The Cross

I feel like he sampled the horns from another track of his, but I can’t find the source…

londell sworn to silence - i knew the celebration was the first phase of the new releases

Diamonds n Pearls seems to have the set up for 2023 😳

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If nothing is announced at Celebration, when will it be announced? I thought for sure they were gonna announce something yesterday

funkatopia guys say this year , they are pretty tapped in in terms of information

What Funkatopia did with radio programming in the last 2 years with Prince is insane . That’s how i know they aren’t playing, the amount of time that community spends 😳

i wouldn’t be surprised if the documentary is part of the launch

It would be cool to see a shelia E deluxe of her and prince’s work that we never heard

i’m guessing that s*** will be bananas in terms of musical fencing

The problem is Sheila won’t be much help, like everyone else she can’t remember what we should search for It’s going to be difficult dealing with all the people & their lack of taking notes what they recorded with prince

Maybe someone who got her lp deleted - Jill Jones

She deserves her accolades, i don’t believe the whole time she was there she just recorded 12 or so solo songs

Prince was promising her a project since 1982. She must have gone ballistic when Sheila and Apollonia showed up.

I was listening to a podcast & it was tasting bitter She must have been flipping out when all the rappers & Ingrid got their spot in lead vox on his lp’s & their projects. TC, Ingrid,Carmen

Haha she was in that camp for awhile, crazy how she only got 1 album released in that period

in the podcast she shares a Prince insight. He always has in his head he can turn anyone into a star who has a certain look & musical interest

So with Sheila & The Time,Vanity -Apollonia he believed he could manifest it. Because it happened with his first few signed acts

After The central core of The Time left he was still convinced he could create a new white act with the remaining members.

And you see this when he invested a 2 weeks of time to make The Family and then it flops

He did this with Rosie Gaines too. “You are a superstar. Just wait until. lee do” And what happened Motown signs her and then says “ yea you’re cool but you aren’t marketable”

And then Rosie is sort of left thinking but i thought i was special, why did Motown not support me like Stevie, Teena Rick, Debarges, Michael

He had Warner Bros convinced George Clinton comeback will happen

This is why i think there is so much mixed emotions for protégés. Not Mavis,Chaka,Larry and George Clinton - they were already established names

It’s funny because even after all that he believed in it until the end.

Tamar, Third Eye Girl Judith millennia
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ehhh diamonds and pearls isn't one im personally too interested in.

love symbol album a bit of a weird concept

tbf some of the lyrics are out there and he was going cult level with religion around this time. shame because you could argue its one of his best post-90's album

npg music club - bunch of weirdos who toss out musical breadcrumbs.

“here’s 2 tracks and you can’t hear em online. happy celebration to millions of you who aren’t here. we ain’t even streaming one concert 😒”

i wonder if prince vault site added these two yet

They did lmao

Apparently these are dropping on either streaming today or tomorrow though

New version of 7 has me curious

oh that’s good.

you know how this would be easy

neal morse - he’s this prog rock god. anyways he created a streaming app just for his music output

he puts up so much material and no one complains because it just goes up and you check to see what’s there

he has a mail order company that mails out his fanclub releases as well

With prince - they could do the same. They don’t have to do this silly s*** and they maximize their profit plus the streams are 100% their revenue. Annnd that money would cover a lot of the dream deluxe editions 😒

The estate should just eat the cost of that SOTT concert dvd released in Germany include that in 40th anniversary super deluxe.

This s*** isn’t hard, just do the pay out

Top 2 and it’s not 2

The songs are in 128kbps, LOL.

oh, that isn’t fly. i’m messaging londell -manana -

I would be surprised if they weren't doing this tbh

They literally have a recognized name and brand all set up: NPG Music Club

Does Warner or Legacy have anything contractually that would prevent the estate from doing this though? That would be the only major hurdle preventing the estate from doing something similar to this concept imo

You could do a Tidal like thing where the music is exclusive on that app/service for a couple of years, then release it to the public on the mainstream streaming services

Calling these 128kbs is generous tbh

7 (E flat version) is interesting, it's pretty similar to the 2 Whom It May Concern beat with Prince singing 7 over it, and it doesn't have the Tramp sample that's basically the glue to the OG version

Makes me wonder if it's a demo

funkatopia talked to the estate director, he explained big reason for the delay was the vinyl process was holding up releases. they played 10 unreleased tracks plus an acoustic guitar version of soft n wet. And the estate said “2023 will be a big year”

i’m guessing it will be this fall. ten tracks in full - whoa. i wonder if it was a private listening. 👀