He was a slave to the industry but to us he was the God of Music, no one will ever come close to this man...in talent, uniqueness, looks, sexiness, charm...gorgeousness, he had an extra sprinkling of it all...love you Prince Rogers Nelson...forever 💜
I love this so much. Especially the big F- U he throws the show producers for making him lip sync, by chewing gum. Classic 90's Prince. I really miss him.
The amount of shade that Prince gave when something didn’t go his way was the best fucking F you that anyone could give😂💜 Prince was the baddest and he knew it, as he should😂💜
Indeed - yet he was throwing shade for all the artists that faced the restrictive shenanigans major labels throw at their artists and still do. Peace. . .
The fact that he lip syncs and still performs better than almost any entertainer. The way he starts as well, my god! From laying on his back to sitting up to the splits and raising up. The leg strength!
I remember in 1983. Prince came to Detroit with vanity 6 and The time. The whole city. Was walking 🚶 around. Dress like 🤴🏻 prince. Detroit love him, so much. We still, love him.❤
MJ was a performer. Not an artist. And I've NEVER seen him do something like this. Prince wrote, produced, and often played all the instruments on most of his songs. MJ didn't have that type of talent or ability. Prince is the GOAT.
@@AlexanderNevermind888 He's literally both. No artist wrote and produced all their own stuff.... except Prince. And considering Prince's music sold less than 5% of what MJ sold, its proof that his antics of doing whatever he wanted and doing all of it alone, caused his music to be overall subpar. Also you must be completely delusional. Michael has over a dozen different live performances with a million times more complex dance moves that dwarf this lmao. . More awarded, a million times more famous, more internationally recognized, much more records sold, the million times better dancer. Plus MJ is a very good writer too he wrote Billie Jean and We are the world, both some of the best selling singles of ALL TIME. Stay mad that Prince is so overshadowed, small in comparison. Cheers.
actually, he was pissed with the organizers for not allowing him to sing live. He had to lip sync that's why he was chewing the gum as a way to say FU to them.
@@VDJVivacity Yep. Prince stood there and had a lolli pop while they all sang. I think quincy or someone tried to act like he was gonna take it, Which really any of them would take Prince''s left overs, as they did in real life..lol. Prince was being fiesty for sure. He was too COOL.
Funny story about his chewing gum. The AMA show producers wouldn't let acts perform live - only lip sync to recorded vocals so there were no "surprises". Prince refused - he would never lip sync because he felt it was cheap and cheated the fans. AMSs wouldn't budge, so he chewed gum during the entire performance so that it was obvious that he wasn't singing live. Don't know who thought they could tell Prince how to perform, but in his usual fashion, he showed them. :)
Sorry, not true. The AMAs always featured live performances & always will, almost never lip-synched performances...The lip-synch was Prince's idea, & Dick Clark (who owned the AMAs) gave him the OK to do so. To Prince, this whole TAFKAP thing was no joke -- He was literally trying to become an entirely different artist with no association with Prince & who only recorded & released new music. At this point, he had "put Prince to bed" (as he mentions in his speech, even referring to "Prince" in the third person). That's the reason for the lip-synch -- Because as this "brand new" artist who had no connection whatsoever to Prince, he would no longer perform Prince songs live & Dick Clark approved it. This wasn't "Prince", this was another artist accepting the award for Prince.
@@Tarantulisimo yes, I believe Prince had DID. Also known as multiple personalities. The artist was very far and removed from Prince. The artist was madly in love with Mayte. Prince wasn't.
Tarantulisimo Yes, but Prince was performing his new songs which were released under his new symbol, so it does not make sense that he would lip sync to this performance. He hated lip syncing and often criticized performers who did it. I think the above poster is correct. He was not able to perform live.
When I was 10 years old, he was the first artist I really liked. “1999” was, is, and always will be, my favorite album. If it wasn’t for this man, I might never have pursued my passion of making music. When he died, although it may sound strange, I felt like I lost an uncle. I stayed in my house, depressed and mourning, for 3 days. A true once in a lifetime talent. A musical genius, and my reason for wanting to do it all by myself. Make the music, write the lyrics, engineer the session, and produce the whole thing. Thank you, isn’t enough. RIP Mr. Nelson.
What a talent. You’ll never see the likes of him again. Having Mayte, Nona and Carmen on one stage! ‘Like Eskimo chill, it’s all good, peace and be wild!’🤘🏻
Sad how Mayte gets sooo much praise and credit when she knew he was with Nona at the time. Her parents were too dehydrated. Who sends a tape of their 15 year old daughter to a grown man in his 30's? I know... he's Prince but as a woman and fan I can't get behind Mayte and disregard Nona. Ever notice she's not mentioned when his relationship's are discussed but she was with him for 3 years.
