I met Prince When I was 12.

Where did you meet Prince when you were 12 at?

In Dayton?

Um, after he performed at Ud Arena.

Yeah, and I knew him my whole life.

He was like the guiding force for me.

It’s the reason

I- I

I had high self-esteem- was a guy that was always 30 steps ahead of whatever the curve was.

Um, and you know, when you play 26- 28 instruments, it means that you are able to be multifaceted.

And when people say that they love you and they respect you, but at the same time, take, you know, 80% of your earnings then and then expect you to fix your own communities, and they’ll probably edit all of this out, but then it gets that’s.

That’s the sharp part of the sort and we’re at the wrong end of it right now.

So eventually, with courageous people going out there and actually saying something and standing up for it, I think we’ll get some balance.

In April, title was standing alone as the only streamer to have access to the icons music.

The Prince state is now suing Jay-Z’s Rock Nation for copyright infringement.

Um, it shouldn’t be a situation where they own the album or the work.

It’s.

We’re talking about intellectual copyright.

If they’re going to be indeed a delivery service, then that’s fine.

But even Fedex doesn’t say that they own the thing that they ship.

C Williams just dropped a bombshell and revealed the real reasons why the legendary Prince had major issues- issues with Jay-Z and Diddy- and he had receipts to back it all up.

More details have recently surfaced about Diddy’s close ties with Warner Brothers records, the label Prince had been fighting against for years.

Warner controlled everything about Prince’s music and we all remember how he had to change his name to a symbol just to make a statement about how they were literally trying to own him.

Diddy was cozying up with Warner the whole time, and yet when Prince died, he had the nerve to talk about how he was heartbroken and claimed Prince inspired him.

As for Jay-Z, he did something even worse and actually tried to trick Prince into moving his entire catalog to Tidal, while also expecting Prince to hand over ownership of his music.

However, Prince saw right through that and wasn’t about to let Jay-Z profit off of his art.

This drama even led to a huge lawsuit after Prince past, when his estate accused Rock Nation of overstepping and exploiting his death for profit.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg and we’re now hearing the prince also tried to warn artists about Diddy and Jay-Z’s rumored freak off parties.

Now we all know Prince was wasn’t shy about calling out the dark side of the music industry.

He was very vocal about the exploitation, manipulation and Shady deals that artists were constantly forced into.

So it’s no wonder he kept his distance from Jay-Z and Diddy.

But ever since Diddy’s freak off parties made headlines, some fans have been speculating that Prince’s famous 3121 parties were his way of creating a safer, more positive alternative for artists and Industry insiders.

Instead of all that freak off, Madness, Prince gave people a space for real artistic communion.

Prince Prince knew what was up and he was always 10 steps ahead, and this is why fans are now starting to wonder if Prince’s death was really an accidental OD, like we’ve been told, or if Prince was silenced by the industry higher-ups for being a threat to the system.

Well, it looks like Prince’s longtime friend, Cat Williams, might know a thing or two about this.

So let’s get into what cat said about Prince and the reasons he wanted nothing to do with Diddy and Jay-Z. well, it’s not your game.

You didn’t make the rules.

So everything comes hard and as long as you sign to a contract, you’re going to take a minority share of the winnings, a select few of us will do.

Well, the majority will not.

So as a people, we’ll be considered a minority.

But stop, let’s take a moment and look at yourselves.

There’s nothing minor about you, okay?

So let’s first talk about Prince and his battle with Warner Brothers, because this fight wasn’t just about money or contract.

It was about control over his art, his identity and his legacy.

Prince’s relationship with Warner Brothers started in 1977, when he was just 18 years old and signed a contract with the label.

At that time, Prince was this young fresh Talent with undeniable potential, and Warner recognized that.

So they gave him something rare: full artistic control.

Prince was allowed to write, produce and play all the instruments on his albums, which was pretty much unheard of of back then, especially for a newcomer.

But let’s be real, Warner wasn’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts.

