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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

DJ Wally Sparks on Prince’s Best Era, Best Songs and Wildest Deep Cuts | 04.16

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Wave

Music, Sports, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of this 2-part series, Bomani Jones is joined by DJ Wally Sparks for a deep dive into Prince’s catalog, from the early records to the Warner years that made him a legend. They get into Purple Rain vs. Sign o’ the Times, why When Doves Cry feels untouchable, why Little Red Corvette has a real case as Prince’s best song, and which deep cuts and B-sides still hit the hardest. Finally, they have a full-on music nerd conversation about Prince’s genius period, the records that aged best, and the songs that prove nobody else was operating on his level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wave.

0:09.2

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a Wave Original.

0:13.6

My name is Beaumani Jones.

0:15.2

Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

0:16.9

Thanks for watching us on YouTube.

0:18.8

Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us

0:23.0

four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. I feel like this is kind of like Time Machine

0:28.9

Thursday in this case. And Tuesday, we have my brother on and we were talking about Prince.

0:34.1

And today I got my man, DJ Wiley Sparks on and we're going to talk about Prince,

0:38.5

but it's a little bit of a different discussion this time because last time I really wanted

0:41.6

to lock in on like obviously I had my brother so it was like a as based in relationship as much

0:47.1

as anything else right his relationship with the music my relationship with him the kind of

0:51.3

hereditary notion of how it gets passed out how it gets from my dad to to my brother, all of those things. Me and Wally, a little bit more music nerdy in this.

0:59.1

And so the nerdyness of the music is sort of the direction that we go on with. So I'm actually

1:05.0

curious because you and I are not exactly the same age, but be close enough to the same age.

1:10.0

Like your entryway into getting into Prince.

1:12.6

Because the truth is, we are old enough to get in there,

1:16.1

but we're also a little younger than the prime Prince audience.

1:19.7

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

1:22.1

Like the baby, the baby Gen X's is kind of where we're at.

1:26.3

Yes.

1:27.1

But shit. How I got into Prince, man, probably probably probably, like the baby the baby the baby gen X is kind of where we at oh but shit uh how how i got

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