;will be pressed on highly collectible, limited edition\\u0026nbsp;purple vinyl. In\\u0026nbsp;addition, the albums will be available in both CD\/LP form alongside new\\u0026nbsp;exclusive merchandise corresponding to the Rave era via the\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/store.princeestate.com\/store\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eOfficial Prince Store\\u003c\/a\\u003e. The Rave\\u0026nbsp;titles are available now for pre-order \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/rav3\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eFirst came\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eRave Un2 the Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, his only\\u0026nbsp;album for NPG\/Arista (and last released under the unpronounceable \\u0026quot;Love\\u0026nbsp;Symbol\\u0026quot; moniker), a record showcasing Prince\\u0026#39;s mastery of pop and R\\u0026amp;B\\u0026nbsp;through a variety of tracks and a surprising\\u0026nbsp;range of guest artists including\\u0026nbsp;Chuck D, Eve, Gwen Stefani, Ani DiFranco, and Sheryl Crow (Prince even covers\\u0026nbsp;Crow\\u0026#39;s smash hit \\u0026quot;Every Day is a Winding Road\\u0026quot; on the album).\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBy 2001, Prince had established a groundbreaking internet presence\\u0026nbsp;through his NPG Music Club, an online destination site where fans could access\\u0026nbsp;new music alongside tracks from the fabled Prince Vault and other rarities. One\\u0026nbsp;of the first full-length releases from NPG Music Club was Prince\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eRave\\u0026nbsp;In2 the Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a remix and reimagining of his ongoing\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;Rave\\u0026quot; project.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIn 1999, Prince promoted the release of\\u0026nbsp;Rave Un2 the Joy\\u0026nbsp;Fantastic\\u0026nbsp;with his iconic pay-per-view special,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince In Concert: Rave Un2 the Year 2000\\u003c\/strong\\u003e. Recorded at Paisley Park and broadcast on\\u0026nbsp;New Year\\u0026#39;s Eve 1999, the special featured guest artists including Morris Day\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026amp;\\u0026nbsp;the Time, Maceo Parker, Larry Graham, George Clinton, and Lenny Kravitz.\\u0026nbsp;The DVD of this concert features 23 tracks plus 4 \\u0026quot;bonus groovez.\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;Tracks from across Prince\\u0026#39;s career are featured including hits like \\u0026quot;Let\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;Go Crazy,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Purple Rain,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;U\\u0026nbsp;Got The Look,\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;Raspberry Beret,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;Gett Off,\\u0026quot; and \\u0026quot;Kiss\\u0026quot; and\\u0026nbsp;deeper cuts like \\u0026quot;She\\u0026#39;s Always In My Hair,\\u0026quot; \\u0026quot;The Christ,\\u0026rdquo; (originally\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;The Cross\\u0026quot; from\\u0026nbsp;Sign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times) and \\u0026quot;Nothing\\u0026nbsp;Compares 2 U\\u0026quot; plus songs from\\u0026nbsp;Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic\\u0026nbsp;like \\u0026quot;Baby Knows\\u0026quot; and \\u0026quot;The Greatest Romance Ever Sold.\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;Besides this physical\\u0026nbsp;re-issue,\\u0026nbsp;a broadcast edit of\\u0026nbsp;Prince In\\u0026nbsp;Concert:\\u0026nbsp;Rave Un2 The Year 2000\\u0026nbsp;is slated to air on PBS stations in June.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;Ultimate\\u0026nbsp;Rave\\u0026nbsp;
79arrives during\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eCELEBRATION\\u0026nbsp;2019\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, the ultimate four-day Prince event to be held \\u003cstrong\\u003eApril 25-28\\u003c\/strong\\u003e at \\u003cstrong\\u003ePaisley\\u0026nbsp;Park\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, Prince\\u0026#39;s historic home and recording sanctuary outside Minneapolis. The\\u0026nbsp;annual event welcomes Prince fans from around the world into an inspired\\u0026nbsp;environment of live music, concert screenings, panel discussions and special\\u0026nbsp;presentations highlighting Prince\\u0026rsquo;s tremendous talent and\\u0026nbsp;cultural impact.\\u0026nbsp;Performing artists this year include\\u0026nbsp;internationally acclaimed musician, guitarist and original member of The Time,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eJesse Johnson\\u003c\/strong\\u003e; Prince\\u0026rsquo;s iconic group \\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Revolution\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, featuring Bobby Z,\\u0026nbsp;BrownMark, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin and Matt Fink; and \\u003cstrong\\u003eFunk Soldiers\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a\\u0026nbsp;fifteen-piece supergroup of New Power Generation and Paisley Park musical\\u0026nbsp;alumni.\\u0026nbsp;To learn more and purchase tickets, please\\u0026nbsp;visit\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/officialpaisleypark.com\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ethis\\u0026nbsp;link\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe \\u003cstrong\\u003eMinnesota\\u0026nbsp;Timberwolves\\u003c\/strong\\u003e will distribute an exclusive Minneapolis-themed 7\\u0026quot; purple\\u0026nbsp;vinyl single to all attendees of the Timberwolves vs Miami Heat game on April 5\\u0026nbsp;at Target Center in Minneapolis. The exclusive 7\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;release is an extension of the broader collaboration between The Prince Estate\\u0026nbsp;and the Timberwolves rooted in the\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/timberwolves\/news\/timberwolves-unveil-prince-inspired-city-edition-uniforms\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eTimberwolves Nike City Edition\\u003c\/a\\u003e uniforms. A Minneapolis native and avid\\u0026nbsp;basketball fan, Prince would often be\\u0026nbsp;seen sitting courtside at Target\\u0026nbsp;Center. As a way to celebrate the\\u0026nbsp;city of Minneapolis, music, basketball and pop culture, the Timberwolves City\\u0026nbsp;Edition Prince nights have featured musical tributes from Morris Day, Sounds of\\u0026nbsp;Blackness, Liv Warfield,\\u0026nbsp;Sheila E and two more acts yet to be announced for\\u0026nbsp;upcoming Prince nights on March 19 vs. the Golden State Warriors and the final Prince\\u0026nbsp;night game on April 5.\\u0026nbsp;To honor the\\u0026nbsp;occasion, the Prince Estate and\\u0026nbsp;Sony\/Legacy will also make the soon-to-be-announced track available on digital\\u0026nbsp;services for the first time\\u0026nbsp;in\\u0026nbsp;March\\u0026nbsp;along with custom Prince x Timberwolves playlists.\\u0026nbsp;Follow\\u0026nbsp;@timberwolves\\u0026nbsp;for future details.\\u0026nbsp;For tickets to the April 5 game,\\u0026nbsp;and to secure the exclusive 7\\u0026rdquo; purple vinyl, visit \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/timberwolves\/tickets\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ethis link\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Legacy Reissues | Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2018-12-10T15:08:28.000Z\",\"slug\":\"legacy-reissues\",\"meta_title\":\"Legacy Reissues | Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth\",\"meta_description\":\"Legacy Reissues | Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/strong\\u003eand\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eLegacy\\u0026nbsp;Recordings\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, a division of\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eSony Music\\u0026nbsp;Entertainment\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, are pleased to announce the first round of physical titles\\u0026nbsp;set for release as part of the ongoing and definitive Prince\\u0026nbsp;catalog project\\u0026nbsp;first announced in August. Three essential full-length Prince albums,\\u0026nbsp;
