How PRINCE Created Over 8,000 Unreleased Songs?

[@terucks]

This is why he was my favorite artist of all time. True musician who took his craft seriously!

[@theteleisewilliamsexperience]

His sound check was better than everyone else concert.

[@stevenmonte7397]

His work ethic was amazing! It's all about creating a daily routine that yields results. Do that day in and day out and let the results just flow.

[@thestaralchemist]

This is why Prince is in my top two. His creativity genius is unmatched.

[@Sketchnificent]

Prince is one my favorite artists his work ethic is from another planet.

[@rickstraws92]

Been a Prince fan since I was 12 which was 2004. So nothing in this video is new to me. BUT every time I see, hear or read about this stuff, it's mind blowing every time! Nobody has ever dedicated themselves to Music for their entire lives like this. It's not normal. Love this video

[@moniemone5824]

My hero ! He was My king! Love you 4 life PRINCE!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MrRJG101]

Prince was the last of a now rare breed known as a Phenomenon

[@TacoDehWinner]

The man enjoyed his work and chose only the best

[@smh93]

The crazy part is that Cat is the one who said 2k songs in the vault when she was there, but she was there in 1988 (only 10 years into his career). Prince kept recording constantly for the next 28 years. One of the folks going through his vault material now said there are over 8,000 tapes of material in there. And you’re right about the whole mentality of having other things to do (social media, etc.) being a total cop out because Prince was on social…he ran a online music community and was constantly creating new ways to connect with his fans. And he was still creating that amount of material. He absolutely loved the accessibility of social media and the ability for him to release music as soon as it was finished. I remember when he did the Back in Time album with Judith Hill. They wrote, recorded, and mixed it in 2 weeks, brought small groups of us into the studio to hear several songs and get immediate feedback the day after it was completed, and then he sent it out a couple days later via email to subscribers of public radio stations, live nation, and things like that. And it’s a killer album; if you haven’t heard it, you should check it out. And just keep in mind that the conception to release took less than 3 weeks.

[@CurtissKingTV]

🤯

[@thecosmicblueautie]

The thing about Prince is that he knew so much about music and was willing to apply such different songwriting techniques and ideas that writing 8000 seems like a piece of cake for him. No anxiety once you already have in mind what you wish to create and the drive to do it.

[@azstreet]

On top of all that Sam said....That was just his stuff. He also working on his associates stuff. What I always tell the uninitiated is like in a stretch of 6 months in 83-84 he was involved in Purple Rain (writing/producing album, filming, engineering, tour prep AND promoting the film).....he also has a direct hand in writing/producing on Vanity & Apollonia 6/The Time/Sheila E/The Family albums and their tours. That's just a 6 month stretch. Also nearing the end of each album, he already has written and/or recorded songs for the next album...sometimes simultaneously And of course he had associates all through his career that he worked on their stuff while working on his stuff. When they got into the vault after he left us...there was so much material that it was estimated 2% of music was destroyed because of water damage. They were just everywhere

[@smh93]

@@azstreet Hey, Fish! 👋🏼💜 I can’t wait to see you in a few months!!

[@azstreet]

@@smh93Hi Sam!!!

[@fila9028]

Prince était le mozart de notre temps. It's the Best of the Best ❤❤❤miss him so much

[@NonProphet500]

He wasn't sampling, he was playing original parts and it's not like he was just creating loops....he was doing full arrangements with bridges, breakdowns and solos. Plus, he didn't sound like anyone else his contemporaries followed HIM.

[@digitalvictory8266]

Exactly. Prince didn't create songs FOR genres. Prince IS a genre!

[@ccc-qp7el]

I think this is why they called him the creativity machine. He cracked a code nobody thought of before him and he added his own talent to it. This is beyond writing music. He created a new way to do things. His way was way better than how things are done today.. everything is so electronic today people forget to add the emotion it in.

[@jpistle]

Her interviews are legendary. She goes in so much detail about princes habits, and recording. Awesome time.

[@Shades289]

Tupac leaned that work ethic from Prince

[@Jacqueal]

It's often said that work ethic > talent. This man had both ... and in spades. Prince was absolutely no less than special and that's an understatement.

[@RuslanKD]

Incredible breakdown about catalogue. And how older songs still have new life with a new audience.

