Prince

Released: July 15, 2007

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
I know I ain't the first to tell you
I sure bet I won't be the last
I know you're in a hurry, baby
So let me make this fast

[Chorus]
I got a lot of money
I don't want to spend it on me
I like pretty things
You're just as pretty as you can be

So if you ain't busy later
And you want some company
I ain't trying to be a hater
I'm the one, I'm the one, the one you wanna see
You wanna see
You see

[Verse 2]
Look around you, baby
You know you've seen it all before
Every nickel in this club looking for a dime
Nothing less, nothing more

Too tall to be talked down to
Too over it to be put under
Any spell a blind fisherman could cast
That's why I come like thunder to tell you

[Chorus]
I got a lot of money
But I don't want to spend it on me
I like pretty things
And you're just as pretty as you can be (oh, oh)

So if you ain't busy later
And you want some company
I ain't trying to be a hater
But I'm the one, I'm the one, the one you want to see
You want to see

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]
You don't need to fix your hair
For somebody you don't care for
You don't need to shave your legs
If it ain't me that's knocking at your door, oh

I know you ain't a concubine
I know you ain't a one night stand
I don't wanna waste your time

[Bridge]
If you wanna get creamy
I'm the one you wanna see
Ooh, the one you wanna see, baby
Oh, the one you wanna see
I'm the one you wanna see

[Outro]
Coming on you like thunder
I'm the one you wanna see

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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