Prince

Released: May 15, 2001

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Spoken Intro: Kurt Loder]
Here is someone that's obviously playing rock and roll who is also a Funk artist, who covered a lot of categories that which artists have been separating for so long and brought them together purposely...

Props and pounds
Props and pounds
Love for one another is the only sound today
Positivity is the only way

Chorus:
Props and pounds
Props and pounds
Love 4 one another is the only sound 2day
Negative people don't get to play
Props and pounds
Props and pounds
Why you wanna holler when you know what the bible say
Positivity is the only way

Once again when the coin is tossed
And lands upon the sea
Unsuspecting lives are lost
They didn't have to be
When the book is opened
And The Son condemns them all
Pagan holidays,crucifixes
$100 tears will fall

Chorus :
(hey)
(no play)
(you know it)

All the ones still in the game
Never give me pounds
Egotists to proud to say the opposite of found
Worrying about the validity of the rulers crown
When everyone ought 2 be in line giving props n pounds

Chorus:
(hey hey hey)
(ooow)
Props n pounds
Props n pounds
Props n pounds

Once again when the money get tossed
Never gonna see npg floss
Keeping you happy is the only cost
Love God and everyone or your life will be lost
Listen to the words that will save every one
Safe sex campaign talking about a gun
With CON as the prefix, suffix be the DOM
(dumb)
Look at them both and tell me something
What's in the Trojan Horse? Lubrication
Nothing goes in my woman except The Son

REWIND

KURT LODER / MTV NEWS:

" ... I mean he's just one of the greatest live performers there is but
All this other stuff, the attitude, going on around it. I mean you can
Be a great musician and not have the right kind of approach. And Prince
Has the right approach 2. ...I think the gift of simplicity is like a
Keynote of art I mean, he doesn't he knows when to stop - usually ...."

Props n pounds
Props n pounds
Props n pounds
Props n pounds

Chorus :
(U better choose right, U better choose right before your life get lost)
Yeah
Props N Pounds

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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