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They knew many would lose their lives. They also knew that the tenacious, heartfelt commitments they made when joining the Black Panthers were to bring about a better world for their children and their children’s children. If they were to fall short or be compromised in any way, their children, Panther Cubs born and unborn, would take the seeds that had been planted and carry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac and Afeni Shakur\" width=\"582\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube-400x334.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac and Afeni Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can’t talk about the late Afeni Shakur, nor her son, the late Tupac Shakur — who was one of the most prolific, impactful and admired artists to ever bless the mic — without referencing the Black Panthers who shaped their lives. I met Afeni \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">almost a year to the day her son was taken from us\u003c/a>. It was in Marin City, where she had raised Tupac. She wasn’t doing interviews, but had agreed to talk with us because we had known her son just as he was starting his career. We were there at the beginning, when Oakland’s Digital Underground was starting, and knew Tupac when he first linked up with the group. He was doing the Humpty Dance in their videos and basically being a roadie for them while he honed his emcee skills and built upon his writing — which was already on point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byIkY9qsTdU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the world knew an in-your-face, bold, outspoken Tupac, we knew a Tupac who was well-read and had intellectual depth. We knew a Tupac who was well-versed in Panther history and at the end of the day, in spite of all his brashness, was about the community and seeing it uplifted. Pac often said he was trying to give voice to the young Black male, who he felt was systemically being demonized and made into a scapegoat for society’s deep-seated problems. Pac had his contradictions, but for those of us who knew him, the one thing you could say unequivocally was he was honest. Brutally honest. Honest when it was inconvenient, honest when it ruffled feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tupacs business card.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s business card.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tupac many of us came to know was also one who always referenced his mom. He always uplifted her — long before he released the song that immortalized her, “Dear Mama.” In the Digital Underground camp, we came to know of Afeni via the running barbs that Tupac and group member Money B would privately and publicly exchange with one another. Tupac might be on stage at a concert and, as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, he would sign off by clowning Money B’s mom — e.g. “Can we give it up for Money B’s mom, who will be outside the concert beatboxing for quarters?” The crowd would roar with laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Money B might be doing a radio interview in New York and, before leaving, he would get back at Tupac: “I wanna thank Tupac’s mom Afeni for not stealing the dice at the dice game I just left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was mentioned often — frequently in jest, but the jokes were never explicitly offensive. Even if we had not met her personally, we knew Afeni was a former Black Panther, and she had our reverence and respect. We knew she was part of the Panther 21, who were brought up on conspiracy charges in 1971. We knew that Afeni had represented herself during the trial while pregnant with Tupac. We knew that she and the other Panther members beat the case and were acquitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when doing \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">that interview\u003c/a> with Afeni a year after Tupac’s passing, it was with a mixture of sadness and awe: This was the woman we had heard so much about. It became clear that day where Tupac got his strength. It was clear that day why Pac was so well-read, why he was so brutally honest. During our conversation, Afeni noted that she and her children lived in truth. There were no secrets, she said, and Tupac was truthful in the face of anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to clear up any misconceptions about her son, Afeni noted that while most people saw him just as a rapper, he was in fact so much more than that. “Tupac was and remains in my mind a child of the Black Panther Party,” she said. “I always felt that Tupac was living witness to who we are and who we were. I think that his life spoke to every part of our development and the development of the Party, and the development in this country that I don’t think will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni and Tupac Shakur\" width=\"680\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni and Tupac Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Afeni talked at length about her own upbringing. She talked about joining the Black Panthers in 1968 and how, unlike many who came onboard via college, she came to the party out of a gang in the South Bronx called the Disciples Deads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Panther Party did for me? I used to always say it gave me home training,” she said. “The Party taught me things that were principles to living … principles I think most Panthers have tried to pass on to their children and to anybody else that would listen to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of those principles was like, don’t steal a penny, needle or a simple piece of thread from the people. It’s just general basic things about how we as individuals treat a race of people, and how we treat each other as a people! And those are the things I think the people recognize in Tupac.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdLJ-8p-eUA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our interview, we were interrupted when former Black Panther and recently released political prisoner Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt came in to greet Afeni. I recall her smiling broadly and the two embracing. As we ended the interview, Afeni teared up a bit when she urged us to study Tupac’s music and read books like \u003cem>The Art of War\u003c/em> by Sun Tzu, and \u003cem>The Prince\u003c/em> by Machiavelli, so that we “would have a better way of looking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her son’s killers, she noted: “Not only will they have to live with it, but so will their children and their children’s children. I would not want to stand before God and say that I’m the one who took Tupac’s life. So what I have to say is more power to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni’s words were in sharp contrast to those who, at that time, were insisting that Tupac had faked his death and was still alive. It was clear that she knew the grave truth and was facing it while so many had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23770\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005.\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005. \u003ccite>(Renee’ Hannans Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, I got to see Afeni for a second time. I was with Chuck D of Public Enemy and then-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. We went to the [now defunct] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Amaru_Shakur_Center_for_the_Arts\">Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, which Afeni had founded just outside Atlanta. She spoke to us about the work of the education and performing arts foundation and the peace garden she had set up. The center’s purpose was not only to preserve Tupac’s legacy but to carry out Pac’s vision of reaching the youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That center was the realization of a dream Tupac held for a long time. In 1991, he filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html?pagewanted=2\">$10 million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department\u003c/a>, alleging they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-G7HbQX8Qg\">beat him after he was stopped for jaywalking\u003c/a>. He vowed that the money he got would go to build a youth center, and continue the afterschool program work he was doing in Marin with his friend and former manager Leila Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pac never got $10 million from the OPD. