Prince

Released: November 19, 1996

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
(Style) Style, uh!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Style, dig it
(Style) Style, come on
Uh, style

[Verse 1]
Style is not something that comes in a bottle
Style is more like Jackie O. when she was doing Aristotle
Style is not a logo that sticks to the roof of one's ass
Style is like a second cousin to class

[Chorus]
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (say what?)
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (Check it)

[Verse 2]
Style ain't sitting court side with the owner of the team
Style is owning the court and charging them all a fee
Style is not lusting after someone because they're cool
Style is loving yourself until everyone else does too

[Chorus]
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (say what?)
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (Check it)

[Verse 3]
Style don't get drunk on a Saturday night
Try to dress up every Sunday morning bright
Style don't get married then break the vow in a year
Style is keeping a promise
Raise your hand you all if you hear me
(Style)
(Style)
Style is not biting style when You can't find the funk
Style is the face you make on a Michael Jordan dunk
Style ain't the jeep you bought when you know your broke ass got bills
Style is letting your lover drive while you talk on the phone and chill

[Chorus]
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (say what?)
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (Check it)

[Verse 4]
Bridge
Style is a gold-tooth smile with an attitude
Style is a peaceful wild posting the rude
Style is growing your own food
Style is a non-violent march
Style is an accurate account of what's inside every heart (Style)
Style is not a lie
Style is a man that cries
Style is the glow in a pregnant woman's eyes
(Style)
(Style)
(Style)
(Style)

[Chorus]
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (say what?)
You got it! - Style (Come on)
You got it! - Style (Check it)

[Bridge]
Style is a peaceful wild y'all
(Style) You got it! - Style
(Style) You got it!
Style is not thinking about style
So let me stop (Style)
(Style) [repeats in the background]
It's nice man
What you call that?
Style, I like that
It's about me?
(Keep, keep, keeping on, people gotta keep, keep, keeping on)
Right on (You got it!)
I ain't got no job, but I got style
Style, yeah
(Style) You got it!
Oh yeah

[Verse 5]
Hang on, hang on
Style is buying your moms a house
Style is a clean mouth
Style is puppy breath
Style is no fear of death
Style is Ali's jab
Style is hailing a cab (Style)
Then you know, giving them the finger when they pass your ass!

[Outro]
(Style) (You got it!) Bonnie, Bonnie
(Style) (You got it!) Oh yeah
(Style) Shirley, shake your ass, Shirley
(Sytle) Shirley, Shirley, I love you, Shirley
(Style) (You got it!)[repeat in the background]
Style is Mayte in the shower
Style is a soul new power
Style is when all black men are free
Style is you and me
(You got it!)
(You got it!)
(You got it!)

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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