Prince

Released: March 24, 2009

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Hey baby what's your name?
Do you want to play a game?
Play it like we don't know when
We'll ever get to play again
Experimental and so brand new
The things eye want to do with you
Like a physical kind of blue
Come on baby let's get to it

[Chorus]
I want a lover that can improvise
I want a lover that can make me cry

[Verse 2]
Listen
Baby, I don't care what you learned in lovemaking school
You and me we about to jam
Make love like the first woman and man
I don't want to know ahead of time
The notes you play should be a reaction to mine
Nothing planned or contrived
Then both of us will arrive... destination

[Chorus]
I want to feel like I've been hypnotized
If you think you can then let's go for a ride
Let's go for a ride
Go for a ride, baby

[Outro]
Do it to me, baby
Now dig
Love like jazz
Love like jazz
Love like jazz
Love like jazz

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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