Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7,1958-April 21,2016)


Prince was murdered.

Point blank period.

And it pisses me off.

Now, the question you’re probably asking is: Ya’ got any proof of that bruh?

And my answer would be: Do you think it’s a coincidence that Prince was found dead two years almost to the day that he got his master recordings back from Warner Brothers Records?

Now you might follow up my answer with this comment: Bruh…that don’t mean he was murdered.

To that I’d reply: I’m positive Prince was killed cause the white fascist freemasons who run the record industry are notorious for killing Black musicians who reclaim the rights to their music.

Don’t believe me?

Then reference what happened to Jimi Hendrix when he was about to take his manager Mike Jeffries to court over royalties he never received. Mind you, Mike not only worked for british intelligence, but he also had ties to organized crime families. After that, look up what happened to Sam Cooke when he created his own record label in an effort to keep his publishing. Then read up on what happened to Michael Jackson after executives at Sony Music told him he was in debt to them for the ‘Invincible’ album under-selling, and how they’d cancel the debt if Mike gave up his ownership of the Beatles and Elvis music catalogues. Now besides Mike being a masterful performer, he was also a savvy business man and told them those catalogues were worth more than his debt. So, Mike went on the ‘This Is It’ tour to pay off what he allegedly owed Sony. And when Sony executives saw how quickly those tickets sold, they knew Mike would clear his debt to them…and we know what happened to Mike after that. 

Besides these facts, ‘Billboard’ magazine released an article on Prince getting back his masters on April 25th, of 2014 titled:Prince Gets Masters Back, Which Labels Say 'Scares Us Silly'.

Now, you’re next question after the above fact might be: Well, if Prince hated Warner Brothers so much, why did he sign another contract with them in 2014? 

Answer: He signed a new deal with Warner’s so he could have access to their large distribution network(s). Difference is, under the terms of Prince’s new contract, he would’ve had full rights to his back catalogue. Meaning, he would have gotten the lion’s share of any profits from his old and new hits. Thus, he wouldn’t have had to write the word ‘slave’ on his cheek anymore. And what he also did was strike a deal with Jay-Z’s ‘Tidal’ music steaming service, which gave Prince an outlet to put out music whenever he wanted. Warner’s would often criticize Prince for putting out too many albums. They said he’d flood the market with his product, thus making it less profitable. 

But more than anything, white fascists killed Prince to send a message to other artists who want to follow his lead in regards to master recordings. Young artists especially. 

Prince’s murder tells them that if they join a freemasonic fraternity to become a celebrity musician, they shouldn’t even think about trying to buck the system. And more than likely, what they’re saying to themselves now is: Well damn, if they’d kill an icon like Prince, then they won’t think twice about takin’ me out. 

But beyond all of the aforementioned goings-on, I have to say that Prince’s death hit me the hardest of all the musicians who’ve passed recently. 

And here’s why… 

On July 27th, of 1984, the film ‘Purple Rain’ was released into american theaters. 

Now, at the time I was in my mid-teens, and I would immediately wave the film off if anyone mentioned it. Then, after I talked disparagingly about the flick around my brother, he declared: “Nah, that movie’s dope.” I was immediately taken aback. Cause my brother was the harshest of cultural critics. So after pondering what my brother said, I thought, well maybe I should go see it. 

So my friend and I went to the theater. And about half-way through the film my friend casually looked at the movie, while I was in my seat having a religious experience. The narrative of Prince (who played ‘the Kid’) enduring an unstable and abusive household and feeling like a complete pariah resonated with me instantly. And suddenly Prince’s ‘freak factor’ was not only embraced by me, but his film showed me that I should involve myself with, and make some kind of living in, a community of artists. And I’ve never had that kind of experience with another artist since. 

I especially remember the scene in the film where Prince finds his mother sitting on the sidewalk after being assaulted by his father (played by the masterful thespian Clarence Williams III). After Prince rushes into his house, he screams out for his father, who suddenly starts playing the piano. Prince forgets his anger momentarily and follows the sound of his father’s playing. He sits down besides his father and asks: “You got that music written down somewhere?” 

‘Francis L.’ played by Clarence Williams III replies: “Nah man, I don’t write ‘em down cause I don’t have to. That’s a big difference between you and me.” 

