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WELCOME 2 AMERICA    
by Prince
Legacy Release Date:
Jul 30, 2021

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The latest posthumous Prince release is an Record Label:
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album recorded in 2010 with the New Power Genre(s): R&B
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 #100 Best Album of 2021
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 #76 Most Discussed Album of 2021
The A.V. Club micahmann
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This record is evidence that Prince’s one-of-a-kind Who else can bury a completed album in a literal vault,
genius never really dimmed, even if he sometimes lost under a pile of other completed albums, and do so
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sight of how to focus it, 0r—perhaps more importantly to knowing that even more music was… Expand
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the quick-take internet area that Prince detested so
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80 It seems like Prince just finished this album within the A-Z Index of Artists
Jul 26, 2021 year as some of the material seems so current to today
It’s fervid, feverish and never less than ferociously funky. although he passed in 2016. It… Expand
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And far from unnerving the listener with a haunting
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voice from beyond the grave, Welcome 2 America serves More articles »
as a call to arms for Prince fans. For all its lyrical and
sonic contortions, the ultimate message is simple: even
as twilight descended, his genius endured.
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Jul 30, 2021
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‘Welcome 2 America’ is an album that speaks to today’s
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“Welcome 2 America” balances hard insights with 90 Happier than Ever

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visceral joys.
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89 For Those I Love
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Judging from the lyrics to “Welcome 2 America,” Prince 89 Bright Green Field
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pieces like Welcome 2 America will always be welcome.
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88 Dream Weapon
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 For three tracks of low-slung ambient funk (the title
track), lounge jazz (“Running Game [Son of a Slave
Master]”) and tired orchestral soul (“Born 2 Die”), every
low expectation of the funk-pop legend’s late-career cast-
offs is lived down to. ... Then he rediscovers his
imaginative peak-era verve and Welcome 2 America
becomes an unexpected blast.

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