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for example, come into for the schools, they get people like steve harley and tavis smiley. you do not see people at a black republican party, janet jackson we do not see, them in the black community. i do not see them in miami and i did not see them in georgia. you have opened up a big box there. there are a lot of reasons we see the current party structure operating the way does. the court of the argument is the key thing. i made it very important and very clear to the 168 members of the national committee, that they have to be in the community. they cannot build the party from top down. it is not a washington centric organization nor should it be. you should know who the black leadership is in your state and york county, whether through the ncaa peak, the urban league, whether it is the black chamber or whatever is going on in the community, you should have the finger on the pulse if you are about the business of making the argument for your party relevant in the conversation that they are having in those town halls and community. and hearo sit outside the institutions an

in an interview with tavi smiley, he remembered being a frail and vulnerable child who found solace ina per sew that that would wow the world. >> i've been having to deal with a lot of things, getting teased a lot in school. and early in my career i tried to compensate for that by being as flashy as i could and as noisy as i could. >> reporter: he made demo tapes with his cousin's band that led to his first album in 1978. he was just 19. owen hussni was his manager at the time. >> this was not some kid rebelling against his parents and acting crazy. this was someone who was focussed and brilliant. >> reporter: and even then he was provocative which he showed off in a new art form -- the music video. ♪ >> reporter: but for prince, sex wasn't just about shocking an audience. it was part of his artistic dna, as he told matt lauer, in 2004. >> you know, matt, you can't help but be sexy. i mean, that just is what it is. sex isn't so much what you say, it's how you say it. ♪ little red corvette >> reporter: "little red corvette" was his first top-ten hit. now he was driving straight into our

. >> i want to play something he said to tavis smiley. >> the fan base i have now, they're so sophisticated to challenge myself. >> challenge himself, he wanted to challenge the audience. is that what made part what he did so ground breaking? >> i think so. he released albums, sometimes five albums long, and a double album set that really worked. i mean, he was a guy that really set the bar high and that's why people are still trying to match what he did. >> for people who have never gone to a prince concert, take us there. >> i saw prince at giants stadium in new jersey. >> look at your face light up. >> i was a part of the mpg music club, before title, before streaming, where you signed up for this club, you got access to music. when he was singing "purple rain," people pulled out purple umbrellas. one thing about prince is his mystique. his entire career, he never really had a scandal. he wasn't tabloid. that's why it is so shocking that he's gone. for some people we saw it coming. for prince we just didn't see this coming. >> we'll be right back. bend me shape me, any way you want me as

and listening to stories, watch this tavis smiley interview, he had a dad who was kind of intense. >> he did. intense father who was very much part of him becoming who he became. not just throwing him out of his house but his father occasioned young prince, 13, 14 years old, to be playing in strip clubs. to be learning that side of life. but yeah, extremely childhood. his original nuclear family falls apart. he lives with his dad. it gets thrown out or leaves his dad, we don't know which. he ends up having to leave his mom. he talked about physical abuse from his stepfather. i haven't substantiated that but that's what he said. living in the basement of andre simone's mother's house for his teen years. a very difficult childhood that is just like, i'm going to become a rock star and all this will fade away. >> and already, i was reading someone said who went to seventh grade with him, a seventh grade prodigy, can play the actual pet, band arrangements, can pick up things -- >> absolutely. his mother talked about at the youngest age, going to a department store, she'd lose track of him

he finally opened up just in the last few years, including this interview with tavis smiley. >> i'veer spoken about this before. but i was born epileptic. early in my career, i tried to compensate for that by being as flashy as i could and as noisy as i could. >> explains so much. and the press is always eager to make comparisons and create rivalries between him and michael jackson. and one member of the press tried to size them up next to each other and prince deflected it quite beautifully when asked about michael jackson. he said the most important thing to him always was making music. there was no rivalry there. well, the genius. it was his biggest rivalry, his father who wouldn't teach him how to play piano, so prince taught himself how to play and be brilliant. >> i taught myself music. my father left his piano at the house when he left, and i wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because i wasn't as good as him. so when he left, i was determined to get as good as him. kennedy: then he certainly was as good as it gets. we're going to talk about his life with those who kne