Sorry, not true. The AMAs always featured live performances & always will, almost never any lip-synched performances until the Britney/boy band era...The lip-synch was Prince's idea, & Dick Clark (who owned the AMAs) gave him the OK to do so. To Prince, this whole TAFKAP thing was no joke -- He was literally trying to become an entirely different artist with no association with Prince & who only recorded & released new music. At this point, he had "put Prince to bed" (as he mentions in his speech, even referring to "Prince" in the third person). That's the reason for the lip-synch -- Because as this "brand new" artist who had no connection whatsoever to Prince, he would no longer perform Prince songs live & Dick Clark approved it. This wasn't "Prince", this was another artist accepting the award for Prince.
v Right. He detested lip syncing. The gum was his response to that. He also sucked on a lollipop during the “We Are The World” reunion sing-along at the end of the show 😆
Prince DID NOT have to play his hits at shows....what other artists in today's music can do that and still turn out an AMAZING performance??? I'll what.....Lol GENIUS! LEGEND! 💜✝️☮️
@@AC-mp7cx Nah Boo you can tell prince was a natural born dancer just look at his movies, they were smooth, clean, precise, powerful and on time. Just because you’re a professional doesn’t mean you have the groove of a natural born dancer.
I can still remember screaming like a banshee in my living room when he popped up off the floor at 5:42. Also, I'd forgotten how much ass that drummer kicked.
Prince on Jan 30, 1995 at the 22nd Annual American Music Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. I was there. After the award show, we went to Carls Jr. next to the Shrine and a few of his back up dancers were in there. They were still wearing their black tops with NPG lettering, tights, and boots. My older sister talked to one of the dancers and they ended up telling us they were heading to the Glam Slam in Downtown LA for an after party. Prince would most likely be there. We were only 16 and 17 years old so we couldn't go, but we felt just a bit closer to Prince by just talking to his backup dancers. lol
It was his way of telling the industry F U u he wasn't allowed to sing live so he didn't want people to think he was lip singing, we know he doesn't lip sync but the music billboards gave him no choice, and they like to throw up you're in a contract.
The one and only fabulous, amazing,super talented and sexy, Prince. Missing you here on Earth and beyond. Prince Roger Nelson your rocking in Heaven. Peace and be wild.💜💜💜💕 Sending hugs to you in heaven.
I love watching this concert of Prince on the awards I played his song in my car almost every day and Prince you will always be greatly missed in my heart and I was fortunate enough to see Prince in concert twice ,Kingdom The Purple Rain concert and years later at The Key Arena The love sexy concert. I will always will keep your dream alive by enjoying your music love you Prince you're deeply missed still grieving rest in peace
I'm as big a fan of Prince as I am a Michael Jackson fan and one thing I love is that in 1995 they both did these huge medley performances on award shows; Prince at the AMAs, MJ at the VMAs. At this point, they were both veterans in the game, they were the same age, and they were basically closing sagas in their careers around this time. Plus they were both wearing their hair short in 1995 as well😂😂
MJ had a big head start, sliding around.. and not playing instruments? Quincy Jones and producers pushing him?.. with like only seven albums with his career?? Everybody is slowly figuring this out now. Prince was the one man tour d e Force who did it all by himself.. his way! That's why when people dig these archives up,.. it's just another one of the billion things Prince did. And 44 albums!.. when did he inhale??..
I loved prince since 1983 I was twelve purple rain movie came out I was hooked for life loved him to the day he died still loving him now 2021 forever fan RIP dear beautiful man music legend prince
Singing or not singing for real nobody ever can do any thing vaguely in comparison of what this man was capable of doing on a stage. The message was extremely powerful and funky
1995 & he was still dating Nona (she accepted the award just before the music & said I'll give it to him later) & of course he was also dating Mayte. When Dick Clark met him on American Bandstand During his 1st TV appearance when he sang I wanna be your lover Dick Clark said he knew Prince would be a star! PRINCELUV4EVER!!!
I remember this performance!! Incredible!! The arrangement was good. That was Nona Gaye presenting; she was supposed to marry Prince, but he married Mayte instead. Nona was crushed.
He should’ve married Nona because she would’ve gave him beautiful babies. He crushed Nona, so the karma was Mayte not being able to produce healthy babies. 1 that was born unhealthy and 1 miscarriage. :( But that was his fault so. 🤷🏽♀️
@@ariana336pm The molar pregnancy was her fault it literally depended on her eggs with genetic make up of her eggs were not healthy so it caused his DNA to be duplicated Her genetic material in her eggs were inactive
It's all FAKE! Humans do the rehearsal... and Ai deepfakes the show. It's all fake! That's why you sign contracts. You have to lie. It's not real. All dances are computer graphics- just like music videos. Humans rehearse and animations does the rest. It's fake like Jim carey said. It's fake/.