79\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e3121\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePlanet\\u0026nbsp;Earth\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, will be available on\\u0026nbsp;CD and \\u0026ndash; for the first time ever \\u0026ndash; on vinyl beginning \\u003cstrong\\u003eFriday\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, \\u003cstrong\\u003eFebruary 8, 2019\\u003c\/strong\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;Each of the vinyl titles\\u0026nbsp;will be pressed on highly collectible, limited edition\\u0026nbsp;purple vinyl. In addition, the albums will be available in both CD\/LP form\\u0026nbsp;alongside new exclusive merchandise corresponding to each album era via the\\u0026nbsp;Official Prince Store.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe albums are available for\\u0026nbsp;pre-order \\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/prince.lnk.to\/prplvnyl\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe physical release\\u0026nbsp;of\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(1CD and 2LPs),\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e3121\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(1CD and\\u0026nbsp;2LPs) and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePlanet Earth\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(1CD and\\u0026nbsp;1LP) follow from the historic exclusive agreement inked between\\u0026nbsp;The Prince Estate\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;SME\/Legacy\\u0026nbsp;in June 2018. In August\\u0026nbsp;2018, 23\\u0026nbsp;highly-collectible Prince catalog titles (many of them hard-to-find or\\u0026nbsp;out-of-print) and a newly curated anthology of 37 essential tracks compiled\\u0026nbsp;under the auspices of\\u0026nbsp;The Prince Estate,\\u0026nbsp;titled\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince Anthology: 1995-2010\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, were made available\\u0026nbsp;digitally\\u0026nbsp;across all major streaming services and digital service providers.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe album trilogy set for physical release February 8th\\u0026nbsp;celebrates\\u0026nbsp;a sustained period of renewed creative energy and commercial triumph in Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;multi-faceted career. These three albums marked Prince\\u0026#39;s return to the top of\\u0026nbsp;the popular\\u0026nbsp;mainstream, a position he maintained while simultaneously pushing the\\u0026nbsp;envelope and breaking industry norms pertaining to marketing, distribution and\\u0026nbsp;live performance.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(2004) resulted in two Grammy Awards\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ndash; Best Traditional R\\u0026amp;B\\u0026nbsp;Vocal Performance (\\u0026quot;Musicology\\u0026quot;) and Best\\u0026nbsp;R\\u0026amp;B Vocal Performance \\u0026ndash; Male (\\u0026quot;Call My Name\\u0026quot;) \\u0026ndash; and has been\\u0026nbsp;certified RIAA double platinum. Concurrently, Prince pioneered a cutting edge industry-first\\u0026nbsp;marketing and distribution strategy for the\\u0026nbsp;album, bundling a copy of the\\u0026nbsp;record as a gift to every fan who purchased a ticket to his monumental \\u0026ldquo;Musicology Live 2004ever\\u0026rdquo; tour,\\u0026nbsp;witnessed by over 1.47 million music lovers worldwide.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nReleased in 2006,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e3121\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, Prince\\u0026#39;s 31st\\u0026nbsp;studio album,\\u0026nbsp;became his first record to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 and his first #1\\u0026nbsp;album since 1989\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;Batman. For\\u0026nbsp;his follow-up studio album, 2007\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePlanet Earth\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, Prince innovated\\u0026nbsp;yet another bold\\u0026nbsp;marketing and distribution tactic, giving free copies of the\\u0026nbsp;album away in the UK via a partnership with the national newspaper The Mail on\\u0026nbsp;Sunday. Bucking conventional industry distribution strategy, the innovative\\u0026nbsp;partnership fuelled Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;epic 21-night run of sold out shows at London\\u0026rsquo;s O2\\u0026nbsp;Arena (20,000 capacity), while back in the US\\u0026nbsp;Planet Earth\\u0026nbsp;debuted at\\u0026nbsp;#3 on the Billboard 200.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPrince\\u0026#39;s studio trilogy of\\u0026nbsp;
79\\u003cstrong\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e3121\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003ePlanet Earth\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;presents the artist at a high point in his\\u0026nbsp;creative genius during the first decade of the 21st century. The 2004-2007\\u0026nbsp;epoch gave us some of Prince\\u0026#39;s most iconic and indelible performances,\\u0026nbsp;including\\u0026nbsp;his unforgettable appearance with Beyonc\\u0026eacute; at the 2004\\u0026nbsp;Grammys, his show-stopping induction at the\\u0026nbsp;Rock \\u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame\\u0026nbsp;a month later, and his incandescent\\u0026nbsp;triumph at the\\u0026nbsp;Super Bowl\\u0026nbsp;in\\u0026nbsp;February 2007.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nComplementing the music release campaign,\\u0026nbsp;The Prince Estate\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;Legacy\\u0026nbsp;continue efforts to unify the iconic artist\\u0026rsquo;s work on all digital services with\\u0026nbsp;the ongoing weekly release of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s official music\\u0026nbsp;videos. 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This November, \\u0026quot;Black-ish,\\u0026quot; the hit ABC-TV series,\\u0026nbsp;devoted its landmark 100th episode to a celebration of Prince and his music,\\u0026nbsp;while the NBA\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;Minnesota Timberwolves\\u0026nbsp;recently announced that their entry into the league\\u0026rsquo;s popular City Edition\\u0026nbsp;would be\\u0026nbsp;Prince-inspired, realized through a\\u0026nbsp;collaborative effort between The Prince Estate, the Timberwolves and Nike.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Official Music Video Releases (1995 - 2010)\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2018-11-05T18:04:10.000Z\",\"slug\":\"music-videos\",\"meta_title\":\"Prince | Official Music Video Releases (1995 - 2010)\",\"meta_description\":\"Prince | Official Music Video Releases (1995 - 2010)\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe Prince Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e in partnership with \\u003cstrong\\u003eLegacy Recordings\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;a division of \\u003cstrong\\u003eSony Music Entertainment\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, continue efforts to reunite the\\u0026nbsp;artist\\u0026rsquo;s music on all digital services, turning attention to\\u0026nbsp;unavailable \\u003cstrong\\u003emusic\\u0026nbsp;videos\\u003c\/strong\\u003e from the \\u003cstrong\\u003e1995-2010\\u003c\/strong\\u003e era. Starting\\u0026nbsp;on November 2 and coming in weekly batches by album, the music videos will be\\u0026nbsp;made available on all streaming video services. The first batch includes\\u0026nbsp;the\\u0026nbsp;music videos for 1995\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold\\u0026nbsp;Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and 1996\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eChaos and\\u0026nbsp;Disorder\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;including rarely seen videos for \\u0026ldquo;Endorphinmachine,\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ldquo;Dolphin\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Rock And\\u0026nbsp;Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis).\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWatch the videos via the official Prince YouTube channel\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/prince\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003ehere\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;video for \\u0026ldquo;Endorphinmachine\\u0026rdquo; which appeared on\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;was released well before, via the innovative\\u0026nbsp;CDRom video game \\u003cem\\u003eInteractive\\u003c\/em\\u003e which came out on Prince\\u0026rsquo;s birthday on June 7,\\u0026nbsp;1994.\\u0026nbsp;The video had only been available as a hidden treasure for those who\\u0026nbsp;successfully navigated the game. \\u0026ldquo;Dolphin\\u0026rdquo; also premiered well before the\\u0026nbsp;album\\u0026rsquo;