[@CurtissKingTV]

Thank you bro! Excited to cook up with you soon

[@AceeSoul]

I remember him saying his goal was to write a song a day until he passed

[@zazagirl3373]

Prince beat Mozart, he mastered over 14 instruments by age 17, he could dance, sing any note, rap, he wrote, arranged, performed ALL his music, including wrote hits for other artists, he has covered almost every genre, Metal, Punk rock, hip hop, pop, r&b, soul, jazz, blues, country, ambience, classical, techno, house, disco, instrumental. The Multi-Genre God. He could play anything, and your favorite artists have been deeply influenced by him. Corey Taylor, Whitney Houston, Steve Vai, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Lil uzi vert, H.E.R. , Paul Mccartney, all worship Prince to just name a few. Prince recorded his first 2 albums at 16 all by himself, all instruments, lyrics, arrangement, composition & vocals were all by him. He was such a prodigy, that music executives wanted proof, they would fly across country just to see if he could really play all instruments, because it was so unheard of. Prince has over 50 official released albums and when he passed, they found over 10 thousand unreleased Prince music in his vault. He then came into the business and was the FIRST to fight for artists rights, and he WON. He would write "slave" on his cheek and go to meetings protesting against the industry. Prince was also the first artist to sell his music on the internet. You are talking about the most talented artist we will ever see.

[@TheRoyalGenerationiTunes]

Thank you for typing all that, so I didn’t have to. Prince=The GOAT

[@okaydmuzikkk6771]

Prince is one of my favorite artist next to michael jackson. As a musical artist that makes and compose. Prince heavily inspires me wen it comes to just getting the idea and excuteing it. Everytime i make a beat i finish it.! I try to not stop n save it. I like to finish the beat.

[@goingglobalmusicgroup2555]

First take is always the truth. I proved this so many times recording artist. It helped that I'm an artist too so artist trust me. The emotions never lie!

[@thepromiseman7745]

Prince was a real musician he was a workaholic that's why he had so much material written and recorded to put out enough albums during the next couple of decades because arsenio hall asked him how much music was in his vault unreleased and prince said there's alots of music there you would look crazy ...prince also said that he doesn't go back and count how much music he recorded there still were alots of songs that he didn't finish he wrote as far as he could .because alots were not done due to the bootleg and not being mixed

[@djayall]

The master of getting it done.

[@stephensemp8634]

Possibly the greatest live performance I’ve ever seen was the Musicology Tour… I’m not a huge fan of his produced sound, but after seeing him live, I will never not give Prince his due… truly incredible

[@gorgiodelmont1719]

What was in the vault was complete songs BUT the mixes were far from cd or radio ready and the lyrics were far from his royal standard of perfection. We have a lot of those songs maybe 500-700 songs. And trust listening to the vault almost makes u want to cry. Because you listen to the unreleased songs and wonder what his career would have been? You wonder how the industry and music fans in general would have treated his legacy while living. Yes,he’s known as a musical great,an icon,a legend by many. But in a lot of peoples minds he was the androgynous guitar player from the Purple Rain movie his greatness often overshadowed by what he looked like. In a lot of ways it was Warner Bros holding him back (They had a problem with his musical output),maybe a lot of it was Prince himself. But one thing is for certain. Some of those songs are absolutely incredible !!! Songs like Alice Through The Looking Glass, Allegiance, Open Book, 1,000 hugs and Kisses (1992 original), Xtraloveable (1982 original) to name a few. Those and countless others in the vault would have put this man in a whoooole nother stratosphere that he rightfully should already be placed in. #StayCool

[@leer201]

Amazing video of an amazing person

[@ThaMarkOfBuddha]

A bird doesn't go back to revise and edit its song. Prince was like a bird creatively.

[@kolliskollis]

I gotta go harder... thanks for sharing this video Curtiss🔥

[@IAmTheIpiphany]

Catalog is king. I’ve been recording and building that for years my boy. Love this video as well as this affirmation into my process.

[@TwiztedGenius]

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER N THIS LIFETIME O(+>4EVER

[@applejaxx]

7:48 "Trust your first draft!!"

[@thecosmicblueautie]

That's hard when you have a very formed idea of what you hear in your head and real life doesn't sound anything close to that.

[@lorddpablo9651]

The grandmothers living room reference tho🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯 perfect analogy

[@TheIzziShow]

I tell people this all the time a lot of Prince range comes from the fact that he pulls from all kinds of music Soul Rock and blues as well as Punk and funk all those sounds got airtime on most of his albums a lot of guys today are stagnant because they only listen to rap with an occasional R&B or afrobeat song that's it thats all you listen to if so your music probably sucks watch this video get inspired

[@DappadanD87]

Bro I be watching this page it’s a prince podcast …let’s just say he was a beast in real time!!!!

[@TheTrueChrisA.K.]

Definitely takin' notes & applying from this ✍️🏼📓 🛠💯 Got that bad habit with breakin'the flow 4 a smoke break... but workin' on that 4 the year.

