- Prince
- Prince
- Around the World in a Day
- Controversy
- Purple Rain
- Parade - Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon
- 1999
- Dirty Mind
- Sign O The Times
- Batman
- Art Official Age
- Music from Graffiti Bridge
Today's afternoon pre-emption honors the legendary PRINCE (1958-2016).
" In general, artists forge one of two career paths for themselves early on. Either they reject the world in order to become the romantic hero of their own imagining, or they embrace the real, transmuting what they find in the streets and in people’s homes into tales an audience can readily identify with. Growing up, Prince did both. And he used urban black music and black gay attitude as it filtered through and got mixed up in his predominantly white Midwestern environment to express his quintessentially American self. And it was this self—which, visually, at least, he played as male and female, gay and straight, black and white—that Prince used to remake black music in his own image.
To enter Prince’s world, then, was to know that rules, racial or otherwise, were self-imposed and self-limiting. As Prince sang in his 1981 hit “Controversy”: “I just can’t believe/ All the things people say/ Controversy/ Am I black or white?/ Am I straight or gay?/ Controversy/ . . . . Some people wanna die/ so they can be free.”
- Hilton Als, from I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love