79s release, making history as the first video ever played on\\u0026nbsp;VH1 Europe in\\u0026nbsp;September of 1994. Meanwhile \\u0026ldquo;Rock And Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In\\u0026nbsp;Minneapolis),\\u0026rdquo; a B-side from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold\\u0026nbsp;Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e, was only shown as part of the VH1 broadcast special \\u0026ldquo;Love 4 One\\u0026nbsp;Another\\u0026rdquo; aired in January of 1997. The song was a direct response to the Lenny\\u0026nbsp;Kravitz single \\u0026ldquo;Rock And Roll Is Dead\\u0026rdquo; and the video captured Prince joined by\\u0026nbsp;his band at Paisley Park,\\u0026nbsp;turning his hometown\\u0026nbsp;pride\\u0026nbsp;up to 11 while filming the video. Snow is falling, the entire crew is decked\\u0026nbsp;out in winter gear, and Prince showcases his love for the Minnesota Vikings by\\u0026nbsp;donning a giant, puffy purple and gold parka.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThese videos join more widely available clips from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/em\\u003eand\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eChaos and Disorder\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;including \\u0026ldquo;Gold,\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;Eye Hate U,\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ldquo;Dinner With Delores\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;The Same December\\u0026rdquo; for the week\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;batch of\\u0026nbsp;featured videos. In the weeks ahead, dozens more music videos will be\\u0026nbsp;rolled out that had either been impossible to find or only available in\\u0026nbsp;substandard fan uploads taped off of television.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe videos follow August\\u0026rsquo;s wide digital release\\u0026nbsp;of the Prince catalog titles from 1995-2010, a crucial epoch in Prince history.\\u0026nbsp;23 highly-collectible Prince catalog titles and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003ePrince Anthology:\\u0026nbsp;1995-2010\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(a newly-curated anthology of 37 essential\\u0026nbsp;tracks from\\u0026nbsp;the era) were made available across all major streaming services and digital\\u0026nbsp;service providers.\\u0026nbsp;Many of these albums, long sought-after by\\u0026nbsp;fans and collectors, are available for the first time for streaming and\\u0026nbsp;download, adding more than\\u0026nbsp;300 essential Prince songs to the artist\\u0026#39;s online\\u0026nbsp;in-print catalog.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFor Prince, 1995-2010 was an\\u0026nbsp;unprecedented period of sustained and prolific creativity. Releasing fresh\\u0026nbsp;recordings at a rapid-fire pace through a variety of distribution strategies\\u0026nbsp;including his own online NPG Music Club, Prince was making some\\u0026nbsp;of the most\\u0026nbsp;provocative, experimental and soulful music of his career. Freed from major\\u0026nbsp;label demands and expectations, Prince was able to write, record and release\\u0026nbsp;his own music on his own terms.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eMusic Video Release Schedule:\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eNovember 2\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from \\u003cem\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Gold Experience\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eChaos and\\u0026nbsp;Disorder\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEndorphinmachine\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nDolphin\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nRock and Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nEye Hate U\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGold\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nDinner With Delores\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Same December\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eNovember 9\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eEmancipation\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBetcha By Golly Wow!\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSomebody\\u0026rsquo;s Somebody\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Holy River\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFace Down\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eNovember 16\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eCrystal Ball\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eRave Un2 The Joy Fantastic\/Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCrystal Ball\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nInteractive\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Greatest Romance Ever Sold\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nHot Wit U (feat. Eve) - Nasty Girl Remix\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eNovember 23\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eChocolate Invasion\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nU Make My Sun Shine (feat. Angie Stone)\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003eNovember 30\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;
79\\u003cem\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003e3121\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nMusicology\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCall My Name\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCinnamon Girl\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n3121\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nBlack Sweat\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTe Amo Coraz\\u0026oacute;n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nFury\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eDecember 7\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003ePlanet Earth\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nChelsea Rogers\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nSomewhere Here On Earth\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nGuitar\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe One U Wanna C\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eDecember 14\\u003c\/strong\\u003e | videos from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eLOtUSFLOW3R\\u003c\/em\\u003e and \\u003cem\\u003eMPLSoUND\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nCrimson and Clover\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nChocolate Box (feat. Q-Tip)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}],\"images\":[]},{\"title\":\"Mary Don't You Weep | Official Video\",\"title_size\":\"regular\",\"date_from\":\"2018-09-20T18:02:05.000Z\",\"slug\":\"mary-dont-you-weep\",\"meta_title\":\"Mary Don't You Weep | Official Video\",\"meta_description\":\"Mary Don't You Weep | Official Video\",\"meta_image\":null,\"content_blocks\":[{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;Estate\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, in partnership with \\u003cstrong\\u003eWarner Bros. Records\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, release powerful new\\u0026nbsp;video for \\u0026ldquo;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e5-HEBGPzFM\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eMary Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u003c\/a\\u003e,\\u0026rdquo; a\\u0026nbsp;rare recording of the 19th\\u0026nbsp;Century spiritual that is\\u0026nbsp;featured on\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003ePiano\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026amp; A Microphone 1983\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u003c\/strong\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;out\\u0026nbsp;now.\\u0026nbsp;Directed by filmmaker, \\u003cstrong\\u003eSalomon Ligthelm\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, and shot in New York\\u0026nbsp;City, the video makes an emotive statement around\\u0026nbsp;gun violence and its continued devastating impact on youth in America. The\\u0026nbsp;video pays tribute to the nearly\\u0026nbsp;
