Prince

Released: March 27, 2004

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
This is the life of the party
We going to do it right

[Verse 1]
So you're having a party?
Goody for you
All the beautiful people going to be there
Yeah, that's cool
You know you're gonna have a good time
Because you got the news
That the life o' the party
Is going to party with you
We're doing our own thing
'Til the sun come up
Sweet Candy going to be there
Yeah, it's gonna be rough
She ain't got no off switch
And neither do I
When you read it in the paper tomorrow
You gonna hang your head and cry

[Chorus]
We gonna have us a party
All are welcome too
We ain't down with nobody
Don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We gotta go all night
This is the life o' the party
We gon' do it right

[Verse 2]
Why party in your own yard
When you can party in mine?
All the beautiful people gonna be there
Putting the I in fine
Throw the records out my window
CDs out the door
Might as well give it to the milkman
But we don't want it no more
Everybody can smell this funk y'all
Down in Atlanta, GA
Everybody, even Dre and 'em
Know it's okay
Hey, we don't need any tripping
You all on this special day
We just call and let you know
You better not come if you can't stay

[Chorus]
We gonna have us a party
All are welcome too
We ain't down with nobody
Don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We gotta go all night
This is the life o' the party
We gon' do it right, horns

[Verse 3]
What's it gonna take to get your booty soaking wet?
You and me closer baby, that's a bet
I'm the life of the party
As long as I got your body
Shaking like a leaf on a tree
Cutie, come dance with me
You and me, we got mad chemistry
Don't it make you wanna holler?
Come with the life of the party, y'all
We're still making dollars
Twenty-five years to life
The judge sentenced me to hard labor with a knife
Making cuts for you all
Keeping the party packed and wall to wall
I don't care what they say
"He don't play the hits no more
Plus I thought he was gay"
But it ain't nothing if it ain't fun
My voice is getting higher
And I ain't never had my nose done
That's the other guy
All the purple hippies bang your head on the one

[Chorus]
We gonna have us a party
All are welcome too
We ain't down with nobody
Don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We gotta go all night
This is the life o' the party
We gon' do it right

We gonna have us a party
All are welcome too
We ain't down with nobody
Don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We gotta go all night
This is the life o' the party
We gon' do it right

[Outro]
Life o' the party
Life o' the party

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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