Why on earth is Prince estate doing a 60 minutes profile so early for their new vault release? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it in June? WTF? Is this all because of his passing in april? Well why you would release it in JULY? Prince said to celebrate him when he passes, not his birthday or July.

Who made this call? It isn't even may.

8,000 songs? I haven't heard that number before.

"Five years after Prince's death, the artist's estate is releasing songs from his previously unreleased album, "Welcome 2 America." The new music will debut Sunday night on 60 Minutes.

Prince wrote and recorded the album before embarking on his 2010 "Welcome 2 America" tour, but he didn't perform songs from it. He never said why, Prince's longtime keyboardist, Morris Hayes, told 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim.

"And I remember asking him about it. And he says, 'Well, we'll just have to revisit that down the line.' Because he was like onto the next project," Hayes said.

60 Minutes cameras went to Prince's Paisley Park studios outside Minneapolis for the report. That's where Prince kept a vault of unreleased music, as many as 8,000 songs by one estimate.

Prince died of an accidental overdose of painkillers in 2016 with no spouse, no children and no will. His sister and his five half-siblings have been named heirs, but, five years on, are locked in a legal dispute over the estate. Meanwhile, the bank overseeing the estate called Troy Carter, one-time Lady Gaga manager and Spotify executive, to sort out the music collection and unlock its value.

A team of archivists works full-time at listening to the music and proposing new releases. The estate has kept pace with Prince, putting out roughly an album a year since his death - a mix of re-releases and newly-mined gems. "Welcome 2 America" is the latest.

The report, and the unreleased music, will air on 60 Minutes, Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS"

I guess 60 minutes wants to do it for his passing.

Out of all the potential albums to release, I wonder why they went with this

Should be interesting nonetheless

another fumble from the estate

Meh, we don’t know in what condition some of these Vault tapes are in

Keep in mind, a banger like Bold Generation was found in the vault on a random cassette tape, as the master tape that they found for that track was so damaged it was unusable

when the official photographs of the vault actually came out back in 2016... seeing the amount of water damage and leaky spots in the ceiling and throughout the room

i try not to be think about how much of the 70s-early80s material is just destroyed due to neglect and decades of sitting in a hot room

F*** prince all my homies hate prince

happy we are getting a full unreleased project.

shame we wont ever get a HQ release of this. at least theres some decent quality bootlegs of it now.

yup glad it's atleast listenable

hopefully welcome 2 america has some alternate versions of already released tracks on there, i'll be quite upset if all the tracks on the album are identical to already released versions we have

either way i think its cool its being released over another compilation project.

i try not to think about it. brings me anxiety lol. some of those bonus vault songs on 1999 & SOTT deluxe clearly had issues.

definitely agree there

bold generation

there are so many songs in there that are just likely wrecked

makes me wonder if some of the originals material was butchered because the tapes were so trashed

🕊 Long live Prince 🟪

kinda obsessed with she's always in my hair right now

DM. ;-)

"I just think the people should have a little more to say in some of these foreign matters. I don't want to have to go out and die for their mistakes.

"Thank God we got a better President now," Prince continues, rather startlingly, "with bigger balls" – the reader may note the recurrent sexual imagery – "than Carter. I think Reagan's a lot better. Just for the power he represents, if nothing else. Because that also means as far as other countries are concerned.

"He also has a big mouth, which is probably a good thing. His mouth is his one big asset."

@Trouble I didn’t forget I’ll be here for sessions soon in the future from the beginning.