[@AG_TheReal]

The Flowstate is real bro!!!

[@keithbell9348]

Lesson # 7: be a HyperCreative. Susan Rogers. She is a professor, a Neuroscientist who teaches at Berkeley, and one of Princes' studio engineers, will tell you how privileged she was to be working at Sunset Sound studios alongside not one, but 2 musical artists whom she described as having the rare propensity of Hyper Creatism. Prince was one of them. She described this phenomenon as having a "leaky faucet that does not shut off" in the region of the brain that becomes most active and is geered towards imagination and art. She says for most of us, when we are bored, our brain is in search of stimuli of some sort Something to latch onto. The door is open. When we find something that we find interesting we tend to shut off everything else around us and focus all our interests in just that thing. The door is closed. But for the Hyper Creative, The door is always open. They just arent interested in one thing at a time, no it's many things that inspire their imagination within a short span of time. Their brain is constantly "feeding" on so many things. Their creative levels never ceizes to spike. Thus when one is interested in the arts, rather quickly it manifests itself in giving expression to that art in creating a visual or audio of it. Now take Prince: Poetry, non stop Song writing, non stop concepts, non stop Mastering multiple instruments, non stop, producing, arranging, instructing, choreography, non stop Put him, as a kid in the recording studio and make the arrangements so he can give full expression in all that he loved the most, and then pay him to do it for a living and you have just unleashed a Frankenstein's Monster out into the world. The vast majority of the most talented musical artists will NOT be able to accomplish as much as he did in the 57 years of his existence.

[@holywaterandgreentea]

Thanks For Posting This. Excellent & Beyond

[@musictipsreviewswithjg]

It's crazy I saw this video the other day!! Soon as I saw this video I went in the studio!!

[@INeverKnewYou158]

Craig David joke got me crying laughing at work was jamming a bunch of his music this week cooking breakfast for dinner 🍽️

[@clarenceraysoniv9720]

right on man i miss him . man

[@IFechiMusic]

Crazy i feel like im jist like prince. The part where they said, leave it is about the feeling. And i have to finish a song in one day cause the next day my vocals are not the same.... It sounds better when you make all the same day

[@lexborjamusic5924]

Thank you so much for sharing this! 🙏🏽

[@huleomusic]

This is my favorite video this month 🙌

[@TheBoyAustin]

Love this channel since I found it. Followed on Twitter as well.

[@Darryl_xtx]

The be a finisher is a hard pill to swallow

[@kevinhurston1555]

The revolution got and took a lot of credit for the work he did by himself. Several tracks on the purple rain album are ALL Prince by himself

[@torrencejerell9668]

I thought this video was hounding me for a week and then I saw that it dropped a day ago?! Amazing content Curtiss! It hurt in all the right places haha let's gooo! 🛠💯👏🏾💪🏾

[@jmzjbz1498]

“My ma’am, why are you coming for us??” 😂

[@ngonsainti]

10:49 his shows were not 2-hour shows but 3 to 4-hour shows. At least the five I saw !

[@wozzy_0973]

Thank you for this great vid bro, we need to put in the work

[@JTAITSINGER]

Super dope song! Sounds like a hit to me!

[@HowdyHeyRadio]

Phenomenal content CK!

[@BreadSlocum]

"We're in the same boat but I'm the only one rowing. "

[@Nate28TV]

I love this video and how blown away you are. I totally feel the exitement. It's so serious and yet so funny when you hear how this mans music came about. It's unheard of. I just love stories like this. Keep the content comming my guy. 🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@timothyminor8038]

Prince was the one! The best to have ever done it. 💜☔️

[@RoneySmithseedoflife]

For as many of his albums that I have on vinyl before cassettes and CDs, I appreciate and humbly know that the many lessons revealed in this video say DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME lol 😂😂😂😂 Now I wonder how many years of his career that Prince was married. Prince was a SUPERNOVA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@stevenmonte7397]

Prince was a genius! Only Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones are on his level.

[@lennybeason1110]

Prince is the Goat

[@amethystamaris]

With flow, todays technology and a good engineer we record and mix 5-10 songs a session. (i produce my music so everything is pre-written in advance of recording sessions) Quality over quantity of course but i say that to say people often intimidate themselves out of how much they can create and how good it is, When i started mentoring artists they learned how much unnecessary perfectionism/overthinking slowed them down and now they create in volumes like me.

[@Visuallifemusicgroup]

I love this video it’s full of amazing information. I am a recording artist myself. I have been working on my catalog and have similar attributes like Prince as far as recording music and producing, the music is concerned . When you got it you just got it but it takes time. I appreciate the video keep make good content

[@TimpossibleOne]

If I were his estate's executor, I would call up his engineers for help curating future Prince albums for release.

