PRINCE letting it be known that’s he’s from HARLEM and that’s why he didn’t jump on MICHAEL JACKSON’s song LMAO!

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No different from white hair bands who dressed like women but were slaying women. Androgyny just was a thing back when.
Androgyny was a thing in the early 70's in what was called the glam rock era.
David Bowie was the trendsetter for that look.

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The New York Dolls was a typical glam rock band of the era.
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Mick Jagger and Todd Rundgren followed suit making it an official thing.
Bowie changed up his image in the mid-70s and started rocking suits. The androgyny wave faded out.
Rock bands in the late 70's, like Styx and Foreigner, looked like a bunch of Bud drinkers.

Black musicians never picked up on the androgyny thing in the 70's.
The only famous androgynous Black musician was Little Richard, who was obviously gay.

Prince, coming from Minneapolis, where Black people were in the minority, listened to both Black and white artists.
After Prince's second album, he started dressing more and more gay until he ended up wearing nothing but draws on his third album.
The rock audience was not into androgyny in the early 80's.
It took Prince getting booed off the stage twice while being called a fakkit when opening up for The Rolling Stones to convince him to put some pants on, but he still kept the makeup and androgynous image.
After Purple Rain broke out, that's when the cac bands of the mid 80's started bustin out the makeup, giving way to what was called "hair metal".
For the first time, androgyny became a fad in R&B because of Prince during the mid-80's

You might know the lead singer of the New York Dolls by the name of the musical character he played on Saturday Night Live.
 

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So Prince wasn't out there in assless chaps simulating getting humped by men? :patrice: you on the wrong side of 140th and Lenox



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Although I was never a Prince fan, and I never compared him to Micheal, when I watched this video, he did pretty good, and better than I thought he would. He blended that funk and rock and roll like I never seen. I was one that didn't realize how talented he was until after he passed. He should have never been called on stage to perform along side two dancers like James Brown, who could moon walk on one foot, and Michael Jackson who could dance like I don't know what. Most artists would have gotten embarrassed trying to dance after them two, especially a rock artist.
Well this video was shot in 1983...1999 by Prince just dropped..and people were already putting the. Crown on Prince.

Mike was a bit salty but also he fukked with Prince music...Prince and Mike hung out before since Prince went on a date with Latoya Jackson before....so in a way Mike was telling James Brown...if you don't know about Prince...you need to...he's a problem.

So Mike got to kill alot of birds with this one stone of inviting Prince on stage...He let know James Brown know that Prince needed to be listened to...he was able to embarrass Prince as well as Mike was a prankster:pachaha:
 

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Androgyny was a thing in the early 70's in what was called the glam rock era.
David Bowie was the trendsetter for that look.

The New York Dolls was a typical glam rock band of the era.
1nydolls.jpg


Mick Jagger and Todd Rundgren followed suit making it an official thing.
Bowie changed up his image in the mid-70s and started rocking suits. The androgyny wave faded out.
Rock bands in the late 70's, like Styx and Foreigner, looked like a bunch of Bud drinkers.

Black musicians never picked up on the androgyny thing in the 70's.
The only famous androgynous Black musician was Little Richard, who was obviously gay.

Prince, coming from Minneapolis, where Black people were in the minority, listened to both Black and white artists.
After Prince's second album, he started dressing more and more gay until he ended up wearing nothing but draws on his third album.
The rock audience was not into androgyny in the early 80's.
It took Prince getting booed off the stage twice while being called a fakkit when opening up for The Rolling Stones to convince him to put some pants on, but he still kept the makeup and androgynous image.
After Purple Rain broke out, that's when the cac bands of the mid 80's started bustin out the makeup, giving way to what was called "hair metal".
For the first time, androgyny became a fad in R&B because of Prince during the mid-80's

You might know the lead singer of the New York Dolls by the name of the musical character he played on Saturday Night Live.

WAIT THAT'S THE NEW YORK DOLLS DUDE???:wtf:

Alot of bands got they swag and look from new York Dolls...Sex Pistols learned how to troll and shock audiences in part from watching how the New York Dolls moved.




Jet BOY FLY is the shyt :ohlawd:
 

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They called it "The Breed" look according to Babyface
The Deele got the term "breed" from a song by Prince called Sexuality. In the song Prince talks about "the new breed".


Their look was inspired by Prince.
They wouldn't let Babyface join the group at first because he didn't have the look. They said he "wasn't Breed enough"
He wasn't even Babyface then, he was still going by Kenny. The rest of the band had stage names.
He eventually got the look. Bootsy Collins christened him Babyface.
He still went by Kenny until he was introduced on stage as Babyface and the women went crazy.
 

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The Deele got the term "breed" from a song by Prince called Sexuality. In the song Prince talks about "the new breed".


Their look was inspired by Prince.
They wouldn't let Babyface join the group at first because he didn't have the look. They said he "wasn't Breed enough"
He wasn't even Babyface then, he was still going by Kenny. The rest of the band had stage names.
He eventually got the look. Bootsy Collins christened him Babyface.
He still went by Kenny until he was introduced on stage as Babyface and the women went crazy.


Brehs don’t understand how radical Prince was to black music. We have parental advisory stickers thanks to him!

Him and Michael were so good, cacs at MTV couldn’t boycott them.
 

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Brehs don’t understand how radical Prince was to black music. We have parental advisory stickers thanks to him!

Him and Michael were so good, cacs at MTV couldn’t boycott them.
1000% facts.
Despite his non-Harlem looks and antics, Prince's music jammed hard as fukk. It was undeniable.
He wanted to be exciting. He didn't wanna look like Frankie Beverly and Maze.
This is why MJ and Prince dominated the 80's and they're still influential today.
 

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The Deele got the term "breed" from a song by Prince called Sexuality. In the song Prince talks about "the new breed".


Their look was inspired by Prince.
They wouldn't let Babyface join the group at first because he didn't have the look. They said he "wasn't Breed enough"
He wasn't even Babyface then, he was still going by Kenny. The rest of the band had stage names.
He eventually got the look. Bootsy Collins christened him Babyface.
He still went by Kenny until he was introduced on stage as Babyface and the women went crazy.

Good to know
 
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