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MusicologyPrince

Released: April 20, 2004

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Heard about the party now
Just east of Harlem
Doug E's going to be there
But you got to call him

Even the soldiers
Need a break sometimes
Listen to the groove, y'all
Let it unwind our mind

No intoxication
Unless you see what I see
Dancing hot and sweaty
Right in front of me

Oh, call it what you like
I'm going to call it how it be
This is just another one of God's gifts
Musicology

[Chorus]
Keep that party movin'
Just like I told you
Kick the old school joint
For the true funk soldiers
Musicology

[Verse 2]
Wish I had a dollar
For every time you say
Don't you miss the feeling music gave you
Back in the day?

Let's Groove "September"
Earth, Wind and Fire
"Hot Pants" by James
Sly is gonna take you higher

Minor keys and cussin'
Don't make a roller skate jam
Take your pick, turntable or a band?
Lordy

If it ain' t Chuck D or Jam Master Jay
Know what? They're losing
'Cause we got a PhD in
Advanced Body Movin'

[Chorus]
Keep the party movin'
Just like I told you
Kick the old-school joints
For the true funk soldiers
Musicology!
All right
Hold it down, band

[Spoken Interlude]
"Get back! Move, get back!
Don't you touch my stereo, these are my records!
Don't touch, ever touch, these are my records!"

[Refrain]
Musicology
Musicology

[Breakdown]
Everybody get down!
Kick the high-school joints
For the true funk soldiers
Good God
Keep the party movin'
Keep the party movin'
Uh, don't stop dancin'
Keep, keep, keep the party movin'
Musicology

Keep the party movin'
Just like I told ya
Kick the old-school joints
For the true funk soldiers
Musicology

For the true funk soldiers
Good God
On the one, y'all
Don't you hear this old school joint?
Don't you ever touch my stereo
'Cause I said I got good and plenty of what you need the most
And that's time

[Outro]
If I was your girlfriend
Seventeen days
Watch it now
Rockin' you coast to coast...
Little red corvette
Hip and lips, chips and whips

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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