The Story of Welcome 2 America, Episode 2: What It Means 2 B American

Prince | Official Podcast

Sony Music

Music Interviews, Music, Arts

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Prince's longtime music director and keyboardist Morris Hayes joins Andrea Swensson to co-host an episode about the profound and prescient lyrical content on Welcome 2 America, with invaluable additional insights from Prince's former manager Kiran Sharma and his close friend, Dr. Cornel West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the story of Welcome to America, produced by the Prince of State and distributed by Sony
0:09.8	Music Entertainment.
0:21.1	Welcome to episode 2 of this series, as we continue our exploration of Prince's shelved 2010
0:26.8	album, Welcome to America, which is being released from his vault on July 30th.
0:32.1	We spent the first episode talking about how the individual pieces of these songs came
0:36.2	together in his studio at Paisley Park.
0:39.0	For this episode, we're going to get a little further into the lyrics on this album and
0:43.7	learn about the conversations Prince was having in 2010 about social issues and politics
0:49.1	in the US.
0:50.1	I'm Andrea Swenson and I'm co-hosting this episode with someone who knew Prince really
0:55.2	well.
0:56.2	His longtime musical director and bandmate in the NPG, Mr. Morris Hayes.
1:01.3	Hey, Morris.
1:02.3	Hey, Andrea.
1:03.3	I'm excited to be here.
1:04.3	Now, Morris, before we get into talking about Welcome to America, I want to make sure people
1:09.2	understand just how long you performed and worked with Prince.
1:13.4	How many decades was it again?
1:16.0	How many decades, man?
1:18.3	I spent two decades.
1:20.2	I started in 1992 at the end of 1992 and went to about 2012 with a few years in the middle
1:26.6	with Macy O' Parker, the legend himself.
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