Here come a barrage of Opie tweets with the hashtag #Prince

45  2016-04-21 by kevin121312

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This is the second time he is the artist formerly known as Prince.

DING DING DING. That's the line. There it is.

huh huh huh well it's not gonna get better than that, let's take a break

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If Ant was still around they'd be manipulating the lyrics and the names of his famous songs and turning them into comedy gold for 15 minutes. Alas, no more, the show has since been reinvented.

Anthony and Jim together couldn't name three Prince songs, let alone riff on the lyrics.

I bet they could.

And it's only the 10th time I've seen it on reddit so far!

I don't know about that man. I kept ctrl+F-ing formerly and it was mostly things like "PRINCE THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALIVE IS NOW DEAD." I'm not saying it's a Pryor bit but that is succinct and to what is probably the best punchline because he changed his name and then changed it back so it reads technically correct with an element of humor. But what the fuck do I, as a civilian, really know? The concept is easy but most people are so humorless they brutalize a punchline. Honestly I almost Chipped it so I don't think you're entirely off base.

I know what you're doing, but fuck you, anyway.

Line of the day.

Technically, he's the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

Chyna just got Farah Fawcetted by Prince.

Yeah, but let's be honest does anyone really give a shit about Chyna besides wrestling fans?

This year's celebrity deaths have been bruuuutal

ME: what do you think about these recent celebrity deaths Jimmy?

Worm: I dunno man, I was never too into prince but I'm sad to see him go. He will be missed. finishes ordering a prostitute that he'll pay for with the Chip Cartoon money

ME: Yeah, I go deep with the Prince man. Deep. Let's listen to Purple Haze, one of his many, maaany hits.

ME: Travis let's go to break with another deep cut from Prince. How about that Corvette song?

ME: Let's pay our respects with a deep track. Here's Prince with Batdance.

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Worm: I mean, I like Prince. But you can't say that he's as good as Ace Frehley. Prince never made an album as good as Destroyer. There's just no arguing that.

this is a rough one. this year's been rough

"I don't know man, I don't really know any of his songs. I didn't want them to influence my act."

Did Prince ever work with Ozzy? if not, then I never heard any of his work.

Having that narrow of a focus and in such depth (I like metal, but only two bands and i know every waking moment of each members lives) is a sign of autism.

It's why any shot at a bigger career than he has now is dead & gone. New material doesn't come from living in a bubble.

He peaked when he had O&A plus the Tonight Show gig simultaneously...it's downhill from there.

He's definitely on the spectrum or maybe just intellectually challenged, dull people lack curiosity so they never really explore anything outside of what they already decided to identify with, anything different can feel threatening to their identity just like when a young Jimmy saw 4 dudes in cool clown makeup he latched onto that & never let go but instead of growing, discovering & being open to new things he became territorial & protective of his music & dismissive of everything else & it's not just music he's an intellectual dud with most subject matter

Oh good, now we get to hear people who have never listened to Prince talk about him for a week. Amazing how many secret David Bowie fans there were.

The dude never had an album debut at number 1 until he died. It's fucking disgusting how many people just follow what is fashionable at the time.

It's the same thing that I quit Facebook for like 5 years ago. A good friend of mine committed suicide, and people that he never spoke with were posting "RIP Joe, gonna miss you." People just want to be in on an event. Makes me fucking sick

Sorry about your friend man and that is especially disgusting because there's an element of "pity me because I knew him" when they didn't. And yeah, people just want to insert themselves into whatever is trendy at the time. Not a huge politics guy but I swear 1/2 of the people supporting Trump or Sanders are just doing it because it's like "in" now.

Fuckin Joe died? Man this is pretty huge for me..

post of the thread...well done sir. Misdirection rules.

Part of it is people just not hearing about things.

What?

PART OF IT IS PEOPLE JUST NOT HEARING ABOUT THINGS.


I am a bot, and I don't respond to myself.

What?

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I mean, it's not just people thinking something is good because it's popular. Part of it is that people only hear about things once they've become popular.

That works for things like Indie bands or fringe movies but doesn't apply here at all. People pretty much always knew who David Bowie was during his career and my point was he didn't debut a number one album until he died and it was especially popular to be a David Bowie fan so you can pout about his death publicly. I go about as deep as a puddle with the Bowie so I can't tell you x album is better than y album but I can guarantee his last album is not his best by leaps and bounds. My point is even more valid because people buy less CD's than they used to...so he wasn't #trending before he died.

I've heard some Bowie fans refer to Blackstar as a creative apogee, but that could just be coincidence.

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I never understood why people online get mad at others for paying their respects. Do you read peoples 'R.I.P's' and tell them they didn't even know Prince or do you just like to argue about them doing it?

It's not about knowing Prince or knowing the person that died. It just bugs me knowing that a lot of people don't actually give a shot, but will tweet something so they can be a part of it. I don't go around calling people on it, just saying that it bugs me.

