Prince

Released: November 9, 1999

Featuring: Sheryl Crow

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro: Prince & Sheryl Crow]
Baby knows
Baby knows
Baby knows, huh
Baby knows

[Verse 1: Sheryl Crow and Prince]
Baby knows
This funky joint in the city
Baby knows
Where the freaks come out to play
Baby knows
Venezuelan, black and pretty
Baby knows
The kind that make you wanna pay, yeah

[Chorus: Sheryl Crow & Prince]
Baby knows
She got the long dark legs
Baby knows
She got the butt that go 'round
Baby knows
This kind of poochie make you beg
Baby knows
Turn a dog into a hound

[Verse 2: Sheryl Crow and Prince]
Baby knows
She tell me what I wanna hear
Baby knows
She stroke me up and never down
Baby knows
Whispering sexiness in my ear
Baby knows
I'm just a junkie for the sound
Baby knows
She make you call your boys
Baby knows
In a powwow to scope a plan
Baby knows
How to ditch her man in a trunk of a Lexus
A perplexing hex this witch has flexed

[Chorus: Sheryl Crow & Prince]
Baby knows
She got the long dark legs
Baby knows
She got the butt that go 'round
Baby knows
This kind of poochie make you beg
Baby knows
Turn a dog into a hound

[Interlude: Prince and Sheryl Crow]
Oh, baby, oh, baby
Baby
Baby knows
She knows how to make you feel
Baby knows
Like your stuff ain't brown tonight
Baby knows
And her perfume, it smells like the weekend

[Verse 3: Sheryl Crow and Prince]
Baby knows
This funky joint way down in the city
Baby knows
Where the girls sing along to the hip-hop all night long
Baby knows
White girls, black girls, Latinas, oh so pretty
Don't make me give you this ring, baby, oh oh oh

[Chorus: Sheryl Crow & Prince]
Baby knows
She got the long dark legs
Baby knows
She got the butt that go 'round
Baby knows
This kind of poochie make you beg
Baby knows
Turn a dog into a hound

[Interlude: Prince and Sheryl Crow]
Ooh, ooh
Yeah
Baby, baby
Baby knows
Yeah yeah
Baby knows

[Chorus: Sheryl Crow & Prince]
Baby knows
She got the long dark legs
Baby knows
She got the butt that go 'round
Baby knows
This kind of poochie make you beg
Baby knows
Turn a dog into a hound

[Outro: Prince]
Give me your number and I call you
I know you didn't just turn me down

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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