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2011/06/16/tupac-shakurs-40th-birthday-lessons-in-police-community-relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-of-court settlement\u003c/a>, he barely got enough to pay for his lawyer, but in his death his mother had carried out much of that vision with the center. She talked earnestly about the peace garden and her hopes for many to heal. Whereas the Black Panthers’ plan was for their children (Panther Cubs) to carry out the vision of the Panthers, here we saw Afeni the Black Panther carrying out the vision of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \" width=\"625\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg 625w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afeni also went to great lengths to educate herself and get her son’s music affairs in order. She gained control of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2013/09/tupac-shakur-afeni-royalties-death-row-lawsuit-unreleased/\">his unreleased music\u003c/a>. She set up a record label, Amaru Records, and accomplished the Herculean task of getting the his assets under one roof, preventing them from exploitation by an often unforgiving and cannibalistic music industry. Afeni Shakur became a sharp businesswoman and, in doing so, prevented the silencing of her son’s voice and nefarious distortions of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I saw Afeni was in Memphis in 2008, during the Dream Reborn conference, a civil rights gathering organized by former White House adviser and longtime organizer Van Jones. Afeni gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sXTwU0h18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a keynote address\u003c/a> for the ages: she talked about the importance of folks being spiritually grounded, owning land and being self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, it may have appeared Afeni was headed in a different direction and no longer saw herself as a revolutionary or militant. The truth of the matter was that Afeni was talking about setting up survival programs. She was talking about making sure we as a people would be able to take care of one another, and would not have to be dependent upon a system that did not fully care for far too many of us. That message was an extension of what the Panthers were about, and in many ways, what was core to their existence. People hear “Black Panthers” and think guns and berets, but many people will tell you that what J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI feared most were the party’s survival programs. Afeni was speaking to the party’s legacy, a message she had committed herself to back in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland.\" width=\"501\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-400x132.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-768x253.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photos from Mic.com courtesy of Reena Valvani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September of 2015, Afeni Shakur came to Oakland and paid a surprise visit to a new school called \u003ca href=\"http://rosesinconcrete.org/\">Roses In Concrete\u003c/a>, an elementary school with a social justice emphasis, \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/125029/oakland-elementary-school-uses-tupac-s-poetry-to-help-children-deal-with-ptsd#.H7CoSTx32\">named in honor of her son’s poem and book of the same title\u003c/a>. Afeni visited the kindergarten class that my wife teaches, and was touched to discover, on the wall of the classroom, a picture of her son and a copy of his poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac's poem, said to be about his mother, in his own handwriting. \" width=\"503\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s poem in his own handwriting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was impressed, and promised to support the school however she could. The kids were excited, as well as the staff. She had lifted up their spirits. After learning of her death this week, they held a drumming circle and tears were shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni Shakur joins her son and is now amongst the ancestors. She was a force to be reckoned with, and a person who honored that commitment made in 1968 to plant seeds and make a difference. She touched many, and through her son she touched even more. Left to carry the torch is her daughter Sekyiwa. Our heartfelt condolences to her. May we remember Afeni Shakur and honor her memory by keeping the revolutionary spirit and values that she embodied alive.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Ed. note:\u003c/strong> Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther, lifelong political activist, and the mother of famed rapper Tupac Shakur, died May 2 at her home in Sausalito. KQED Pop reached out to DJ, hip-hop historian and SFSU professor \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/\">Davey D\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, who met with Shakur soon after Tupac died, for a personal remembrance. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution! All power to all the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were words uttered by Chairman Fred Hampton Sr., who in the late ’60s headed up the largest chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\">Black Panther Party for Self Defense\u003c/a> in Chicago, Illinois. They were profound words that resonated with party members, and which sadly took on greater and graver meaning when Hampton and his comrade Mark Clark were tragically gunned down on Dec. 4, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \" width=\"594\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501.jpg 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/97263501-400x333.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur with Black Panther leader Richard Moore. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s important to keep in mind the mindset of those who joined the Black Panther Party\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> BPP members knew that many among them would be locked up. They knew many would lose their lives. They also knew that the tenacious, heartfelt commitments they made when joining the Black Panthers were to bring about a better world for their children and their children’s children. If they were to fall short or be compromised in any way, their children, Panther Cubs born and unborn, would take the seeds that had been planted and carry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac and Afeni Shakur\" width=\"582\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Afeni-Shakur-Sues-E1-For-Sons-Unpaid-Royalties-youtube-400x334.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac and Afeni Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can’t talk about the late Afeni Shakur, nor her son, the late Tupac Shakur — who was one of the most prolific, impactful and admired artists to ever bless the mic — without referencing the Black Panthers who shaped their lives. I met Afeni \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">almost a year to the day her son was taken from us\u003c/a>. It was in Marin City, where she had raised Tupac. She wasn’t doing interviews, but had agreed to talk with us because we had known her son just as he was starting his career. We were there at the beginning, when Oakland’s Digital Underground was starting, and knew Tupac when he first linked up with the group. He was doing the Humpty Dance in their videos and basically being a roadie for them while he honed his emcee skills and built upon his writing — which was already on point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/byIkY9qsTdU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/byIkY9qsTdU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>While the world knew an in-your-face, bold, outspoken Tupac, we knew a Tupac who was well-read and had intellectual depth. We knew a Tupac who was well-versed in Panther history and at the end of the day, in spite of all his brashness, was about the community and seeing it uplifted. Pac often said he was trying to give voice to the young Black male, who he felt was systemically being demonized and made into a scapegoat for society’s deep-seated problems. Pac had his contradictions, but for those of us who knew him, the one thing you could say unequivocally was he was honest. Brutally honest. Honest when it was inconvenient, honest when it ruffled feathers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23778\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tupacs business card.