Prince takes offense and replies: “I seen mom up the street. She looks pretty bad…got any idea how she got that way?” 

Francis L. asks Prince: “You got a girlfriend?” 

Prince: “Yeah, I got a girlfriend.” 

“You gonna’ get married?” 

“I don’t know.” 

Francis L. says wearily: “Never get married.” 

A beat after Francis makes this statement, the song ‘Computer Blue’ starts. The scene then cuts to a masked, bare-chested Prince on stage and we see how he’s masterfully created the song’s main guitar riff from what he heard his father playing on piano. And that’s before he launches into the salaciously charged ‘Darling Nikki’. Shouts out to the film’s cinematographer Donald Thorin, cause during Darling Nikki, the stage is literally bathed in devilishly red lights, adding to the scene’s power. And besides the movie’s musical performances being intoxicating, the movie’s one sex scene is scalding hot. At least by that decade’s standards. 

And when Prince performed the song ‘The Beautiful Ones’, I think every young woman felt her loins ignite when Prince yelled: “Do you want him? Or do you want me? Cause I want you.” 

Now, this film won’t win many accolades with hard-core cinephiles, but its status as a bona-fide cult classic is irrefutable. 

And it was about two decades after this movie’s debut that I started looking at it from a Black Nationalist/Pan-Africanist perspective. 

I distinctly remember one white movie critic saying that Prince was suffering ‘prettily’, he then went on to say Prince’s troubles weren’t realistic cause he wasn’t ‘ugly and poor’. So literally, this film critic was telling anyone reading his review that all he knew about Black people (and all he wanted to know), was what he saw on TV. I guess he watched several episodes of ‘Good Times’ and thought it was impossible for any Black family, dysfunctional or not, to be financially stable enough to live in a two-story house. 

Also, I remember being puzzled for years about why Prince would put out the album ‘Around the World In A Day’ right after ‘Purple Rain’. I mean, I understood he wanted to be ‘eclectic’ and all, but it didn’t make sense to me that he’d put out an album so ‘left of center’ after he worked so hard to get to the success of ‘Purple Rain’. Then I found out why Prince did what he did… 

The same fascist freemasons who killed Prince, always want the public to be reminded that ‘The Beatles’ were the world’s greatest rock and roll band. Even though the Beatles were copying the stylings of Little Richard and Chuck Berry. Thus, they tasked Prince with making an album that sounded like the Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. And that’s why Prince put out ‘Around the World In a Day’ after Purple Rain. 

This was but one price Prince had to pay to stay in the good graces of white fascists, while they kept him at the top of the charts. And anyone listening to that album could tell that the funkiest tracks, like ‘Tambourine’, were where Prince’s heart was really at, not in that album’s ‘quasi-psychedelic’ overtures. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that ‘Tambourine’ is my favorite Prince song of all time. 

Now, all of Prince’s movies outside of ‘Purple Rain’ were pretty much b-rated flops, but one thing I can say in all honesty is his soundtrack albums were always slammin’! 

If you look at the ‘Parade’ album apart from the Black and white flick meant to accompany it, you’ll hear some of Prince’s best work. Songs like ‘Anotherloverholeinyourhead’ are nothing short of sonic masterpieces, and that whole album is one of those rare records you can put on and just let play from beginning to end. It’s that good. And I can’t forget to mention the album’s sweetly melancholic and brilliant song, ‘Sometimes it snows in April’. Which ironically enough, is what I was gonna’ title this post. Oddly, this song is reminiscent of how Prince’s own life was cut short. The last lyrics of this track are: “I often dream of heaven and I know that Tracy’s there (Prince plays Christopher Tracy), I know that he has found another friend. Maybe he’s found the answer to all the April snow. And maybe one day I’ll see my Tracy again.” 

Another of Prince’s movies, ‘Grafitti Bridge’, was just a laughable excuse for a film, but damn that album was DOPE! Songs like ‘Elephants and flowers’ with its main guitar riff, the raw power of the George Clinton-influenced ‘We can funk’, and the wholly intoxicating ‘Joy in repetition’, tell the movie’s story better than the film does. 

