I do not believe this.
My dad just walked in while I'm playing videogames and told me
That's my GOAT. No Dilla/D'angelo/Questlove without him. Father of Neo-soul, inventing new identities. Multinstrumentalist. List goes on and on. Needed to come pay my respects.
I've told this story before, but in April of 86 I think,
Manic Monday by The Bangles was held to No. 2 in the charts by Prince's song "Kiss,"
The thing is, Prince wrote Manic Monday and gave it to the Bangles.
Prince competed with himself in the charts....
and won
Sad day.
RIP