They knew they had a gold mine on their hands and while they let Prince have creative control, they still owned everything he produced.

During the’80s, Prince became one of the biggest stars in the world, and Timeless hits like Purple Rain, 1999 and when Do’s cry skyrocketed him to fame.

But the more successful he became, the tighter Warner’s grip on him was, you know, like Mariah, Ky just had this big $20 million.

It’s like the.

That’s like a huge deal, right?

So you you feeling that?

No, I, I. well, what I mean?

I don’t understand what the public sees.

The word $20 million, an album.

Well, you, well, let’s see, do you, do?

You all think that’s a good deal?

I mean, tell me why I mean.

What am I missing?

Okay, let’s do some math.

Okay, if, if, if, uh, you do math like that kind of.

If you sign me, if you sign me to a record company or record deal, let’s suppose you have a record company.

How much would you give me?

That album sells for $18, right, $18, all right.

How much of that would you give me?

Well, I, I, I don’t know how it works.

Well, no, half, half, half sound good, all right.

Check this out.

If, if I sell a million copies, I’m going to have $10 million, right, roughly $10 million.

If I sell 2 million copies, I got $2 million.

If I just sell3 million copies, I got $30 million.

Now, who has the biggest record?

Oh I,

Yeah,

Right, okay, right.

So Mariah kind of got screwed.

And yes, Prince was making millions, but Warner owned his Masters, which meant they controlled how his music was used, sold and distributed, and every time a print song was sold, Warner took the majority of the prophets.

And this is when Prince started to realize that Warner had no interest in his artistic Vision.

All they cared about was maximizing their profits.

For them, Prince was just another product that they could exploit.

But Prince wasn’t having it.

He started getting frustrated with the labels control over his work, and it didn’t take long before the tension became public, and by the early 1990s the tension had reached a boiling point.

Prince was under contract to deliver several more albums to Warner, but he was fed up with the way they were handling his music.

Warner operated under the belief that too much new music would oversaturate the market, so they started holding back his releases, deciding when and how his albums would be dropped.

And this really pissed prince off, because not only was he a creative machine, but he also knew Warner was holding back his work just to maintain their control over him.

So in 1993 Prince took matters into his own hands and changed his name to an unpronouncable symbol.

The move was both a middlefinger Warner and a way to free himself from his contract under his birth name, Prince Rogers Nelson.

Warner still owned his music, but as the artist formally known as Prince, he could release new music outside of their control.

My publishing contract with Warner Chapel expired, thus emancipating the name I was given before birth, Prince, from all long-term restrictive documents.

I will now go back to using my name instead of the symbol I adopted as a means to free myself from all undesirable relationships.

Price of CDs have skyrocketed while the quality of music is plummeted, and as long as middlemen create the means by which the consumer consumes, this will never change.

The problem is not a complex one.

The solution is simple: let the baker make the bread.

I’m a musician, I make music, but the rabbit hole is even deeper than that, and Prince’s fans have speculated that Warner wasn’t just trying to control his music, but they were trying to break him.

There’s been a lot of talk over the years that labels like Warner would often suffocate an artist career once they became too powerful, too influential or too difficult to control.

Think Sam Hook, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and many, many other artists who died under suspicious circumstances.

So anyway, things hit a new level in 1995 when Prince appeared in public with the word slave written on his face.

This was his way of publicly declaring that he was a slave to Warner brothers because they owned his music, his Masters and his identity as prince.

Prince started speaking out about the dangers of signing away your art to Big corporations, calling the music industry a modern-day form of slavery.

I had to search deep within my heart and spirit and I wanted to, uh, uh, make a change and move to a new plateau in my life, and one of the ways in which I did that was to change my name.

It sort of divorced me from the past and all the Hang-Ups that go along with it.

In another interview, Prince said Warner Brothers took the name, trademarked it and used it as the main marketing tool to promote all the music that I wrote.

The company owns the name Prince.

