Prince

Released: January 29, 1998

Featuring: Carmen Electra

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro: Prince]
(Ooh)
Tell me how you want to be done

[Chorus: Prince ]
Baby, how you want to, how you want to be done?
Just say the word and we can start from number one
And go the distance, baby, until you tell me to stop
I would lose myself inside you till you get all I got
Talk to me, baby (ooh), tell me how you want to be done
(How you want to be done?)

[Verse 1: Prince]
Shall I go in a circle like the merry-go-round
That you and your girlfriends used to ride all up and down?
Talk to me, baby, tell me how you want to be done (How you want to be
Done?)
Shall I write the alphabet? (A B C D E F G)
Or shall I just write my name?
You tell me, you are the ruler in this telephone game
I could be a slave when it comes down to you (Slave)
I will do any and everything you want me to do
You know why? (Why?)
Cuz I want you to have fun
So how you want to be done?
(Yeah, baby, yeah!) (How you want to be done?)

[Chorus: Prince]
Baby, how you want to, how you want to be done?
Just say the word and we can start from number one
And go the distance, baby, until you tell me to stop
I would lose myself inside you till you get all I got
Talk to me, baby (ooh), tell me how you want to be don
(Yeah, yeah)

[Verse 2: Carmen Electra]
I want you to imagine you are making angels, angels in the snow
And kiss a hundred revolutions nice and slow
Then I see you on the beat do a def striptease
No, no, leave the Chanel around your neck - please, baby, please
Now do something I've never seen before
(How you want to be done?)
Crawl over to me on your stomach - more, baby, more
Now pull me down on top of you and grind really fast
(Tell me how you want to be done)
Take both hands with all your might and squeeze my... yeah!
Roll me over until you are back on top
Then I want you to kiss me until I make you stop
That's how, that's how I want to be done
(Tell me how you want to be done)
(How you want to be done?)

[Chorus: Prince]
Baby, how you want to, how you want to be done?
Just say the word and we can start from number one
And go the distance, baby, until you tell me to stop
I would lose myself inside you till you get all I got
Talk to me, baby (ooh), tell me how you want to be done

[Outro: Prince]
Baby, baby
Baby, how you want to, how you want to be done?
Just say the word and we can start from number one
And go the distance, baby, till you tell me to stop

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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