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/11419146_1206956299321511_491017024_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s business card.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tupac many of us came to know was also one who always referenced his mom. He always uplifted her — long before he released the song that immortalized her, “Dear Mama.” In the Digital Underground camp, we came to know of Afeni via the running barbs that Tupac and group member Money B would privately and publicly exchange with one another. Tupac might be on stage at a concert and, as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, he would sign off by clowning Money B’s mom — e.g. “Can we give it up for Money B’s mom, who will be outside the concert beatboxing for quarters?” The crowd would roar with laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Money B might be doing a radio interview in New York and, before leaving, he would get back at Tupac: “I wanna thank Tupac’s mom Afeni for not stealing the dice at the dice game I just left.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Mb1ZvUDvLDY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Mb1ZvUDvLDY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Her name was mentioned often — frequently in jest, but the jokes were never explicitly offensive. Even if we had not met her personally, we knew Afeni was a former Black Panther, and she had our reverence and respect. We knew she was part of the Panther 21, who were brought up on conspiracy charges in 1971. We knew that Afeni had represented herself during the trial while pregnant with Tupac. We knew that she and the other Panther members beat the case and were acquitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when doing \u003ca href=\"http://www.daveyd.com/afeni.html\">that interview\u003c/a> with Afeni a year after Tupac’s passing, it was with a mixture of sadness and awe: This was the woman we had heard so much about. It became clear that day where Tupac got his strength. It was clear that day why Pac was so well-read, why he was so brutally honest. During our conversation, Afeni noted that she and her children lived in truth. There were no secrets, she said, and Tupac was truthful in the face of anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to clear up any misconceptions about her son, Afeni noted that while most people saw him just as a rapper, he was in fact so much more than that. “Tupac was and remains in my mind a child of the Black Panther Party,” she said. “I always felt that Tupac was living witness to who we are and who we were. I think that his life spoke to every part of our development and the development of the Party, and the development in this country that I don’t think will die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23774\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni and Tupac Shakur\" width=\"680\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya.jpg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/tupac-afeni-shakur_i1kblb_o6m3ya-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni and Tupac Shakur\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During our conversation, Afeni talked at length about her own upbringing. She talked about joining the Black Panthers in 1968 and how, unlike many who came onboard via college, she came to the party out of a gang in the South Bronx called the Disciples Deads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the Panther Party did for me? I used to always say it gave me home training,” she said. “The Party taught me things that were principles to living … principles I think most Panthers have tried to pass on to their children and to anybody else that would listen to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…One of those principles was like, don’t steal a penny, needle or a simple piece of thread from the people. It’s just general basic things about how we as individuals treat a race of people, and how we treat each other as a people! And those are the things I think the people recognize in Tupac.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QdLJ-8p-eUA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QdLJ-8p-eUA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>During our interview, we were interrupted when former Black Panther and recently released political prisoner Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt came in to greet Afeni. I recall her smiling broadly and the two embracing. As we ended the interview, Afeni teared up a bit when she urged us to study Tupac’s music and read books like \u003cem>The Art of War\u003c/em> by Sun Tzu, and \u003cem>The Prince\u003c/em> by Machiavelli, so that we “would have a better way of looking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her son’s killers, she noted: “Not only will they have to live with it, but so will their children and their children’s children. I would not want to stand before God and say that I’m the one who took Tupac’s life. So what I have to say is more power to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afeni’s words were in sharp contrast to those who, at that time, were insisting that Tupac had faked his death and was still alive. It was clear that she knew the grave truth and was facing it while so many had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23770\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005.\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/2PAC2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur speaks to a crowd at the center named for her son in 2005. \u003ccite>(Renee’ Hannans Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years later, I got to see Afeni for a second time. I was with Chuck D of Public Enemy and then-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. We went to the [now defunct] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Amaru_Shakur_Center_for_the_Arts\">Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts\u003c/a>, which Afeni had founded just outside Atlanta. She spoke to us about the work of the education and performing arts foundation and the peace garden she had set up. The center’s purpose was not only to preserve Tupac’s legacy but to carry out Pac’s vision of reaching the youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That center was the realization of a dream Tupac held for a long time. In 1991, he filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html?pagewanted=2\">$10 million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department\u003c/a>, alleging they \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-G7HbQX8Qg\">beat him after he was stopped for jaywalking\u003c/a>. He vowed that the money he got would go to build a youth center, and continue the afterschool program work he was doing in Marin with his friend and former manager Leila Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pac never got $10 million from the OPD. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2011/06/16/tupac-shakurs-40th-birthday-lessons-in-police-community-relationships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out-of-court settlement\u003c/a>, he barely got enough to pay for his lawyer, but in his death his mother had carried out much of that vision with the center. She talked earnestly about the peace garden and her hopes for many to heal. Whereas the Black Panthers’ plan was for their children (Panther Cubs) to carry out the vision of the Panthers, here we saw Afeni the Black Panther carrying out the vision of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 625px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \" width=\"625\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2.jpg 625w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/enhanced-6058-1462277630-2-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur is escorted from a police station in New York in1969 after her arrest. \u003ccite>(AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afeni also went to great lengths to educate herself and get her son’s music affairs in order. She gained control of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2013/09/tupac-shakur-afeni-royalties-death-row-lawsuit-unreleased/\">his unreleased music\u003c/a>. She set up a record label, Amaru Records, and accomplished the Herculean task of getting the his assets under one roof, preventing them from exploitation by an often unforgiving and cannibalistic music industry. Afeni Shakur became a sharp businesswoman and, in doing so, prevented the silencing of her son’s voice and nefarious distortions of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I saw Afeni was in Memphis in 