Yo...I read this schitt fast as hell, y’all.

I enjoyed the “Shared” narrative with Prince and MD...much like the Time albums, BOTH voices carried the concept and the band, “The Time”.
We knew that here...but it’s good to hear Morris confirm it.

We also knew Mo’ got caught up in the coked out 80’s.
But MAN...if fear it was even worse than he lets on, which leads me to wonder WHO ELSE (besides Vanity) was “partying”.
I mean them still pictures from The 2nd Coming movie project (Controversy era), AND A LOT of the NPG “Pimp Rag, Tootsie Pop & A Cane...Typhoon Hairdo Era”...Prince also looked BLOWED OUT HIS MIND from time to time. But hey, the guy clearly didn’t sleep...ummm...*cough, ough*...yet, the squeaky clean myth prevails (with the exception of the “Black Album/Ecstasy” story, and Sinead O’Connor straight bugging for 30 years...ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL THE SURPRISE ENDING

This is some fascinating stuff.

I’m very curious about WHY THIS NIGGA JUST GLOSS THE FUCK OVER THE ORIGINAL 7 ALBUM LIKE THAT?
Like, o.k., WE KNOW JIMMY & TERRY bankrolled that slumber party.
But that schitt came out, Jesse schitt on the idea of touring the album...AND THAT WAS A WRAP!?!?!?!
That joint ain’t even available NOWHERE on streaming, nada.
WTF?! That silence is deafening, wouldn’t you agree?

Some of my favorite take always were the myth busting revelations that Morris and Prince were heads that enjoyed listening to, and turning each other on to music together. Dreading a lot of the W&L narrative that Prince never listened to schitt like The Beatles or Miles Davis (which always bugged me about their take...and I love them two to the moon and back, but #NAW).
To even imagine Morris and Prince in a midwestern basement in the dead of winter listening to Frank Zappa is such a fucking treat.

We’ve got to get to the point that Prince let us see and believe what we wanted to.
It’s really valuable for ALL of these other folks to tell their stories, not just to capitalize one last time...but so the real heads (like me) can triangulate the real person inside of the vast myth that is, Prince.

That one dude was his own Gene Roddenberry, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Uhuru AND Darth Vader. He got the records to prove it too.

Don’t sleep on this, snap the digital and enjoy that schitt on a snow day. The Lesson of old would’ve think tanked this mug into a platinum post by now,
But look how much thangs done changed.

s.blak
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