I became merely a pawn, used to produce more money for Warner Brothers, and of course the industry hated Prince for this.

Warner tried to downplay his claims, painting him as an eccentric artist.

Going through a phase, Warner eventually shut down distribution for Prince’s Paisley Park records and after this, Prince launched a new label called Mpg records.

His main goal with Mpg was to take full control over his music and release it on his own terms.

He secured a deal with Emi records which gave him the flexibility to release albums whenever he wanted.

But despite this, New Freedom Prince continued to speak out against big record labels, even claiming that labels were unnecessary and shouldn’t even exists.

Ultimately, it keeps us apart and, uh, it keeps the people in power, uh, in charge of us.

So ultimately we’re going to have to learn how to, uh, be together and become one people.

Um, what I’ve been doing doing recently is studying the scriptures, um, as deep as I can, so that, uh, it, that’s what gives me the optimism

And I would advise anybody, if you want to feel like there’s some hope in this joint, I mean pick up the book and like read it and get somebody to actually show you what’s going on in it.

Cuz it’s a real thing.

You don’t hear a lot of young people talking about things like I talk about, because they really haven’t lived, they haven’t gone through a lot of experiences yet and we can’t really expect them to.

Um, it’s just not all the party.

You know, alcoholism and promiscuity.

Get some uh.

Elders up in here and let’s talk about all this distribution service.

I mean what do we really need record companies for?

I mean really, during this time, Prince bounced between different labels, releasing his music through Mpg, while partnering with major players like Colombia, Universal music group and Clive Davis’s Arista, and occasionally even working with Warner again.

At the same time, he continued to encourage fellow artists to maintain their independence and explore different Partnerships instead of locking themselves into contracts with just one laball.

Well, it’s not your game.

You didn’t make the rules, so everything comes hard, and as long as you signed to a contract, you’re going to take a minority share of the winnings.

A select few of us will do well.

The majority will not, so as a people, we’ll be considered a minority.

But stop, let’s take a moment and look at yourselves.

There’s nothing minor about you.

However, Prince eventually realized that all these labels were pretty much the same, and he became so disappointed with the industry that he said he regretted becoming part of it.

Prince told the La Times if I knew the things I know now before, I wouldn’t be in the music industry, and then, in another interview with rolling stone, Prince explained: if I can’t do what I want to do, what am I?

When you stop a man from dreaming, he becomes a slave.

That’s where I was.

I don’t own Prince’s music if you don’t own your Masters, your master owns you.

And while Prince managed to part ways with Warner, the fight over his Masters still wasn’t over.

Warner still owned everything Prince recorded under their contract and they were making millions off of it.

And there’s even a theory that Warner wanted to keep control over Prince’s catalog for as long as possible, not just because it was valuable, but because Prince’s Independence was a threat to the whole system.

If Prince could prove that an artist could Thrive outside of the traditional label structure, it could Inspire others to follow his examples and potentially tear down the industry’s control over artists.

But I also have the impression, now that slave is not anymore on your cheek here, that you feel fresh, new, more funky, more inspired.

Yes, sir, very, how come?

Well, once you uh for yourself from all contractual binds, you, uh, make music differently in the studio.

You’re not thinking about working for someone, thinking about just uh, creating for God.

Yeah, That’s important, that’s very important.

In 2007, Prince took another bold step to reclaim control of his music in the digital age, and he announced plans to sue Youtube, Ebay and the Pirate Bay for using his music without permission, and this was another major threat to the whole industry.

Meanwhile, Prince also removed his music from all streaming platforms except for Jay-Z’s title, see Prince thought for a moment that Jay-Z really cared about art and helping Independent Artists.

But, like many others before him, Prince quickly realized that Jay-Z cared only about one thing: lining his own Pockets.

So in 15, Prince found himself in another battle with the industry Power Players, this time with Jay-Z. Prince was a huge supporter of artist own platforms, so at first he was interested in working with Jay’s tidle, a streaming service that promised to give artists more control and a bigger cut of the profits.