2008, during the Dream Reborn conference, a civil rights gathering organized by former White House adviser and longtime organizer Van Jones. Afeni gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94sXTwU0h18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a keynote address\u003c/a> for the ages: she talked about the importance of folks being spiritually grounded, owning land and being self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, it may have appeared Afeni was headed in a different direction and no longer saw herself as a revolutionary or militant. The truth of the matter was that Afeni was talking about setting up survival programs. She was talking about making sure we as a people would be able to take care of one another, and would not have to be dependent upon a system that did not fully care for far too many of us. That message was an extension of what the Panthers were about, and in many ways, what was core to their existence. People hear “Black Panthers” and think guns and berets, but many people will tell you that what J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI feared most were the party’s survival programs. Afeni was speaking to the party’s legacy, a message she had committed herself to back in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png\" alt=\"Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland.\" width=\"501\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-400x132.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete-768x253.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rosesconcrete.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afeni Shakur visits Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photos from Mic.com courtesy of Reena Valvani)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September of 2015, Afeni Shakur came to Oakland and paid a surprise visit to a new school called \u003ca href=\"http://rosesinconcrete.org/\">Roses In Concrete\u003c/a>, an elementary school with a social justice emphasis, \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/125029/oakland-elementary-school-uses-tupac-s-poetry-to-help-children-deal-with-ptsd#.H7CoSTx32\">named in honor of her son’s poem and book of the same title\u003c/a>. Afeni visited the kindergarten class that my wife teaches, and was touched to discover, on the wall of the classroom, a picture of her son and a copy of his poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 503px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac's poem, said to be about his mother, in his own handwriting. \" width=\"503\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting.jpg 506w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/rose-concrete-handwriting-400x251.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac’s poem in his own handwriting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was impressed, and promised to support the school however she could. The kids were excited, as well as the staff. She had lifted up their spirits. After learning of her death this week, they held a drumming circle and tears were shed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the good old days, the music-career-on-the-side was an endeavor only attempted by actors. The TV actors did it in an attempt to take their careers to the next level -- we’re looking at you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5h8jrceec\">Brian Austin Green\u003c/a> and giving you serious side eye, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ti8-vEM3U8\">Uncle Jesse\u003c/a> -- but the movie guys often did it in an attempt to claw back some street cred after accidentally becoming millionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ‘90s, this meant watching Keanu Reeves staring at his feet in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TSnE1b-Bs\">Dogstar\u003c/a>, and Johnny Depp collaborating with a Butthole Surfer and trying to look casual about it (that band was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKkWvNQzxE\">P\u003c/a>, in case you erased it from memory). At the time, we all assumed these lackluster attempts to break into rock ‘n’ roll were just about the worst things we’d ever deal with in the world of celebrity music crossovers – but that’s because, at the time, reality TV was just a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/19177327\">\u003cem>Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-shaped twinkle in MTV’s eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the advent of reality television, however, celebrities who were famous for nothing more than living with a camera crew started consistently assuming that the fastest way to a more credible career was via the medium of music. In the early days, this happened repeatedly and, without fail, each and every reality star thought that their music career would be different; that they somehow would get one over on a public who, they refused to acknowledge, really, really didn’t want to hear them sing in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this phenomena first started in the early 2000s, it became apparent very quickly that even when reality stars made a real effort to put out something musically solid -- or at least something that wouldn’t immediately get you scrambling to the mute button on your TV--- they were still met with indifference and not a small amount of disapproval from the peanut gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, emerging on the back of the enormously successful \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes\">\u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kelly Osbourne’s wooden performance in the video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ#t=70\">Papa Don’t Preach\u003c/a>\" might have erred on the side of cringeworthy, but the actual song was on par with -- perhaps even better than --anything Avril Lavigne was doing with more success that year. Osbourne’s follow-up singles, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nng0Anvig\">Shut Up\u003c/a>” and “Come Dig Me Out”, certainly out-paced and outsmarted Lavigne’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE\">Complicated\u003c/a>\" and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\">Sk8tr Boi\u003c/a>”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qE8_BHMrI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still it came to naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Paris Hilton -- who occasionally seemed like an actual Real Human Girl in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362153/\">\u003cem>The Simple Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- had a crack at music stardom with “Stars Are Blind” -- a song that was received across the board with a kind shrug, a gentle nod and a muttering of “This actually isn’t that bad.” Which, of course, is code for “I’d listen to this song if Gwen Stefani had recorded it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joWpYsKere8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Heidi Montag (poor, dear Heidi Montag) did put some effort into her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Hills\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-adjacent foray into music, copying Paris Hilton’s beachy video and being hailed (by people who were surely being paid to do so) as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgA5D10Hvg\">The NEXT Britney Spears!\u003c/a>\" Sadly, Montag's attempts to not sound like a balloon deflating in slow motion failed. (Poor, dear Heidi Montag.