Welcome 2 America by Prince

Welcome 2 America

Prince

2021

Welcome 2 America is a Soul & Funk album by Prince, originally released in 2021. On Gatefold: 18 pressings tracked, owned by 12 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Soul & Funk
  • Funk
  • warm
  • earnest
  • political

About

It’s hard to know what to make of the steady stream of releases to flow from Prince’s legendary vaults. On one hand, even a casual fan can marvel at the sheer scope of his output, and how he would regularly cast aside entire albums’ worth of songs that would be career highlights for any other artist. On the other hand, he was a meticulous artist with impossibly exacting standards that these songs didn’t meet for whatever now-unknowable reasons, so what does it mean to listen to them without his blessing? <i>Welcome 2 America</i> does not offer any immediate clues as to its pariah status. Recorded in 2010 with New Power Generation, these are fully realized funk, R&B, and rock songs, often sharp and lyrically prescient—nothing necessarily revelatory or adventurous by the measure of Prince’s own formidable canon, but far from anyone’s idea of detritus. “Yes” is a rowdy rave-up, while Prince pays tribute to fellow Minneapolis lifers with a perhaps unlikely cover of Soul Asylum’s 2006 “Stand Up and B Strong.”

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Tracklist

  1. 1Welcome 2 America5:23
  2. 2Running Game (Son Of A Slave Master)4:05
  3. 3Born 2 Die5:03
  4. 41000 Light Years From Here5:46
  5. 5Hot Summer3:32
  6. 6Stand Up And B Strong5:18
  7. 7Check The Record3:28
  8. 8Same Page, Different Book4:41
  9. 9When She Comes4:46
  10. 101010 (Rin Tin Tin)4:42
  11. 11Yes2:56
  12. 12One Day We Will All B Free4:41

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Performers

12 collectors on Gatefold own this · 18 pressings tracked on Gatefold