Spend That (Wicked A** Song or Is That Your Jam?)

[Duwop]

Fixed for accuracy.

And I don't think that's too much to ask.

You know you can build your own playlist based on your likes these days?

 

[konceptjones]

Im saying if your issue is explicit lyrics and sexual content then Prince making songs saying stuff like this falls into the category of stuff you saying you don't want promoted

"I'll give you head 'til you're burning up
Head 'til you get enough
Head 'til your love is red
Head, love you 'til you're dead

You know you're good, girl
I think you like to go down
You wouldn't have stopped
But, uh, I came on your wedding gown
You said:
"I must confess
I wanna get undressed and go to bed""

There was an uproar over a lot of Prince's songs, especially "Darling Nikki" from the Purple Rain album. That song alone was the whole reason why my moms refused to buy it for us. My cousin had it and we had to sneak to listen to that shit.

 

[Knock_Twice]

There was an uproar over a lot of Prince's songs, especially "Darling Nikki" from the Purple Rain album. That song alone was the whole reason why my moms refused to buy it for us. My cousin had it and we had to sneak to listen to that shit

I just said in my last post, where would a group of 5th graders be listening to this song? No where, (in real time) vs Where my scamming ass niggas at is on the radio being play on the hour by the hour.

When you have 5th graders singing the shit in unison, that's a problem. Looking for the scamming niggas at.


I shake my head when I hear niggas like @ Seasnake say that part "where all my scamming ass niggas at" lol smh, sad man

 

[BlackRain]

Fixed for accuracy.

And I don't think that's too much to ask.

The music and other stuff people asking for is there but people don't support it to the level they claim to want it. Mainstream will always lean towards what makes the most money. It's also the reason why every genre of entertainment has an "underground" scene where things not pushed as hard have their own fanbses. And today where it's actually easier to find what you want it's even easier to ignore the shit you don't like. Hell Vince Staples just released an album full of the social and political commentary people say they want. It's there, but people are very performative in what they claim to want vs what they'll actually support.

 

[BlackRain]

There was an uproar over a lot of Prince's songs, especially "Darling Nikki" from the Purple Rain album. That song alone was the whole reason why my moms refused to buy it for us. My cousin had it and we had to sneak to listen to that shit.

Lol you're proving my point. He named him as an artist who would be an alternative to the explicit songs of today and you just proved why he wouldn't be.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

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There was an uproar over a lot of Prince's songs, especially "Darling Nikki" from the Purple Rain album. That song alone was the whole reason why my moms refused to buy it for us. My cousin had it and we had to sneak to listen to that shit.

yet Prince is still considered one of the goats
So it don’t really matter does it

 

[BlackRain]

I don't think 5th graders would be singing this for starters, vs having 5th graders boys and girls, (black) yelling, Where all my scamming ass niggas at, or I'm looking for the scamming ass niggas now. Scamming ass niggas is being looked at "good"

Where all my scamming ass niggas is being played on the radio.


In that time when Prince songs dropped or this particular song you quoted, where would a 5th grader (a classroom) would be listening to this song?

Kids wouldn't even have heard of this song until they've reached 18 and this song is pushing negative towards a community.

Yeah the idea that a kid would hear their parents playing a Prince song is foreign. They just magically were kept in the dark til they turned 18 lol

 

[konceptjones]

You know you can build your own playlist based on your likes these days?

While true, you still have no control over what's being pushed on the radio.

While my kids were young, I very strictly curated the listening selections in the car. My daughters knew the words to a lot of Little Brother joints, sang along with The Foreign Exchange, knew a grip of Dilla, MF DOOM, and Madlib instrumentals, Common, Black Star, Mos Def, De La Soul, etc songs the whole nine. Now, that didn't stop them from hearing some bullshit, 'cause they went to school and heard it from their friends who's parents didn't give a shit and played whatever or simply allowed them to listen to whatever came on the radio at the time. And that last point is part of the problem: A lot of parents think the shit is cute to see their 6 year old singing along to serial killer/prostitute music instead of realizing how it programs their way of thinking. For a lot of those kids, it's just words they repeat from their favorite songs. When they get older, those words now have meaning, and if all you've been exposed to is that level of shit, then more than likely that's what your beliefs and actions will be patterned after.

 

[Knock_Twice]

Yeah the idea that a kid would hear their parents playing a Prince song is foreign. They just magically were kept in the dark til they turned 18 lol

Why would a parent be playing THAT kind of song in front of their kid or kids in the house? Not just a Prince song, I'm talking about the one you posted.

Would you play a song like THAT in your house on your record player (black families bought 'albums' more so back then) (because that's where you would have heard the song in that time of the day, in the house) in front of your 5th grade kid?

That song wasn't on the radio, and 5th graders back then would be with their parents, Big Mama and Paw Paw not playing it at her house, so as I stated, where would a kid hear THAT song at?

