Plenty of late-90s pop hits sampled 80s hits for their hooks. Only Prince could sample Vanity 6’s “Nasty Girl” — because he’d written that 80s hit himself. Also featuring a rap by Eve, this is “Hot Wit U (Nasty Girl Remix)”:
Prince’s first major release after changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol was a CD-ROM entitled “Interactive”. This is the title track, which opened the CD-ROM game, and it’s a nice time capsule of Prince hinting at the digital future of music.
Okay, did you know @icecube and Prince collaborated? It’s true! But it wasn’t Cube rapping on a Prince track. Instead, he directed the video for 1994’s “Love Sign”, an anti-gun-violence duet with Nona Gaye that nods to the west coast funk of the era.
Though it was unfortunately relegated to obscurity, Prince’s duet with @angiestone holds uo alongside the best of his ballads. Featuring some striking vocal production and one of Prince’s most ludicrous hairstyles ever, this is “U Make My Sun Shine”.
One of Prince's most overt nods to his life-long love for fashion, and the only song he ever dedicated to Jersey — this is Chelsea Rodgers, a model who very nearly shared one of his names.
A late-career scorcher, the video is just a pretty straightforward performance, but the guitar on the track stands alongside Prince's best singles. Fury!
Part of a string of bar-band rockers Prince put out in the last decade of his career, The One U Wanna C might have also had a little bit of input from Revolutionaries @wendyandlisa
What happens when you get some of the sexiest people in the world collaborating together? @salmahayek directs her first-ever music video, for Prince's Te Amo Corazón, filmed in Morocco.
@salmahayek One of the best pure-rock songs of Prince's entire catalog is the perfectly-named Guitar. "I love u, baby. But not like I love my guitar!"
@salmahayek Featuring more elaborate visual effects than perhaps the entire rest of Prince’s video collection combined, Chocolate Box also features @QtipTheAbstract & a throwback version of the Minneapolis sound.