However, Jay-Z wanted more than just Prince’s support.

He wanted ownership of Prince’s entire music catalog for title, which Prince immediately shut down.

And then, after Prince tragically passed away in 2016, things got even Messier.

His estate accused Rock Nation of trying to profit off Prince’s death by exploiting his music without authorization.

Rock Nation argued they had the rights, but Prince’s team wasn’t having it and the estate filed the lawsuit against Jay-Z. see Prince allowed tidle to stream his album hit and run for a limited amount of time.

However, after Prince died, tidle continued to stream Prince’s entire back catalog, despite Prince giving them permission to stream only one album for just 90 days.

But Jay-Z was Shameless and he started publicly bragging about having control over Prince’s master Ers, despite the fact that Prince never left them to title.

In fact, just one month after Prince died, Jay-Z dropped a verse on F Jo and Remy Mo all the way up remix rapping.

Prince left his Masters.

Were they safe and sound?

We never going to let the elevator take him down now.

Here’s where things get even more sketchy.

Prince died almost exactly 2 years after he regained control of his masters from Warner Music.

On April 18th 2014, news broke that Prince had officially regained ownership of his iconic catalog.

Then, almost 2 years to the day later, on April 21st 2016, Prince was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park home.

Prince’s death was ruled an accidental OD and, according to the police report, he thought he was taking vicadin to manage his pain.

However, the pills were counterfeit and laced with the deadly fentanyl.

Hours after announcing a decision not to file charges in Prince’s death, authorities released documents and video of his last days among the evidence.

Pictures from Paisley Park on the day Prince died, showing p pills and a Bayer bottle authorities say contain the deadly counterfeit vicadin.

Unfortunately, the subject counterfeit vicadin pills are an exact imitation of real vicant pills, but the Counterfeit Pills contain the potentially deadly opioid fenal.

So with all these weird coincidences, it didn’t take long before princess fans started speculating that his death wasn’t just an accident and that someone may have given him laced pills on purpose.

Even some people in the industry, like Kanye West, doubted the official story.

In fact, Kanye openly suggested that both Michael Jackson and Prince were killed, and he hinted that he almost met the same fate.

Kanye shared this photo of Prince with the word slave on his face and wrote: Let’s Get it big bro, you and Michael passed, so we can live now.

As for Diddy, the main reason why Prince kept his distance from him is because Diddy worked closely with Warner while Prince was fighting for his freedom.

In 2005, Diddy announced a joint venture between Bad Boy Records and Warner Music Group.

Liar Cohen, chairman and CEO of us, recorded music for Warner music group, and Jay-Z’s close friend said at the time: we’re thrilled to welcome Shawn and Bad Boy Records to the Warner Music fold.

We Believe Shan’s entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to push the envelope creatively will be a perfect fit for Warner Music Group.

The bad boy name has not only stood for hip-hop music for more than a decade, but has evolved into a unique and vital brand, and then Diddy responded in a statement saying I’m thrilled to be working with liar Cohen and the entire Wg family.

It was important for me to have the opportunity to grow bad boy, and I can do that with Wmg.

This is a perfect situation for me and bad boy, and I can’t wait to get out there and continue making music history.

Now, if you don’t know about liar Cohen, this is the man who openly admitted he signs artists who promotes substance use, despite knowing how this affects the community.

One of the biggest artists you ever had was had a real bad problem: Dmx.

I’m so sad.

It’s the most dangerous thing that’s facing, um, um our society.

So so why sign an artist that would promote that?

Um, because I I already answered that question.

You weren’t paying attention.

Um, she asked me Talent or issues, and I said talent, but I, I, I have to.

I, I can’t give up on people, don’t you think that’s hypocritical, though you’re saying it’s opportunistic?

Yeah, I got.

I got people to feed.

Um, I got a.

I got a.

I got a business to run.

You’re going to make Dame Dash take this clip and call you a culture vulture.

