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Already seeing that people want to hear the full versions of the songs and moments we talked about in the second episode of Muse 2 the Pharaoh. Gathered them all here!

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Very excited about Nicole Nodland's new photo book so I made a mix for the time she was around! Check out her campaign and rock out with 90's P! https://www.gofundme.com/paisley-prince

Crystal Ball - Interactive Chaos and Disorder - Zannalee The Truth - Man in Uniform Exodus - The Good Life Glam Slam East - Shoop (incl Sexy MF, Gett Off, Acknowledge Me) Come - Dark Exodus - Segue Goldnigga - Johnny Crystal Ball - Da Bang The Vault - Sarah The Gold Experience - Shy Listen Now

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Fun times with The Professor! I Like to Play - Lotus Box The Sun, The Moon and Stars - C3L.A.BRAtiON Dear Mr Man - 21 Ain't No Way - La Coruna Sexy MF 2007 - 21 Girl - All Day, All Night, All Week Tighten Up - Party Like It's 3121 Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad - All day, All Night All Week The Rules - Mr Dynamite Give It To Me Baby - Get On the Clipper Boat Pop Life - Summer of Eleven Volume One Paris Spanish Castle Magic - From Dusk Til Dawn Something in the Water Does Not Compute - Lost and Found Insatiable - 21 Money Don't Matter Tonight - Lost and Found All This Love - From Dusk Til Dawn 2

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People always ask me why I love Prince so much. There are a lot of reasons, but I have to honestly say it is largely because of the music my parents raised me on. While we were a MJ family, P perfectly carries forward the musicians and style of the artists of their time and made it modern. I've been making Prince mixes for a while and made one for the long weekend...it's Prince singing music my parents grew up with and played around the house for us all the time. It was emotionally a lot to hear him singing these songs together both as a reminder that he's their age more or less (a bit younger) and as a reminder he was always about REAL music by REAL musicians. You can hear that influence in all of his work and I love love love that so much! 

This is a tool for those of us who have parents or friends around his age...and they side eye you about him. Play them this and if they still question why your love is so deep, there’s just no hope for them lol!

Start Me Up (Rolling Stones) The Way You Do the Things You Do (The Temptations) Living for the City (Stevie Wonder) Love Changes (Mother's Finest) The Sun's Gonna Shine Again (Ray Charles) People Get Ready (The Impressions) Summer Madness/In the Morning (Kool and the Gang/Ledisi) Sunshine of Your Love (Cream) I Want You Back (Jackson 5) I Got The Feelin (James Brown) Use Me (Bill Withers) Come Together (The Beatles) One in A Million You (Larry Graham) Can't Hide Love (Earth Wind & Fire) Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers) Who's Loving You (The Miracles) What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)

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Lots of turmoil over recent announcements re New Power Soul. In response to that, a concept, what if the project was comprised of “purple instrumentals” a la Madhouse 24 from the 90’s? Some original songs, some covers of P’s songs, some covers of others’ songs, but all with the arrangements Prince facilitated…and with the very same musicians he was working with. They could even have multiple volumes for such a project, cycling out band members to cover live instrumental arrangements from the eras…and include anecdotes about working with P on each volume! Something to consider! Real music by real musicians…performed by the same musicians in the way the Professor himself arranged for live performances! This is what it could feel like!

Minneapolis #1 - Anthology Space - Madhouse 24 Damn U - Wow NPG on the Creation of Love 2 the 9’s - Act I TV Special Strays of the World - Best of 3rdEyeTV Never Too Much - Welcome 2 Chicago (Got 2) Give it Up - Madhouse 24 Around the World in a Day - Wow| Holy River - The Work Vol 7 NPG on how songs get made - Act I TV Special Eye Hate U - Eye Hate U 12" Shades of Umber - Montreux 2013

Idea planted by @just-prince-things

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Te Amo Corazon - Video version In a Large Room With No Light - Montreux Jazz Festival Breakfast Can Wait (Buttermilk) - Breakfast Can Wait Insatiable - Mr Dynamite Eye Hate U (Extended Remix) - Eye Hate U All This Love - Lotusflow3r/Elixer Extraordinary - The Vault Old Friends For Sale I Can't Make U Love Me - Emancipation Pink Cashmere/Do Me Baby - Jazz Cuisine Till 5 in the Morning Pearls Before the Swine - One Nite Alone Piano and Voice The Dance - Partyup! Last December - The Rainbow Children

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I'll Take You There (Staple Singers) Never Too Much (Luther Vandross) If You Want Me to Stay (Sly & The Family Stone) Give it To Me Baby (Rick James) Creep (Radiohead) The Middle (Jimmy Eat World) Ooo Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) Twisted (Annie Ross) Georgia On My Mind/What'd I Say (Ray Charles) A Case Of U (Joni Mitchell) With a Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles As sung by Joe Cocker) Sweet Thing (Rufus) Love and Happiness (Al Green) Super Mario Bros Theme Mary Don't You Weep (Aretha Franklin) The Whole of the Moon (The Waterboys) Wherever You Go, Whatever You Do (Prince)  

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Dirty Mind - Head Sign o the Times - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man Around the World in a Day - Raspberry Beret Diamonds and Pearls Beginnings - Schoolyard The Gold Experience - Shy Chaos and Disorder - Dinner with Dolores The Truth - Circle of Amour The Rainbow Children - The Rainbow Children One Nite Alone Piano and Voice - Here on Earth Musicology - What Do You Want Me 2 Do? Musicology - The Marrying Kind HitNRun Phase 1 - Hardrocklover HitNRun Phase 2 - RocknRoll Love Affair

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For the “he didn’t do anything interesting in the last few years” folks...

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God bless it.

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Pass the Peas (The JB's) Stomp (Kirk Franklin & God's Property)  Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)  You've Got a Friend (James Taylor)  I'll Take You There (Staple Singers)  Love is a Losing Game (Amy Winehouse) Glide (Pleasure)  Get Up (James Brown)  Didn't Cha Know (Erykah Badu)  Push & Pull (Nikka Costa)  Honky Talk Woman (Rolling Stones)  Take Five (Dave Brubeck)  Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)  Sweet Thing (Rufus) 

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Made this one on a lazy Sunday afternoon to match my mood.

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The newest. I just wanna....live here.

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Kenny Rodgers - You're My Love (1982) Kid Creole and the Coconuts - The Sex of It (1987) El Debarge - Tip O My Tongue (1991) Joe Cocker - 5 Women (1991) Tevin Campbell - Shh (1993) Derick Hughes - Somebody's Somebody (1994) Tamar - Kept Woman (2005) Andy Allo - The Calm (2011) Bria Valente - Immersion (2006) Liv Warfield - Your Show (2013)

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Just as a reminder, I make P “mixtapes”! They are a combination of unreleased, released, live versions, and interview snippets to create a theme. I used to do 4play4themind things on Tidal a while back, but I know not everyone has a subscription there...another option to spread the news about the Professor!

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