 

[Knock_Twice]

Lol you're proving my point. He named him as an artist who would be an alternative to the explicit songs of today and you just proved why he wouldn't be.

Prince's lyrics (in real time) were for grown-ups. Most of his sexually songs were not played on the radio. Black Radio, I'm speaking of,

Teens and kids were not buying Prince's albums (in real time) You had to be grown to listen to Prince and for you to compare his lyrics (without the proper context or setup) is reaching.

Proper context, 5th graders are not listening to Prince sexually lyrics. Prince is not looking for the scamming ass niggas. Prince sexually songs are not blasted on the radio on the hour by the hour (and if they were, the shit is bleeped out) also, keeping it in the proper realm, riding around in your car with your parents as a kid (in real time) she or your dad would turn the volume down if a Prince sexually song did happened to come on the radio in which it was rare. Because the black radio stations wasn't pushing that shit to the community at 3:00 in the afternoon

So you just trying to jam Prince into the equation is not a stance to stand on, because the times are very different and the kids and teens did not intake Prince's music


This chick shit is on the radio, it's blasted on platforms that kids are on, you have 5th graders singing the shit all willy nilly, It's uplifting scamming ass nigga.

Prince is not in the same boat to even be comparing to what Yung Miami music is doing to the youth today, now

 

[konceptjones]

The music and other stuff people asking for is there but people don't support it to the level they claim to want it. Mainstream will always lean towards what makes the most money. It's also the reason why every genre of entertainment has an "underground" scene where things not pushed as hard have their own fanbses. And today where it's actually easier to find what you want it's even easier to ignore the shit you don't like. Hell Vince Staples just released an album full of the social and political commentary people say they want. It's there, but people are very performative in what they claim to want vs what they'll actually support.

Thing is, there's a whole "chicken and egg" relation at work: The "other stuff" would be more popular if it got more mainstream spins, it doesn't get the spins so it doesn't make the money labels want to see so they don't push it, but because they don't push that music, its not popular enough to get more mainstream spins; wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[Knock_Twice]

You really trying to compare this to "Where all my scamming ass niggas at?

When this song would have been played during the Quiet Storm Hour on the Black Radio station in real time. Maybe 1 or 2 times outta a week vs, Where my scamming ass niggas at being played on Black Radio stations all day long and all night long, along being played on other platforms.

Come dude, you're smarter than that to even put Prince in this box. Most of his lyrics is talking bout making love to a woman (or man) but woman and in real time, 8 year olds was not listening to this nigga shit 5 days outta the week, 8 hours a day vs listening to 'Where my scamming ass niggas at" 5 days outta the week, sometimes on weekends 4 to 5 hours a day.

 

[Knock_Twice]

@deadeye @konceptjones @cain

Yall are the OGs on here, a few more older cats on here, yall can chime in. Dude is trying to compare 1980s Prince to Yung Miami 2026

I don't recall listening to Prince all willy nilly other than the radio songs, (I didn't get into the dude until I was much older and I dayum sholl don't remember any of my peers coming to school singing Prince sexual songs)

Since you all being a bit older, maybe was in 8th grade or high school, did any one of Prince sexual songs/lyrics have the whole middle or high school in a chokehold like "Where My scamming ass niggas at" has?

Like I said, I couldn't count on 1 hand any of my peers coming to school singing ANY Prince song let along a Prince song with sexual lyrics, but my boy in here saying that Prince had kids and teens in a chokehold singing I'ma sex shooter and computer blue at recess

 

[Duwop]

While true, you still have no control over what's being pushed on the radio.

Radio is dead.

It's like 80% ads and maybe 2 songs in an hour.


Kids stream music on YouTube, Spotify, Apple music, Pandora.... Only people listening to the radio are people who are anti-streaming as a choice

 

[Knock_Twice]

Radio is dead.

It's like 80% ads and maybe 2 songs in an hour.


Kids stream music on YouTube, Spotify, Apple music, Pandora.... Only people listening to the radio are people who are anti-streaming as a choice

Nah Du,

The only reason I say that it's not dead is that folks have been complaining about how much they play the hell out of the Blue Flame song and that other song Folded Clothes, and then they'll play that Top Dawg Law lol You need a lawyer, call Top Dawg LAW.

They got a new ad that dropped this morning, I was in tears crying lmaoo. I love it A. whole rap about Top Dawg Law, ole boy uncle killing it.

As far as radio being how it was in the 90s, yea it's dead, but I think people over 35 still listen to the radio for the most part. I know that over 50 crowd does.

Ricky Smiley and Steve Harvey aint going no where and I'll even tune into the Breakfast Club to see who they are interviewing. Radio is still radio'ing but yea that

 

[BlackRain]

Thing is, there's a whole "chicken and egg" relation at work: The "other stuff" would be more popular if it got more mainstream spins, it doesn't get the spins so it doesn't make the money labels want to see so they don't push it, but because they don't push that music, its not popular enough to get more mainstream spins; wash, rinse, repeat.