791,300\\u0026nbsp;children that die and 5,790 that are treated for gunshot\\u0026nbsp;wounds each year in\\u0026nbsp;the United States alone.\\u0026nbsp;It puts the effect of what happens when\\u0026nbsp;a mother and a community lose a son under the microscope, exploring the agony,\\u0026nbsp;the resolve and ultimately hope for change.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe\\u0026nbsp;messaging in the video links thematically to Prince\\u0026rsquo;s past activist work in\\u0026nbsp;Baltimore in 2015 around the death of Freddie Gray and the resulting riots that\\u0026nbsp;ensued in the city and beyond. That year, Prince released a protest\\u0026nbsp;song titled\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;\\u003cstrong\\u003eBaltimore\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u0026rdquo; \\u0026ndash; along with an\\u0026nbsp;accompanying\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cieZB0Ab7xk\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003edocumentary\\u0026nbsp;style video\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ndash; directed squarely at the need for more\\u0026nbsp;compassion and peace, an ever-present theme he echoed through his career.\\u0026nbsp;Prince sings in the song:\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;\\u003cem\\u003ePeace is more\\u0026nbsp;than the absence of war\\u0026hellip; We\\u0026rsquo;re tired of cryin\\u0026rsquo; and people dyin\\u0026rsquo;, let\\u0026rsquo;s take all\\u0026nbsp;the guns away\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026rdquo;.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;Beyond the release\\u0026nbsp;of the song, Prince hosted a special tribute concert that year in Baltimore on Mother\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;Day,\\u0026nbsp;titled\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cstrong\\u003eRally 4 Peace\\u003c\/strong\\u003e, described\\u0026nbsp;in an official statement at the time as \\u0026ldquo;a\\u0026nbsp;catalyst for pause and reflection following the outpouring of violence that has\\u0026nbsp;gripped Baltimore and areas throughout the US\\u0026rdquo;. Live streamed on TIDAL\\u0026nbsp;and attended\\u0026nbsp;by stars including Jay Z, Beyonce and Miguel, the event generated charitable\\u0026nbsp;proceeds for a variety of youth focused organizations in the region. The \\u0026ldquo;Baltimore\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;video ends with a powerful quote Prince\\u0026nbsp;delivered during an impassioned speech\\u0026nbsp;at his 2015 Rally 4 Peace event:\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;\\u003cem\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;system is broken. It\\u0026rsquo;s going to take young people to fix it.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;We need new ideas, new life\\u0026hellip;\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026rdquo;.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;The new video for \\u0026ldquo;Mary\\u0026nbsp;Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u0026rdquo; begins\\u0026nbsp;with that same quote, a symbolic reminder underscoring\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s earlier messaging on the topic and a timely reflection on the need for\\u0026nbsp;positive change.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003ePiano \\u0026amp; A Microphone 1983\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/em\\u003eis\\u0026nbsp;a nine track, 35-minute album featuring a previously unreleased home studio\\u0026nbsp;cassette recording of Prince solo at his piano captured in 1983. The album is\\u0026nbsp;available now in CD, LP,\\u0026nbsp;Deluxe CD+LP, download and streaming formats.\\u0026nbsp;The set provides a rare, intimate glimpse into Prince\\u0026rsquo;s creative process as\\u0026nbsp;he worked through songs like \\u0026ldquo;Purple Rain\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;17 Days\\u0026rdquo;, a cover of Joni\\u0026nbsp;Mitchell\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;A Case Of You\\u0026rdquo;, \\u0026ldquo;Strange Relationship\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;(not\\u0026nbsp;released until 1987 on his critically acclaimed\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cem\\u003eSign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times\\u003c\/em\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;album),\\u0026nbsp;and \\u0026ldquo;International Lover\\u0026rdquo;. \\u0026ldquo;Mary\\u0026nbsp;Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u0026rdquo; was recently featured during the end credits\\u0026nbsp;of Spike Lee\\u0026rsquo;s critically\\u0026nbsp;acclaimed film\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ca href=\\\"http:\/\/www.focusfeatures.com\/blackkklansman\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"\\u003eBlackKkKlansman\\u003c\/a\\u003e.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;
79For fans\\u0026nbsp;of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s spontaneous live medleys, tracks 1-7 of the album are presented in\\u0026nbsp;that same format as they were originally recorded.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cstrong\\u003ePiano \\u0026amp; A Microphone 1983\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nTrack list and credits:\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n1. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; 17 Days\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n2. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Purple Rain\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n3. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; A Case Of You\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Mary Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n5. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Strange Relationship\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n6. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; International Lover\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n7. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Wednesday\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n8. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Cold Coffee \\u0026amp; Cocaine\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n9. \\u0026nbsp; \\u0026nbsp; Why The Butterflies\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cem\\u003eRecorded in\\u0026nbsp;1983 at Prince\\u0026rsquo;
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79 said Prince when the album was released in 1996) and closing with the anthemic \\u0026quot;We March\\u0026quot; (from 1995\\u0026#39;s\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e), this new compilation provides a coherent musical chronicle of Prince\\u0026#39;s artistic and spiritual evolution through the late 20th and early 21st centuries in songs that continue to resonant in the culture.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003e\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003ePrince Anthology: 1995- 2010\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;draws spotlight tracks from\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Gold Experience\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eEmancipation\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eChaos and Disorder\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eCrystal Ball\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Truth\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eRave Un2 The Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eRave In2 The Joy Fantastic\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Rainbow Children\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eOne Nite Alone...\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eC-Note\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eN.E.W.S.