Prince Compares Record Contracts To Slavery In Rare Meeting With Media

[Captain Obvious]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc_LIR5ExIU

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/09/430883654/prince-compares-record-contracts-to-slavery-in-rare-meeting-with-media

If he were genuine he'd say record contracts are like teh O'bama administration.

Does he have AIDS or something?


"Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word – slavery," Prince told a group of 10 journalists Saturday night, during a meet and greet at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign."

His pitch to the group was simple: Typical record company contracts turn artists into indentured servants with little control over how their music is used, particularly when it comes to revenue from streaming services playing their music online — and he wants to change that.



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[del]

yeah, we've all been enslaved by the progressives

damn

[JDubya]

Well, he is black - sort of - and so of course, everything in life he doesn't like is going to be compared to slavery.

To me, having to pay for my house was like slavery. Having to pay for my groceries is like slavery. Having to pay for gas is like slavery. Having to have insurance is like slavery.

Etc, etc.

Prince has always been full of crap. If he & other music industry celebrities are slaves, they are the most highly paid, leisure time enjoying slaves in history.

[waltky]

Musta been hooked on pain killers...
:shocked:
Prince had painkiller Percocet in his system: reports
Thu May 5, 2016 - Music superstar Prince's autopsy found the painkiller Percocet in his system, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and KSTP-TV reported on Thursday, citing sources close to the investigation.


Prince also had a dangerously low red blood cell count, indicating he had been ill, Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP-TV said, citing two unnamed law enforcement officials. A spokeswoman for the local medical examiner's office that conducted a post-mortem examination of Prince declined to confirm the reports. The cause of Prince's death remained undetermined. The medical examiner's office said in late April the autopsy and toxicology results could take weeks. The news reports came after federal authorities said on Wednesday they were joining the investigation into Prince's death.


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Prince performs during the halftime show of the NFL's Super Bowl XLI football game between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Florida, U.S. February 4, 2007.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota will bring federal resources to the local investigation and expertise on the illegal use and trafficking of prescription drugs, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Also on Wednesday, a lawyer for a California addiction doctor said Prince's representatives had contacted the doctor the evening before his death, adding that the doctor had planned to visit Prince for a "life-saving mission." The 57-year-old Prince was found dead on April 21 at his Paisley Park home-studio complex in a Minneapolis suburb. Prescription opioid medication was found at the scene, a law enforcement source told Reuters.


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U.S. musician Prince performs at the Hop Farm Festival near Paddock Wood, southern England July 3, 2011.

Dr. Howard Kornfeld, who runs Recovery Without Walls, a clinic in Mill Valley, California, planned to fly to Minnesota on April 22, his lawyer William Mauzy said. In the meantime, his son, Andrew Kornfeld, a clinic staff member, traveled to Minnesota on April 21 for an initial discussion. When Andrew Kornfeld arrived at Paisley Park, Prince was not available, Mauzy said. A staff member found the artist unconscious in an elevator, and Kornfeld called 911.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-prince-idUSKCN0XW1UB

[Cigar]

Remember this is it's highly important to some people ... :grin:

[waltky]

Prince was good to orphaned Afghans...
:cool2:
Pop Icon Prince Quietly Helped Afghan Orphans for Years
May 05, 2016 - For half a dozen years until his death last month, American musician and pop star Prince privately sent thousands of dollars to support Afghan orphans, a humanitarian organization in Afghanistan told VOA.


The pop star helped Kabul-based PARSA, an international aid organization that works with orphans and the disabled in Afghanistan, rebuild a training center for orphan boy and girl scouts in Kabul. “We received a check for $15,000,” Marine Gustavson, executive director of PARSA, told VOA in Kabul. “It created for my staff a place to bring the kids together, a place to have a five-day workshop where the scoutmasters can stay and can do camp activities and works.”


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Kabul-based PARSA, an international aid organization that works with orphans and the disabled in Afghanistan, rebuilt a training center for Afghan orphan boy and girl scouts in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Because of Prince's donation, the number of children in the PARSA scouting program rose from 30 to about 2,000. "He was instrumental,” Gustavson said. “He donated to something we needed." “He continued to donate to the Afghan scout program until the end of his life,” she said, adding that Prince donated $6,000 a year after his initial gifts. The late pop star, however kept his philanthropy a top secret. “Because of the kind of man he was, he did not want people to know about his philanthropy,” Gustavson said. “It was his secret. I just wanted to tell people to honor him. It is a side of him that most people do not know. “I think it was special to him, and it was outside of the public domain.”

Unknown to youths

The young scouts who benefited from Prince's largesse were equally ignorant of his identity. “It is a rock star group,” one of the girl scouts told VOA. “I do not know his name.” The history of scouting in Afghanistan goes back to 1931, under the founding leadership of King Nadir Khan. The program, however, diminished into nonexistence after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s and the emergence of the militant Taliban into power.