Who’s Dame Dash?

You brought him up?

I don’t even know him.

I don’t even know him.

So you bring him his name up.

I don’t even know him.

So y’all made a lot of money together, made a lot of money.

Come on, Leo, don’t do that to him.

I don’t know him, I really don’t.

So, um, I don’t know what to tell you.

By the way, there’s also this wild conspiracy theory that liar has ties to a certain foreign intelligence agency and that he infiltrated hipop to push a certain agenda.

One of the reasons for this conspiracy is the fact that liar was caught lying about his parents on several occasions, and it seems like he doesn’t want people to dig deeper into his background.

Back in October 2023, liar appeared on Vlad TV and when Vlad asked him about his parents, liar first said that his mom was a housewife, but then later, in the interview, he let it slip that his mom actually worked for the Israeli government and helped him get a job at the National Bank of Israel.

And my parents, uh, incredible parents, um, three other brothers and just a loving, happy family.

My dad was the head of Psychiatry for Kaiser Permanente and my mother was, uh, just a a uh. housewife and U raising children and, uh, remarkable period of my life now, I’ve always assumed that you were born in Israel because you have like a slight accent when you speak.

Have you heard this before?

Yeah, So, my parents weren’t immigrants because they they weren’t staying here.

Okay, So my biological father was coming here just for his education, and my mother worked for the Israeli government, Mh, and so um, when I was born, I went straight back to Israel.

Oh so, you stayed there for a while.

I spent my first three years in in per okay, and after you graduated, you went to go work for the Bank of Liumi.

Yeah, Bank Liumi is the National Bank of Israel.

Uhhuh, um, my mother got me the job and it was just when the Sha uh fell in Iran and all of the Jewish Persians came to straight to Beverly Hills.

So we’re counting money there.

A lot of and you know, I, I, I was supposed to be a financial analyst, but I ended up counting money and I, I, I think I was making $144,000 a year.

I was miserable.

It was a horrible existence, and but my mother got me the job.

I have a college degree, and so I thought that that was the responsible thing for me to do.

Now let’s Circle back to Prince and Diddy, besides Diddy doing business with Warner and liar Cohen, the same people Prince tried to warn everyone about.

There’s another theory floating around about the reason Prince wanted nothing to do with Diddy.

So, according to some insiders, after Prince learned what Diddy was doing at those freak offs, he started staging his famous 3121 parties as a response.

Prince’s 3121 parties were invite only events where artists could escape the toxic side of the industry and share ideas for their art without label Executives meddling, and some believe that these events were Prince’s way of offering artists an alternative to those depraved industry parties over at Diddy’s house.

Prince also kept his distance from Diddy, and there’s only one known photo of them together, and this was when they happened to be seated next to each other at the 2007 Nba All-Star Game.

Aside from this, Prince kept to himself and stayed far away from Diddy’s Circle.

However, he didn’t stay quiet.

Allegedly, Prince was constantly warning other artists to avoid those industry parties and encouraging them to stand up to their labels, and this is exactly why so many fans believe his death wasn’t an accident.

And it’s not just the fans.

Rumors are going around that Cat Williams will soon sit for another explosive interview a year after his explosive Club Sh appearance and he allegedly plans to show receipts proving that Prince was taken out by the industry higher ups, those same higher-ups who allegedly enabled Diddy in all his depraved crimes.

And while these reports haven’t been confirmed, people are already excited about what cat might reveal about Prince.

As for Prince’s feelings about Jay-Z and Diddy, fans are saying this is yet another proof that Prince was ahead of the curve and he tried to warn us about all this stuff that we’re now reading about in the headlines.

Not only that, but some fans are also pointing out that Prince died just months after that whole situation with tidal, and the caption on his last post was just when you thought you were safe.

But what’s your take on Prince and all these theories linking his death to Jay-Z, Diddy and the industry higher ups?

Do you think Prince was really deleted for trying to to make a positive change in the industry?

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