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZYGrC40Ko\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three stars were forced to abandon their music careers shortly after they’d begun, to the disappointment of almost nobody. But what followed was a contagious idea among other reality stars that (a) anyone could have a go, and (b) since it was clearly going to be short-lived, they could just release any old nonsense. The reality star singles that followed were both infuriating in their laziness and -- silver lining! -- a goldmine of unintentional comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there was Daisy De La Hoya, one of Brett Michaels’ playthings from his (consistently gag-worthy) \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Love_with_Bret_Michaels_(season_2)\">\u003cem>Rock Of Love\u003c/em>\u003c/a> dating show. Ms. De La Hoya decided in 2009 that the quickest way to a rock ‘n’ roll career was singing a song titled “Suck It” featuring the immortal refrain: “Girls, they wanna be me! Boys, they wanna do me!” It was just as head-desk terrible as you might imagine, but there was, at least, also a strong possibility that every time you heard this, you laughed until the breath left your lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tul_1hRphI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone on the trashiness scale, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Pauly D decided to release “Beat Dat Beat” a year later. It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Gpt12psAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. Here’s New York’s Kim Zolciak with “Tardy For The Party,” closely resembling that friend of your mom’s that always drinks too much on national holidays, then passes out on the front lawn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeb7tY3Z6s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another NYC housewife, Countess Luann, went one step further with “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” a track that features so many layers of Auto-Tune, it sounds like she recorded it with her face submerged in a mop bucket. Money can't buy you talent either, sweet cheeks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEDvlSAMhQU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bit-players from \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> got in on recording singles. Do you know who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0#t=20\">Simon Van Kempen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcQq1sbWsM#t=63\">Miss Lawrence\u003c/a> are? We don’t either. But someone let those fools into recording booths because, apparently, being on reality television erases the ability to feel shame. Truly, it would now be an impossibility for a reality star to record anything worse than this exercise in humiliation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s possible for actors to cross over into legitimate and nerd-approved music careers in a way that simply wasn’t permitted a decade ago. Perhaps many actors’ efforts just don’t seem so bad now that we’re so consistently exposed to the bottom of the barrel by reality stars. That’s not to say many people are clamoring to listen to \u003ca href=\"http://www.baconbros.com/\">The Bacon Brothers\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/\">Kevin Costner & Modern West\u003c/a>, and sweet baby Jesus, we wish we'd never found out about Jada Pinkett Smith’s metal band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56ZtXrx_nw\">Wicked Wisdom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, the established actors who have succeeded in recording music that isn’t just tolerable, but legitimately great, have done so by collaborating with respected artists and not pandering to the biggest potential audience. The two best examples are Zooey Deschanel’s collaboration with indie darling M. Ward, for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheandhim.com/\">She & Him\u003c/a>, and Ryan Gosling’s foray into artsy horror-themed experimentation with the surprisingly excellent \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Bones\">Dead Man’s Bones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpYwHfB7eds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Gosling and Deschanel have in common: You can tell that they’re recording music truthfully and with not a small amount of skill. Neither of them has made their music to get their egos stroked (see Russell Crowe’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfomuY2ysg\">30 Odd Foot of Grunts\u003c/a>) or to live out some rock star fantasy (see Jared Leto's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcps2fJKuAI\">30 Seconds to Mars\u003c/a>) -- they’ve done it because they were compelled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, reality TV's favorite tattoo artist Kat Von D emerged as a guest vocalist on a single by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_(rock_duo)\">Prayers\u003c/a>, an underground electro-goth outfit that is garnering a fair amount of underground buzz right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\">Black Leather\u003c/a>\" is Von D’s first foray into music since promising the world an album in 2014, then never actually coming through with one. If she can forge a path into music following her passions rather than her bank balance, she might actually be the first reality star to pull off a real career in music. Also in her favor is the fact that she’s no longer on our televisions every day -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/la-ink/\">\u003cem>LA Ink\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ended all the way back in 2011, and that fact alone gives Von D a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-v2FDhHbI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Von D is certainly, currently, the reality star most likely to succeed when it comes to branching out into music (she has a multitude of musician friends in respected places and can play actual instruments). But if she can’t do it? Well, I'm not holding my breath -- but it'd be nice to see this trend come to an end, once and for all.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the good old days, the music-career-on-the-side was an endeavor only attempted by actors. The TV actors did it in an attempt to take their careers to the next level -- we’re looking at you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5h8jrceec\">Brian Austin Green\u003c/a> and giving you serious side eye, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ti8-vEM3U8\">Uncle Jesse\u003c/a> -- but the movie guys often did it in an attempt to claw back some street cred after accidentally becoming millionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ‘90s, this meant watching Keanu Reeves staring at his feet in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TSnE1b-Bs\">Dogstar\u003c/a>, and Johnny Depp collaborating with a Butthole Surfer and trying to look casual about it (that band was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKkWvNQzxE\">P\u003c/a>, in case you erased it from memory). At the time, we all assumed these lackluster attempts to break into rock ‘n’ roll were just about the worst things we’d ever deal with in the world of celebrity music crossovers – but that’s because, at the time, reality TV was just a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/19177327\">\u003cem>Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-shaped twinkle in MTV’s eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the advent of reality television, however, celebrities who were famous for nothing more than living with a camera crew started consistently assuming that the fastest way to a more credible career was via the medium of music. In the early days, this happened repeatedly and, without fail, each and every reality star thought that their music career would be different; that they somehow would get one over on a public who, they refused to acknowledge, really, really didn’t want to hear them sing in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this phenomena first started in the early 2000s, it became apparent very quickly that even when reality stars made a real effort to put out something musically solid -- or at least something that wouldn’t immediately get you scrambling to the mute button on your TV--- they were still met with indifference and not a small amount of disapproval from the peanut gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, emerging on the back of the enormously successful \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes\">\u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kelly Osbourne’s wooden performance in the video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ#t=70\">Papa Don’t Preach\u003c/a>\" might have erred on the side of cringeworthy, but the actual song was on par with -- perhaps even better than --anything Avril Lavigne was doing with more success that year. Osbourne’s follow-up singles, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nng0Anvig\">Shut Up\u003c/a>” and “Come Dig Me Out”, certainly out-paced and outsmarted Lavigne’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE\">Complicated\u003c/a>\" and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\">Sk8tr Boi\u003c/a>”:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Still it came to naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Paris Hilton -- who occasionally seemed like an actual Real Human Girl in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362153/\">\u003cem>The Simple Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- had a crack at music stardom with “Stars Are Blind” -- a song that was received across the board with a kind shrug, a gentle nod and a muttering of “This actually isn’t that bad.” Which, of course, is code for “I’d listen to this song if Gwen Stefani had recorded it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/joWpYsKere8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/joWpYsKere8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2008, Heidi Montag (poor, dear Heidi Montag) did put some effort into her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Hills\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-adjacent foray into music, copying Paris Hilton’s beachy video and being hailed (by people who were surely being paid to do so) as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgA5D10Hvg\">The NEXT Britney Spears!