I remember when i first heard of prince's passing, strange but true, it was just breaking dawn and i decided to sit at my bed room window, just as i did an extremely overwhelming sadness took too my heart
james owens III I still do! I waited at a MN record store, got the cd & The Artist never showed. Some say he didn't like this cd, & in fact, as far as I recall, a re-issue was done only sometime back...I love the entire cd...I think it's one of Prince's best/underrated cd's.💜
Lighten up, Francis! If everyone was as great as Prince, he wouldn't be special, would he? There's plenty of talent out there. Don't be a hater cause they ain't as good as the Greatest!✌️
Silence Dogood I’m not hating, I’m just disgusted that the entire music industry has shot to Hell and they don’t give a crap WHAT the “music” comes out sounding like. They are literally just manufacturing music with a familiar sound to sell records. That’s why all of the music today sounds alike, they’ve done studies on what sounds sell the best and then produce the music accordingly. They are literally microwaving “hits” based off of the stupidity of the masses who will flock to iTunes and buy the crap up like candy. We’re literally living in the age of processed, mass produced music or “McMusic,” if you will; to use a fast food analogy. And then artists with REAL talent are looked over or sidelined while whichever “artist” with the biggest plastic butt or the most drama gets all of the attention. For example, the likes of Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Cardi B. would have NEVER even been good enough to SWEEP the floors at these record studios back in the 80s/90s, much less RECORD in them! That’s what disgusts me. 😒
Prince was just to cool & smooth AF. I know Morris day plays the cool guy but not compared to Prince. The guy was the genius of our era with out a doubt.
He lips syncs this because the awards people didn't trust that he wouldn't do or say something that would surprise them. In Mayte's book she talks about how he's chewing gum to illustrate it as a big FU to the academy.
This performance is from the 22nd annual American Music Awards, not the Grammy's, so there was no academy involved. It's never been quite clear why he lip-synched, but there are several stories out there, but I don't think it had anything to do with the AMAs not trusting what he would say -- he'd accepted awards & made speeches at the AMAs many times before this. I even read that the lip-synch was his idea, partly due to the frenetic chaotic nature of this performance, but mainly because he was the rebellious TAFKAP at this time & was trying to distance himself for an award which was honoring Prince music.
He had all three women he was with all on strange at the same time. Poor Nona, this was after their brake up. Carmens a dancer and so is Mayte. Only Prince could pull those off.
I love his voice!❤ Good performance, favorite bit was when they performed "Billy Jack Bitch". Also his mannerisms during his speech...😰😍*sighs*. Liked seeing Nona up there, she seemed so happy to honor him that night, you could hear the love in her voice. So cute when he kissed her. I feel bad about how he did her though. Weird how he performed "Eye Hate U" when Carmen was also there, and him and Mayte was basically re-created what they did in the video. Had all his women there that night. Love him.
That may have been part of the choreography. Mayte also did something similar in a VH1 (I think) performance of P. Control when she changed from a red outfit and came back in a silver mini dress.
Tellement de peine qu'il soit parti..4 ans déjà ,toute ma jeunesse et ma vie sont remplies de sa musique et de sa présence ,qu'ils étaient beaux avec sa femme quel gâchis, trop de peine de le voir si plein de vie
Just love this man 💜 He was the best of the best! And anyone who knows anything about music and musicianship knows it! Miss him so much 😢 there will always be the haters out there … you know shit about him, so stop disrespecting his legacy! To real fans who loved and respected him, we will ignore the haters, like he did! Their hate is a sad reflection of who they are! Prince stood for excellence, love and kindness, everyone getting along no matter your colour, helping others and spirituality. If these are qualities you think aren’t important and hate, along with the man, then you aren’t worth even engaging with. The man was a genius! And a beautiful soul. Loved and missed beyond belief 😢💜
03:22 They are SOOO jealous! Well, you can’t be this talented without a ton of haters. But my goodness, they’re on T.V., must they make it SO obvious? But he didn’t care. He was the baddest man on the planet and he KNEW IT! Just listen at those arrangements.
He was a slave to the industry but to us he was the God of Music, no one will ever come close to this man...in talent, uniqueness, looks, sexiness, charm...gorgeousness, he had an extra sprinkling of it all...love you Prince Rogers Nelson...forever 💜
prince had those things but a couple other artists did too
@@AC-mp7cx I think if you look NO-ONE could do what he did!
@@AC-mp7cx all dead🥴
He was. aslave to drugs like Fentanyl
@@OmgAuntySuzanne16 nah. loads of artists were bigger. LOADS. In terms of skill, all of them were unique.
I love this so much. Especially the big F- U he throws the show producers for making him lip sync, by chewing gum. Classic 90's Prince. I really miss him.
