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  • this song makes me cry and always will. POP LIFE!!!!!!! xxxxx

  • this was one the first clearest songs I ever heard

  • The bass line is similar to Estelle's American Boy.

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  • Well I say Fuck em if they don't like! Pardon my word's but turn it off or don't look for it if your gonna diss it! Peace All

  • @mshamptonian this song is on the "Ultimate Prince" cd. it's 2 full cds of nothing but extended remixes of some of this best tunes! #lovin'mesumPrince

  • I bougth the the album on vinyl. Better anyaway so shut up.

  • did you ever buy the album?

  • A fav, oh well...

  • I cannot get this song out of my head, definitely one of my favorites!

  • This is a feel-good, happy song...

  • 1999 came and went, now what? Keep singing 'bout the issues...

  • thumbs up if u are still listing to this through 2012

  • >>> I sing 2:22 to 2:26 ALL the time in the shower. Just LOVE that part ~ <<<

  • Love this song!

  • i still get such a buzz from this song!! xxx

  • I got a plan for you baby.. it all starts in Vegas...

    everybody needs a thrill...

  • Great

  • So glad to find this extended version...thanks for posting...have enjoy this song for a long time...

  • Prince is a living legend. He cut his own path and very few musicians can say that. Wether it's soul, r' n b', rock, pop, dance, blues, ballads, he's done it all and he's done it better than most. So stop bitching and listen to the legend, or else you can go to the top left of the page, click on the youtube icon, and say goodbye. Close the door on your way out. Pop Life, everybody wants to be on top...........

  • blacksrock whites sing the best soul? not! who cares! prince 4 ever and a day!

  • @shockwavecorbon Jimi Hendrix was a guitar god. For example, if it wasn't for him creating heavy metal music (among other sounds and riffs), these white bands wouldn't have anyone to worship today. Even the racist/fascist Rammstein band worships Hendrix!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan I know the members of Rammstein and can assure you that they are NOT racists. Also although it may be unpopular to say it, Jimi Hendrix is a very overrated guitarist! Yes, of course he was a very good electric guitarist but does anyone truly think he would have made the same impact without all those guitar effects?

  • @MisAnnThorpe Those guitar effects are what made Hendrix famous in the first place because no one else was doing it.

  • @kalimaganeshshivan You make my point perfectly for me! IF it's true that Hendrix was the first to use the new guitar effects that were becoming available to musicians, does that "fact" in itself make him a great guitarist or just very experimental and open minded? The two don't necessarily go hand in hand.

  • @MisAnnThorpe I think it all goes hand-in-hand, furthermore you have to look at the opinions of all the other musicians and people that worship him as a guitar god. It's hard to ignore millions of fans from the past 4 decades.

  • @kalimaganeshshivan I appreciate what you say & there is some truth in it but I do think that much of Hendrix's attraction is to do with his style, personal as well as musical and peoples' perceptions of "cool". Give me a synthesizer with loads of great sounds & there's a possibility I might pass for someone who can play keyboards. Put me in front of an acoustic piano and no one would be under that illusion! Having said all that his playing on All along the watchtower, for example is stunning.

  • honestly i think that the people on this website whom leave negative messages on great pieces of art like this song, which also has a message, work for this website or are put up to do so...there is no reason for racism, but their comments forces great people to stoop to their level and comment, lets ignore them along with all bs and they will fall prey to themselves...in every aspect of life...bcuz this gets old...thumbs up if u agree..lets enjoy this song amongst others...

  • @kennyb2003 Ken bro, dont let ANYONE ruin it for you...EVER....opinions are like assholes every body has one...Peace..B)

  • @kennyb2003 i second that motion!!!

  • Wow, ... such hate.  I try to think above the colors and enjoy the talent of the universal music.

    Such a higher level, and I feel sad for those stuck on the race bait ~

    Theres plain A- holes in each and every race. Period

  • @1168shape - It seems like your suffering from low self esteem...or little dick syndrome!!! Either way they make a cure for your "Loser" condition and it's called "Pop Life". Take two listens and call me in the morning.

  • Prince laying down the funk in his funky way ! way too funky

  • love this song

  • If anyone has a video of Prince performing Pop Life please up it to Youtube.

  • @fidalgo66 nelson classique does just do a search for prince hit n run tour partie 3

  • very very very very love love love love!

  • Favorite song off of Around the World in a Day.

  • wtfe just stfu and listen to the music for all sake!!!

