Why Prince Still Feels Untouchable: Purple Rain, 1999 & More | 04.14
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
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4.8 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. |
| 0:18.8 | You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a |
| 0:22.4 | hater. I don't even know if I should call it Time Machine Tuesday because it's also going to be Time Machine |
| 0:27.0 | Thursday because we got a bit of a series going on this week. April 21st, which is actually next week, |
| 0:33.5 | is 10 years to the day from when Prince died. And so we are doing the two episode series on Prince. |
| 0:39.9 | We got DJ Wally Sparks coming in on Thursday, |
| 0:42.6 | where we're probably going to talk a little bit more technically about the music. |
| 0:46.1 | But I figured if I was going to do an episode while I was talking about Prince, |
| 0:49.4 | I should probably get the Prince influence into my life onto the show to talk about this. So we got my brother, Patrice Mulbert Jones over here. What's going on, brother? Man, you got it. You got it. What's up? What's up? Man, I actually, I find it very interesting now that this pod and this show has been on for a very long time because now if you and I are out somewhere and I tell somebody, hey, meet my brother, they are very much more excited about that part than me. |
| 1:15.3 | Like me, they knew what I looked like you. |
| 1:17.1 | They have completely filled in a hole in a character that they have been mapping out. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, it got to truss me out. |
| 1:23.3 | They'll be like, flagrant three. |
| 1:27.5 | We're all here, baby. |
| 1:28.9 | We're all here. |
| 1:30.0 | But I thought about doing this because I remember the day Prince died, |
| 1:34.9 | I always tell the story about what it was for me because I was in Paris. |
| 1:40.5 | I had gone over there to interview Tana Hasi Coates for Playboy. |
| 1:45.2 | And I had seen online, |
| 1:47.7 | I guess it was like early to mid afternoon in Paris. |
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