The amount of shade that Prince gave when something didn’t go his way was the best fucking F you that anyone could give😂💜 Prince was the baddest and he knew it, as he should😂💜
Indeed - yet he was throwing shade for all the artists that faced the restrictive shenanigans major labels throw at their artists and still do. Peace. . .
The fact that he lip syncs and still performs better than almost any entertainer. The way he starts as well, my god! From laying on his back to sitting up to the splits and raising up. The leg strength!
90s Prince was the best and my favorite time period of music.
Why did they make him lip sync?
His royal badness, Musical Genius, Master of love songs, Guitar Genius,His Purple Majesty Gone but never forgotten 💔 Rest in eternal peace 💜🕊️💐🎸🙏🏽
This man too cold. This nigga popped up off the floor with a clean split, gum, and a legendary swag walk. How do I get on that level of cool?
He had a PhD in being cool.👍
@@evanabbott2737 PhD in advanced body movin'. Get the reference😉
Sorry no one can!!
THAR'S MY DUDE!!!
say that shit bro
I remember in 1983. Prince came to Detroit with vanity 6 and The time. The whole city. Was walking 🚶 around. Dress like 🤴🏻 prince. Detroit love him, so much. We still, love him.❤
Prince isn't dead...he lives in my heart 💜💯💜💯💜💯💜
Ur right he isn't dead it's only his body
FOR SURE!!!FOREVER.... 💘 💘 💘..
And in mine 🙏🕊️💜
@@sharonmcauley2582 0
He is still on earth right now!
He wasn’t finished this Journey yet and I am not leaving until I see him in front of me.
The way he started this...popping up from the split...very smooth. Hands down, the greatest artist of my era.
Of Every Ones ERA and Forever,
MJ did that when he was 8
Mj's the goat by far
MJ was a performer. Not an artist. And I've NEVER seen him do something like this. Prince wrote, produced, and often played all the instruments on most of his songs. MJ didn't have that type of talent or ability. Prince is the GOAT.
@@AlexanderNevermind888 He's literally both. No artist wrote and produced all their own stuff.... except Prince. And considering Prince's music sold less than 5% of what MJ sold, its proof that his antics of doing whatever he wanted and doing all of it alone, caused his music to be overall subpar.
Also you must be completely delusional. Michael has over a dozen different live performances with a million times more complex dance moves that dwarf this lmao. . More awarded, a million times more famous, more internationally recognized, much more records sold, the million times better dancer. Plus MJ is a very good writer too he wrote Billie Jean and We are the world, both some of the best selling singles of ALL TIME. Stay mad that Prince is so overshadowed, small in comparison. Cheers.
Prince is Prince hands down the Greatest Artist of the Century 🎸🎸🎸
I love this set ! He's so cocky ,he looks at the crowd as if to say "you ain't gonna beat this tonite "
actually, he was pissed with the organizers for not allowing him to sing live. He had to lip sync that's why he was chewing the gum as a way to say FU to them.
Haha I'm surprised he didn't have a lollipop just to really piss them off !
He did later on in the evening when they brought him up with a lot of other performers to sing "We Are The World". There's a clip on TH-cam of it.
@@VDJVivacity Yep. Prince stood there and had a lolli pop while they all sang. I think quincy or someone tried to act like he was gonna take it, Which really any of them would take Prince''s left overs, as they did in real life..lol. Prince was being fiesty for sure. He was too COOL.
@@LuvOneAnother Prince's leftovers? bruh what are you talking about. get help
This man should still be here. 😭😭 hope to see him in the after life 💜
Funny story about his chewing gum. The AMA show producers wouldn't let acts perform live - only lip sync to recorded vocals so there were no "surprises". Prince refused - he would never lip sync because he felt it was cheap and cheated the fans. AMSs wouldn't budge, so he chewed gum during the entire performance so that it was obvious that he wasn't singing live. Don't know who thought they could tell Prince how to perform, but in his usual fashion, he showed them. :)
Sorry, not true. The AMAs always featured live performances & always will, almost never lip-synched performances...The lip-synch was Prince's idea, & Dick Clark (who owned the AMAs) gave him the OK to do so. To Prince, this whole TAFKAP thing was no joke -- He was literally trying to become an entirely different artist with no association with Prince & who only recorded & released new music. At this point, he had "put Prince to bed" (as he mentions in his speech, even referring to "Prince" in the third person). That's the reason for the lip-synch -- Because as this "brand new" artist who had no connection whatsoever to Prince, he would no longer perform Prince songs live & Dick Clark approved it. This wasn't "Prince", this was another artist accepting the award for Prince.
@@Tarantulisimo yes, I believe Prince had DID. Also known as multiple personalities. The artist was very far and removed from Prince. The artist was madly in love with Mayte. Prince wasn't.
Michelle Frost lmao!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tarantulisimo Yes, but Prince was performing his new songs which were released under his new symbol, so it does not make sense that he would lip sync to this performance. He hated lip syncing and often criticized performers who did it. I think the above poster is correct. He was not able to perform live.
