Ne-Yo Shares Untold Prince Story | "Prince Was A Mind-Reader"

your favorite album of yours uh oh you know what and and uh so it's my favorite but it's not my favorite because i feel like it was my best it's my favorite because one of my idols uh basically helped me help me not feel the way i felt about it initially so libra scale was my fourth album it was right after a year the gentleman and uh at the time it was my worst performing album you know one i mean i just multitude of reasons why it didn't work i was trying to do trying to do [ __ ] that i didn't know what i was doing i told her i told her i told the label i wanted to do like a little mini movie and have the album be the soundtrack to the movie i didn't know that in the world of writing scripts a page equates to a minute so i said a 30 30-minute movie i i gave them a script with four or like 147 pages in it oh [ __ ] because i'm just writing i have no idea i'm just writing a story right and they're like uh yeah this is not a mini movie this is this is a feature film and we're not paying for this so i had to take that 140 some odd pages bust it down to 30 by the time i did that time is clicking we ain't we ain't got time to cast it film it none of that so then it turned into what was supposed to be six long-form videos we got the three videos dev jam pulled a plug like that's too much money give me no more money for this [ __ ] and it was done so the album came out didn't do didn't do real real well but i got invited to prince's grammy party that year oh yeah so i'm i'm i'm floating because of that princess prince is one of my guys i got five guys and prince is one of my guys uh michael jackson prince stevie wonder sammy davis jr marvin k like if i could take these five people and mailed them into one person so that is who i've always inspired neo you can hear it you know what i mean so i hear a little [ __ ] boring boy again a little bit about you definitely definitely michael especially in the earlier stuff yeah i'm going to definitely hear them too so we go to the party it's uh we're in the the the pool house and i thought it was just the coolest [ __ ] ever because we're literally standing on top of the pool it's like a plexiglass see through [ __ ] on top of the pool so we're standing on the pool he's on stage with his band just just rocking out he sees me puts his guitar down beelines straight to me gets right up on my ear and says libra scale was a good album and don't let anybody tell you different shows and walked off yeah you say [ __ ] out to me for the rest of the night didn't say nothing else prince can read your said this is a good album the princess is a good album i don't care what you all say out there so that so that's my favorite for that reason that's a hell of a reason word wow yeah man any more stunt stories you can drop like that your stunt story oh man that was awesome light flex story get the [ __ ] off prin so prince prince don't talk a whole lot well at least he didn't talk to me a whole lot like every time i saw him he had like a phrase for me and that was it uh we threw a grammy party one year and uh prince and stevie wonder showed up to the party now so so mind you my my assistant comes to me and like yo um prince and stevie wonder is at the door and i'm like did you let them in why are they still at the door i came actually if you don't let them what the hell are you doing yes let them in so they come in princess in on one side of me stevie want to sit on the other side of me i'm i'm sitting like i what the hell do i say that was a [ __ ] trying to get rid of these people word or get fired what you want me to do with them you want me to trying to get [ __ ] do something with them no but thanks for your devotion pink slip now but um straight away no so so i'm at the time i'm drinking uh vodka cranberry so i take a sip of my drink and i set it back down and i look over and i catch and i catch prince's eyes it's like like he was looking at me and it's like like one of those right so he says what's that [Music] vodka cranberry i love that everybody really i'm sitting this close to him he says come here so i lean over and he gets right here and he says [ __ ] this bad for you the pressure's right you know for the night that was it i he said nothing else yeah of course yeah how dare you bring me vodka in front of this man get this out of here that's awesome make me another winner that's [ __ ] nuts that was that was a that was a moment i bet it was a moment yeah i've man i've had some moments i can i can honestly say if i just sit down and think about just the last damn to 20 years i've had some some amazing moments to the point where if it ended tomorrow like i might i might be i i would ask about all of them but you're married ah i would i would ask about all the moments i wouldn't even talk about those moments but oh man you ain't gonna give me trouble with my wife never hey baby never hey he's married that marriage i know i know the game congratulations we're also birthday twins really yeah october 18th yes sir see libras running the world on the low we don't tell people libras don't tell people because you know just cause you had a bad experience with a libra i did not i had a beautiful king with a libra oh where did we go i just know about leaving you'd be spicy with the libras sometimes i don't like that [ __ ] because i know about libras a little bit what what's what's wrong with us nothing exactly exactly none none at all i love you guys [Music] you

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Length: 5min 54sec (354 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 20 2022