“…Is it a hit piece?”
It’s always a hit piece when it comes to black geniuses, but that’s not said defensively or from a place of victimization.
It’d HAVE to be one, from the perspective of those that would’ve killed to be able to give Prince’s entire narrative to some white boy from Cherboygan, Michigan instead of him. Especially after they’d found out he had played in their faces the entire time when it came to racial ambiguities.
& if they could have bestowed his gifts, his light & dark on some tawny-headed feckless fuck from a cornfield town, they would’ve protected the deep dive of darkness in that epic with their lives, too.
They still would’ve killed him, eventually. ALSO.
I said what I fucking 😤 said.
But they would’ve protected the “legacy” so the grandkids of the lawyers could have that tawny boy’s Intellectual property paying for college for their kids off that(in the above exampled case, stolen) legacy.
Marilyn’s family ain’t been getting shit. But the owners of her likeness publicly rape it every few years in idolatry to the dollars doing so makes them.
Why do I say there’s no victimization necessary IN noting it’s a hit piece?
Because that being the tact they take speaks to the testament that his black genius is, and it is a testimony to what any black person on the genius spectrum in this country about their geist understands they’re going to have to stare the fuck down.
They wanna talk about the grooming of teenage girls that all came on record saying they were not touched till 18? Ain’t nobody IN prince land through the ages unaware of all that, even then.
It wasn’t a side-eye. IT was “…what are you doing?!” There was enough loud wtf over Mayte showing up with her pimping mom’s blessing that the “n*gga Wthell?!” That I- then 15ish?heard- even in the hypocritical black community- that his record sales slumped. People weren’t paying into that shit the same at all. It was a hard drop off.
I was bone deep a prince princess… & 10th grade even I was like “ngga, mah creative spirit uncle you better fucking not!”
& I am Sure the groundswell of ” wth?!” factored into him coming out saying he was not touching her till she was legal.
I remember- the story came out With her “presentation ” that Her Mother was sending videos of that kid dancing suggestively at 13. & did it relentlessly for like 3yrs. Tenth grade I felt like her MOM needed to be strung up. Tenth grade I saw that shit & was like Mayte is probably safer there than her mom moving on to whomever was celebrity target number two on pimping mom’s “secure the bag with my own Child’s writhing Vag ” list. & it only got darker with his son not making it. NONE of the real ones were surprised seeing him dive Hard in Jehovah witnessing after that. JWs don’t believe in intermediaries…& the only way dude was going to get through all that was direct with God , himself.
That actually was part of what radicalized me, musically. Because God did that thing where he answers your what the hell. When you don’t think he’s listening.
… I was 15 when I found out that wasn’t just a “hidden” tenet of the music industry. They coach these contracted for stardom musicians into that pedophilic shit. They get told their money depends on staying abreast of the teenybopper head, that their pockets are also their parents & their peers.
“Bill Wyman and Jimmy Page knew the age(s) of the minors they engaged sexually with: Mandy Smith and Lori Maddox respectively. Gary Glitter was a fully-blown, participating pedophile. He ended-up in Cambodia for a reason. And there was also Mick with an underaged Rae Dawn Chong who was only 15 in 1976… Jagger + Mackenzie . She did quote Mick as saying “I’ve been waiting for this since you were ten years old” In the same book, she also claims she was molested by her dad repeatedly-
OUT IN These (whitewashed) musical pedophile streets
Many are even on record casually referring to the shit. & the big black acts did it too. The Jesuit priests wanted them by 7, the music industry aimed at a nubile girl of 14.
Do I think he’d want it released?
I think…if they released it, it wouldn’t hit what they’d thought it would if there was any dereliction at the root of this.
I echo what Questlove says in the article, in part.
I can’t speak like I know the depths of him beyond uncle-isms.
I did meet him. He actually…was God’s signal it was Okay to leave Cleveland after I pressed charges.
When God was like “I want you to write Grievechronic instead of killing them Or a protracted court case. You pressed charges in time… you can Go home(nyc). “
My still heathened- AND PISSSSED , dealing with corrupt cops-ass was like “…prove it!”