Fair enough. How would you know they didn't give a shit though. There's a good chance they liked at least one Bowie or Prince song. Is it when anyone puts R.I.P (whoever)?

Well I guess Opie would be a perfect example of what I'm talking about. He knew nothing about David Bowie, but was tweeting about him and talking about him like he was a long time fan. It's the same thing every website is doing right now, using a death to generate clicks. You see this outpouring of affection for someone that wasn't being talked about before he died. Idk, it just bugs me.

Imagine how bad it'll be when somebody he has a "story" on like a Green Day or Godsmack member dies.

"Duuude, do you know how much I could be selling that Godsmack demo tape for right now if I kept it?"

"I go deep with the Prince. Hey, E-Rock, play some of that Man in the Mirror for me! Jimmy, you like the Printtttttsssss?"

"I never really got into them, but I've heard good things."

Florentine: "He was actually a really good guitar player too... I didnt like him though...I'm not 8 and I'm not gay"

Bruu-tal

"I was all in with the Prince, I go deep! When Pidgeons cry, violet rain, strawberry hat...the Prince was big in my life!"

You forgot Big Yellow Mustang!

haha

You know the whole Rule of 3s thing with celebrities?

I wish Opie was famous enough for it.

my money is on an attempted 'rule of 3' joke from the Opster.

guarantee he's been racking his brains for the right word play for hours.

YA KIDDIN'!

Maybe if we're lucky, Brother Joe will start a tribute act, "White Prince", and then die of the flu.

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compromised immune system, not necessarily teh AIDS. He was keeping a pretty rigorous schedule the past few months on the road.

Tits: Where you at with [fill in the artist] Jimmy?

Jimmy: I've heard his songs on the radio but never got into him.

Jimmy: "Purple Rain? never heard it..can you play it for me? Maybe I have.."

I was ALL IN with da prince back in da day *sniff * I liked da deep tracks

da deep tracks

Purple Rain and Little Red Corvette?

Gotta give it to the man, he made some bitchin' tunes... and pancakes.

"Game... blouses."

"Y'all want some grapes?"

Joe just changed his one man band name to white prince.

Have some pancakes...bitch

Game: Blouses.

I'm not buying the "died from complications from the flu" the dude was 57 and did a concert before his death... I'm guessing drugs

Isnt complications from the flu just an old school code for the aids?

Yup. And Prince was a devout Jehovah's Witnesses which means that he wasn't on meds.

Do JWs not take meds? I thought that was Christian Scientists and JW's just wouldn't get transfusions. Too many psycho religions to keep track of.

That's what I understand. Earlier this week MediaTakeout, the site which reported Charlie Sheen having HIV long before anyone else, reported that a very popular black celebrity who is not Magic Johnson has full blown AIDS. The celeb was diagnosed with HIV long ago and had

"contracted the illness sometime in the 1990s. He kept the illness quiet but began taking his medication RELIGIOUSLY up until about two years ago. Here's what we're told by a VERY trusted entertainment insider:

[The celebrity] believed that he was cured, and he had some crazy [religious] people who told him that God cured him. So he stopped taking his medication and the sickness came back. Now doctors say he's dying, and there is nothing anyone can do about it."

In the comment section several different people noted the very, very strict beliefs that JW's have on medical care. Prince only became a JW in 2001but is said to have become devout more recently.

Goddamn that sucks. If that's true, that church straight up killed Prince. HIV hasn't been a death sentence for years. He could've lived to be an old dude on those meds. What a fucking waste. Yet another reason to hate religion.

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1: Bitch is going to hell because she doesn't believe in jesus

It's really bizarre. Following his medical issues last week, on Monday TMZ ran the headline "Prince: I'm Alive, and Kinda Well" which included this photo of Prince on stage at a Paisley Park dance party Saturday night. Apparently everyone that attended decided not to take a photo of Prince that shows his face because that seems to be the only photo from that night.

also from his wikipedia: Prince joined the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001 following a two-year-long debate with friend and fellow Jehovah's Witness musician Larry Graham. Prince said that he didn't consider it a conversion, but a "realization". "It's like Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix", he explained. He attended meetings at a local Kingdom Hall and occasionally knocked on people's doors to discuss his faith.[185] Prince reportedly needed double hip-replacement surgery since 2005 but would not undergo the operation unless it was a bloodless surgery because Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions.

Maybe he caught it tag teaming broads with Magic Johnson.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/magic-johnson-prince-death/

He was 57 and black. I knew he was gonna be checking out soon. Just thought he might hit 60 at least

Ant doesn't stand a chance.

It was AIDS. Not even joking.

I'm hoping this is some bad reporting considering it's TMZ and they are saying it's a "death on Prince's property." Hopefully he killed a hooker or something.

