Released: December 16, 2008

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Wooo!

[Chorus]
It don't matter who you get with
'Cause it just ain't meant to be
It really don't matter
'Cause you never shoulda woulda
Ever coulda been like me
I can get you what you want
Anything at all, girl, all you got to say is "please"
Ask your mother, your sister, your brother
There will never be another
Never be another like me

[Verse 1]
Late afternoon slipped out my bed
Turned up the stereo, about to raise the dead
Slipped in the bathroom, put some olive oil in my hair
Walked in the closet, trying to find something to wear
Then I check my email to see where the party be
Change the names to protect the guilty and get ready to creep
Should I bring somebody or dance alone?
It don't matter to me, y'all, 'cause tonight it's on

[Chorus]
It really don't matter who you get with
'Cause it just ain't meant to be
It really don't matter
'Cause you never shoulda woulda
(Baby)
Ever coulda been like me
I can get you what you want
Anything at all, girl, all you got to say is "please"
Ask your mother, your sister, your brother
There will never be another
Never be another like me

[Verse 2]
'Bout a half past ten and I'm on my way
Heard you had a fine little Puerto Rican DJ
(Oh Mamacita)
Listen, if she ain't got Prince's new song, gonna be a scene
'Cause I can't stand nobody cussing at me when I'm clean
Arms all around me soon as I hit the door
Good thing I ate my spinach, you're thicker than before
Oh, what's this boy looking at
Why he making that face?
Don't he know I got crazy fools with me
Ready to tear up this place?

[Chorus]
It really don't matter who you get with
'Cause it just ain't meant to be
(Be like Don Cornelius or Rick James)
It really don't matter
'Cause you never shoulda woulda
Ever coulda been like me
I can get you what you want
Anything at all, girl, all you got to say is "please"
Ask your mother, your sister, your brother
There will never be another
Never be another like me

[Bridge]
Can't you see this is inevitable?
What's the use in wasting time, mama?
You and me, we could be comfortable
All it takes is you to make up your mind

[Interlude]
Uh!
So now what's the matter, huh?
You and me, we both dimes, said we were
All them other pennies should scatter, said they should
We ought not waste this time, that's why

[Chorus]
It really don't matter who you get with
'Cause it just ain't meant to be
It really don't matter
(Yeah, yeah)
'Cause you never shoulda woulda
Ever coulda been like me
I can get you what you want
Anything at all, girl, all you got to say is "please"
(You gotta stop being average, it doesn't last)
Ask your mother, your sister, your brother
There will never be another
Never be another like me
(What you waiting for?)

[Interlude]
What you waiting for, what you waiting for?
(Never be another like me)
So what you thicker than before?
That's a'right
(What you waiting for, what you waiting for?)
I like 'em healthy, baby
And what's more
(Never be another like me)
Let's get out on this dance floor
Whoo!

[Chorus]
It really don't matter who you get with
'Cause it just ain't meant to be
Never be another, never be another like me
I can get you what you want
Anything at all, girl, all you got to say is "please"
Never be another, never be another like me
Never be another like me
Never be another like me
Never be another, never be another like me
Never be another like me
Never be another like me
Never be another, never be another like me

[Outro]
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
Never be another, never be another
Never be another, never be another like me

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.