\u003c/a>\" Sadly, Montag's attempts to not sound like a balloon deflating in slow motion failed. (Poor, dear Heidi Montag.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>All three stars were forced to abandon their music careers shortly after they’d begun, to the disappointment of almost nobody. But what followed was a contagious idea among other reality stars that (a) anyone could have a go, and (b) since it was clearly going to be short-lived, they could just release any old nonsense. 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Boys, they wanna do me!” It was just as head-desk terrible as you might imagine, but there was, at least, also a strong possibility that every time you heard this, you laughed until the breath left your lungs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8tul_1hRphI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8tul_1hRphI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Not to be outdone on the trashiness scale, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Pauly D decided to release “Beat Dat Beat” a year later. It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/y0Gpt12psAA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y0Gpt12psAA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. Here’s New York’s Kim Zolciak with “Tardy For The Party,” closely resembling that friend of your mom’s that always drinks too much on national holidays, then passes out on the front lawn:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gIeb7tY3Z6s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gIeb7tY3Z6s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another NYC housewife, Countess Luann, went one step further with “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” a track that features so many layers of Auto-Tune, it sounds like she recorded it with her face submerged in a mop bucket. Money can't buy you talent either, sweet cheeks!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kEDvlSAMhQU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kEDvlSAMhQU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bit-players from \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> got in on recording singles. Do you know who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0#t=20\">Simon Van Kempen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcQq1sbWsM#t=63\">Miss Lawrence\u003c/a> are? We don’t either. But someone let those fools into recording booths because, apparently, being on reality television erases the ability to feel shame. Truly, it would now be an impossibility for a reality star to record anything worse than this exercise in humiliation:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nbRlRUlXWz0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nbRlRUlXWz0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, it’s possible for actors to cross over into legitimate and nerd-approved music careers in a way that simply wasn’t permitted a decade ago. 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Prince's childhood nickname was \"Skipper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. He wrote his first song at the age of seven. It was called \"Funk Machine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. When he was 10, Prince danced on stage with James Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Before he hit the big time, Prince used to stand outside of his local McDonald's and smell the food because he couldn't afford to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Despite being 5'2\", he was known to be an incredible basketball player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. He played every single instrument on his debut album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. Prince could play 27 different musical instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. He played electric guitar on Madonna's \"Like a Prayer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And synths on Stevie Nicks' \"Stand Back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSKeCvSCpw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. We all know that Prince is responsible for Sinead O'Connor's \"Nothing Compares 2 U,\" but did you know that he also wrote \"Manic Monday\" by the Bangles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. One of his favorite meals during the \u003cem>Purple Rain\u003c/em> era was spaghetti paired with orange juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. Prince originally wanted Vanity 6 to be called The Hookers and Vanity to be called Vagina (pronounced Va-geena).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLZfyphg0M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. Smoke machines were allegedly used so heavily on the sets of his music videos for \"1999\" and \"Little Red Corvette\" that a bunch of people got diarrhea from breathing in all the mineral oil in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>13. Michael Jackson's \"Bad\" was almost a duet with Prince, until Prince objected to the first four words: \"Your butt is mine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ZN9nKQqe0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>14. Prince almost released an entire album as Camille, his female alter ego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>15. He produced an album called \u003cem>A Hollywood Affair \u003c/em>with Kim Basinger, but the project was scrapped because she wasn't the best singer. That doesn't mean you can't still listen to it though:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWBXdoeg6Bs&list=PL3BwO8tCn0ZwmDwbhMlvPlN6W73V4Gqab\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>16. A week before its release, Prince yanked all copies of \u003cem>The Black Album\u003c/em> because he came to believe that \"the dark side of him\" created \"something evil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. Prince hated swearing so much that he beckoned Sinead O'Connor to his mansion to tell her to stop using bad language in her interviews. She promptly told him to \"F*ck off.\" They proceeded to get into a crazy fist fight, which involved chasing each other around a car and spitting and punching at each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/1001803.html\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18. Back in 1994, kids were playing a CD-ROM game titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/princes-cd-rom-game-prince-interactive.html\">Prince Interactive\u003c/a>,\" which included two unreleased songs, interview clips and the opportunity to explore his recording studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19. Prince was a Jehovah's Witnesses and went door to door to discuss his religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>20. His faith dictated that he could never discuss his charitable work. Now that he has passed, stories of his involvement with \u003ca href=\"http://www.yeswecode.org/\" target=\"_blank\">YesWeCode\u003c/a>, a movement to get underprivileged kids involved in the tech world, and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_for_All\">Green For All\u003c/a>, a project that supplies solar panels in Oakland and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>21. After turning down Kevin Smith's request to feature a Prince song in \u003ci>Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back\u003c/i>, Prince convinced Smith to film a movie of Prince and his band performing music from \u003cem>The Rainbow Children\u003c/em>. It soon became clear that Prince intended the project to be a Jehovah's Witness recruitment film, filled with messages like \"Jesus Christ is the son of God.\" Kevin Smith decided to duck out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>22. Prince didn't take himself too seriously. After David Chappelle famously dressed up as him on his show, Prince, in turn, used Chappelle's image as the cover of his 2013 single \u003cem>Breakfast Can Wait. