Prince

Released: October 14, 1981

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Let's work
Let's work

[Verse 1]
I've had my eyes on you ever since you walked in the room
Come on and take my hand, don't try to understand

[Chorus]
Oh baby, nothing can stop us now, I'm going to show you how
Show you how to work
Come on let's have some fun, we'll work until morning comes
Let me see you work

[Refrain]
Let's work
Let's work

[Verse 2]
I'd love to turn you on, I'd work you all night long
If I could get you in the raw, I'd make you climb the walls

[Chorus]
Oh yeah, nothing can stop us now, I'm going to show you how
Show you how to work
Come on let's have some fun, we'll work until morning comes
Yeah, yeah, let me see ya work, come on!

[Refrain]
Let's work
Let's work

[Bridge]
Work alright, we're going to work all night
Everybody work, that's right, everybody everybody
Work alright, we're going to work all night
Everybody work, that's right, everybody everybody
Work!

[Outro]
Nothing can stop us now, I'm going to show you how (let's work)
I'm going to show you how
Oh babe (work) come on let's have some fun
We'll work until morning comes (let's work)
We'll work until the morning comes
(Let's work) nothing can stop us now (nothing going to stop us)
(Let's work) I'm going to show you how (work)
Come on let's have some fun (let's work)
We'll work until morning comes
Everybody say (work)
We're going to work all night
Everybody (let's work) that's right everybody everybody (let's work)

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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