  • i'm dressd to go outside but i aint move 4 over 9 minutes! must b official as i remembr. thanx daggit!. deadmic.com -- o yea and "racial comment racial comment racial slur"( i dont wanna feel left out even tho i dont know wat yall talkn bout so i waste my time talkn bout bs like that and now that the song is over i really hav no excuse for typing this. bye

  • I have been looking for this piece. There's more truth in this song than many know. Wake up and stop fighting over a song and someone's comment. War never solved a thing,never will.Think Peace" Damit!"

  • why does it always say *dammit*?

  • is there anywhere original version of this song?

  • Absolutely love this song!

  • Prince is a musical genius , this song has a strong message . good!

  • this mix is hott!!!!

  • Love the song just don't like the extended version. How about uploading the album version. This one is the only one. Thanks

  • @msalcraig You don't like the extended version? You have the right, but I have to ask why?

  • great song from a great singer but funny how THIS vid remindes me of Prince "Black" album

  • Thanx for this masterpiece of music !

  • Nice notice on the synth stab...that's what makes him a musical genius, just that meticulous attention to detail....God save the Prince, the King never had this...

  • Prince couldn't moonwalk.

  • @supermandisco No because he did things that are much more awesome like the splits,Hit high notes AND deep ones,One of the ONLY males that can pull off wearing Makeup AND High heels AND STILL Dance around in them AND taught himself to play over 30 musical instruments..NUFF SAID.Prince>MJ ANYDAY!

  • @1982Breezy the MJvs Prince debate is nonsense both are/were more talented than our brain can begin to understand. Honestly these cats were at a whole another level,musically,visually,spiri­tualy.Mj didnt need to sit at a piano he heard full chords in his head..,not melodies,full string arrangements.So lets not start the debate both were talented dedicated tot ehir craft in a way no other artist has achieved and in so many areas

  • @fede4real Actually,dear,I was responding to someone so I clearly DID NOT start anything.Tell the dude I responded to that.Of course Im going to defend prince.He should know better than to come on this link & try to say something Prince cant do.So dont tell me nuthn.

  • @supermandisco Why would Prince even want to do the Moonwalk? That was Michael's thing!

  • I love this mix!!!

  • I'm on the "Pop Life" list. Dig-it, Booooyyyy!

  • I like this song. MJ (R.I.P.) and Prince are #1 to me. It would've tight if they would've did "Bad" together. BIg Daddy Kane did a real good job with sampling this for his song "The Lover in You" back in the '90s.

  • @QCongress83 The King of Funk Rick James have them both beat....

  • @FireitupBedford Rick James was extremely jealous of Prince and even admitted it himself because of his talent and the ability to stay away from drugs, something that Rick refused to do. Vanity also left Rick (though not the cocaine on his table) for Prince. The "King of Funk" title actually goes to George Clinton and Prince will attest to that himself.

  • @kalimaganeshshivan you aint never lied tellem the truth bro.....ur right on it....

  • @pucchibaby Thanks.

  • 4 people must not like Prince because this is a classic!

  • Sign o' the times scared me bcuz my sis was out in Minneapolis when it came out. Thankfully she came back soon after.

  • @shockwavecorbon It's HENDRIX! Hendricks is the last name of the ginger with the enormous tits who made it okay to be curvy again lol. You're welcome :)

  • 4 people have no liffe and 522 have a pop life

  • lol

    

  • what a fucking great song,thank you stankfunkmusic,ive been trying to get this song for 18 years and only now im finding it

  • sheila e on the drums

  • "show me a boy in school and i'll show you one aware." LOL, good lyrics, Prince.

  • Prince is awesome and he knows it.

  • The person who posted this must have run over there budget and couldn't afford to atleast put a pic up there..lol

  • Prince needs to remaster all his 80s albums so we can clear listen to that incredible producing he did ahead its time

  • This isn't the Sheila E. remix, I never heard this before. It's dope as fuck. I'm glad I downloaded it before it got missing.

  • Y'all's age is or should I say isn't showing. Put on Prince For You and listen to the man and his guitar. He wrote, produced, arranged, sang, and except for drums, played all instruments.

  • @traceyface112 he played drumz 2.....Shalom=)

  • We do have a space to fill, is yours' full?

  • @JesusPuppet My overfloweth and gets others stick and wet, I'm starting to think it's a real problem.

  • man I wanna dance to this ! ! !!!

  • the 4 dislikes don't understand "THE GENIUS"....LOL

  • OMG WHAT? THE GREAT PRINCE LET A MUSIC TUNE OF HIS BE PUT ON THE YOUTUBE? THIS IS JUST AS GREAT AS HEARING THAT THE ECONOMY IS IS BACK! WOW

  • Beatiful song and intro, nothing compared to nowadays music.-

  • Exactly. Prince was/is a fabulous MUSICIAN and has great stage presence. MJ was a PERFORMER. Big difference. Respected for different reasons. Great music all the same.

