Prince

Released: December 15, 2001

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Spoken Intro]
Welcome to the slaughterhouse

[Chorus]
Silicon
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon
The rope of silicon

[Verse 1]
One day you'll get outside the doo-rag
When you really want to contemplate this jacked up
Paranormal situation that your people got into
Can I hip you?
Long ago who considered the outcome?
Now I'm thinking that a cat like you would be troublesome
And sock you in the mind tangling curriculum
Guaranteed to leave you in a state of delirium
While all along teaching they kids in the valley to become unlike you
Broke and dumb

[Chorus]
Just a rope of silicon
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon
Rope of silicon

[Verse 2]
On a magical rope of silicon
You can bet that they'll be chillin' in Babylon
Thinking about a way that they can split the proton
While you eating all the bloody chicken and dead prawn
Mickey D. shake and a filet mignon
Swearing up and down you the picture of health, now come on

[Chorus]
Just a rope of silicon
Dance
Just a rope of silicon
Rope of silicon
You're just a rope of silicon
You

Welcome to the slaughterhouse

[Verse 3]
Leave that blood alone
Don't you know that dead blood kills interferons
Making the immune system victim to whereupon
Any known virus can boot up and log on
WWW dot you dot com

[Chorus]
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon

[Verse 4]
Now you've found me, now that you're here
Let's talk about the you in this con
If you're getting bored don't front, just yawn
This is the kind of stuff that requires patience
Never mind the rhyme just relax and wax the song
That on and on and on and on
Ain't gonna stop 'til the early mornin'
Break it down, later on come break down, y'all
What?

[Interlude]
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance on the funk
Just dance
Dance on the funk
Dance
Dance on the funk
Just dance
Dance on the funk

[Chorus]
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon
Just a rope

[Verse 5]
This is why you was looking for me?
Then check it
Let's talk about the you in this con
If you're getting bored don't front, just yawn
'Cause this is the kind of stuff that requires patience
Don't think, just wax on
If you are the eye that is the pawn
You beget the dead fruit of Armageddon
Thick skin reigns in the realm of the pseudonym
While the blows taken by the silly con
The family does well with God to keep it strong
Never a paradox, never a hexagon
You plus he or she keep going on
But with another one of you in the title of this song
Goes on and on and on and on and on and on

[Chorus]
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon
Rope of silicon
Just a rope of silicon

[Outro]
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance, dance on the funk
Dance
Dance

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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