Prince

Released: November 9, 1999

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful
Hey now, what's up?
Ah, you know to come over here staring at a brother so hard
Say you what?

[Chorus]
If you want to be my baby
Got to tell me so
Overconfident lady
Better act like you know
If you want to be my baby
Come on, take my hand
Tell me that you wanna get with a prettyman

[Verse 1]
See me up here dancing, dancing on the floor
Got your little body doin' just a little more
The way I wear my knickers around this booty tight
Make a sister wanna call me up every night, hey

[Chorus]
If you want to be my baby
Got to tell me so
Overconfident lady
Better act like you know
If you want to be my baby
Come on, take my hand
Tell me that you wanna get with a prettyman

[Verse 2]
Everywhere I go, people stop and stare
They just wanna see me swing this pretty hair
If there ever comes a time, it just won't grow
I'll do it like my brother and buy some mo', hey

[Chorus]
If you want to be my baby
Got to tell me so
Overconfident lady
Better act like you know
If you want to be my baby
Come on, take my hand
Tell me that you wanna get with a prettyman

[Interlude]
If you wanna be my baby
Ew!
Prettyman
Prettyman

[Verse 4]
In the early morning
When I'm feeling nice (Prettyman)
I walk by the mirror
And kiss it twice (Prettyman)
When it comes to perfume
It's on the shelf, I get it down
If ain't nobody around
I, I, I smell myself
Hey
Now
Prettyman
Do you
(Prettyman)
I ain't you
See out
Pretty man
Come on band, break down
(Prettyman)
I don't care about money
I buy gold by the once
Y2K, not today
I write a check and the bank bounce
Superball used to be my nickname
If you ask about love
No money back guarantee when I'm above
Prettyman

[Chorus]
If you want to be my baby
Got to tell me so
Overconfident lady
Better act like you know
If you want to be my baby
Come on, take my hand
Tell me that you want to get with the pretty man

[Outro]
Maceo, brother, can you blow
Pretty
(Prettyman)
From Harlem, off to Tokyo
Wait, stop, go
(Prettyman)
Maceo can you
Maceo can you blow
Hey!
Prettyman (Prettyman)
Oh yeah
Can't scream now
(Prettyman)
Can't scream now
(Prettyman)
Hey
Hello
Who is it?
(Prettyman)
Yes, this is the prettyman
(Prettyman)
Pretty

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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