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Welcome 2 America
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“Born 2 Die” is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming unreleased studio album Welcome 2 America and is available now. The song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play. As happened countless times throughout his career, Prince ended up shelving the song and the rest of Welcome 2 America in his legendary vault, and the full album will be released from the vault for the first time on July 30. The slow-burning song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, and the drummer Chris Coleman, and then accentuated by the vocal harmonies of Shelby J., Liv Warfield, and Elisa Fiorillo, and topped off by a melody sung by Prince himself. He then tapped his longtime music director Morris Hayes to add final production to the track—and shared some of the inspiration behind its sound. "We got to 'Born 2 Die,' and Prince said, 'I'll tell you how that came about,' Morris remembers. "He had been watching videos of his friend Dr. Cornel West on YouTube, and during one speech Dr. West said, 'I love my brother Prince, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.' So Prince said, "Oh really? We will see."
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Welcome 2 America
Available 7.30.21 - Pre-Order Now! - Prince.lnk.to/W2AAY
Listen to Prince: Prince.lnk.to/listen_YD
Shop exclusive Prince music and merchandise at the Official Prince Store - store.prince.com
“Born 2 Die” is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming unreleased studio album Welcome 2 America and is available now. The song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play. As happened countless times throughout his career, Prince ended up shelving the song and the rest of Welcome 2 America in his legendary vault, and the full album will be released from the vault for the first time on July 30. The slow-burning song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, and the drummer Chris Coleman, and then accentuated by the vocal harmonies of Shelby J., Liv Warfield, and Elisa Fiorillo, and topped off by a melody sung by Prince himself. He then tapped his longtime music director Morris Hayes to add final production to the track—and shared some of the inspiration behind its sound. "We got to 'Born 2 Die,' and Prince said, 'I'll tell you how that came about,' Morris remembers. "He had been watching videos of his friend Dr. Cornel West on YouTube, and during one speech Dr. West said, 'I love my brother Prince, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.' So Prince said, "Oh really? We will see."
Listen to more Prince here lnk.to/PrinceStream
Watch all the official Prince videos here bit.ly/PrinceVideography
Subscribe to the Prince channel and “ring the bell” to turn on notifications bit.ly/SubscribeToPrince
Follow Prince:
Website Prince.lnk.to/followWI
Prince Store Prince.lnk.to/followMr
Facebook Prince.lnk.to/followFI
Instagram Prince.lnk.to/followII
Twitter Prince.lnk.to/followTI
Spotify Prince.lnk.to/followSI
Explore the Official Prince Playlists:
The Prince Videography bit.ly/PrinceVideography
Prince: Live Performances bit.ly/PrinceLiveOnYouTube
Prince ♡ Music is Medicine bit.ly/MusicIsMedicine
Prince / MPLS bit.ly/PrinceMLPS #PrinceRogersNelson