There's definitely a cycle at play but today the consumer has more power than ever because they have more choices than ever. Also consider that usually what is mainstream is driven by appealing to the youth. And youth culture is not going to be about being responsible and careful and other shit that as you get older you don't view the same. This is also part of the thing is that there's a portion of older folks, 40s and above, who haven't graduated from the idea that youth and popular culture ain't for them and they're no longer the target audience. As somebody older you can curate your own shit devoid of a Young Miami or anything adjacent. But some folks want to continue to indulge in shit not meant for them and complain when they realize it ain't meant for them anymore

 

[BlackRain]

Prince's lyrics (in real time) were for grown-ups. Most of his sexually songs were not played on the radio. Black Radio, I'm speaking of,

Teens and kids were not buying Prince's albums (in real time) You had to be grown to listen to Prince and for you to compare his lyrics (without the proper context or setup) is reaching.

Proper context, 5th graders are not listening to Prince sexually lyrics. Prince is not looking for the scamming ass niggas. Prince sexually songs are not blasted on the radio on the hour by the hour (and if they were, the shit is bleeped out) also, keeping it in the proper realm, riding around in your car with your parents as a kid (in real time) she or your dad would turn the volume down if a Prince sexually song did happened to come on the radio in which it was rare. Because the black radio stations wasn't pushing that shit to the community at 3:00 in the afternoon

So you just trying to jam Prince into the equation is not a stance to stand on, because the times are very different and the kids and teens did not intake Prince's music


This chick shit is on the radio, it's blasted on platforms that kids are on, you have 5th graders singing the shit all willy nilly, It's uplifting scamming ass nigga.

Prince is not in the same boat to even be comparing to what Yung Miami music is doing to the youth today, now

Her music isn't "doing anything" to the youth. So that wasn't the comparison. The comparison was content of the songs in general on a topic where lyrical content was the topic. And youth ain't relegated to just 5th grade. So yeah there were teens and young adults also listening to those explicit Prince songs too in a time where there was no parental advisory label preventing anyone from buying it. So again if your issue is explicit lyrics being made available with little to no barriers, he's an artist you should've left off that list.

 

[konceptjones]

@deadeye @konceptjones @cain

Yall are the OGs on here, a few more older cats on here, yall can chime in. Dude is trying to compare 1980s Prince to Yung Miami 2026

I don't recall listening to Prince all willy nilly other than the radio songs, (I didn't get into the dude until I was much older and I dayum sholl don't remember any of my peers coming to school singing Prince sexual songs)

Since you all being a bit older, maybe was in 8th grade or high school, did any one of Prince sexual songs/lyrics have the whole middle or high school in a chokehold like "Where My scamming ass niggas at" has?

Like I said, I couldn't count on 1 hand any of my peers coming to school singing ANY Prince song let along a Prince song with sexual lyrics, but my boy in here saying that Prince had kids and teens in a chokehold singing I'ma sex shooter and computer blue at recess

Purple Rain, 1999, When Doves Cry, Controversy, Little Red Corvette, 7, Raspberry Beret, Batdance... Those are the Prince joints I remember getting radio spins in the 80's and early 90's.

Lotta songs our parents simply didn't let us listen to in the event it came on the radio 'cause they were "too adult" and, in fact, a lot of shit was only played in the evenings because kids were typically in bed.

 

[BlackRain]

@deadeye @konceptjones @cain

Yall are the OGs on here, a few more older cats on here, yall can chime in. Dude is trying to compare 1980s Prince to Yung Miami 2026

I don't recall listening to Prince all willy nilly other than the radio songs, (I didn't get into the dude until I was much older and I dayum sholl don't remember any of my peers coming to school singing Prince sexual songs)

Since you all being a bit older, maybe was in 8th grade or high school, did any one of Prince sexual songs/lyrics have the whole middle or high school in a chokehold like "Where My scamming ass niggas at" has?

Like I said, I couldn't count on 1 hand any of my peers coming to school singing ANY Prince song let along a Prince song with sexual lyrics, but my boy in here saying that Prince had kids and teens in a chokehold singing I'ma sex shooter and computer blue at recess

Nope...not what im saying at all.

 

[SeaSnake]

Nah brotha,

Not being played on the Playlist and if it so happens to come up, from someone's Playlist, skipping the piss out of it.

I can't get behind that brotha.

Never heard a Asian artist say that they are looking for the scamming ass Asians.

We shouldn't be doing this in 2026 still

So you don’t play boogie at all anymore because you used to defend him tooth and nail

Anyway I don’t take this song seriously. Most black people ain’t living in the projects scamming people or shooting people.

And I do think source matters even when it shouldn’t. India Arie criticism is cool because she ain’t on that type of music or vibe.

People do view it funny that folks who been twerking at parties for the last 30’years are up in arms about it. And as I got older I do downplay the impact rap has on regular people