TMZ: Prince dead at 57

[DrGonzo]

Very sad, to me anyway. A great talent and much too young. RIP.

 

[Wintermute]

Dammit this has been a rough year. Really lost some living legends...

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

He was a Jehovahs Witness so he didnt do drugs or alcohol

You remember when blood letting was the cure all for every ailment don't you?

 

[DC]

Class of 99 graduation song obvious. RIP

 

[GalePayton]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/justin-biebers-prince-angers-fans-090000961.html

Tributes have poured in from across the world since news broke of Prince's death. Musicians in particular have been expressing emotional sentiments about the pop icon's death, but it doesn't look like Justin Bieber is one of them.

The drama kicked off after guitarist Andrew Watt shared an Instagram post honoring Prince as a "guitar idol." In his tribute, Watt called the late artist the "last of the greatest living performers."

Perhaps Bieber took offense to that last remark. The Canadian pop star allegedly posted a comment to Watt's post, writing "well not the last greatest living performer." The comment has since been deleted.

 

[SilenceS]

I don't know if the Biebs is talking about himself, but Justin Timberlake will be considered one of the best ever by the time he dies. Dude is entertaining.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

I don't know if the Biebs is talking about himself, but Justin Timberlake will be considered one of the best ever by the time he dies. Dude is entertaining.

Who????

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

I don't know if the Biebs is talking about himself, but Justin Timberlake will be considered one of the best ever by the time he dies. Dude is entertaining.

Hahahaba. More like the Mickey Rooney of Millennials.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Mickey Rooney HA.....great comparison

 

[HeHateMe]

So wtf that someone would compare a Disney Channel pop star to a soul like Prince. Smh.

 

[Nail Polish]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mer-drug-dealer-reveals-extent-addiction.html



EXCLUSIVE: Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years
Prince's former drug dealer, who asked to be named only as Doctor D, revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction
Doctor D revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches
Prince regularly bought drugs from Doctor D between 1984 and 2008
The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs
Doctor D said: 'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs. He never shot up, or snorted cocaine'
Prince was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minnesota just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet

 

[HeHateMe]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mer-drug-dealer-reveals-extent-addiction.html



EXCLUSIVE: Prince's former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - highly addictive opioid pain killers - for 25 years
Prince's former drug dealer, who asked to be named only as Doctor D, revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction
Doctor D revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches
Prince regularly bought drugs from Doctor D between 1984 and 2008
The dealer said the musician suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs
Doctor D said: 'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs. He never shot up, or snorted cocaine'
Prince was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minnesota just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet

Let the man RIP. He was amazing, let him rest.

 

[Tjodalv]

Sure, I'm curious as to what killed him; but at the same time it doesn't matter as he contributed more to humanity than the combined efforts of this entire board's populous combined. And there will only be more to come; some of the people that have worked with/for him over the years estimate that at most only 30% of his recorded material has been released.

 

[Bearin' Down]

Sure, I'm curious as to what killed him; but at the same time it doesn't matter as he contributed more to humanity than the combined efforts of this entire board's populous combined. And there will only be more to come; some of the people that have worked with/for him over the years estimate that at most only 30% of his recorded material has been released.

Other than in the limited sense of entertainment, how does Prince's music contribute to society? I'd argue that the garbageman contributes more to society than any artist in terms of a jobs usefulness.

But that's not to take away what he's done. He was a defining artist of a generation.

 

[Tjodalv]

Other than in the limited sense of entertainment, how does Prince's music contribute to society? I'd argue that the garbageman contributes more to society than any artist in terms of a jobs usefulness.

But that's not to take away what he's done. He was a defining artist of a generation.

Said garbage man contributes just as much as the guy that emptied Liszt's chamber pot. Sure, Prince is no Liszt, but the respective collectors of their refuse will have about an equal effect on society as a whole: none. Meanwhile; art makes an impact that outlives the individuals that create it. Your question is paramount to asking why Euripides contributed more to society than the local fishmonger he bought his dinner from.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Yet Billy Joel is still alive. Unfair, cruel world.

 

[Bearin' Down]

Said garbage man contributes just as much as the guy that emptied Liszt's chamber pot. Sure, Prince is no Liszt, but the respective collectors of their refuse will have about an equal effect on society as a whole: none. Meanwhile; art makes an impact that outlives the individuals that create it. Your question is paramount to asking why Euripides contributed more to society than the local fishmonger he bought his dinner from.

Let's say Prince doesn't exist, does that mean art ceases to exist? Music? His genre? No. Let's say your garbage man doesn't exist. does that mean refuse collection doesn't exist? No.

Now let's say music doesn't exist. And let's also say refuse collection doesn't exist. Which one is more likely to lead to disease and illness? A lack of entertainment? Or spoiled trash and mold as a biproduct, among others?

As to your last sentence, I don't remember my question. I drank too much tonight.

 

[Bearin' Down]

Yet Billy Joel is still alive. Unfair, cruel world.

Stop being such an uptown girl.

 

[Tjodalv]

Yet Billy Joel is still alive. Unfair, cruel world.

Hey, don't go slandering the champion of the common man!

 

[Tjodalv]

Let's say Prince doesn't exist, does that mean art ceases to exist? Music? His genre? No. Let's say your garbage man doesn't exist. does that mean refuse collection doesn't exist? No.

Now let's say music doesn't exist. And let's also say refuse collection doesn't exist. Which one is more likely to lead to disease and illness? A lack of entertainment? Or spoiled trash and mold as a biproduct, among others?

As to your last sentence, I don't remember my question. I drank too much tonight.

Don't go changing your parameters for the conversation; sure, the people that invented sewers, sterile surgery, vaccines, and a multitude of other things made a far larger impact...but you just compared Prince to a garbage man, not to Alexander Fleming.

If your garbage man exists, does that mean penicillin must?

But, what is it that you're preserving? Life for life's sake? Without art, music, literature, et cetera, what is it that we are purveying? These things define, not only, what we are, but who we are. Civilization without the arts is simply a monotonous march towards...