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PartymanPrince

Released: June 20, 1989

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Spoken Intro: Jack Nicholson]
Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds!
Lawrence

[Verse 1: Prince]
All hail the new king in town
Young and old, gather around
Yeah
Black and white, red and green
Funky
The funkiest man you've ever seen
Tell you what his name is

[Chorus: Prince]
Partyman, partyman
Rock a party like nobody can
Rules and regulations - no place in his nation
Partyman, partyman

[Post-Chorus: Prince]
Party people - say it now:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Somebody holla if you want to party
"Ladies and gentlemen, no pictures, please!"

[Interlude: Prince]
Get it up, oh yeah
Partyman, partyman
Get it up, get it up
"Ooh, I love purple"

[Verse 2: Prince]
I rock the party, I rock the house
I rock the whole world, north, east and south
In the west: seventeen horns blowing
Partyman, partyman
(Lose me now boy)
Get it up
All hail the new king in town
Ain't nothing but a muffin
We got to lot to butter to go
(Y'say aye, and I like you away, but don't come now)
And if it break when it bend
You better not put it in - uh
Giddy up (Ride 'em boy)

[Chorus: Prince]
Partyman
Partyman
Partyman
Partyman
Partyman

[Outro: Prince]
Young and old, gather around
Everybody hail the new king in town

Prince

An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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