will.i.am has claimed that Michael Jackson as soon as turned down an invitation to a Prince present as a result of he thought the “Purple Rain” legend was a “meanie.”
In a teaser of his upcoming Drink Champs interview, the Black Eyed Peas star detailed his efforts to get Jackson to go together with him to a live performance the place he could be performing with Prince.
“I introduced Mike to go see me rock with Prince in Vegas,” will stated. “So one time, Mike known as me. He’s in Vegas and he’s like, ‘I heard you guys have a present tonight.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, we bought a present, happening round 10.’”
The “My Humps” hitmaker stated Jackson replied by saying: “‘Oh rats, I gotta put the children to sleep.’ I’m like, ‘However you may come later, like in the midst of the present.’ [Mike replies], ‘No, if I don’t see the present from the start, there’s no means for me to know what’s really happening.’”
will then stated he advised MJ he could be performing with Prince later that night time, however he replied: “Oh, I can’t go to that … Prince is a meanie.”
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Dr. Dre beforehand revealed that he turned down the chance to work with each legends, who famously didn’t like one another.
Showing on Kevin Hart’s Peacock collection Hart To Coronary heart, he stated: “They simply requested me to work with them and I simply was like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do with them?’”
André 3000 additionally lately shared an ungainly Prince story of his personal, revealing how he thought the late icon was dissing him the primary time they met.
“I [had] met Prince in passing. [Around the time of] The Love Beneath, I lived in L.A. I keep in mind me and the homie goin’ out to a membership on Sundown [Boulevard],” he stated on Questlove‘s Questlove Supreme podcast.
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“So I’m sitting there, and he begins speaking about ‘Hey Ya.’ However what he stated, I didn’t know how you can take it, if he was taking a dig at me or what. He stated, ‘I like that music, ‘Hey Ya.’ I assumed I used to be the one one that did songs in these tempos.’ That’s what he stated to me. I didn’t know if he was like, ‘Mmm. Take that, n-gga.’ I didn’t know how you can take it; that is my hero!”
3 Stacks added: “I didn’t know what to say him, so I stated, ‘Hey, have you ever heard the album?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, I heard it.’ I say, ‘Effectively, what do you assume the following single needs to be?’ Then he stated one other Prince factor; he stated, ‘In my day, we solely had one shot.’
“Principally, he was saying, it don’t matter now, no matter you do, it don’t matter. And I didn’t know how you can take that both. It’s like, ‘Okay, cool.’
