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PRN brought this fun little video to my attention: an interview with The Artist Formerly Known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (a.k.a. The Artist Currently Known As Don’t Use My Music on your Youtube Videos).

After almost 17 minutes of fluffy music talk, The Minneapolis Midget lets loose with a Purple Banana’s worth of crazy talk (transcript here ; there’s another one out there missing the fun parts).

PRINCE: It’s obvious now that artists are supposed to own their master recordings. In the future, it’ll be unconscionable to even think you can take somebody’s creation and claim ownership of it.

See, unfortunately, this discussion’s going to start to barrel into a discussion about the human genome and the DNA and all the rest of it. When it gets there, then we’re going to be in the deep water. See, so it’s better to start the conversation now before we get into God talk.

I can only imagine that is he suggesting that a corporation might try and claim the copyright to our DNA.  But it gets better (I’ve bolded the lowlights):

PRINCE:  Oh, well, when I saw the “State of the Black Union,” Dick Gregory really moved me and a lot of my friends. I show it to everybody who comes over the house, especially White folks, because they need to hear that, so that they know more about all of us. Because what he said affects all of us.

He said something that really hit home about this phenomena of chem trails and when I was a kid, I used to see these trails in the sky all the time and I’d say, “Oh, that’s cool – a jet just went over.” And then you started to see a whole bunch of them and the next you know, everybody in your neighborhood was fighting and arguing and you didn’t know why, okay?

And you really didn’t know why. I mean, everybody was fighting. So he started riffing about the chem trails and he started to say things that hit home so hard, and I would recommend that everybody try to get what he said online or wherever, and try to get a copy of it and just listen to it, because I was so moved that I had to write the song.

The other thing is the first line of the song says I was born on the same plantation in the United States of the red, white and blue, and we live in a place now that feels just about like a plantation.

We’re all indentured servants. When I found out there were eight presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. I wanted to know why I was taught otherwise. Just tell me the whole story – I’ll fill in the blanks. But don’t tell me something that you think I’m supposed to know.

First, I recall talk of chem trails from the Art Bell radio show, Coast to Coast A.M., which should tell you something about this idea’s pedigree. This isn’t a big leap frim the similarly paranoid “The Gummit Gave us AIDS” meme lifting the spirits of the black community.

But I was quite intrigued by the conspiracy to conceal from history our first 8 presidents. Who were these men and why would we do such a thing? Were they Satanists? Kights Templar? Illuminati? Blacks? Opus Dei? Aliens?

Nothing so smack-worthy, unfortunately. I’m guessing he was referring to  — and this may really make purple smoke billow from Prince’s wee ears — the 15 presidents who preceded Washington (who told Prince there were only 8, and what do they have to hide?).

Of course these were not really presidents of the U.S. They were presidents of the Continental Congress, which preceded our Constitution. Nothing to see here, Prince. You weren’t taught about these guys because they’re boring.

Finally he closes with this Bizarro claim which suggests that his thigh-high boots may be cutting off circulation to his brain:

PRINCE:  It’s very interesting. I did a sold-out concert in London and we played 21 nights in a row, and all the concerts were sold out. When I would watch television over there and you’d see the United Nations feed – the direct feed from the United Nations – you’d hear them talk a lot about religion. You’d hear the bible mentioned constantly.

This is not what we’re used to in the United States. It’s almost as though there’s no need for god and no need for religion and justice in politics. So there’s supposed to be a separation of church and state over here.

Yes, the well-known Bible club at the U.N.

“Dr. Everything’ll Be All Right” needs to cut down on the prescription of pills, thrills and daffodils.

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