There will NEVER be another Prince. He's missed tremendously! 🥰
Got off the floor with an upright split! That was cold!
emfactor Smooth as fuck!
Thank you my brother!
Yes & pimp walked!!!😚
He's a bad boy
Always!
When I was 10 years old, he was the first artist I really liked. “1999” was, is, and always will be, my favorite album.
If it wasn’t for this man, I might never have pursued my passion of making music. When he died, although it may sound strange, I felt like I lost an uncle. I stayed in my house, depressed and mourning, for 3 days.
A true once in a lifetime talent. A musical genius, and my reason for wanting to do it all by myself. Make the music, write the lyrics, engineer the session, and produce the whole thing.
Thank you, isn’t enough. RIP Mr. Nelson.
The Hornz on "Billy Jack Bitch"! "Y'all some tight mothaf****s 😂😂
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No one can deny that Prince was the best performer hands down. I have seen this a million times and each time I watch it it’s like the first time.💜💜💜
This should be pinned to top.
Mj was the biggest and best performer by far of all time
@@AC-mp7cx no. Best entertainer. Plus every one has their own opinion. Just like you have yours.
@@anti4330 He isnt even close. He isn't close lol
@@AC-mp7cx if you say so. 👌
What a talent. You’ll never see the likes of him again. Having Mayte, Nona and Carmen on one stage! ‘Like Eskimo chill, it’s all good, peace and be wild!’🤘🏻
It ain’t every man that could have THREE of his women on the same stage...
All hail the Prince of the Player’s Ball.
Ken True playa for REAL.
Ok😋😋😋😋😉😉😉
@Fannie Dixon Carmen Electra
He employed them all in gave them international platform!!!!
Sad how Mayte gets sooo much praise and credit when she knew he was with Nona at the time. Her parents were too dehydrated. Who sends a tape of their 15 year old daughter to a grown man in his 30's? I know... he's Prince but as a woman and fan I can't get behind Mayte and disregard Nona. Ever notice she's not mentioned when his relationship's are discussed but she was with him for 3 years.
Interesting that the stage became 1000 times cooler when Prince appeared on stage.
I will never get over that entrance, he loved to surprise an audience
It's funny Prince chewed gum throughout the ENTIRE performance...hahahahahaha! I love him...R.I.P.
It was because they said he had to lip sync so it was his way of saying FU! He wasn't happy doing that.
Sorry, not true. The AMAs always featured live performances & always will, almost never any lip-synched performances until the Britney/boy band era...The lip-synch was Prince's idea, & Dick Clark (who owned the AMAs) gave him the OK to do so. To Prince, this whole TAFKAP thing was no joke -- He was literally trying to become an entirely different artist with no association with Prince & who only recorded & released new music. At this point, he had "put Prince to bed" (as he mentions in his speech, even referring to "Prince" in the third person). That's the reason for the lip-synch -- Because as this "brand new" artist who had no connection whatsoever to Prince, he would no longer perform Prince songs live & Dick Clark approved it. This wasn't "Prince", this was another artist accepting the award for Prince.
He chewed gum because of his dislike of lip syncing and his way of saying FU
Tarantulisimo Actually, it was an FU to the AMAs. Mayte explains this in her book. He didn’t want to lipsynch.
v Right. He detested lip syncing. The gum was his response to that. He also sucked on a lollipop during the “We Are The World” reunion sing-along at the end of the show 😆
Prince DID NOT have to play his hits at shows....what other artists in today's music can do that and still turn out an AMAZING performance??? I'll what.....Lol GENIUS! LEGEND! 💜✝️☮️
so many professional dancers on stage and prince outdid all of them. such a great performer.
uh no, prince is a good dancer but his dancers are professionally trained, they are much better, but not more iconic
@@AC-mp7cx Nah Boo you can tell prince was a natural born dancer just look at his movies, they were smooth, clean, precise, powerful and on time. Just because you’re a professional doesn’t mean you have the groove of a natural born dancer.
@@AC-mp7cx ur in every comment hating on prince, why are you even watching this bru 💀
This gentleman was a genius in his work. R. I.p. beautiful Prince, fly high
I can still remember screaming like a banshee in my living room when he popped up off the floor at 5:42. Also, I'd forgotten how much ass that drummer kicked.
Thanks, Sandra! I forgot, too!! lol
Michael B was badass!
W O W! 😮 mind = blown 🤯 That is why Prince was the G O A T!!💜💜 💜💜 It's Funky ☮️ it's fire! 🔥 Everything Prince ever was ☮️💜🕊️✌🎧🎶🎤
Michael beating the hell outta those drums!
@@michaelbland1636 lol... seriously????
