>>Yet dude made lame attempts at hip-hop which seems to me
>like
>>an attempt to crowd please.
>
>
>That was Prince's attempt to prove he could do it ALL...
>
>Prince's EGO was and still is MAMMOTH...But if Prince truly
>cared about pleasing the younger music fans he would have
>hooked up with real MC's that were killing it at the time...He
>would have hooked up with happening producers that were
>killing it...
>
>MJ wanted to please music fans...even if that meant getting
>the younger heads...So he hooked up with Teddy...He got Heavy
>to rap on his track...He got Biggie to rap on his track...
>
>Madonna got the biggest cutting edge dance producers to
>collaborate on her music...William Orbit and the like...
>
>Prince?
>
>Dude was so arrogant that he thought he could tackle hip-hop
>by himself...Nigga tried to rap HIMSELF...lol...And he got
>some wack ass MC's instead of doing what MJ did....And he
>never was able to swallow his pride to at the very least
>collaborate with another producer in the way Madonna did...
>
>By the time P finally hooked up with "real" rappers (Chuck
>D...Q-Tip, Eve...ect...) it was too late...
>
>So again, this takes me back to my underlining point...
>
>The only time Prince attempted to "please" the public was on
>HIS terms...lol
>
>But as a whole, P didn't give a fuck...