Never heard it before, thought "Oh yeah this is probably worth $24, it's supposed to be a hard return to his funk roots after Sign O The Times damn I bet this is crazy. I'll buy some physical media, ol' Jim Halpert can't stop talking about how great these things are"

Well aren't I the fool, this s*** stinks like the dead skunk in my lawn! 8 songs and like 2-3 of them are about how much rap sucks. What's up with this being so bad?

"ol' Jim Halpert can't stop talking about how great these things are"

Are these online? Post songs with him saying rap sucks lol

It's an unreleased album that was called evil and not up to standard by Prince himself in like 87

Literally called it evil lol

He pulled it from release like less than a month it was suppose to be released

The 90s version, I assume what you have, is a mash of things from the vault iirc that warner forced released during the Prince beef - and isn't blessed nor planned/finished by Prince

Its not that evil though it's just a stinker. I was hype about it being evil

Yeah both versions are a mess

The og was disowned by Prince himself

And the later release was cynically cobbled together by warner

It led to the great Lovesexy tho due to Prince needing to clean himself of the "evil" of the original!

Imagine disliking ur own work so much u call it evil and destroy an entire manufacturing chain for months n pissing off national retail based on vibes and personal dissatisfaction LMAO

The GOAT, even his few failures are legendary and a great story

Good collectors item though . Yup it sucks

the Wack Album

Remember listening to it as a kid excited to hear this mythical unreleased Prince album and it was meh at best, I can’t tell you a single song off there and I LOVE Prince

I turned on my radio to hear some music play
I got a silly rapper talking silly s*** instead
And the only good rapper is one that's dead... on it

Did he really say rap sucks lol then why did he put Tony M verses on like all of his 90s records, that guy raps like a Disney Channel original movie villain

Lmao drop the song

And yeah iirc Prince didn't really like Rap until the 90s

Which he would then do a Rap-ish song himself every now n then

The 90s he was a major business mentor to a lot of rappers like DMX n Jay Z n let them at his two major clubs in Canada and LA like 2Pac

He also had massive respect for DJ Quick and borrowed DJ Quiks gear for a few weeks of a studio session, which Prince is really picky and "snooty" about gear which was an honor to Quik and Prince brought him and his ppl a box of expensive liquor of their choice as thanks for letting him borrow the gear

He would rarely let any rappers sample his music tho lmao, Lil Troy, 2pac and Digital Underground are the only ones when Prince was still Prince, then a few other way latter such as Big Krit

prince was dissing rap?

He disliked it until the 90s

Black album is from 87

He even started rapping himself here and there and started letting select few rappers sample him while giving business advice to others

putting some chrome upside a mother's dome...& i'm out!

I think he hated rap because he sucked at it. Some of his worst songs are where he attempted to rap

i remember listening to it and was just baffled at how mid it was

Diamonds and Pearls two tracks where he doing a mix of like James brown with rapping is cool tho

Another thing I find funny is how MJ loved Biggie and Prince loved 2Pac

Just more parallels of reincarnated rivalry, that continues with Kendrick and Prince (who had an actual relationship) and Drake n MJ (n Drake relationship with MJ siblings)

I'd rather have Prince doing weak raps than him deciding to let Tony M's trash ass stink up them early 90s albums

I ain't giving him a pass for being a late 80s minded rapper either, that man a pedestrian rapper, maybe he was trying to pioneer weed carrier filler rap

It’s like top 3. Bait used to be believable you buffoon

Bait? You're saying that s*** to a mirror, in what world is this a top 3 Prince record 😒