Prince on Jan 30, 1995 at the 22nd Annual American Music Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. I was there. After the award show, we went to Carls Jr. next to the Shrine and a few of his back up dancers were in there. They were still wearing their black tops with NPG lettering, tights, and boots. My older sister talked to one of the dancers and they ended up telling us they were heading to the Glam Slam in Downtown LA for an after party. Prince would most likely be there. We were only 16 and 17 years old so we couldn't go, but we felt just a bit closer to Prince by just talking to his backup dancers. lol
Hella story.... Still can't watch this video without tearing up...
Is Nonna Gay’s Uncle Barry Gordy? I can’t understand why she didn’t have a recording career? Especially since her uncle owned Motown.
This performance NEVER gets old!
5:42 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Prince was a class act. RIP Prince Rodgers Nelson.
There r lotz of extremely talented musical artists 🎨 but there's only 1 TRUE BADASS: Prince Rogers Nelson 💜
lol i love how he popped up off the ground. sick!
yeah, like where did he come from? He just appeared from nowhere
Yari67 he was hiding in the bag
Yari67 they ain't out of breathe
3:21 The stunning presentation with Prince's music medley was so spellbinding that people just froze! ...Literally.
That intro to “Shhh” still gives me chills to this day .. All Hail the Purple one 🕊💜🙌🏾🔥
the way he chews that gum, I don't know why, but it adds something that I can't explain, he was absolutely mezmerizing
It was his way of telling the industry F U u he wasn't allowed to sing live so he didn't want people to think he was lip singing, we know he doesn't lip sync but the music billboards gave him no choice, and they like to throw up you're in a contract.
thank you God for Prince and thank you Prince for sharing your gift of music and song with the world
The one and only fabulous, amazing,super talented and sexy, Prince. Missing you here on Earth and beyond. Prince Roger Nelson your rocking in Heaven. Peace and be wild.💜💜💜💕 Sending hugs to you in heaven.
Oh how I love Prince. I have never seen him looking better than this.. What a sexgod.
Best of the best bad to the bone
I REMEMBER this so MUCH. My favorite song the Gold Album, and this performance is BAAD. His movements illustrate the music.
fantastic performance...I miss him...I met him twice in Belgium
Smooth, Cocky, Confident Sexy, and Soulful. Words cannot describe the uniqueness of this artist! He is the Prince of the music industry and my Era.
I love watching this concert of Prince on the awards I played his song in my car almost every day and Prince you will always be greatly missed in my heart and I was fortunate enough to see Prince in concert twice ,Kingdom The Purple Rain concert and years later at The Key Arena The love sexy concert. I will always will keep your dream alive by enjoying your music love you Prince you're deeply missed still grieving rest in peace
Stephanie Sims GREATEST LIVE PERFORMER EVER!!!
Kick ass performance by one of my all-time favorite music artists, !Amazing and bad ass he was!RIP Prince!
I'm as big a fan of Prince as I am a Michael Jackson fan and one thing I love is that in 1995 they both did these huge medley performances on award shows; Prince at the AMAs, MJ at the VMAs. At this point, they were both veterans in the game, they were the same age, and they were basically closing sagas in their careers around this time. Plus they were both wearing their hair short in 1995 as well😂😂
Mj had a 15 year head start almost
plus mJ was the much better dancer lol. Much better
Closing sagas? how
MJ's career lasted for long after and he's still the most popular deceased artist ever, MJ's medley was a blockbuster, no one knows this even happened
MJ had a big head start, sliding around.. and not playing instruments? Quincy Jones and producers pushing him?.. with like only seven albums with his career?? Everybody is slowly figuring this out now. Prince was the one man tour d e Force who did it all by himself.. his way! That's why when people dig these archives up,.. it's just another one of the billion things Prince did. And 44 albums!.. when did he inhale??..
I love that they used a small snippet from "Loose!" Great song, and different from anything else Prince has ever done
I'm half a heart without him!!! We all are!
He took the color with him, he left and then everything started to go to Hell in a hand basket after that. Things just ain't right w/o him here.
God rest his soul, we miss his style, music, and his "I am who I am take it or leave it" and his legend will live on!!
prince was peerless. all his work seems to stand the test of time. he'll be remembered for generations to come like hendrix, joplin and bowie.
I loved prince since 1983 I was twelve purple rain movie came out I was hooked for life loved him to the day he died still loving him now 2021 forever fan RIP dear beautiful man music legend prince
baddest m.f. in music is gone. so sad
Prince is Music and when he left, it sure became a dark world. A Royal loss! Prince will always be the GOAT,
😪love prince💜
The original funky human being....................Amazing!...And he plays instruments
I’ll never get over this performance, ever
That Keytar definitely dates this performance! Damn, Prince...I’m at a loss for words. He was just, for lack of a better word, incredible.
