Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Featuring: Miles Davis

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

[Verse 1]
Saw you standin' over by the wall
Lookin' like you havin' no fun at all
If you want me and you have The Ball
Just give me your number baby, I'll give you a call

[Chorus]
Hey baby, can I talk to you?
Can I walk with you?
Can I stay with you?
Can I play with you tonight?

[Interlude]
No!
Lord, I wanna play with you
No!
Can I play with you?

[Verse 2]
I noticed that you were not havin' fun
Maybe it's because you ain't talkin' to anyone
Just give me a sign, pretty mama, and I'll be your number one
You and I creep to my house and then we'll take off everything

[Chorus]
Hey baby, can I talk to you?
Can I walk with you?
Can I stay with you?
Can I play with you tonight?

[Breakdown]
No!
Shh
Can I play with you, mama?
Pretty mama
No! No!
I can tell you never really understood
The difference between bad and good
I can turn you out girl, you know I could
Let me talk, let me talk, let me talk, can I talk to you?
Oww!
I wanna play with you
Lemme talk, lemme talk, lemme talk to you, mama

[Chorus]
Hey baby, can I talk to you?
Can I walk with you?
Can I stay with you?
Can I play with you tonight?

[Breakdown]
I wanna play with you
Let me talk, let me talk, let me talk to you now
No
Girl, can I play with you?

[Instrumental]

[Outro]
Lookie here
In times of desire, baby, you could light me up
Fuck me anyway you want to, I could sober up
Pounding in your lonely home, brother gonna rock the house
Tie one hand behind your back, make you scream and shout
Get up on the dance floor, we'll go round and round
Love yo ur body all the way up, all the way down
Baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah, can I play with you, mama?
Yeah!
Oooh Lord
No!

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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