\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eXpectation\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eMusicology\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(includes 2005 Best Male R\\u0026amp;B Performance Grammy winner \\u0026quot;Call My Name\\u0026quot;),\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Slaughterhouse\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eThe Chocolate\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eInvasion\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003e3121\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;(the first Prince album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200),\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003ePlanet Earth\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eLOtUSFLOW3R\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e,\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003eMPLSoUND\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;and\\u0026nbsp;\\u003ci\\u003e\\u003cu\\u003e20Ten\\u003c\/u\\u003e\\u003c\/i\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePrince catalog titles newly available digitally via SME\/Legacy are:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e1.\\u0026nbsp; The Gold Experience (1995)\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e2.\\u0026nbsp; Chaos and Disorder (1996)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e3.\\u0026nbsp; Emancipation (1996)\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e4.\\u0026nbsp; Crystal Ball (1998)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e5.\\u0026nbsp; The Truth (1998)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e6.\\u0026nbsp; Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (1999)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e7.\\u0026nbsp; Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (2001)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e8.\\u0026nbsp; The Rainbow Children (2001)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e9.\\u0026nbsp; One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip; (2002)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e10.\\u0026nbsp; One Nite Alone\\u0026hellip;Live! (2002)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e11.\\u0026nbsp; One Nite Alone...Live - The Aftershow: It Ain\\u0026#39;t Over\\u0026nbsp;(2002)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e12.\\u0026nbsp; Xpectation (2003)\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e13.\\u0026nbsp; N.E.W.S. (2003)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e14.\\u0026nbsp; C-Note (2004)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e15.\\u0026nbsp; Musicology (2004)\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e16.\\u0026nbsp; The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club: Volume 1) (2004)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e17.\\u0026nbsp; The Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG Music Club: Volume 2) (2004)\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e18.\\u0026nbsp;
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79s career right before he achieved international stardom, is similar in format to the Piano \\u0026amp; A Microphone Tour that he ended his career with in 2016,\\u0026rdquo; said Prince Estate entertainment adviser Troy Carter. \\u0026ldquo;The Estate is excited to be able to give fans a glimpse of his evolution and show how his career ultimately came full circle with just him and his piano.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe private rehearsal provides a rare, intimate glimpse into Prince\\u0026rsquo;s creative process as he worked through songs which include \\u0026ldquo;17 Days\\u0026rdquo; and \\u0026ldquo;Purple Rain\\u0026rdquo; (neither of which would be released until 1984), a cover of Joni Mitchell\\u0026rsquo;s \\u0026ldquo;A Case Of You,\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;Strange Relationship\\u0026rdquo; (not released until 1987 on his critically acclaimed \\u003cem\\u003eSign O\\u0026rsquo; The Times\\u003c\/em\\u003e album), and \\u0026ldquo;International Lover.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;The album also includes a rare recording of the 19th Century spiritual \\u0026ldquo;Mary Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u0026rdquo; which will be featured during the end credits of Spike Lee\\u0026rsquo;s \\u003cem\\u003eBlacKkKlansman\\u003c\/em\\u003e.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eFor fans of Prince\\u0026rsquo;s spontaneous live medleys, tracks 1-7 of the album are presented in that same format as they were originally recorded.The album is available now to pre-order on CD, LP, Deluxe CD+LP, digital release and pre-save for streaming. The Deluxe CD+LP format will include a 12\\u0026rdquo; booklet featuring brand new liner notes written by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s then engineer Don Batts, as well as candid shots of Prince including never before seen images.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe album cover photo captures a rare view of Prince backstage during the 1999 tour. The photo was taken by Prince\\u0026rsquo;s trusted photographer and creative collaborator Allen Beaulieu who worked closely with Prince between 1979-1984. Allen\\u0026rsquo;s work with Prince includes the cover shots for the\\u003cem\\u003e Dirty Mind\\u003c\/em\\u003e and \\u003cem\\u003eControversy\\u003c\/em\\u003e albums and iconic promotional photos for the \\u003cem\\u003e1999\\u003c\/em\\u003e album.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cstrong\\u003eTrack listing and credits:\\u003c\/strong\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e1. 17 Days\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n2. Purple Rain\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n3. A Case Of You\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n4. Mary Don\\u0026rsquo;t You Weep\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n5. Strange Relationship\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n6. International Lover\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n7. Wednesday\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n8. Cold Coffee \\u0026amp; Cocaine\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n9. Why The Butterflies\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cem\\u003eRecorded in 1983 at Prince\\u0026rsquo;
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79,\"credit\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eCredit: The Prince Estate | Nancy Bundt\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003eThe\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;Estate, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Records,\\u0026nbsp;released the\\u0026nbsp;original version of the iconic song\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;Nothing Compares 2 U\\u0026quot; on April 20, 2018.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThis previously unreleased version was\\u0026nbsp;recorded in 1984, six years\\u0026nbsp;before the classic reimagining by Sin\\u0026eacute;ad O\\u0026#39;Connor became a global hit and Prince\\u0026nbsp;started performing the song\\u0026nbsp;live.\\u0026nbsp;The track was recorded at the\\u0026nbsp;Flying Cloud Drive \\u0026#39;Warehouse\\u0026#39; in Eden Prairie by\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;long-time engineer Susan Rogers, and was originally composed,\\u0026nbsp;arranged and performed in its entirety by\\u0026nbsp;Prince,\\u0026nbsp;with additional backing vocals by Susannah Melvoin and Paul \\u0026quot;St. Paul\\u0026quot;\\u0026nbsp;Peterson and\\u0026nbsp;saxophone work by Eric Leeds.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe original recording was discovered in Prince\\u0026#39;s legendary vault by Michael Howe, a longtime\\u0026nbsp;industry A\\u0026amp;R executive,\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;expert, and the\\u0026nbsp;Prince Estate\\u0026rsquo;s\\u0026nbsp;official Vault Archivist.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026ldquo;I spotted the two-inch\\u0026nbsp;multitrack reel in the Vault some weeks back while doing a 1984-era\\u0026nbsp;inventory. After retrieving my jaw from the floor, we took the reel upstairs,\\u0026nbsp;analyzed it, put it up on the Studer 24 track machine, and digitized it to\\u0026nbsp;24\/192,\\u0026quot; Michael recalled. \\u0026quot;Even our \\u0026#39;faders up\\u0026#39; rough mix was compelling enough to indicate that\\u0026nbsp;this was something very special indeed.\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eHowe continued,\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026ldquo;No Prince-penned song performed by another artist has enjoyed more\\u0026nbsp;chart success (#1 in over a dozen countries) and overall cultural impact than\\u0026nbsp;Sinead O\\u0026#39;Connor\\u0026#39;s 1990 recording, so hearing the song in\\u0026nbsp;its original context\\u0026nbsp;performed in its entirety by the author makes it particularly noteworthy.