Everyone is a Prince fan all of a sudden..

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Was just thinking this. Before him dying I don't think I ever saw a thread about him on here or him even being mentioned.

R.I.P though

there were lots of threads about Prince here. If you missed the one talkin about his tour with Rick James you lost :camby:
 

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Everybody is greater in death than they were in life.

This is more true of celebrities.

However it does feel more sad these days when we lose one of the iconic singers that were big in the 70's 80's etc.. because that was when you needed real talent and you had to be special to make it, not like it is today. There's something special about the Whitneys, Micheals, Prince's etc... The older generation grew up on these people and didn't have instas or youtube where they could follow them all the time so their music videos and albums were bigger events and these artists sold millions of actual records (physical copies). You can expect the same thing when Stevie, Chaka Khan, Madonna etc.. pass.



All im saying is I get it... and I get the emotion. However OP is right about these younger people that never listened to a Prince track crying tears on fb for likes :mjlol: Me on the other hand im an 80's baby so I came up on some of these icons. I was never a big Prince fan though :yeshrug:
 

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Another thing I fukking HATE is when people make these celebrities deaths about them.
Ol' "it's all about me" ass motherfukkers.
Every time a celebrity dies, it's the same-o:

"Oh my gawd, that's my third cousin Ray Ray's barber's best friend's uncle! I'm in tears right now!"
"Oh my gawd, I almost fainted at work and I can't deal. I'm going to take this week off and might need to see a therapist."
"Oh my gawd, I saw him in concert and I swear he locked eyes with me. That touched my soul and now that's he gone and I'll never be the same."
"Oh my gawd, I had a dream about (insert celebrity) last night and this is what happened (insert four page essay)."

I hate people.
:flobbe: nikka, we hate you too.
 

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I'm 26, I don't care about this high yellow mixed fakkit. Never heard a Prince song a day in my life.. It's crazy how people my age are acting all broke up over this.. nikka please.
 

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im not really a fan of prince

but I acknowledge who he is


and I am especially :salute: regarding what he done/wanted/was going to do for black people
 

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One thing about prince even when he was alive people were paying tributes to him and singing his praises. I think the posthumous love is expected especially because of the way that he was loved while he was alive. This thread is type hipster.
 

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Why do people feel the need to pretend like they were big ass fans of someone as soon as they DIE?



My facebook is full of a bunch of muthafukkers with crocodile tears, when i went 365 without someone talking about Prince
You don't even no anything about Prince either you Fatherless fagot. STFU
 

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So if grandma dies and they haven't made a grandma post in 365 they're jumping on the grandma bandwagon with crocodile tears?

Maybe they listen to Prince and didn't bother telling anyone cuz it's assumed everyone does it.

I guess I'll make a Stevie wonder thread and post on Facebook the next time I listen to his songs just so I can celebrate his life without criticism when the inevitable happens.
:comeon:
 

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Prince wasn't my favorite artist, as I'm mainly a hip hop head. However, I grew up on his stuff in the 80's and he was one of the rare artists to get play on both black and white media outlets (Mike, Janet, & Whitney were the others). Some artists are so major that you don't have to hardcore follow them, for them to have made an impact on you. Prince literally has at least 50-60 singles that got play in the media over years, then another 30-40 that he wrote/produced for others. People know and love a lot those songs regardless of whether they ever bought a Prince album.

I will say this, if you are 30+ but never saw him live, then you know you fu**ed up. That doesn't mean you aren't a true fan, but it just means that you kinda disrespected him and yourself. He did so many shows over the years, and toured throughout the country. He gave almost everybody in the US a chance to see him and remained a great performer for the duration of his career. I regret not going to a show until 2012, but when I did it was one of the best entertainment experiences of my life.
 

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Theres just too many people who act devastated by peoples death for attention when they deep down dont give a fukk. Is what im saying.
This I get...segments of society have given up part of the gift of free thinking to allow for media/pop cultures guidance...thereby distorting real life events like death. So people will jump on things like this like a fad or bandwagon it like the Warriors....but that's scary because this is death :yeshrug:. What I have come to understand about many in our society is that negativity/crying/depression is some shyt people get off on and make money from...really demented. They will keep a negative environment going in society nationally just for reason of conversation and profit. Princes ascension should be CELEBRATED, but sadness is popular and profitable....smh. I honestly think this comfort began during and after 9/11...tragedies became sadly "action packed entertainment" for those who were able to survive or weren't affected from it. Horrible. OJ, Princess Diana led the way to the tragedy as entertainment days...so when 9/11 happened subtly they covered it as entertainment around the clock wisely observing the sad elements that existed in it (as not to offend obviously)....after an event so enormous, every other tragedy is and will be covered the same, as entertainment...this is CNN's bread and butter, and some in our society just lap it up. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. all fall under the media umbrella too...though even worse about that is its not some single producer doin it...it's millions of drones the media has created in society(the people themselves) that continue the cycle...and now with Prince.



It's like when u see three newborns together...if 1 starts crying there is the possibility 1 or both of the other babies will too...not even knowing why really...("Purple Rain ya'll:lawd:")

Prince deserves this level of reflection and admiration...but it's a lot of phonies involved just being a part of something. People always wanna be involved in something:aicmon:.
 

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Prince wasn't my favorite artist, as I'm mainly a hip hop head. However, I grew up on his stuff in the 80's and he was one of the rare artists to get play on both black and white media outlets (Mike, Janet, & Whitney were the others). Some artists are so major that you don't have to hardcore follow them, for them to have made an impact on you. Prince literally has at least 50-60 singles that got play in the media over years, then another 30-40 that he wrote/produced for others. People know and love a lot those songs regardless of whether they ever bought a Prince album.

I will say this, if you are 30+ but never saw him live, then you know you fu**ed up. That doesn't mean you aren't a true fan, but it just means that you kinda disrespected him and yourself. He did so many shows over the years, and toured throughout the country. He gave almost everybody in the US a chance to see him and remained a great performer for the duration of his career. I regret not going to a show until 2012, but when I did it was one of the best entertainment experiences of my life.

I saw him in Vegas a few years ago :lawd:
He's the best entertainer I've ever seen live. He made sure you got your money's worth.
 

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I know people who appreciate/respect the shyt that Prince did even though they weren't fans, like some kid on IG posted a pic saying that he appreciate/respect the art that he gave to his fans and that he liked one song from him and rewrote a version of that song.
 

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I wasn't a big Prince fan.
He's got like 4 or 5 songs I really like.

But after reading that he had a hand in producing so many other successful songs/albums for other artists...I respect him a lot more.
He was very talented.
 
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