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23496 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast Can Wait Prince Cover - P - 2013.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Breakfast-Can-Wait-Prince-Cover-P-2013.jpg-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23. In recent years, Prince only watched two things on television: the news and Zooey Deschanel's \u003cem>New Girl\u003c/em>. He emailed Zooey to tell her this and eventually starred in an episode and recorded a single with her called “FALLINLOVE2NITE\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFpBEWFR0jI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Want even more little-known facts about Prince? Check out this episode of The Cooler:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/28/lets-go-crazy-over-beyonces-lemonade/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Who the f*ck do you think I is?\u003cbr>\nYou ain't married to no average b*tch, boy.\u003cbr>\nYou can watch my fat ass twist, boy.\u003cbr>\nAs I bounce to the next d*ck, boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_lufw0gLnTT1qdlkgg.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23105\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23105\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_lufw0gLnTT1qdlkgg.gif\" alt=\"beyonce girl bye gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">3. And keep your money, I got my own.\u003cbr>\nGet a bigger smile on my face, being alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Oh-Madonna.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23106\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Oh-Madonna.gif\" alt=\"beyonce money gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">4. I smell that fragrance on your Louie V, boy.\u003cbr>\nJust give my fat ass a big kiss, boy.\u003cbr>\nTonight I'm f*cking up all your shit, boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/rs_500x258-150219113945-giphy-52.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23109\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/rs_500x258-150219113945-giphy-52.gif\" alt=\"beyonce mad gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">5. This is your final warning.\u003cbr>\nYou know I give you life.\u003cbr>\nIf you try this sh*t again,\u003cbr>\nYou gon' lose your wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23110\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" alt=\"beyonce carmen mad gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">6. Headed to the club, I ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003cbr>\nMe and my ladies sip my D'USSÉ cup.\u003cbr>\nI don't give a f*ck, chucking my deuces up.\u003cbr>\nSuck on my balls, pause, I had enough.\u003cbr>\nI ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23111\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" alt=\"beyonce over gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">7. Middle fingers up, put them hands high.\u003cbr>\nWave it in his face, tell him, \"Boy, bye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23112\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" alt=\"beyonce+pretty+hurts\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">8. Looking at my watch, he shoulda been home.\u003cbr>\nToday I regret the night I put that ring on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23113\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce ring gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">9. My daddy warned me about men like you.\u003cbr>\nHe said, \"Baby girl, he's playing you.\u003cbr>\nHe's playing you.\u003cbr>\nCause when trouble comes in town\u003cbr>\nAnd men like me come around,\"\u003cbr>\nOh, my daddy said, \"Shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23115\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" alt=\"beyonce nicki water gun gif\" width=\"556\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">10. 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Who the f*ck do you think I is?\u003cbr>\nYou ain't married to no average b*tch, boy.\u003cbr>\nYou can watch my fat ass twist, boy.\u003cbr>\nAs I bounce to the next d*ck, boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_lufw0gLnTT1qdlkgg.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23105\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23105\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_lufw0gLnTT1qdlkgg.gif\" alt=\"beyonce girl bye gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">3. And keep your money, I got my own.\u003cbr>\nGet a bigger smile on my face, being alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Oh-Madonna.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23106\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Oh-Madonna.gif\" alt=\"beyonce money gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">4. I smell that fragrance on your Louie V, boy.\u003cbr>\nJust give my fat ass a big kiss, boy.\u003cbr>\nTonight I'm f*cking up all your shit, boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/rs_500x258-150219113945-giphy-52.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23109\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/rs_500x258-150219113945-giphy-52.gif\" alt=\"beyonce mad gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">5. This is your final warning.\u003cbr>\nYou know I give you life.\u003cbr>\nIf you try this sh*t again,\u003cbr>\nYou gon' lose your wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23110\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m411tm0KQN1qma32qo2_400.gif\" alt=\"beyonce carmen mad gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">6. Headed to the club, I ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003cbr>\nMe and my ladies sip my D'USSÉ cup.\u003cbr>\nI don't give a f*ck, chucking my deuces up.\u003cbr>\nSuck on my balls, pause, I had enough.\u003cbr>\nI ain't thinking 'bout you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23111\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23111\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/large.gif\" alt=\"beyonce over gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">7. Middle fingers up, put them hands high.\u003cbr>\nWave it in his face, tell him, \"Boy, bye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23112\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/beyonceprettyhurts.gif\" alt=\"beyonce+pretty+hurts\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">8. Looking at my watch, he shoulda been home.\u003cbr>\nToday I regret the night I put that ring on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23113\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_nf52dbyJaP1sy4wkto1_500.gif\" alt=\"beyonce ring gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">9. My daddy warned me about men like you.\u003cbr>\nHe said, \"Baby girl, he's playing you.\u003cbr>\nHe's playing you.\u003cbr>\nCause when trouble comes in town\u003cbr>\nAnd men like me come around,\"\u003cbr>\nOh, my daddy said, \"Shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23115\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Beyonce-and-Nicki-Minaj-Feeling-Myself-Water-Guns.gif\" alt=\"beyonce nicki water gun gif\" width=\"556\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">10. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's too soon to formulate words into coherent sentences that can truly capture \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/21/prince-celebrities-react-to-the-the-loss-of-the-purple-one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what Prince means\u003c/a> to me, so here is a collection of the best animated gifs featuring our beloved Purple One. 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don't have to ask me twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22901\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/lolol.gif\" alt=\"lolol\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Bath time means taking off your shirt in a totally normal way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_n7s2fxgmjd1tooympo1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n7s2fxgmjd1tooympo1_400\" width=\"320\" height=\"244\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Cleanliness is next to godliness (god being Prince obvi).