\\u0026rdquo;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe release of the song was accompanied by a video\\u0026nbsp;of never-before-seen rehearsal footage of Prince and the Revolution\\u0026nbsp;practicing their choreography in that same Eden Prairie warehouse during the\\u0026nbsp;same summer of 1984. Captured\\u0026nbsp;for Prince as a part of his rehearsal process,\\u0026nbsp;the footage was presented for the very first time in a\\u0026nbsp;video directed by Andrea Gelardin and Ruth Hogben.\\u0026nbsp;The video offered a glimpse into\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026rsquo;s total commitment to his art and its\\u0026nbsp;emotional impact, even when no\\u0026nbsp;audience is present.\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAfter the successful launch of the\\u0026nbsp;Prince\\u0026nbsp;HitNRun\\u0026nbsp;online pop-up store in November 2017, the Prince Estate \\u003ca href=\\\"http:\/\/www.PrinceHitNRun.com\\\"\\u003ebrought back the concept\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;to sell the limited edition, picture disk vinyl\\u0026nbsp;exclusively online.\\u0026nbsp;The black vinyl\\u0026nbsp;7\\u0026rdquo;\\u0026nbsp;was made\\u0026nbsp;available from major physical retailers on May 25, 2018.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"},{\"kind\":\"text\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eLimited Edition 7\\u0026rdquo; picture disk and black vinyl tracklisting and credits:\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eA. NOTHING COMPARES 2 U (EDIT VERSION) [4:12]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eB. NOTHING COMPARES 2 U (FULL LENGTH VERSION) [4:40]\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eRecorded in July 1984 at Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eMixed by Tony Maserati at Mirrorball Studios, North Hollywood, CA\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAssistant mix Engineer: Tyler Scott\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWritten, Arranged, Performed and Produced by Prince\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eSaxophone by Eric Leeds\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBacking Vocals by Susannah Melvoin and Paul Peterson\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eEngineered by Susan Rogers\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\"}
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All materials on this Website are provided on an \\u0026ldquo;as is\\u0026rdquo; and as-available basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title or non-infringement or the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The Prince Estate is not responsible for any loss or damage resulting from reliance on the information or other content posted on this Website or from sites linked to or from it. The Prince Estate does not warrant that the use of this Website will be uninterrupted and does not guarantee that this Website is free from viruses or other contaminants that may damage your computer or its data. The Prince Estate also reserves the right, at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion, without notice to: (1) change, add or remove portions of the terms and conditions of this Agreement; (2) change or discontinue the Website in whole or in part, including eliminating or discontinuing any content on or feature of the Website; (3) change any prices or fees appearing on or associated with the Website or for any products or services offered for sale or otherwise available on the Website including catalogs provided through the Website; (4) refuse or cancel any order; (5) terminate or restrict any user or your access to any online community or account, including any access to links through this Website. In addition, if The Prince Estate permits the creation of any specific \\u0026ldquo;group\\u0026rdquo; or \\u0026ldquo;room\\u0026rdquo; or similar specified area within the Website or on any related social media page that permits participants to chat or otherwise communicate (a \\u0026ldquo;Specific Chat Room\\u0026rdquo;), you agree that (1) participation by you in such Specific Chat Room or any other activity on this Website does not render you an employee of The Prince Estate for any purpose and does not entitle you to receive any wage, royalty, or any other benefit or compensation for your participation, and (2) The Prince Estate may discontinue the Specific Chat Room, in whole or in part, for any reason at any time, without notice. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThis Website may, now or in the future, permit \\u0026ldquo;chat\\u0026rdquo; or other communications with other individuals\/fans and The Prince Estate is not responsible or liable for any statements by or any acts or omissions of such individuals, and any reliance on such postings or other interactions with such persons is at your own risk. The Prince Estate is not under any obligation to review, moderate, or fact-check chat or similar communications, and such communications may contain information or advice that is false or harmful.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eIndemnification and Limitation of Liability\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBY VISITING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS THE PRINCE ESTATE, AND ANY AFFILIATED THE PRINCE ESTATE ENTITY AND THEIR VENDORS, AND ALL OF THE RELATED OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY \\u0026ldquo;THE PRINCE ESTATE PARTIES\\u0026rdquo;) FROM AND AGAINST ALL CLAIMS, ACTIONS, DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, JUDGMENTS AND SETTLEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FROM ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR ANY OTHER CLAIM YOU MAY INCUR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CLAIMS FOR ECONOMIC HARM, LOST PROFITS, DAMAGES TO BUSINESS, DATA OR COMPUTER SYSTEMS, OR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT OR RESULTING FROM ANY INT
79ERRUPTIONS, WORK STOPPAGES, COMPUTER FAILURES, DELETION OF FILES, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INACCURACIES, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS OR MISTAKES OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY ADVISED THE PRINCE ESTATE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH CLAIM.\\u0026nbsp; YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEBSITE AND ANY OF ITS SERVICES IS TO STOP USING THE WEBSITE OR ITS SERVICES. YOU AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL ANY OF THE PRINCE ESTATE PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE. THIS PROTECTION COVERS CLAIMS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, AND ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY. THIS PROTECTION COVERS ALL LOSSES AND CLAIMS OF ANY TYPE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, RELIANCE, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES, PERSONAL INJURY\/WRONGFUL DEATH, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eBefore seeking legal recourse for any harm you believe you have suffered arising from or related to your use of this Website, you agree to inform The Prince Estate in writing and to give The Prince Estate thirty (30) days to cure the harm before initiating any action. You must initiate any cause of action within one year after the claim has arisen, or you will be barred from pursuing any cause of action. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eUsers shall not view, use, download, export or copy any content of this Website except in full compliance with all U.S. and other applicable laws and regulations, and the terms of this Agreement as stated herein.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eCopyright Notice\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThis Website is owned and operated by The Prince Estate, with the assistance of certain third party vendors. All rights regarding the Website and materials contained on the Website are either owned by The Prince Estate, are licensed to it, are used with permission, are in the public domain or are used as a fair use under copyright law. The Prince Estate and its licensors retain and reserve all proprietary rights to the proprietary contents of this Website. Please contact us if you would like to know which elements of the Website belong to The Prince Estate.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eCopyright Infringement \\u0026ndash; DMCA Notice\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the \\u0026ldquo;DMCA\\u0026rdquo;) provides remedies for copyright holders who believe in good faith that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under copyright law. If you believe in good faith that content or material on this Website infringes a valid copyright owned by you, you (or your agent) may send The Prince Estate a notice requesting that the material be removed, or access to it blocked. This request should be sent to: \\u003ca href=\\\"mailto:[email protected]\\\"\\[email protected]\\u003c\/a\\u003e ; or to:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePaisley Park Studios\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAttn: Legal Notice, Comerica, PrinceEstate.com\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e7801 Audubon Road\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eChanhassen, MN\\u
