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PositivityPrince

Released: May 10, 1988

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Chorus]
Positivity (Yes!)
Have you had your plus sign today?
Positivity (Yes!)
Do we mark you present, or do we mark you late?

[Verse 1]
Is that a good man
Walking down that street with that money in his hand
Is that a good man?
Why do you dog him
If that was your father, tell me, would you dog him then
Would you dog him?

[Chorus]
Positivity (Yes!)
Have you had your plus sign today?
Positivity (Yes!)
Do we mark you present, or do we mark you late?

[Verse 2]
Is that all your gold?
Where did it come from? What did you have to do?
Can you sleep nights?
Do you dream straight up or do you dream in W's?

[Chorus]
Positivity (Yes!)
Have you had your plus sign today?
Positivity (Yes!)
Do we mark you present, or do we mark you lat

[Post-Chorus]
Na na na na na na, so slow
Positivity (Yes)
Na na na na na na, so slow

[Verse 3]
Can a boy who drops out at school
At 13 years of age
Answer to of life and death
When it slaps him in the face?
Who's to blame when he's got no place to go
And all he's got is the sense to know
That a life of crime'll help him beat You in the race
Help him beat you in the race (Help him beat you in the race)
Positivity

[Chorus]
Positivity (Yes!)
Have you had your plus sign today?
Positivity (Yes!)
Do we mark you present, or do we mark you late?
Positivity (Yes!)
Have you had your plus sign today?
Positivity (Yes!)
Do we mark you present, or do we mark you late?

[Post-Chorus]
Na na na na na na, so slow
Positivity (Yes!)
Na na na na na na, so slow

[Verse 4]
Wave your hands for positivity y'all!
All the boys and all the girls
You are the new kings of the world!
Shall the court sing together
"In every man's life there will be a hang-up
A whirlwind designed to slow you down
It cuts like a knife and tries to get in you
This Spooky Electric sound
Give up if you want to and all is lost
Spooky Electric will be your boss"

[Verse 5]
Call People magazine, Rolling Stone
Call your next of kin, cause your ass is gone
He's got a 57 mag with the price tag still on the side
Cuzzin when Spooky say dead, you better say died
Or you can fly high right by Spooky and all that he crawls for
Spooky and all that he crawls for
Don't kiss the beast
We need love and honesty, peace and harmony
Positivity
Love and honesty, peace and harmony
I said, hold on to your soul, you got a long way to go

[Outro]
Don't kiss the beast
Be superior at least
Hold on to your soul, y'all, court, sing
Hold on to your soul, we got a long way to go
Hold on to your soul

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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