According to PARSA, the organization’s scouting program is designed to empower Afghan children and steer them away from the lure of extremist groups. The program currently has over 1,800 registered youths across 14 provinces. “When he was alive, we did not know about the assistance he had provided,” said Kamaal Sadat, Afghanistan’s deputy minister for youth affairs. “We came to know about it after he passed away. We are saddened by his death. We are thankful to him. Be there more people like him in the world.”

http://www.voanews.com/content/rock-star-prince-quietly-helped-afghan-orphans/3317232.html

[waltky]

Gettin' to the bottom of who gave him the drugs...
:huh:
Medical records search warrant carried out in Prince case
May 10 2016 - A search warrant affidavit obtained by the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday revealed that a doctor who saw the late pop star Prince twice just weeks before his death and was at the musician's home when Prince's body was found had prescribed him medication.


The document said Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg was at the star's Paisley Park Studios compound in suburban Minneapolis to drop off test results when Prince's body was found in an elevator on April 21. The affidavit said Schulenberg had also prescribed Prince medication, but did not specify what those medications were or whether the prescription had been filled. The search warrant was carried out on May 5 at North Memorial Medical Center.

Health system spokeswoman Lesa Bader told the Los Angeles Times that Schulenberg no longer works for the system. Barb Stevenson, a spokeswoman reached by Reuters, said she could provide no information on the case. Schulenberg, whose name was misspelled in the documents according to the Los Angeles Times, also could not be reached for comment on Tuesday night.


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U.S. musician Prince performs for the first time in Britain since 2007 at the Hop Farm Festival near Paddock Wood, southern England

Detectives also revisited Paisley Park on Tuesday as "a component of a complete investigation," the Carver County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Twitter, without providing further details. Prince died one day before he was scheduled to meet another doctor who specializes in addiction treatment for a "life-saving mission," that doctor's lawyer said at a news conference last Wednesday.

California doctor Howard Kornfeld was first contacted by Prince's representatives on April 20, one day before the singer's body was discovered at his home, attorney William Mauzy told reporters. Prescription opioid medication was found at the scene, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation but who is not authorized to speak publicly.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-prince-warrant-idUSKCN0Y2052

[donttread]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc_LIR5ExIU

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/09/430883654/prince-compares-record-contracts-to-slavery-in-rare-meeting-with-media

If he were genuine he'd say record contracts are like teh O'bama administration.

Does he have AIDS or something?



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Well then they've got to be the richest slaves in history

[waltky]

It'll all come out in the autopsy...
:huh:
Prince's autopsy, toxicology tests may resolve uncertainties
May 12, 2016 - Prince's autopsy, particularly the toxicology report, may clarify whether prescription painkillers played any part in his death.


Determining whether the music superstar died of a drug overdose will likely involve not only tests of his blood, urine, liver tissue and fluid from the eyes, it also will require compiling evidence from Prince's medicine cabinet, his medical history and possibly information from witnesses and those who knew him. Authorities haven't said when results of the April 22 autopsy will be released, only that it would take weeks.

WHAT'S ALREADY KNOWN?

Questions about Prince's health surfaced April 15, when his plane made an emergency stop in Moline, Illinois. He was found unconscious aboard the aircraft, a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. While the plane was on the tarmac, the official said, first responders gave Prince a shot of Narcan, an antidote used to reverse suspected opioid overdoses. The official said investigators are looking at whether Prince overdosed on the flight and whether an overdose killed him six days later.

One possibility is the powerful painkiller Percocet or something similar, the official said. A medical examiner completed the physical autopsy in four hours on April 22, the day after Prince was found dead at age 57. His remains were later cremated. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office did not release a preliminary cause of death based on the autopsy alone and has said the toxicology results would take weeks.

WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG?

Toxicology reports can be based on multiple rounds of tests, escalating in sophistication as pathologists, toxicologists and chemists work together to answer questions, according to the College of American Pathologists. First, basic screens are run on blood and urine to detect categories such as opiates, amphetamines, marijuana, alcohol and barbiturates. Confirming those results can take days and sometimes requires repeated testing.

More tests are then run to identify each chemical's unique fingerprint by measuring its mass and other traits. Sometimes, a specialty lab is called in to test for specific drugs. Finding multiple drugs in a person's system can add time to the process. Tests typically are run on various fluids and tissues including bile and the eye. "The blood only gives you a snapshot of exactly what was happening at the moment of death," said Dr. Bruce Levy, a pathologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "By looking at other body fluids or tissues, you can get more of a sense of history of a person's use of a drug or medication."

WHAT COULD THE AUTOPSY SHOW? (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/princes-autopsy-toxicology-tests-may-resolve-uncertainties)