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Virtueoso s of popular music and a huge cultural force. you think about the 1980s and into the early 1990s. michael jackson, prince, hip-hop. i m talking about african-american music. talk about that context. what was the cultural, music impact of this guy relative three big things happening at the same time? gigantic question, which i would only expect from the great john, which blurbed the book which is on the back. and i appreciate that. i mean, look, it s interesting. michael jackson representing sort of the mo-town experience. the child of motown bringing that forward. and hip-hop being sort of like what the street wanted to talk about. maybe the child of stax. but prince bringing those two things together and wanting to have more than motown and wanting to have a crossover
Coming. so, why did that message get lost? you know, i think he was like christ. he was ministering to people who didn t want those messages. he s out not with the church people, not with the people who wanted it, but others who weren t ready for those messages and just seeding our minds with that sort of stuff. so, you know, we weren t sort of listening for that, especially as young people. we come to the music for little red corvette and then deeper into the album and get into a song called god and little jesus messages and it s there, too. when you get to an album like love sexy it s not lost at all. it s clear what this guy is talking about. there is no question, you and i are both huge fans and he s one of the great musical
Experience and being black, as well. and also sort of hip-hop was to go all the way back. it almost seemed like a lot of them had never known women. they were so masculine and prince is on the other end of that spectrum. michael jackson the so much a part of him, he s wearing it on his sleeve. remember when he became a symbol for a couple years. what was going on with that? not as complicated as it seems. perfect question from you because he wanted to get away from his record business contract. so, if i change my name that s all it was. that you don t own me any more. if i m not prince, then you don t control me any more. and he didn t care. i played basketball with him around that time, right? and i thought you weren t supposed to call him prince because the whole thing, the symbol of my name.