Prince

Released: January 29, 1998

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Spoken Intro: Rain Ivana]
Welcome to the Dawn
You have just accessed the Wild Experience

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Verse 1]
Break down! Huh, this is a bust (Hold onto your wigs!)
All you sorry motherfuckers up against the wall
If you don't play, bite the dust
Cuz in a couple of simple fucking phrases
I'm going to hip you to the fucking plays of
The brand new mad style - you all say!
(These are the days of wild)
Hell yeah!

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Verse 2]
Pop guns and weed? Brother please!
We're too wise for nonsense
The other 90's was better suited for that biz
Back when Dick was fucking Liz
Before soda pop had fizz
Don't blame it on your jockstrap full of jizz
Mentality so insane
I got a TEC-9, too, and it's called my brain
Shoot another brother? Not today
Death from envy is the only way
I can tear shit up you all, that's my style
These are the days of wild, put 'em up!

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Verse 3]
Hooker, bitch and ho, I don't think so
I only knew one and never told her though
I thought about it many times (Diss me?)
That's the kind of shit to make you check your mind
Is your blood type the type that flows?
Is your blood type the type just stereo?
A woman every day should be thanked
Not disrespected, not raped or spanked
And if a woman ever said I did
She's a motherfucking liar and I'm a set-up kid
I'ma tear shit up you all, that's my style
These are the days of wild!

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Verse 4]
Tennis shoes and caps, now that's phat
Up until the day another want to laugh behind your back
Saying we all look the same
God bless America, home of the brave
I'd rather dress to make a woman stare
I'm putting on something that another won't dare
It's a freezer burn compared to cool
If you still got loot, then who's the fool?
Everybody want to take the stand
Mind your own motherfucker, let a man be a man
I'ma tear shit up you all, that's my style
These are the days of wild - put'em up!

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Spoken Ad Lib]
Keep that shit going, break it down!
Wait a min... wa... wait, wait
Yeah, right there, don't move (Right there)
Justin, turn the lights off
Stop the cameras, turn the lights off

[Spoken Ad Lib]
Looky here
Minneapolis, can you do me a favor?
I need to hear your voices tonight
I want to check my choir
I want everybody in this whole building
"Free the slave"
Can you say that?
Let me hear you - "Free the slave"
Come on, everybody (Free the slave)
To funky, say it (Free the slave)
U keep the for and it be to good, come on (Free the slave)
I can't hear you! (Free the slave)
Ah hell yeah, gimme the beat, let me hear ya (Free the slave)
Minneapolis in the house, now say it (Free the slave)
Rock and roll's alive tonight you all, let me hear you, uh (Free the slave)
Everybody got a little slave in them tonight, say it (Free the slave)
Come on band, come on band, all you all say it! (Free the slave)

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Spoken Ad Lib]
(Wild)
(Wild)
(Wild)
(Wild)
Break it down, oh
Minneapolis
Lordy, Lordy, uh, hell yeah
(Free the slave - play that muthafucking bass!) [crowd chants]
On the one, Tommy, go!
(Wild)

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Spoken Ad Lib]
(Free the slave)
These are the days, these are the days
These are the days, these are the days
These are the days, these are the days
These are the days, these are the days
Come on band

[Hook]
Hold, hold, hold onto your wigs!

[Outro]
On the one, yeah!
Welcome to the Dawn
You have just accessed

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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