79003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e55317\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eUSA\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe notice must include the following information: (1) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or the subject of infringing activity; (4) the name, address, telephone number, and email address of the complaining party; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. If you believe in good faith that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, the DMCA permits you to send us a counter-notice. Notices and counter-notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA. Notices and counter-notices with respect to the Website should be sent to the address above.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eTrademark Notice\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eCertain names and logos, and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of The Prince Estate and\/or other third parties and are used as a fair use or a non-trademark use. All rights are reserved.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eRestrictions on Use Government Users\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIf you are employed by or are an agent of a U.S. Government agency or are acting on behalf of a Government agency, you agree and acknowledge on behalf of yourself and the Government agency that The Prince Estate property, as detailed above, is a commercial item that has been developed at private expense and not under a Government contract. The Government\\u0026#39;s rights relating to The Prince Estate property are limited to those rights applicable to its users, and are binding on Government users in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 48 C.F.R. Section 12.212 for non-defense agencies and\/or Defense FAR Supplement 48 C.F.R. Section 227.7202-1 for defense agencies.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eJurisdiction and Venue\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eInformation provided on this Website is not targeted to users in any particular locality nor is it intended to constitute the doing of business in any jurisdiction. This Website is a service provided by The Prince Estate and does not constitute any contract with any jurisdiction outside the State of Minnesota. Use of this Website is prohibited in any jurisdiction having laws that would void this Agreement in whole or essential part or which makes accessing the Website illegal. Users in such jurisdictions visit and use this Website entirely at their own risk. Note: the essential parts of this Agreement include, without limitation, the exclusive venue and exclusive remedy provisions, warranty disclaimers, and limitation of liability.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThis Agreement is entered into and performed in the State of Minnesota, United States of America. It is governed by and shall be construed under the laws of the State of Minnesota, exclusive of any choice of law or conflict of law provisions. In any claim or action directly or indirectly arising under this Agreement or related to the Website, each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in the state of Minnesota. Each party waives any jurisdictional, venue or inconvenient forum objections to these courts. This Website is intended for a United States audience. If you live outside of the United States, you may see information not approved and\/or available in your country.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eLimitation on Claims\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou agree that in the event you have or may have any alleged claim against The Prince Estate, you shall pursue such claim only in your individual capacity, and you shall not agree to join or be a part of any class action, consolidated action, or similar action. You also agree that your damages are limited as set forth elsewhere in these Terms of Use and that you are not eligible to re
79ceive, and shall not seek, attorney fees in relation to any claim you have or may have against The Prince Estate.\\u0026nbsp; You agree that any claim you may have against The Prince Estate must be brought within twelve (12) months of the date on which the claim arises, or else such claim is waived and forfeit.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eMiscellaneous\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eIf any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be overbroad, invalid, or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to render such provision valid and enforceable. If any provision cannot reasonably be deemed amended, then such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eSecurity\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWe understand that you may provide to The Prince Estate, through this Website, some information about yourself that you consider confidential. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information about information security. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWhile we take reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of your information, we cannot give absolute assurance that all information will remain secure. Under certain circumstances, it is possible that third parties may be able to intrude on the server and view your information. By submitting information to The Prince Estate, you agree that you are aware of these risks. If you do not wish to submit your information electronically, do not do so; however, in such case you may not be able to make use of the full functionality of this Website. You agree that The Prince Estate is not responsible or liable for any consequence of illegal acts by third parties, including but not limited to hacking or similar crimes.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eCommunicating with You\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou agree that we may communicate with you through any and all contact information and methods you provide to us, including but not limited to text message, email, telephone, social media account, fax, and\/or postal mail.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eCookies\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eSome features of this Website use cookies or similar tracking technology in order to offer more personalized service. Cookies are a part of your browser that store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to a website. Although you are welcome to disable or block cookies if your computer permits you to do so, you may experience difficulties using certain portions of this Website, and The Prince Estate is not responsible for such difficulties.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003ePrivacy\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou agree that The Prince Estate may use information as described in our \\u003ca href=\\\"\/privacy-policy\\\"\\u003ePrivacy Policy\\u003c\/a\\u003e. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that The Prince Estate or its agents may contact you through any contact information you may supply to The Prince Estate, including but not limited to land-mail, email, telephone, mobile phone, text, fax, social media tool, or messaging service.