Thread by @darlingnisi

This will be the day
You'll hear people say
Stuff bout D&P
Okay?

(I am am not a lyricist 😂)
#1plus1plus1is3

Ms Melay Araya is up first!

Melay is spitting rapid fire 🔥! I start to tweet something she said and then she says something else! 🥺

I'm just gonna grab tweets sorry y'all I'm entranced....

Okay up next is @CasciTRitchie! The Style We Sportin’ - Redefining New Power Masculinities in Prince’s ‘Gett Off’

She's breaking down the mechanics of how the Gett Off MTV outfit was made. It is interesting to think about how things were specifically crafted for look, performance, and enhancing his natural features.

I kinda want something crafted for me just to see 👀

"New Power Masculinity"

Ha I like that!

Next Filthy Cute: Image, Style, and Dance in ‘Cream' with Karen Turman! She is stylin and profilin too!

Gotta say 91/92 is my fav style wise. @StaciaLangDsign dressed him so well!

Next Follow the Yellow Brick Road : Diamonds and Pearls with @laura_tiebert

"Think of Diamonds and Pearls as God talking to Prince" 🤔

Mr C Liegh McInnis is blessing us with a word!

I'm literally rocking while I watch this.

The Black line dance...you know the main moves, but the main difference is that people put their own flavor in.

This is so true! When appropriate, I will throw up the mirror or put some ivy's in the Cha Cha slide. #AlphaKappaAlpha

"Don't allow people with insecurity restrict you from reaching the full reaches of your potential" a common thread through Diamonds and Pearls COME ON DEACON!

"The best way to honor Prince is to leave the world a better place than how you found it" C. Liegh McInnis

Phew fresh off that fire, more fire with @theorangefrog A Tale Of Two Prince's: Diamonds & Pearls And The Myth Of Colorblindness In The Work Of Prince

Quick plug! Kamilah was on my last podcast! We were talking about Prince as a "Magical Negro" here she is defining what that means

Oh noooo. The internet won't let her be great! 🥲

We back!

"He knew he had to cross over to make the kind of money that would allow him to liberate himself and do the work in a racist industry"

The weight is put on Black people to push a "colorblind" ideology.

Excellent point...having to push the idea that people should look past their bias to see us as human.

Full disclosure, this picture is arresting, but the point that Prince made here is important as well.

Amen amen! Stop measuring success by how music performs on "white charts". While he was being railed as having "lost it" he was constantly topping the Black charts.

People don't talk about this enough...the strategy it takes for a Black artist to "cross over" and maintain success over time.

Boyeeee*pew *pew *pew

Tactic 1 : Write a Billboard Hit and pair it with a video that "spreads out Blackness"

Tactic 2 : Center white women

Cream check the note here....

Keep your Black card current
Slow Jams
Connects to Black Media
Black Beat, Friday Night Videos, Soul Train Awards, Arsenio Hall, etc.

Yaaaas! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Proxima, @NewBlackMan on “Money Don't Matter 2 Night”: Prince And The Mainstreaming Of Black Music In The 1990s

Tailored "Black Music" to the mainstream at a time when "money DIDN'T matter tonight".

Next the person who knows more about Prince end to end than anyone I have EVER met, Mr. Harold Pride on.... Perhaps U Recall - "Gett Off" - The Quintessential Maxi Single

The way Harold legit remembers the most minute details (and has all this stuff on VHS tape to pull forward). He notes remembering these images coming up during the Arsenio Hall promo day. Lyrics were there too!

(Def need to go raid this stash one of these days...)

(Yes we have the boots, I'm interested more in the commercials that were on during shows like this).

Love the look right into the camera about the use of the band during this time "THE ENTIRE BAND".

This sample of En Vogue's Hold On in Violet the Organ Grinder...def similar I've never connected it as an outright sample though 🤔

Love this journey of Prince and Go Go

These folks should honestly be a roundtable by itself. Imagine... Twitterless Mr McInnis, @NewBlackMan, @theorangefrog Twitterless Harold Pride, and @zaheerali

Crossover as Prince in pursuit of resources vs assimilation - Harold Pride

Yooooo! Might want to get in here for this! We're bout to see the D&P videos with live commentary by the director! Here for this!

Starting with a Times Squared video with Eric Leeds first!

We have Scott to thank for this moment

This. Is. Amazing. Detail.

Shot in Studio C at Paisley Park! (Currently the Purple Rain room)

With a few scenes in his house.

If you check out the background there's a frame with a blue screen on it. The footage that shows there was filmed by Prince. Shout out to the quick shots of his dad! 💜

Also I was so excited I misspoke about his role earlier...Scott was the cinematographer for these videos.

For Gangsta Glam, Scott DID direct it. Prince didn't watch any playback. Scott came back the next day and half of the video was cut by P and nem.

ICYMI

"Someone's working on getting D&P concert footage transferred to 2k" 👀

The Daddy Pop footage being talked about now. 6 cameras he says. Tons more footage he says...

😂😂😂😂 talking about Prince dancing and being high energy and he just had one little bead of sweat....

"Get off my mic" - Prince

Sorry for the heart flutter that happened because I'm working through my thing about toxic relationships 😂🙃

We're going into O(+> The Sexy MF video! I have heard so many things about where this video is filmed (London hotel) interesting to hear that was not correct!

He shot a Diamonds and Pearls rehearsal show at Glam Slam that he'd love to put together for a release...

You hear that universe?! 🌌

That was soooooo cool! Super enjoyed getting those insights!

And that's the end of day 2!