[@nighttrain357]

And he could ball and make pancakes.

[@CurtissKingTV]

😂 game. Blouses

[@blaque5582]

That “I Can’t Listen To You Is” so fucking ill. I need that RN

[@Mr.harden]

Oh man, she’s calling everybody out taking 20 years for a good Taqueria, another daycare for snare hit. I love this woman you did that man great story

[@brocklightning]

this vid from Make art not content hit me a few months ago god to see it on here it kicked me into over drive.

[@xgk9500]

It’s not about whether I have something to say it is also about if the listener is comfortable enough to listen what I am saying. People don’t care about lyrics they care about the vibe in the moment.

[@carbonvibes]

She is coming for those Snarens 😂

[@tenzinsamphel5950]

Best video yet

[@aldali724]

I needed this today bruh I get my Mpc 60ii today but my output has always been a super downfall

[@ShockingVintageVibes]

Matt Farley is the most prolific. But famous, incredible and prolific? Ya, PRINCE!

[@MayULive2SeeTheDawn]

You should react to Prince's 1998 BET interview he speaks about the record industry and artists rights. O(+>

[@iengineer_247]

I want to get that song!!!!

[@ebluemagick]

I've made music in both eras and "free" studio time is a gift and a curse

[@Kerzj1]

Of course, his mind was expansive x extravagant 😎

[@MeLoXtra]

Nah this video def had my triggered.

[@stevenmonte7397]

I always wondered what When Doves Cry would sound like with a bass line...

[@aldali724]

1:34 🤣🤣🤣

[@ocraynardcollins6689]

I Started Recording technically 1988 Still at it amen !

[@MARCIE12ification]

Prince started the vault

[@michaelworsham]

Thanks for this one bro

[@corywilliams458]

Definitely Dope🤘🏽

[@8Phoenix8]

#VIOLAGANG :)

[@djayall]

Its like catching up with the walking dead and you have to watch everything to understand the different eras.

[@rickbecket2820]

@15:33 the guy says we will never get to hear the completed songs. Who controls Prince's work and what the F**k else are they doing that's more important? It is shocking to see the estate doesn't seem to care about these songs.

[@skoolhitdabutton]

Can you say "Musical Kobe"

[@christopherashley7325]

This Is The Kobe Bryant Of The Music World, He Was Always In The Studio. Like Kobe Was In The Gym! 😮😏🤫🤔🤨 There were two vaults he lost the keys to the first enables completely full.

[@Maysoon3121]

He made more he had vaults in other countries

[@stephenjones4013]

If that is true 8k is crazy

[@safa1one]

Yeah that is crazy cool though!

[@carbonvibes]

This is insane 🤯

[@6lackcomedy]

dope video......what happened to the mos def one???

[@CurtissKingTV]

That was the live. The edited version drops Monday

[@stephenjones4013]

He out work everyone

[@AG_TheReal]

Defiantly going back and going to upload all the old catalogs

[@CurtissKingTV]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@PINK666FM]

Prince was never filthy rich either. He quietly gave most of his money to charities. He just genuinely loved making music. Money didn't matter to him.

[@JusNBL2000]

Prince was filthy rich bro he died with a lot of money

[@TheRoyalGenerationiTunes]

He had a network between $250million-$350million when he passed. Had multiple houses in the US and other Countries. Had several luxury cars, and not to mention the 65,000 sq ft Paisley Park complex. (Unfortunately a lot of the money went to death taxes and paying lawyers) Prince was very very very Rich

[@christopherashley7325]

Actually there were 2 walls Bob number one the keys were lost bought number 2 was just as full.🤪

[@downnorthmusic]

Are you going to NAMM

[@TJ-bx5px]

Easy music! Music today is WAY more complex. I can make electronic music in BACH mode in a few hours, Prince is not the only one... ffs. Music is timing, it dosent help have vaste time om music that's never released..

[@MARCIE12ification]

She didn’t start no vault.

[@CLNPG]

Who has ownership of "The Vault" now? I pray it's not 'the lawyers '😩, but the family of PRINCE, and people are in it to respect PRINCE, and not to profit from PRINCE.

[@TheyCSmith]

He was doing this shit in the 80s. Just shows how lazy we’re are 🥴🥴🥴😭😭😭 I know he’s an anomaly but still. Work ethic was different

[@leeharrison8222]

No, but his crazy work ethic stood out even in the '80s. they guy was cut from a different cloth than his peers and contemporaries.

[@PsiloSage]

Thank You BasedGod