Episode notes

The Album: Prince Dirty Mind (1980)

Dirty Mind, Prince’s third album, arrived on the scene in the late fall of 1980, and brought with it a salaciousness we hadn’t known heretofore. The album, a mix of punk, funk and disco allowed Prince to play with gender and genre as well as sexual innuendo and double entendre.

Beatmaker and producer Illa J sat down with us to talk about why Dirty Mind for him is an all time heatrock, what makes the album impossible to stop bumping and how Prince was on time and ahead of his time all at the same time.

This episode was short and sweet – just like Dirty Mind. Check it.

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Show Tracklisting (all songs from Dirty Mind unless indicated otherwise):

Uptown

Illa J: Enjoy the Ride

Partyup

Dirty Mind

Prince: Controversy

Dirty Mind

When You Were Mine

The Bangles” Manic Monday

Sister

Partyup

When You Were Mine

Head

Gotta Broken Heart Again

Vanity 6: Nasty Girl

Britney Spears: I’m A Slave 4 U

Uptown

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