We talk about the Prince documentaries and a major motion picture from paramount pictures in the works.

Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, American pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist.

Miles shares the story on interviewing Prince at Paisley Park for Ebony magazine. The interview was published on the Ebony website on Dec 22, 2015, and taken down the next day. Was the Prince in the interview being too real or as some believe the whole thing was made up and Prince would never talk that way.

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In this special episode, the Muse ladies begin a series on Prince and race, Planting Flags in the Funk. They start with part one of a roundtable of “aunties” who were there from day 1, watching Prince grow as an artist through the lens of young Black girls, teens, and later women.

Michael Dean. Bigsexy and Antpooh review Piano & a Microphone 1983.

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On this special edition, we talk Prince and technology.

Panelists:

Dave Hampton –  Former technical director of Paisley Park

Sam Jennings –  Prince’s Art Director, Webmaster NPG Music Club

Amy Carleton, Ph.D. – Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing

Jayanta Jenkins –  Executive Creative Director, Twitter

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Terrance Terry Jackson takes us back to the Northside of Minneapolis and shares his early memories and childhood stories with Prince, Andre Cymone, Chazz, Morris Day and crew. Whoever said it takes a village ain’t never lied! Beware the cake cutter pick!

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The Prince Estate files a lawsuit targeting bootleggers. Are people who sell Prince’s unreleased music fans or Culture Vultures?

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All the way from his Grandmothers church in Richland, California, to Paisley Park. Levi takes us on a journey. Signing a deal with Don Cornelius, hooking up with Sheila E, auditioning Raphael Saadiq for Sheila’s band, The Flesh and Madhouse session and sharing some jewels from Prince. Talk of the upcoming show at First Ave on September 13th, tickets on sale now

New Power Generation – Website

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Interview with Willie Adams about his work with Purple Playground.

The Academy of Prince was Purple Playground’s inaugural one-week summer program where 12 kids learned Prince history and wrote and recorded original songs and had members of The Revolution and the Time Play on their recordings.

Intermission Music: Jeffree Mak https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/jeffreemak3

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We ain’t afraid to give up the props. Jesse Johnson gave a great interview on Questlove’s podcast over on Pandora. Stories about Jesse playing on the 1999 album, fights and hair weaves falling out on movie sets. Yes, we had to talk about it.

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