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Chasing Life presents The Prince Mixtape

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Prince Rogers and the Battle for Mr. Nelson

Prince wanted to have his own stage name separate from his dad's Prince Rogers. He probably also wanted to distance himself from the family pressure to fulfill his father's unrealized dreams of making it big as a musician. As comfortable as he was making music with Chris, perhaps he felt too vulnerable to share all of that with him,. A white guy from England couldn't put together a package around an artist named Mr. Nelson.

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