In addition, the ‘Batman’ soundtrack album was very under-rated. Songs like ‘Lemon Crush’ had Prince returning to his funk roots, even though he was more invested in his rock-guitar stylings at the time (Love the song’s lyric: “When I’m workin’ at my jobba’, I’m the victim and you’re the robber.”) The song ‘Trust’, showed how Prince could slip his advanced musicality into a commercial pop song, and ‘Batdance’ had him in full-on Hendrix mode with that guitar solo. And also, it showed Prince’s embracing of technology. In the song’s latter section, Prince samples a line of the movie’s dialogue: “I gotta’ go to work.” Then he loops that with the refrain: “Work, work.” And in the midst of that comes the lyric: “If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, then give me the electric chair for all my future crimes, oh.” 

Now, many would argue that the album, ‘Sign O’ the Times’, was Prince’s real masterwork. And I’d agree, but the album, ‘LoveSexy’ was also very under-rated…at least to me. To start off with, the guitar riff on ‘Alphabet St.’ sounded like it came directly from heaven. I liken that riff to the masterful ‘vamp’ in the ‘Muddy Waters’ song, ‘Mannish Boy’. In so much as, in Prince’s chords you can hear several musical genres playing at once. It harkened back to the beginnings of Rock and Roll and R&B ala Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley. Then you had the funk elements of James Brown thrown in for good measure. And the album’s stand out track, ‘Anna Stesia’, is preceded by a keyboard solo that sets the song up beautifully. 

So I’ve said all that to say, I was really a fan of this man’s music. 

And now he’s gone before his time. 

Ponder this for a sec’. Stevie Wonder is still living, Smokey Robinson is still alive and so is Berry Gordy. But Prince and Michael Jackson are both dead. 

What’s wrong with this picture? 

Both Prince and Mike died young cause they had the testicular fortitude to take on the white fascist status quo. Regardless of how they looked. 

So finally I’ll say . . . goodnight sweet Prince. 

You added so many vibrant colors to my life, in a world where some fair-skinned folks are literally still dreaming in Black and white. 

You also provided sweetness in my times of suffering with lyrics like… 

“Have you ever been so lonely that you felt like you were the only one in this world? Have you ever wanted to play with someone so much, you’d take any one boy or girl?” 
--(The song ‘Anna Stesia’ from ‘LoveSexy’) 

“Don’t sleep ‘til the sunrise, listen to the falling rain, don’t worry about tomorrow, don’t worry about your pain.” 
--(1999’s song, “Free”) 

Do I believe in God, do I believe in me. Some people wanna’ die just so they can be free.” 
--(The album ‘Controversy’s’ title track) 

And now you are free. 

And it must be wonderful. 

So Rest in Peace and Power, Prince Rogers Nelson…you rocked my world and I’ll never forget you. 

Oh…and say hello to Vanity for me. 

Later… 

MontUHURU Mimia

10 comments:

  1. Why is it everytime a black celebrity dies some conspiracy kook assumes he was murdered?

    NEWSFLASH! PEOPLE DIE!

    Michael Jackson's estate and princes estate STILL OWN THEIR SHIT!! It's not like ownership reverts back to the companies if they die.

    The reality is we live in a dying world. Nobody is guaranteed to live the next hour let alone the next year. He was a human who died. He was worth more in death but what celebrity isn't? If that's the case then they would have killed Jay-Z and Wayne ages ago since the record companies of both are under bigger labels.

    Whitney Houston died yet people can't fathom how a known drug addict died of a drug related cause?

    Prince was legendary. Don't defile him with idiotic rumors and conspiracy theories have more respect.

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    1. 'Real Talk'...

      If you can't see how Jay-Z and Lil Wayne are complicit with the agenda of white fascist freemasonry, and how Prince and Micheal Jackson died trying to get back the rights to their music, then it's you who are disrespecting the legacies of Prince and M.J. with your blind ignorance.

      You're proabably just another white person who doesn't wanna' believe your people are that dastardly.

      Sucks to be white don't it?

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    2. 'Evil'...

      If your people think Blacks are mice, then why do you keep copying our culture?

      And moreover, why are your women doing their level best to look like mice?

      In regards to publishing/master recording rights, it would have been too obvious on the elite's part to kill Prince while he was fighting them in court.

      Waiting 'til the battle's over to kill him, makes the incident look more like Prince died of natural causes.

      Like I told the last white boy, this is chess not checkers.