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eLinks to Websites\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe Prince Estate may provide internet links through this Website to other websites that provide information or services which may be of interest to you. The Prince Estate provides these links for your convenience only. The Prince Estate is not responsible or liable for the content of these websites or the programs, agencies, or businesses they describe, or for your dealings with such third parties. The Prince Estate does not guarantee that the websites will meet your particular purposes. The Prince Estate is not responsible or liable for the content or privacy practices of non-The Prince Estate websites to which its Website may link. Please review the privacy policy of such sites before using them.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eGeneral\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou may not assign any rights or obligations under this Agreement without The Prince Estate\\u0026rsquo;s prior written consent. The Prince Estate may assign all or part of this Agreement.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou agree that any use of this Website that is not explicitly authorized is a breach of contract, unauthorized access of a protected computer, and violation of The Prince Estate\\u0026rsquo;s intellectual property rights including copyright rights, in addition to any and all other claims The Prince Estate may have against you.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAll sections of this Agreement which, by their nature are designed to survive expiration or termination of this Agreement, including but not limited to indemnity and limitation of liability clauses, shall survive. No waiver of any of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eContact Information\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eYou may contact The Prince Estate at \\u003ca href=\\\"mailto:[email protected]\\\"\\[email protected]\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003ePaisley Park Studios\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eAttn: Legal Notice, PrinceEstate.com\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e7801 Audubon Road\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eChanhassen, MN\\u
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We aim to immerse fans, old and new, in Prince's story, explore the role of Prince and his work in today's cultural landscape. \",\"html\":\"\"},{\"code\":\"privacy-policy\",\"file\":null,\"text\":\"\",\"html\":\"\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003ePrivacy Policy\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nLast modified:\\u0026nbsp; June, 2018\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cb\\u003eIntroduction\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe Prince Estate, together with any and all affiliates and subsidiaries, (collectively, \\u003cb\\u003e\\u0026quot;Website Operator\\u0026quot;\\u003c\/b\\u003e or\\u003cb\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u0026quot;We\\u0026quot;\\u003c\/b\\u003e) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.\\u0026nbsp; We also require compliance with this policy for those vendors who assist us in operating the Website.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThis policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.PrinceEstate.com (our \\u0026quot;\\u003cb\\u003eWebsite\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026quot; which term also includes all subsidiary pages and sub-domains) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.\\u0026nbsp; This policy applies to information we collect on this Website.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nPlease read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website, also be aware this policy permits you to make a number of choices regarding your information. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy and consent to the use of information as described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThis Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites that may be linked to this Website. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cb\\u003eChildren Under the Age of 13\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nOur Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide personal information to or on the Website. We do not request any information regarding our users\\u0026rsquo; age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at \\u003ca href=\\\"mailto:[email protected]\\\"\\u003e\\u003cb\\[email protected]\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/a\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nInformation We Collect About You and How We Collect It\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nWe collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eBy which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number (\\u0026quot;\\u003cb\\u003epersonal information\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026quot;);\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eThat is about you but individually does not identify you; and\/or\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eAbout your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eWe collect this information:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eDirectly from you when you provide it to us;\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eAutomatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and\/or\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eFrom third parties, for example, from vendors and others we do business with.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eInformation You Provide to Us\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe information we collect on or through our Website may, now or in the future, include:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eInformation that you provide by filling in forms or answering questions on our Website.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eRecords and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eYour responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eDetails of transactions you carry out through our Website.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eYour search queries on the Website.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eNow or in the future this Website may permit you to construct certain messages or provide information\\u0026nbsp; to be published or displayed (hereinafter, \\u0026quot;\\u003cb\\u003eposted\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u0026quot;) on public areas of the Website, shared on third party websites and s
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Therefore, we are not responsible for any third party action with a User Contribution.\\u0026nbsp; User Contributions are by definition not confidential as you are automatically posting User Contributions to an area of the Website where the User Contribution may be viewed by other users.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cb\\u003eInformation We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies\\u003c\/b\\u003e \\u0026nbsp;\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nAs you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eDetails of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003eInformation about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eThe information we collect automatically may include personal information and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service.\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003cbr \/\\u003e\\r\\nThe technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cul\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eCookies (or browser cookies).\\u003c\/b\\u003e A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eFlash Cookies.\\u003c\/b\\u003e Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. \\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\t\\u003cli\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eWeb Beacons.\\u003c\/b\\u003e Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Website Operator, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/li\\u003e\\r\\n\\u003c\/ul\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u0026nbsp;\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003e\\u003cb\\u003eThird-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies\\u003c\/b\\u003e\\u003c\/p\\u003e\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u003cp\\u003eSome content or applications on the Website are or\\u0026nbsp; may be in the future served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. 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