Chuck D remembers Prince on CNN, sharing what it was like working with the late Purple One.
Prince passed away at his Paisley Park home in Minnesota on Thursday (April 21). He was 57.
“The maestro,” Chuck D says. “It’s like when you put [him] in the vernacular of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. For Black folks, he meant everything in the last 50 years to us because he signifies the sign of times in the past, present and future and I recorded with Prince in 1999 at Paisley Park.”
Prince’s record “Undisputed” features the Public Enemy member and appeared on Prince‘s 1999 album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.
Cedric the Entertainer also appeared on the CNN segment and recalled the time he first met Prince. The comedian had a show in Minneapolis and told a joke about the singer.
Unbeknownst to Cedric, Prince was in attendance.
“Later on in my dressing room somebody came in and was like ‘Prince was in the audience. He heard that joke,'” Cedric says. “And then he sends a note and tells me he’s inviting me to Paisley Park and all that. It was just crazy. I couldn’t believe he was just sitting in the audience over there in the corner and saw. Since then I’ve been invited to the house several times.”
Chuck D talking about Prince on CNN is as follows.
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Who? Fuck outta here with these 60 year old washed up hasbeens.
Yes….so washed up that you read the article and even commented. As Prince has stated……he “loved” his critics. Basically, when you give energy to something, it means you care about it. Because if you really believed he was nothing, you would have never even gave this a second thought. BTW…..people who are wise…never have to give themselves a title. PLUS…..I am sure you haven’t accomplished much of anything remotely as significant as Prince. I’m sure you couldn’t write any music that anyone would ever listen to, let alone purchase. ……..So when you die…..let’s see if any one even bothers to take the time to comment that you were anything at all…even a hasbeen…..because that would imply that at one point…..you were important. Move along!