1/7 In my teens, I wrote for a biweekly newspaper called The Purple Cow, distributed to more than 150 high schools around Atlanta to the tune of about 41,000 copies each time. I primarily wrote record reviews about (drumroll) Prince and associates... Duh!
👇(1987 @ 16 years old) 2/7 In the year of Lovesexy (1988), I wrote my final article 4 the Purple Cow. 👇I mentioned that I'd never write "album credits" AKA liner notes, here. It was unfathomable, not even a dream. But, decades later, the Universe opened my reality to extreme possibilities....💜

Thx for the generous intro @deejayumb for my contribution—Sampling Jill Jones—to the superb JJ #PrinceTwitterThread series!

You can tell a lot of 💜 & care have gone into crafting those that have gone before & will follow!

@jilldjones deserves it!

https://twitter.com/deejayumb/status/1418584277537730576

"When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound."
~DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) #PrinceTwitterThread