meaning the shit he's saying is pretty much how we felt out here on the west coast around that time. Prince was placed right in there with the electro-funk shit like Egyptian Lover, Tyrone Brunson, LA Dream Team, etc at the parties we went to. Something like Billie Jean would be thrown on more for the girls to dance to... that doesn't mean we didn't like MJ but he wasn't making that down and dirty type shit we were really into back then. We were raised on George, Bootsy, Rick, Ohio Players type shit and the stuff Prince was doing in the early 80s was an advancement of that to us. So I totally get what he's saying when he talks about that... you don't have to feel that way but he is reppin a pervasive mindset among young men on the west coast at that time. It's sort of related to the "sings for the bitches vs sings for the niggas" type discussions we had a few years back. Yeah females loved Prince too but he was very much a masculine act in a musical sense... yeah I know it sounds funny to call P masculine under any conditions but musically he was much more "manly" than MJ.

You'd have issues with a lot of people I grew up with out here because that's just how most of us felt.
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