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-1-1.gif\" alt=\"giphy (1) (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">The only person who can pop his collar and not be douchey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Taylor's squad wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/cherry2-fast.gif\" alt=\"cherry2-fast\" width=\"352\" height=\"240\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Fun fact: Prince is not here for bats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22911\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"giphy (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Now onto the shady part of Prince. Unleash the sideeye!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Prince-2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22876\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Prince-2.gif\" alt=\"Prince-2\" width=\"570\" height=\"397\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">So much shade it can't help breaking the fourth wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/anigif_enhanced-buzz-23608-1363294691-5.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22878\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22878\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/anigif_enhanced-buzz-23608-1363294691-5.gif\" alt=\"anigif_enhanced-buzz-23608-1363294691-5\" width=\"364\" height=\"297\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Medusa learned how to turn people to stone with a single look from Prince.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/anigif_enhanced-30842-1417675720-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22919\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/anigif_enhanced-30842-1417675720-1.gif\" alt=\"anigif_enhanced-30842-1417675720-1\" width=\"405\" height=\"303\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Boom! Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22884\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince14.gif\" alt=\"prince14\" width=\"477\" height=\"363\">Prince really wishes you wouldn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22887\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/lIkXTai.gif\" alt=\"lIkXTai\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">He literally can't with you right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-new-song-with-zooey-deschanel.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22881\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22883\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-5.gif\" alt=\"giphy (5)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Prince doesn't have time for your nonsense, even if you're a Muppet.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-new-song-with-zooey-deschanel.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22881\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-no.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22882\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22882\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-no.gif\" alt=\"prince-no\" width=\"419\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>Nope, absolutely zero time for nonsense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-5.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22883\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22906\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_mzcsvpEAzp1rj6lpxo1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mzcsvpEAzp1rj6lpxo1_400\" width=\"373\" height=\"258\">\u003c/a>If \"Bye, girl\" was a body movement.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_n7s2fxgmjd1tooympo1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22899\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/lolol.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22901\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-2-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22902\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-2-1.gif\" alt=\"giphy (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\">\u003c/a>Okay, this was a fun distraction, but I have to get back to looking at pictures of Prince and crying.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-1-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22905\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_mzcsvpEAzp1rj6lpxo1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22906\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/JZu4NNl.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22908\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/JZu4NNl.gif\" alt=\"JZu4NNl\" width=\"621\" height=\"448\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Prince thanks you for your time.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_n2ckqdmHIN1rujq2eo6_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22909\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a> \u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-112323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-sparkle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-dove-cry-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22911\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's too soon to formulate words into coherent sentences that can truly capture \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/21/prince-celebrities-react-to-the-the-loss-of-the-purple-one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what Prince means\u003c/a> to me, so here is a collection of the best animated gifs featuring our beloved Purple One. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a bunch of animated gifs must be worth a thousand thinkpieces, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/anigif_enhanced-buzz-25616-1375835253-17.gif\" alt=\"anigif_enhanced-buzz-25616-1375835253-17\" width=\"372\" height=\"220\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Prince invented \"feeling myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_m7tcl7gv9c1qhhrf5o4_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m7tcl7gv9c1qhhrf5o4_400\" width=\"370\" height=\"281\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">And he knows it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/omgprincehotwtf.gif\" alt=\"omgprincehotwtf\" width=\"301\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">He also invented a seduction style that's both coy and take-no-prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22895\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/PrinceEyebrows.gif\" alt=\"PrinceEyebrows\" width=\"296\" height=\"216\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">He can also execute said seduction, while enjoying a Blow Pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-new-song-with-zooey-deschanel.gif\" alt=\"prince-new-song-with-zooey-deschanel\" 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src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-4.gif\" alt=\"giphy (4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Umm....yeah...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/PR3.gif\" alt=\"PR3\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">When you suddenly remember you're mother-F-ing Prince!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/2mx0hgy.gif\" alt=\"2mx0hgy\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">He knows he owns everything (expect maybe an earring for his left side).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/Prince-Purple-Rain-purple-rain-33963560-245-200.gif\" alt=\"Prince-Purple-Rain-purple-rain-33963560-245-200\" width=\"245\" height=\"200\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">You don't have to ask me twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22901\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/lolol.gif\" alt=\"lolol\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Bath time means taking off your shirt in a totally normal way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/tumblr_n7s2fxgmjd1tooympo1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n7s2fxgmjd1tooympo1_400\" width=\"320\" height=\"244\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Cleanliness is next to godliness (god being Prince obvi).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-1-1.gif\" alt=\"giphy (1) (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">The only person who can pop his collar and not be douchey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/prince-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Taylor's squad wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/cherry2-fast.gif\" alt=\"cherry2-fast\" width=\"352\" height=\"240\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">Fun fact: Prince is not here for bats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: 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