Released: November 19, 1996

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro: Prince]
If you want to we can kick it, baby, joint to joint

[Chorus 1: Prince]
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), joint to joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), kick it, baby, joint to joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), joint to joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah

[Verse 1: Prince]
Before I melt the wax to quizzical
Let me just say that you are physically
The most toned one I've ever seen
You're making me proud to be a human be-i-ng (Uh huh!)
And if we're ever naked in the same machine
I'm gonna lick it, baby, joint to joint

[Chorus 1]

[Verse 2: Prince]
So first I need a picture of your mother
To verify the fact that there's not another
One in the universe so supreme
Damn, you got the rock to give a brother cream (Cream)
And if we're ever naked in the same machine
I'm gonna lick it, baby, joint to joint

[Chorus 1: Prince]
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), joint to joint
(Sex, sex, sex me) - If you want to we can kick it, baby, joint to joint
(Sex me) - Oh yeah, I got some hot sauce, joint to joint (Ha ha ha)
(Sex me) - Said kick it baby, joint to joint (Right on, ha ha ha)
(Sex me) - Yeah (safe)
Come upstairs to my room

[Chorus 2][x2]
Joint to joint

[Verse 3: Ninety-9]
I never sucked sour splints from a chew stick
Don't lick bics because fire sticks to flame (flame)
Get wicks to catch brothers who choose to let burns remain
Now I see all Dicks, Toms and Harrys are not the same
Some dipped in my lower lip, sipped a supple poison (poison [x3])

[Chorus 2][x4]

[Verse 3: Prince]
Joint to joint, nothing comes for free
If you show your love, you can get with me
You can get with me, you can get with me
Joint to joint
Up the stairs to my lovely room
Stroke your face and you're under soon
Sitting in the corner in your underwear
Letting me caress your nappy hair
Joint to joint, nothing comes for free
If you show your love, you can get with me
And if you light my candle, we can share the stone
Flames of desire, sweet gypsy moans
Sweet gypsy moans

[Chorus 2][x3]

[Verse 4: Prince & Ninety-9]
Joint to joint, nothing comes for free
Oh great, now you think you're my soulmate
You don't even know what kind of cereal I like
Wrong! Cap'n Crunch with soy milk
Because cows are for calves
You'd probably take me for half
You don't love me, you're a faker
You just want me for my acres
(Na na, na na na na)

[Chorus 2][x3]

[Verse 4: Ninety-9]
Joint to joint, nothing comes for free (Sex me)
If you show your love, you can get with me [repeat in a loop]
(Na na, na na na na) (Nothing comes for free)
If we're ever naked in the same machine
Baby, we can kick it joint to joint

[Outro: Prince & Ninety-9]
Where to?
I..I don't know
An..anywhere, just drive
It's me
I'm just driving
Listen, I need to get with you
No, I mean for, I mean for good
I'm serious this time
Nah, that's all over now, you know it
I front sometimes, but you know, this is as quiet as it's kept
Listen, I just gotta get outta here, that's all
Let me call you back, alright?
Yeah, yeah, later

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.