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    Without significance? She's lost the faith.

    It's an amazing soundtrack accompanied by a ridiculous film but I love it.

    For those in Dallas, Purple Rain will also be on at the Alamo Drafthouse in the Cedars on Lamar at 1130pm tonight.

    I think referring to Prince as a black artist is to reinforce his connection to the evolution of genres with black roots (jazz, blues, R&B, rock&roll, soul, funk, disco, etc.) as well as his activist stances, which appear prominently in portions of his work, and not just his race or who he appeals to. Though,

    I always felt like I held Bowie in higher esteem as a whole but I think I'm taking Prince's death harder, or it might just be the combination of the two both being gone now.

    Batdance is really ahead of its time. It's like electro-metal-techno-house fusion and really jams pretty hard.

    I hate that both Rick James and Prince are only know to some people because of Chappelle and Murphy's (very hilarious) sketches. Street Songs is so damn good, shit, MC Hammer only had a career because of Super Freak -_-…

    Yeah, you are a real outlier, but I get it. I always felt like I was getting away with something when I caught bits of Prince videos on MTV since I knew there was something "bad" about him.

    Eh, I don't know how big Prince was overseas, but his work was in regular rotation on MTV and the radio after 84; I was born in 83 and remember Purple Rain (especially When Doves Cry) being everywhere for what seemed like forever as a kid. I mean, he's the reason Parental Advisory's exist, not sure how much more

    Purple Rain is a soundtrack with a movie.

    This is so much how I felt about Prince and a lot of stuff on MTV.

    We should be friends.

    His second album is a good starting place for the post-disco R&B and Funk grooves.

    He only recently moved his music to just Tidal for streaming. It was a sad day.

    Prince was as ubiquitous as MJ in the 80's. If you never heard a Prince song until yesterday that is a majorly unusual.

    As a child that was not overly supervised and with cable TV, I always felt like MTV was not appropriate for me to watch because of artists like Bowie and Prince and Madonna (even Michael Jackson at times). Not because of any moral objections, not sure a small child has those, but because they seemed so alien and

    You poor soul, growing up in a funk free environment!

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    There's a live long and prosper emoji 🖖

    Why you got treat him so bad?