Prince

Released: August 28, 2001

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Uh uh, mm mm
Say fellas
You ever have one them girls that just... bad?
Nah, I ain't talkin' about fine, I'm talkin' about bad
Cuss all the time, steal, man she rob her own moms
Down at the post office got two pictures
I'm talkin' about one of Bebe's kids, y'all - bad
Hear me?
Oh, she fine too
Fine

[Refrain]
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl

[Verse 1]
'Twas the middle of the summer
Rather late in the day
This pretty thang, she walked up to me
She said she was good to play
She told me to close my eyes, oh
So she could get a kiss
I said, "Sure, honey" and obliged
Girl snatched my medallion and called me a bitch, running!

[Refrain]
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl

[Verse 2]
I found out her place of employment
Dry cleaning: "We do fine"
To manifest a little unenjoyment in her life
Was all that was running through the middle of my mind
There are many elements: wind, fire, water
But none quite like the element of surprise
See my baby, she gave me that medallion
And it, uh, you know, it mean a lot to me
So, so I walked up in that piece with a disguise on
And I said, "Hey!
I don't know what your name or your game is
But you better get your G-hind down on the floor
'Cause you see, I'm in a mood to do something koo-koo to you"
So she gave me that kiss and ran out the back door, ow!

[Refrain]
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, but I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, but I want that girl

[Verse 3]
Oh, turning around the corner
Thought that she would get by, huh
Much to her surprise
Michael Yardbird dropped both his crutches downstairs
Tripped baby on her backside
Holdin' on the banister, sliding down slow
You know he about to fall down all them stairs, yo
My medallion's on the center line
She dropped my piece in the middle of the street
The taxi cab about to run it down
(Beep beep, oh yeah)
But when the bling-bling caught the driver's eyes
He slammed on his brakes and jumped out his ride
And as he was just about to put his fat neck up in my jewels
(Uhn uhn uhn, nigga!)
Yardbird bounced down the stairs of that house
Crushing the bad girl like the Union Army crushed the Deep South
And when the driver turned his head to get his peek on
I entered at my medallion and broke the other way
Sister was limpin' but she was kinda good to play

[Refrain]
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl
Don't know why, I want that girl
(Don't, man)
(Why)

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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