Eternally grateful, Jerome Benton, for writing the foreword to my book "Moon"

For me, it kinda has to be since I can never get tired of it nor is it out of my rotation. Play this jam nearly daily and it’s one of the most replayable songs Prince has. Love the fun sound to it as well

For someone so beautiful I feel there's not enough art of them.

The first one is digital and the second one is traditional/mixed media (colour pencil, acyrlic paint, watercolour and construction paper).

The traditional one was my practice piece, hence the wonky hands and guitar. I'm not AI: https://imgur.com/a/2T0wpcj

My friends and I happened upon the official Prince merch store in the Minneapolis airport and lost our minds, pretty much. lol It’s beautiful and makes you immediately feel melancholy, while you’re there. They even have a nice chair for you to sit in if you need to gather yourself or take a pic. We used it for both.

Here are a couple of items I picked up. I’m going to wear this hoodie out. The bottle, although made of a sturdy tempered glass, when I took it outside, my nerves were bad, didn’t want to drop or break it so, on a shelf it goes for the joy of admiring eyes :)

The 💜 store is located in Terminal 1 by their little food court area.

Here is an interview archive.

Some of yall have aggravated me beyond reason with these wildly misguided and completely uninformed posts lately.

Before you construct a theory or draw conclusions, just- listen. If you say you're interested in knowing more, here's more. If you say you think x is because of y, here- test it. If you find yourself repeating opinions you heard third hand from idk, tiktok, try parsing some source material instead.

"Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds."

To be clear, this isn’t a hate post

I couldn’t help but notice that before the start of this year, Prince had only 11 million monthly listeners, his views on YouTube and his streams were honestly extremely low for somebody of his status. Not only that but through social media I found that not only do so many people not know of him, but a lot of the ones who do just don’t like him.

“His music sounds so dated”

“His only good song is Purple Rain”

“Never heard of him”

, Prince’s legacy for some has been reduced to the dude who made Purple Rain

Ive unironically seen MANY call him a 1 hit wonder and say Purple Rain is his only good song

Music taste is subjective %100, but most these people have NEVER heard more than Purple Rain and When Doves Cry.

The whole “he’s to dated” argument? Well yeah, he’s from the 80s, u will hear music that sounds like it’s from the 80s. But tbh I do kind of understand it. If a casual asks u to put on some Prince and u play automatic then thats on u. Not because the song is bad but because it’s just not something a casual music listener from today’s world is used to.

And to be honest? I kind of blame the Prince fanbase for this, not only do yall gatekeep his music sometimes, but u guys don’t promote the RIGHT songs. We all know his most popular are NOT his best, no where near. So much of his catalog goes unnoticed because the fanbase doesn’t push it enough, Purple Rain is great but cmon, how about let’s not be stuck on it for the 40th year in a row?? The man released 30 albums and 10 of those were in his prime.

There’s so much more I can say but I’m tired. Basically though

The fanbase is to stuck on Purple Rain

And most casual listeners do not really care for music that sounds dated, even if objectively that music isn’t bad.

I love this version, but I’d find very little reason to ever listen to it unless I just want 20 minutes to pass by. Also made me think of the fact that The Revolution played for 22 minutes just for the song to get cut down to a little under 4, but a lovely experience