  • @docmark72 Michael Jackson was not merely a performer. He was also a songwriter, composer and musician. Just not on as prominent a level as Prince. But I'm sure you were already aware of that.

  • always has to be a narc in every comment.......just enjoy the music .....life goes on if u let it.

  • @1168shape Let me ask you this, you ignorant fuck, if blacks make such stupid music, then why have whites been copying and stealing the sounds, styles and songs from black people for years and years?

  • @kalimaganeshshivan your definitely on point there that's a known fact from elvis presley to john lennon...etc was inspired by black performers.

  • @trkk01 Thanks!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan Who the fuck said that, get the fuck out of here with bigotry and poison, we are all one child under the sun.

  • @TheMrEMeat That comment was for 1168shape when he made that comment about "niggers make stupid music", so I retaliated tenfold.

  • @kalimaganeshshivan Good for you man, I hate when people post shit just cause its the internet and they dont think theyll be held accountable.

  • @TheMrEMeat  Thank you.

  • @kalimaganeshshivan

    ignorance comes in many, many and sadly ALL colors. Shame ~

  • @apatheticempathy I agree, however if you've read my channel bio, I'm not the type that turns the other cheek, smile and let things slide. This is the 21st Century and I will no longer tolerate racism; by any means necessary, BY THE PEN & THE SWORD! I'm no Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi! If you get in my face and call me a sand nigger or a nigger (and this has happened many times), I'm going to take your fucking head off! I agree that ignorance comes in ALL forms and races, SO BE IT!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan Ive found out in my older age, people that hate just arent worth the space on my plate. Hope you get there some day also ~

  • @apatheticempathy What are you talking about? I love mankind as a whole, however that doesn't mean I'm a pacifist! To say that I hate is a simplistic analysis to say on your part & I doubt you're very sincere about it. Let's see how loving & forgiving you are if a member of the Neo-Nazis rapes your sister (it happened to mine) & guess what, I painted the street with his blood & it's been a war on those bastards ever since."Vengeance is Mine sayeth the Lord!" No vengeance is mine & mine alone!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan why does it have to be that Whites have been stealing black music for years? Get off it!

  • @MidnightMcKinley Because it's the truth and furthermore that rebuttal was in retaliation to 1168shape's vile racist comment "Niggers make stupid"! I won't stand for that shit and the truth hurts!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan I didn't know you were commenting on something that a vile person said. I just think that many, many whites have just as great music as blacks.

  • @1168shape Pot calling the kettle black, so to speak! What a fucking hypocrite you are!

  • @1168shape I wish I could snap your fucking neck for typing something so ignorant! I'll just imagine that I'm doing it!

  • pop life is sample pac's life sample used by 2pac 2 biggest artist

  • send me a copy !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @1168shape we do it for ya momma!!!!! she loves it.

  • 1 person has no life when 406 people have a pop life

  • His Purpleness hit #7 in Billboard, 9-21-85. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

  • @1168shape Then why are you watching it, you racist?

  • @ 1168SHAPE MAN I WILL SMACK THE SHIT 3X'S U PUNK!

  • i am 11 and i love this song

  • Why he ever opened for the rolling stones back in '80 and then got booed off is still a wonder? What were the promoters thinking?!! He's a fantastic performer!!!

  • yo the nigga said what is wrong with your sex is 15 mins is your best he is the man

  • we all gotta space to fill !!!

  • Like this if you were born in the 90's and listening to this

  • 2Pac - Pac's Life OG

  • You r both stupid racist dumbasses! Stop talking and start listening! BTW; cut me, cut u....both our blood is red!

  • thanks 4 puttin up ... now how about a hi quality non janky soundin version!!

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  • @kalimaganeshshivan get yo scary ass on somewhere cuz if a nigga stayed next doe to you you wouldnt have shit to say fuckin faggit.

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  • @kalimaganeshshivan act like I stay next doe and kill ya self anyway punk pussy ass white boy.

  • @mobydick71108 Who you calling white?

  • @kalimaganeshshivan u dude, while u sittin up here tryin to tell me about spellin this bullshit english language like u from england or sumthin shit I spell shit tha same way I say it young ponk.

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  • @kalimaganeshshivan bitch u know u ain't gone do a muthaphuckin thang 2 a nigga like me so shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down some where wit that blacker than me shit when u know u ain't nuttin but a white boy dipped in chocolate trying to correct my broken english. fuck u .