Never will forget it. He was like look up, because I was stomping down Superior growling at the sidewalk over having had to get a lieutenant involved to check a dirty detective .
I gasped. Stapled to a streetlight pole, flapping in the wind was a flyer …for a 1 night stop on Prince’s Hit & Run tour.
Only time I ever used my NYC girl shit to get into something.
Got welcomed into one of the town halls he was holding with local radio executives at every stop on the tour, and…he was fighting the stonewalling from national playlists over that Warner Bros shit, boots on the ground.
& they were so fucking 😏 smug, those bros. Holding provincial fucking court.. Talking utter bureaucratic fealty bullshit. & finally my anarchist ass got fed up & Anarchistically popped off. Loudly.
Mind you, this is what, 2000? Radio execs didn’t …didn’t have A clue what was coming to murk them. But …I had been in Japan. I’d come into the past that was Cleveland from the literal future. To my ass it was obvious.
fuck these fuckers! None of Yall musicheads need them anymore- yall need to mobilize your crazy assed fans & cut these fucking middlemen out the whole-get your fans galvanized-
There was so much holy outrage lolol 🤣 it was like I burst into flames & the executive moderator tried to stop me but -as the scene is sounding like that Southpark one where everyone’s screaming “Rabble-Rabble!”-
& George Clinton whipped his head up &popped his eternal sunglasses up on his forehead in shock so he could let me see his eyes as he was looking at me like 😲 – Back then you NEVA saw the master of all things P-funk’s eyeballs-
as Prince himself Roared “Nah! Let her speak!!”
😠 & I guerrilla marketing warfare’d the fuck OUT in front of everybody.
I mean…Pure…ATHENA-ARTEMIS-APHRODITE IN WAR MONGER MODE THA FUQ OUT~
Grassroots fan communities- secret releases- love on the fuckers who love you, fuck them, they’re sucking off advertising folks they don’t fuck with music! “
& so on- & every time I opened my mouth afterwards in that fn circle[that all the execs were like WHO THE FUCK IS THiS &HOW IS SHE EVEN in Here?!😓harsh whispering along the outskirts of] he 🤫 anybody who even looked like they were gonna try to hush me lol.
Was just casting the vision. The radio bros were ashen & the musicians- because everybody was on the road with him at that time…were running numbers. & all of it came true, from the beehives to the navys, to all these genX acts now going direct-it was clear as day coming in 2000.
& then…I took my ass back to nyc like 48 hours later lol. I was done. With Cleveland, all of it. But it was the end all, be all book wise, too.
Okay, God… I’ll write yer freaking book… because we allllllll (of heaven) know Nobody but Your Ass could’ve made THAT be how Prince finally met my ass…instead of as a nonsinging(then) runaway on the doorstep of frickin paisley park- & in my Regalia? Shiiit~guess I gotta figure out how to write books now, maaan.
Angel, early 25, after Prince shut up everyone to let her yell anarchy at all.
The rest is history.
Book-wise…He showed up in a dream once.
After he had gone home. Accused me of pulling my punches. Over my parental part of Grievechronic. Told me to
stop being a punk ass & tell the truth. Show the monsters that they were. Don’t protect them. You owe those you’re actually writing Grievechronic for the truth of being able to see vestiges of their parents fuckery echoing in you being honest as fuck about all of it. Stop protecting them. They gave no fuck about protecting ANY of you.
Prince, rocking in perpetuity
The books Epicharis, Elision & Elysum were all severely impacted by that wisdom. It bubbles up whenever I look like I’m considering standing down a bit. Showing the monstrous in someone makes the infallibility in them weighing against all the shit they’ve done either rise up or fade out.
… that being said.
Gut?
He’d say “Fuck it. Release it.”
You will never be able to orchestrate how that man’s vibration is going to impact his acolytes. They can mean it however they want.
QuestLove crying to his therapist for 3 hours afterwards & coming out the far side speaking about vulnerabilities in such a beautiful way… make me want to see it.
It might be a nine hour hit piece.