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  2. Conspiracy theorist always treat their opinion as fact based on speculation and zero evidence. I bet this guy also believes 9/11 was an inside job and that the reptilian elite are aliens. Facts are facts and bullshit is bullshit. I hate when celebrities die because countless hours of productivity and time are wasted by people who construct theories out of nothing. Where is your irrefutable proof he was murdered? A reason or motive is not proof. I have reason to murder child molesters doesn't make me a murderer when they die in prison.

    Michael Jackson black doctor killed him but you left that fact out of your little rant. So how are whites to blame? You use a white created tool to demonize all whites as if white people don't suffer in this country. If white skin was a guaranteed ticket to easy street then why are there any poor white people?

    Prince died from an OD and stress from being up 6-7 days straight. Yet this fact is irrelevant in your brain. Why is it when white musicians die they just die but when black ones die they were murdered? As if money hungry people discriminate when it comes to skin color. Give me s break. Your tin foil hat needs repairing

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    1. 'Anonymous'...

      First off, David Icke, who's the one with the 'reptilian' elitist theory is a government agent, so no, I don't believe that trash.

      Second, I guess there's no way Micheal Jackson's doctor could have been working with white elites to kill M.J. huh? That would be too far a stretch to fathom.

      Third, I didn't say ALL white people are to blame, I said white ELITES are to blame. And I can make a distinction between the two.

      Fourth, the fact that white people have the white privilege and still make up the vast majority of people on welfare in america puzzles me as well.

      Fifth, it's not just Black musicians that white fascists kill. Just look at the examples of Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain. They both fell victim to the same forces that took M.J. and Prince out.

      And if you'd like conformation on the murder of Kurt Cobain, check out a documentary called 'Soaked in bleach'.

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  3. I think prince was killed because of that interview with tavis smiley. You can't expose the elites and get away with it. Same with Michael and that press conference in 2002 or 2003.

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    1. 'J.M.'...

      More than exposing the elites, Prince wanted his monies back for the publishing white fascists had been stealing from him for years.

      So Prince's murder was more about the elites showing the world that no artist is gonna' challenge them and survive. Not even an icon like Prince.

      Thanks for commenting!

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  4. A person that can't see that they may be wrong is a fool. I notice you only agree with perspectives that conform with your own. There is no room for growth in that way. Prince wasn't murdered but 9/11 was an inside job done by Israel and the shadow government.

    To be honest who knows if he was murdered. If he was it was a Jew who did it not a white man. The Jews are responsible for the blacks and whites suffering and fighting. I think you should read the protocols of the elders of Zion. All the things you blame whites for is attributed to the Jews and their cronies.

    Jews had Kennedy killed and they control our media and government and entertainment. Whites don't head these companies Jews do. Whites look like Jews and Jews affiliate themselves in white circles to appear white. Jews were responsible for slavery and the atomic bomb. Not whites. If prince was murdered it was a Jew. Place the blame on the right man not the white man.

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    1. 'Anonymous'...

      First off, the 'jews' you're referring to are white people who practice judaism.

      Secondly, judaism is NOT an ethnicity, it's a RELIGION!

      Meaning, I could be jewish if I wanted to be. All it requires is the discipline to live by that orthodoxy.

      Now, I know whites love to say that it's not us committing these acts, it's the jews. Well, sorry to inform you white folks...BUT IT IS YOUR PEOPLE COMMITTING THESE ACTS!

      Now, a lot of so-called white jews can't really call themselves that cause they don't actually practice this religion. They believe out of blind ignorance that they were born genetically predisposed to be jewish cause this social order tells them so.

      Moreover, SOMEONE DEFINITELY KNOWS WHO KILLED PRINCE! It's just a matter of when these truths are revealed.

      So I'm DEFINITELY targeting the right man when I target the 'white' man...whether he's a jew or not.

      So go sell that theory of the non-white jew elsewhere, cause quite frankly, I'm all stocked up here.

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  5. 'Anonymous'...

    First off, I never mentioned jews once in this post, so how could I be an anti-semite?

    Second, no Black person owns or controls an institution that can deny white people access to any resource, so we can't be 'racists'.

    Third, if you think the examples I provided with Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke and Michael Jackson are just 'theories', then you should just keep watching american idol, cause you're too dim-witted to understand what's being said here.

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