His rapping was cringe. I am a big fan and just didn't like when he purposely churned out 4-5 albums to fulfill his WB deal and then released Emancipation which was actually good again. In between Diamonds and Pearls and Emancipation there were 5-6 garbage albums with 12 second songs, weird effects etc...
No one bought Prince as a rapper or hip hop as an element in his music, at least not for more than the short term. It actually worked somewhat on Diamonds and Pearls and it really ruined for many fans his brilliant followup album, called the symbol album. It had some great songs but then he had to throw hip hop in it. Bruce and MJ both started involving hip hop in their music and they didn't really face criticism, for some reason, Prince, maybe because he was so overt with the shit, killed his own momentum. I even like Chaos and Disorder which got shat on by everyone, of course "Dinner With Delores" was garbage as a lead single and obviously a fu to WB but the album was surprisingly good. The thing is with Prince, he crossed so many genres, even without hip hop, that what one fan would love, the other would hate. Some will say Come was a great album and that Emancipation was garbage. Emancipation did have a lot of crappy digital stuff on it as it was the first album he created after he cleaned house in his business, firing just about everyone from his band to all the staff at Paisley Park. I love it all, I say his prime was 1978-2016 and Ill tell you what I think his weakest albums were and they would shock you, his first album and Dirty Mind, which really kickstarted his entire career, garbage album with only one great song, when you were mine.
he was huge but only regionally or with certain demographics, us city folks didn't generally give a shit about him. I think the old guard country artists like Cash and co. hated him and all the new pretty boy country singers. I could see their point, it was too slick to be real country. I still remember an older black musician telling me and my buddy that Garth was actually pretty good, we didn't get it.
Yep, I think Queens fame in the States when "I Want To Break Free" was released.
I guess so, I grew up on mainly, only black music, Dust crossed all barriers.
not boring at all, that's great. Damn nice of the man and I can respect that sort of dedication. There are different ways artists manage the boredom of performing the same songs, Prince used to stretch things out and change them MJ wanted "what's on the record". Regimentation is great, improv is great, what the fans want most? who knows, be a case by case thing. There's definitely songs by Prince that I'd love to hear as he did them on record (Little Red Corvette) and he never, ever did. Mj could have learned a thing or two from Prince and many other artists by not having everything planned out to the nth degree because the other side of the strict structure is, if they want to hear what's on the album they could have stayed at home.
