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Via | HipHopDX
Among Prince’s long, brilliant musical career, one of the criticisms he got was for what was seen as an odd relationship with Hip Hop. But Questlove says that a deeper look reveals that the Purple one, who died last week at age 57, has a closer connection to Hip Hop than he gets credit for.
“At heart, he was more Hip Hop than anyone,” The Roots’ drummer writes in an essay for Rolling Stone.
Musically, Questlove says that Prince’s drum programming on his lauded 1999 album, which was released in 1982, was just as innovative as the production from Rap legends like Bomb Squad, DJ Premier, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and J Dilla. Prince’s manager also recently revealed that he asked him if he should learn how to rap.
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