Prince

Released: November 9, 1999

Featuring: Chuck D

Songwriter: Chuck D Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro: Prince]
Get free, yeah

[Refrain: Kirk John & Morris Hayes]
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now

[Verse 1: Prince]
Once again I don't follow trends, they just follow me
Just like the Israelites through the Red Sea
It might take you some time but you will want to see
The undisputed truth and get free

[Refrain: Kirk John & Morris Hayes]
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now

[Sample: Chuck D]
Once again, back is the incredible

[Verse 2: Prince]
At the very core of thinking I originate
That's why you'll never know my thinking or my fate
Invisible, unless of course you are my mate
If not, you think you see me, I disintegrate

Disintegrate my thoughts from yours
You can feel me coming out of everyone of your pores
Reintegrating where I am understood and adored
You're just to my subject , that's why you're out of touch
So what's this claim, out of what?
My dear, I am the touch

[Ad lib: Chuck D.]
Ooh, hear me, feel me
Ooh, hear me, feel me

[Refrain: Kirk John & Morris Hayes]
NPG (get funky)
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now

[Verse 3: Prince]
I can give you power (power) I can take it away
I can make you dance, 'cause this guitar I play
Heavy rotation
Never made my world go 'round
Commercialization, commercialization of the music
Is what brought it down

[Verse 4: Prince]
My level is now what you must learn to rise above
Talk to D'Angelo or better yet ?uestlove
It might take y'all some time but you will learn to see
The undisputed truth and get free (Get free)

[Refrain: Kirk John & Morris Hayes]
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now

[Verse 4: Chuck D]
(Bass)
Funky
NPG, New power generation
Free nation, free nation, check it
(Undisputed)

Come on, come all to the download ball, off
There's no curfew to hurt you, no substitutions
School's now in session
Put down the Smith & Wessons
Real renegades don't invite grenades to make the grade
This is a brain raid
Who rise above the lies, raise above these days
New ways disguised as a craze
Uh, gotcha back against the status they throwin' up at us
Back against the wall again
High trees catch a lot of wind, oh
Last band standing
Gotta knock my over standing according to planning
And look up in the sky
No cable wire
Whoa, God bless the child
God bless the child
So funky
Bass

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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