Prince

Released: November 19, 1996

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Ooh!

[Verse 1]
This is the joint I've been laying for all night
This is the one that really gets me gone
The DJ's on point, I'm saying he's alright
We going to fun baby, baby, it's on

[Pre-Chorus]
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
And she's doin' it on the floor
When the groove from the baby's hot
I'm givin' it all I got

[Chorus]
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year

[Verse 2]
Give me a drummer and a funky bass line
That's all I need and I'm ready to flow
Been chilling in the cut and now I'm coming to get mine
And if I hit you once, I got to hit you some more

[Pre-Chorus]
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
And she's doin' it on the floor
When the groove from the baby's hot
I'm givin' it all I got

[Chorus]
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year

Yeah, ooh
Ooh!

[Verse 3]
Let's make a toast
To the host with the most, heh
Raise your glass if you're on your own, yeah
(Raise your glass if you're on your own)
All the girls say "Ho!" (Ho!)
If your man's giving up the gold
All the fellows say "Woof!"
If you're only giving up the bone
Tonight we're going to hide it
(Whatcha say, baby?)
Yeah, baby
(Whatcha say, baby?)

[Verse 1]
This is the joint I've been laying for all night
This is the one that really gets me gone
The DJ's on point, I'm saying he's alright
We going to fun baby, baby, it's on

[Pre-Chorus]
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
And she's doin' it on the floor
When the groove from the baby's hot
I'm givin' it all I got
I'm givin' it
I'm given's it all I got

[Chorus]
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year

[Breakdown]
Did you come to jam, baby? (Oh yeah)
Then let me see you, come on

[Chorus ][x4]
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year

Yeah, baby
(I want to, I want to jam) Come on
(Everybody's here)
(J-jam, j-jam, j-jam, j-jam of the year)
(Say what? Ha ha)
(I like that beat, oh baby)
(I want to, I want to)
(I want to, I want to)
(I want to, I want to)
(Everybody)

[Chorus]
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year

[Outro]
(Everybody's here)
(This is the jam of the year)
(Everybody's here)
Ooh! [x8]
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here (Everybody)
This is the jam of the year (This is the jam of the year!)

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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