Prince

Released: July 21, 1987

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Sh-shut up already, damn!
Sh-shut up already
Sh-shut up already, damn!
Sh-sh-sh

[Refrain]
Housequake
Housequake, housequake
Housequake
Housequake, housequake
Housequake
Housequake, housequake

[Interlude]
Check it out!
Let's go crazy!
Check it out!
Gonna rock this mother
Gonna rock this mother, gonna rock this mother
Gonna rock this mother
Gonna rock this mother
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
(Yeah!)
(Let's jam!)
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
(Let's jam!)
(Housequake)
(Housequake)
Gilbert, get the party
Shake your body till your neighbors stare atcha

[Verse]
Housequake: Everybody, everybody jump up and down
Housequake: There's a brand new groove that's goin' around
Housequake: In this city, in this funky town
Housequake: and the saxophone is the fault, check it out
If you can't rock steady, shut up already
Damn, you got to get off if you know what I'm talking about
On the one, y'all say "Housequake"
Top of your body, let me hear you shout, say

[Refrain]
(Housequake)
My Lord!
(Housequake)
My Lord!
(Housequake)
Bullshit, louder, say it!
(Housequake)
Ooh-weeS
Hock-a-lock-a boom!
What was that? Aftershock!
Everybody, everybody, you gotta rock, you gotta rock, come on

[Outro]
We're gonna shake, we're gonna quake
'Cause we got the baddest groove that we could make
We on the two, y'all, the drummer's gonna tap
We gonna sing it and rock this mother to the max
And that's a fact
Housequake: come on, say it
(Housequake)
Come on, you can't follow it
We got the baddest jam in the land
Everybody shut up, listen to the band
Housequake
Shut up already, damn

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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