Originally set for release in December 1987, The Black Album—also known as The Funk Bible in some press releases from the time—was murky, sardonic, and lyrically vicious, an apparent response to the critics who claimed Prince had drifted too far from black pop music through the 80s. A week before the album was supposed to hit stores, Prince had a possibly MDMA-related "spiritual epiphany." Now seeing the album as a work of "evil," he asked his label, Warner Bros, to destroy all 500,000 copies of it. He hated the thing so much that he even paid for the destruction himself out of his royalties. Bootlegs swamped the streets, much to Prince's dismay. But Lovesexy, an underrated record that fused sexuality and religion in ways that even Prince himself hadn't fully explored before, was his next official record. An official version of The Black Album came out on Warner in 2014, and it found its way onto Tidal in 2016.