Though I believe Prince was in notoriously bad health for quite a few years, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was natural causes rather than drugs.

Edit: Well, fuck. Confirmed by AP. Ugh.

He was just in the hospital a few days ago with the flu. Damn.

recently he had to be rushed to the hospital for some reason so I'm guessing it's something to do with that

And then after he came back to MN he apparently "hosted a dance party" and then died a few days later. A truly strange person.

While healthy adults can die from complications from the flu, it's pretty unusual. Usually the people who die from flu are either very young or very old, or the immune system-compromised. Still, if you get the flu as a healthy adult and somehow get a secondary bacterial or viral infection, that can and will kill you. If you contract pneumonia while you have the flu, that's a really scary combination, and the bacteria can overrun multiple organ systems.

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Ugh, well we now know what 60 people will hear when they tune in Monday morning. Perhaps Jim will finally take the show full-morning-zoo with a parody song "Monster rain, monster raaaain..."

What song will Opie play? Little Red Corvette?

ME: I didn't go deep with Prince, but I was all-in with his hits. Travis, what are some of his hits?

he'll play Raspberry Beret

"Fawwwcchhk"

where you guys at with the princeeeeeee?

All week next week: "Where you at with this Prince?" and

"I got turned on to this Prince by so and so. I don't go that deep, though."

so far today this dumb site broke the news of chyna, now prince's death to me

Ya weighs in at a fawkin ton

ME: The head of the RNC died? #turmoil

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Holy fuck everyone is dying😬. Prince now too wtf?

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AIDS + Jehovah's Witnesses' medical restrictions is never a good combination...

Scurvy + Judaism ain't no walk in the park, neither.

oh fuck off :(

Besides the Rolling Stones, Prince was the most overrated musician of my fucking lifetime. He was such a creepy sleazebag, I like when he was 60 years old and played a Superbowl halftime show with 2 billion people watching, kids and all everything else, and played a cock shaped guitar. Jesus fucking Christ, we GOT IT, you're "SEX GUY." Yuck. Fuck Prince, lil fag.

You clearly don't know shit about music.

I know about "makin it" with mega babes; and the Nuge rocked some primo trim. Your boy Prince had to scrap to gay porn just to get a rod when he was with one of his beards.

Purple Rain rules, also, what dick shaped guitar? If you're talking about his cloud guitar or his gay symbol shaped one, neither look like a dick and you are in fact a homosexual.

It doesn't "rule." It's average. There's a million infinitely better albums from that era that get 1/100th the fanfare Purple Rain got, it's ridiculous.

THIS dick shaped guitar. GET IT?? Oh, he's so controversial!!!!! Imgur

The fact whether or not I am a homosexual doesn't mitigate the fact that Prince is an overrated boring fucking self serious cornball.

You're the type that takes anything that has two straight parallel lines and turns it into a phallus aka, you're a closeted homosexual. His guitar is the dumb ass symbol he used as his name in the 90s and that pose is a pose every guitar player does, the guitar is inherently and extension of your cock on stage, Prince wasn't the first or only person to do this.

Also, saying something is good doesn't mean other things aren't better than it. How fucking retarded an argument is that? Are you in fifth grade?

I love cock.

I know

Purple Rain does not rule. It is fucking boring and unnecessary.

Purple Rain is a killer album, your life is wholey unnecessary

Only a fag would look at that guitar and think it was cock shaped - it was his symbol. Prince wasn't overrated. His guitar playing was actually underrated. Besides, you probably fuck your nephews to Ted Nugent songs.

You're right, only a fag would: Imgur

Ted Nugent fucking rules, at least he can take your eye out with a bow & arrow and survive an apocalypse. What can Prince do, call one of his stupid bodyguards with the sunglasses on?

Also, my nephews are all ugly and have shitty haircuts. Not my type.

You stupid cunt, you screen capped a half second of his performance while he spun around playing guitar on stage.

Ted Nugent fucking rules, at least he can take your eye out with a bow & arrow and survive an apocalypse

yep. we're done here. You child.

Fuck you. Your fag hero Prince is getting tooled in the ass by Satan right now in hell, fageet. Go pull on your nippies to "Rasberry Beret."

I didn't screencap shit, I Google imaged "Prince cock shaped guitar." You can try it yourself, if you can take your hands off your nippies listening to Rasberry Beret.

I Google imaged clicked on my bookmark of "Prince cock shaped guitar.

I don't even know how to do that, but ok. I don't know how to screencap with my Mac. (The kind you buy in a second hand store)

The NUGE is a douche. Stop.

"Jealousy will get you nowhere." - Dirk Diggler

"Jealousy will get you nowhere." - Dirk Diggler

I don't even know how to do that, but ok. I don't know how to screencap with my Mac. (The kind you buy in a second hand store)

I love cock.