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1+1+1 is 3Prince

Released: November 20, 2001

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
If you ain't got no place to stay
Come on baby 'round this way
Stay with me baby
But let me tell you how it's going to be

[Chorus]
There's a theocratic order
There's a theocratic order now

[Verse 2]
This is how it's going to be
If you want to be with me
Ain't no room for disagree
1+1+1 is 3
Take your time and think it trough
If this is what you want to do
I ain't really that hard to please
'Cause 1+1+1 is 3
Stroke your hair a hundred times
Let me see what I can find

[Chorus]
There's a theocratic order
There's a theocratic order now

[Interlude]
The Banished Ones:
"We are the Banished Ones and we have come to dance
If you will not let us, we'll have to kick your pants!"

[Verse 3]
Who's that knocking on your door?
Didn't we throw you out before?
I'm about to get rowdy!
I'm about to get rowdy, now!
Make me want to do something
We could be surrounded in the palace
"Everybody wants to get you!"
I don't care
How many you all just came to dance?
Let me see you shake your pants
We don't give a duck what you got on
You just need too work that sexy body all nite long
Come on
Where them Banished Ones at?
"Said they around the back"
Don't cut them no slack
"I'm going to tap, tap, tap"
But should I keep this party going?
"Brother you know that!"
Moneyapolis, sing-Rainbow Children, raise your hands
If we can't do it, nobody can!

[Outro]
Here they come you all
Rally around the palace now
You know what we got to do!

How'd that fool get up in here?
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Prince

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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