Singing or not singing for real nobody ever can do any thing vaguely in comparison of what this man was capable of doing on a stage. The message was extremely powerful and funky
He actually didn’t wanna lipsync but they forced him to do it so that’s why he’s chewing gum. It was a statement.
@@tyka.f The entire performance is a middle finger.
1995 & he was still dating Nona (she accepted the award just before the music & said I'll give it to him later) & of course he was also dating Mayte. When Dick Clark met him on American Bandstand During his 1st TV appearance when he sang I wanna be your lover Dick Clark said he knew Prince would be a star! PRINCELUV4EVER!!!
I remember this performance!! Incredible!! The arrangement was good. That was Nona Gaye presenting; she was supposed to marry Prince, but he married Mayte instead. Nona was crushed.
ToonieMama Was she related to Marvin Gaye by any chance?
Isaiah Johnson his daughter
@@isaiahjohnson4450 His Daughter
He should’ve married Nona because she would’ve gave him beautiful babies. He crushed Nona, so the karma was Mayte not being able to produce healthy babies. 1 that was born unhealthy and 1 miscarriage. :( But that was his fault so. 🤷🏽♀️
@@ariana336pm The molar pregnancy was her fault it literally depended on her eggs with genetic make up of her eggs were not healthy so it caused his DNA to be duplicated Her genetic material in her eggs were inactive
AWARD SHOWS WERE SO INTIMATE THEN. TODAY THEY"RE ALL ABOUT STAGE EXTRAVAGANZA INSTEAD OF TALENT.
No, they're more like illuminati rituals.
with a camera cut every 1.5 Seconds.
It's all FAKE! Humans do the rehearsal... and Ai deepfakes the show. It's all fake! That's why you sign contracts. You have to lie. It's not real. All dances are computer graphics- just like music videos. Humans rehearse and animations does the rest. It's fake like Jim carey said. It's fake/.
I MISS HIM. May he rest in eternal peace
I remember when i first heard of prince's passing, strange but true, it was just breaking dawn and i decided to sit at my bed room window, just as i did an extremely overwhelming sadness took too my heart
I remember this song back in the day. I had the whole CD the gold experience.
james owens III I still do! I waited at a MN record store, got the cd & The Artist never showed. Some say he didn't like this cd, & in fact, as far as I recall, a re-issue was done only sometime back...I love the entire cd...I think it's one of Prince's best/underrated cd's.💜
Back when you had to have talent to be on an awards show. These new “entertainers” or whatever the hell they wanna call themselves DISGUST me!
The thing is it doesnt come from hear there here to be famous and make mone
Me too smh its like they just said we want acts with less talant as possible.
@@sirpoppinchuck So true.
Lighten up, Francis!
If everyone was as great as Prince, he wouldn't be special, would he?
There's plenty of talent out there. Don't be a hater cause they ain't as good as the Greatest!✌️
Silence Dogood I’m not hating, I’m just disgusted that the entire music industry has shot to Hell and they don’t give a crap WHAT the “music” comes out sounding like. They are literally just manufacturing music with a familiar sound to sell records. That’s why all of the music today sounds alike, they’ve done studies on what sounds sell the best and then produce the music accordingly. They are literally microwaving “hits” based off of the stupidity of the masses who will flock to iTunes and buy the crap up like candy. We’re literally living in the age of processed, mass produced music or “McMusic,” if you will; to use a fast food analogy. And then artists with REAL talent are looked over or sidelined while whichever “artist” with the biggest plastic butt or the most drama gets all of the attention. For example, the likes of Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Cardi B. would have NEVER even been good enough to SWEEP the floors at these record studios back in the 80s/90s, much less RECORD in them! That’s what disgusts me. 😒
the choreo is iconic af
Funny how Mayte stands in front of Prince and he tells her to "Go."
Yes he definitely had her go far away from him forever
@@SaffariRosemayte has some serious issues, she ain't that great of a dancer to me, no one is checking for her
That girl messed his his head up
Where is the time stamp that he tells her to go? 9:12?
He says coo? She nodded
Oh how Prince loves to Dance!! I catch myself in position at 6:13 quite often.
Prince was just to cool & smooth AF. I know Morris day plays the cool guy but not compared to Prince. The guy was the genius of our era with out a doubt.
Who do you think came up with Morris day cool concept ...... PRINCE
He came out the ground jamming hit them splits so slick ....I love you Princie
Roshun West that's not how you spell prince name
@@jenniferdaniels7370 One of his nicknames 😆😂
Just imagine Vanity rocking with Prince
Can we take time to acknowledge Carmen Electra with the moves on point I see why prince had her dancing along side of him
He lips syncs this because the awards people didn't trust that he wouldn't do or say something that would surprise them. In Mayte's book she talks about how he's chewing gum to illustrate it as a big FU to the academy.
