As you may have read, as part of their copyright crusade, Prince’s legal staff recently demanded that all images of the Purple One be removed from specific fan Web pages. Several sites banded together to form Prince Fans United, there was a brief pause in the action and now … a diss track.
In response, Prince registered the Web domain name “Princefamsunited.com†and posted a seven-minute funk jam called “PFUnk,†alerting fans to its presence on fan site message boards. The song makes no secret of its target: “The only reason you say my name is to get your fifteen seconds of fame, nobody’s even sure what you do,†Prince sings. “I don’t care what people may say, I ain’t gonna let it ruin my day.†Toward the end, Prince tells his fans, in his famed helium-like “Camille†voice, “I love all y’all, don’t you ever mess with me no more,†before taking out all his anger on his guitar. Prince goes as far as calling one person, likely a member of the PFU, “a big fat punk,†and threatens someone called “Weemolicious†by singing “Look here Weemolicious, you and your boyfriend, lemme tell you somethin’ right now, you run up on me again with words or otherwise, I’mma knock both you punks out.†He also sings that he wants digital music to “disappear.â€