  • @mobydick71108 A white boy dipped in chocolate? That sounds like something Jeffrey Dahmer would have enjoyed! LOL

  • @kalimaganeshshivan U know what dog forget going back and foward wit the internet static bruh I apologize for even coming at u like that my brethren.Be cool cuz. but u ain't lying tho that do sound like something kid would enjoy haha.

  • @mobydick71108 That's all right by brotha, peace out!

  • @kalimaganeshshivan i-ight holla at me...

  • still dope!

  • Youtuube should have a love button for this song I dont like it I loooovvvvveeee it!!

  • Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhh!

  • Wow, not heard this version before, is it from a 12"?? Excellent stuff, going to see the man at Hop Farm festival next month - I'm bracing myself for the funk!!

  • the master!!!!!!

  • Prince's ability to see deeply into the human condition...is STAGGERING. He's not just the greatest musician of our time, greatest live performer, but the greatest poet too. I mean "Life It Ain't Real Funky - Less Its Got That Pop" pretty much sums up life and existence to the exclusion of ever needing to be summed up again or commented on for that matter by anyone else. Prince probably wrote this song in five minutes.

  • @tdsafff Prince originally wrote this song as a jazz and blues piece back in 1982, however the psychedelic influence didn't come until he started reading about the Beatles and the 60's in 1983-84. The "Around the World in a Day" album is a tribute to that era. You can see the major influence in "Raspberry Beret" and the video. However, I'm still disappointed to this day that he didn't make a video for "Pop Life".

  • "Whats the matter with yo sex? Is fifteen minutes yo best?

    I guess you ... I guess you gotta get it off yo chest

    Why did you need another love when you know im the best!?"

    Haha prince is the best

  • hot classic music, this is real music, this beat is off the chain///------------->X.

  • One of my favorite Prince JAMZ!!!

  • One of my favorite Prince songs!!

  • I just saw him at the LA forum. Right in front. Amazing concert! Better than sex. lol

  • I love the song very much

    hismusic never get old and he knows cool

  • This version is so damn funky that I think my computer speakers are starting to get that stench lol

  • @timmy841212 lol lol I feel ya on that

  • This was always a chilling track...

  • Hear that organ in the background? That is fucking genius there. Hear that vocal doubling by Prince? That's also fucking genius there..

  • @prayershawl Uh, they call that genuine "talent".

    Genius goes beyond just making good music.

  • @prayershawl Yes agree with all you say plus the synth stab that comes in way in the back at 3:05...how the fuck does Prince listen to this song and say to himself..."You know what this song needs? A sick genius synth stab that starts at 3:05...cool, that'll work" Because the truth is that it REALLY DID need that synth stab in there, and Prince knows this...how??? U2 Springsteen etc these clowns are pretenders. They are. Prince is the REAL DEAL. Greatest musical talent in American history.

  • @tdsafff i hate u2 and springsteen haha preach brotha preach

  • @prayerschawl

    I cant find the synth stab at 3:05 and I am listening to this on Sennheiser headphones with a good soundcard on the pc...as for what you say about U2 and Springsteen, dead on it, In my life time Prince is the greatest artist, I cant think of anyone that even comes near him...

  • @tdsafff

    Found it, had to close my eyes to find it, but I f***ing hear it now...

  • Is it possible you can send me a mp3 of this been looking for this for the longest.

  • This is one of my fav beats from Prince. I have the original 12" version, and it plays totally awesome.

  • theres a good version of this by 2pac,called "pac's life".

  • would love to have the mp3 version as well if thats ok ;0

  • love it this is a great mix thanks for posting !!!! thanks Prince for letting us enjoy your music we love you!!!!

  • Great version !!! Great decade, great song, great true music Artist!

  • this song brings back so many memories from the 80's, was obsessed with prince, sigh, good times.

  • Life aint ever gonna be funky unless its got.... Prince!

  • Ooh, it's extended....I've never heard this before. Me likey.

  • wow.. so nice to hear this again after so many years!!

  • wow, great! thanks for share!

  • love this jam. could by chance get an mp3 as well?

  • Damn I'm 40 and a big Prince fan. I've never heard this version before WOW!!!!!. Thanks Stankfunkmusic.... DAMMIT!!!!!!!

  • one outcast...

  • @zkxlz are you joking, who did not like this song man, this is the funk.....shirts vs. blouses lol

  • @stankfunkmusic can i get this on MP3?

  • what happened to the video ?

  • Love Prince, can't believe I just heard this, should have been a top 20, like "Little Red Corvette." Love it.

  • @herstory35 It was a huge hit .. back in the mid to late 80's. but this is the first time I've ever heard this extended Stank assed version. Thanks to the cat that posted this. I didn't know this version existed.