Christopher McCaleb Thank you. I was wondering why he was lip syncing.
Love how he chewed gum, so sexxxyy!!
I read her book. HE was his own man. It's just too bad these celebs now are carbon copies of one another.
Isaiah Johnson You're sexy.
This performance is from the 22nd annual American Music Awards, not the Grammy's, so there was no academy involved. It's never been quite clear why he lip-synched, but there are several stories out there, but I don't think it had anything to do with the AMAs not trusting what he would say -- he'd accepted awards & made speeches at the AMAs many times before this. I even read that the lip-synch was his idea, partly due to the frenetic chaotic nature of this performance, but mainly because he was the rebellious TAFKAP at this time & was trying to distance himself for an award which was honoring Prince music.
I sereously appreciate that Prince is and was cool.
Forevermore.
He had all three women he was with all on strange at the same time. Poor Nona, this was after their brake up. Carmens a dancer and so is Mayte. Only Prince could pull those off.
Humble genius💜the greatest contributor to music the world over.
I love his voice!❤ Good performance, favorite bit was when they performed "Billy Jack Bitch". Also his mannerisms during his speech...😰😍*sighs*. Liked seeing Nona up there, she seemed so happy to honor him that night, you could hear the love in her voice. So cute when he kissed her. I feel bad about how he did her though. Weird how he performed "Eye Hate U" when Carmen was also there, and him and Mayte was basically re-created what they did in the video. Had all his women there that night. Love him.
He knew he was the shit! 💜🥵
I was gutted when I got the news. Such a genius! RIP
Among so much things, he wore clothes like anybody in this world. A dandy. My ethernal love...
On June 7 th is his Birthday.
Gold experience.
I love the dance, so fun!
looking Fresh my man. xox
I LOVE THE PRINCE VIDEOS N SONGS MORE THAN ANY HE IS OUR ROCK IL HIM N MISS HIM VERY MUCH
The gum chewing 😂💜
I have never seen this before. It is awesome! Thank God for real artist and may he rest in peace.
Just love this live so much ! and with his gum. .... so sexy ....🔥🔥😍😍💜❣❤😚☮♾☯☿💯
I'm sitting here excited like it's live and my first time seeing this. Lol. I love this man so much!😊💜💜💜
3:21 = Carmen Elektra's top coming off. You can tell when they cut back and she's running off the stage with her arms across her chest. LOL.
That may have been part of the choreography. Mayte also did something similar in a VH1 (I think) performance of P. Control when she changed from a red outfit and came back in a silver mini dress.
Miss the excitement of a new album, the prospect of a UK tour, will never not miss his creativity!
5:48 why they all grooving the same dance together tho! when I first saw that I lost it 💜💯
The entrance is absolutely legendary!
09:33 Little Richard in ‘Da House! I’m sure that he was so proud of Prince!
Lol Prince was little richards son & MJ was the jamesbrowns one ...nd still both so inspiring.. bruno mars ..lenny kravitz.. thats what we are ...
You can't touch this man no one compares to Prince
I remember watching this when it came on and losing my mind lol.
I did not know till watching this that it was June 7, 1993 that he changed his name to Artist formerly known as Prince.
Tellement de peine qu'il soit parti..4 ans déjà ,toute ma jeunesse et ma vie sont remplies de sa musique et de sa présence ,qu'ils étaient beaux avec sa femme quel gâchis, trop de peine de le voir si plein de vie
Omg I love prince he was one smooth brotha
Just love this man 💜 He was the best of the best! And anyone who knows anything about music and musicianship knows it! Miss him so much 😢 there will always be the haters out there … you know shit about him, so stop disrespecting his legacy! To real fans who loved and respected him, we will ignore the haters, like he did! Their hate is a sad reflection of who they are! Prince stood for excellence, love and kindness, everyone getting along no matter your colour, helping others and spirituality. If these are qualities you think aren’t important and hate, along with the man, then you aren’t worth even engaging with. The man was a genius! And a beautiful soul. Loved and missed beyond belief 😢💜
5:45...this shit right here 👌 Still the greatest of all time 💜
That shot to the frozen audience is hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
Mayte! The most beautiful 💕I love Prince forever 💕💕💕
03:22 They are SOOO jealous! Well, you can’t be this talented without a ton of haters. But my goodness, they’re on T.V., must they make it SO obvious? But he didn’t care. He was the baddest man on the planet and he KNEW IT! Just listen at those arrangements.
1 word--INFUCKINGCREDIBLE.
It's weird when at 8:42 the voice says in Spanish: 'Prince is dead, may he live forever...' Ufff!
His music will live forever! all the up and coming will TRY and be like Prince. Forever!
Best entrance ever! come out of a body bag and does the splits to stand up. TOO FUNKY!!!
Great artist Mr. Purplicious himself 💜☔
I love this man!!!God Bless him