. >> that was prince, from back in 2013 in a rare tv interview, with tavis smiley.ill no word on the cause of his death. but we know he was briefly hospitalized on friday while battling the flu. kimberly, you had texted me earlier. we were trying to figure out as lay people, as fans of his music, saddened by his passing, what possibly could have taken him down. and you know, there have been a couple of prophetic things people have talked about. including his autobiography that was supposed to come out next year. he said it was going to be from his very first memory all the way up to the 2007 super bowl. you know, we obviously don't know the cause of death. but do you get the feeling that somehow he knew he was not going to live a long life? >> yes, and he had started working on those memoirs and the report was he had accomplished, completed like 50 pages of it. so now you wonder what will happen as you listen to tape recordings or something. did you hear this report earlier, kennedy, he had made a statement, saying before you waste your prayers. that he kind of sugg

he finally opened up just in the last few years, including this interview with tavis smiley. >> i'veer spoken about this before. but i was born epileptic. early in my career, i tried to compensate for that by being as flashy as i could and as noisy as i could. >> explains so much. and the press is always eager to make comparisons and create rivalries between him and michael jackson. and one member of the press tried to size them up next to each other and prince deflected it quite beautifully when asked about michael jackson. he said the most important thing to him always was making music. there was no rivalry there. well, the genius. it was his biggest rivalry, his father who wouldn't teach him how to play piano, so prince taught himself how to play and be brilliant. >> i taught myself music. my father left his piano at the house when he left, and i wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because i wasn't as good as him. so when he left, i was determined to get as good as him. kennedy: then he certainly was as good as it gets. we're going to talk about his life with those who kne

tavis smiley. of course dave chappelle. name that comes close to maybe that he or she will be the next prince? >> brian, nobody even comes close. there is no next prince because of the fact that he was not genre specific. he wasn't even gender specific. he was just prince. and nobody will ever come close to him. it's tragic he's gone at 57. we're ail the better because we have his legacy of work. >> there's more to come. alicia thank you very much. kelly carter is with us on the phone. she was part of small group of journalists who met with prince just last summer. kelly, what can you add to the record and the conversation? >> you know, even though he was someone who made music that was listened to by millions and millions of people, i think that he felt very unheard about something and that was how he felt about streaming services and recording contracts. he wanted to sit down with a small group of us and kind of explain that he felt a little taken advantage of and a little unappreciated by some of the larger streaming ser

. >> i've never spoken about this before -- >> in an interview with tavis smiley he remembered beingnerable child who found solace in music and a persona that would wow the world. >> i've been having to deal with a lot of things. getting teased a lot in school. you know. early in my career i tried to compensate for that by being as flashy as i could and as noisy as i could. >> he made demo tapes with his cousin's band that led to his first album in 1978. he was just 19. owen husney was his manager at the time. >> this was not some 18-year-old kid who was rebelling against his parents and doing drugs and acting crazy. this was someone who was focused, who was brilliant. >> even then, he was provocative, which he showed off in a new art form -- the music video. ♪ but for prince, sex wasn't just about shocking an audience. it was part of his artistic dna. as he told matt lauer in 2004. >> you know, mattie, really you can't help but be sexy. i mean, it is what it is. sex isn't so much what you say, it's how you say it. ♪ little red corvette. >> "little red corvette" was his first top ten

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he continued to reinvent himself, and in a 2004 interview he told tavis smiley why. >> i don't know howrow if we just tread water. the idea is that we keep growing, and like we were saying before, the fan base i have now, they're so sophisticated they almost expect me to do the unexpected.ow and that gives me a lot of room to challenge myself as well as them. >> sreenivasan: that same year he was inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame, where hee joined tom petty, jeff lynne and steve winwood for a version of george harrison's "while my guitar gently weeps." ♪ ♪ he was celebrated for influencing a generation of musicians, for nurturing youngec artists and for reaching fans across race and cultural divides yet prince also prized his privacy. he was very selective about who he worked with, and fought fiercely to have his likeness and work protected.fi that included scrubbing his videos from youtube, and leading a decades-long fight against the recording industry.ngin at one point, he stopped calling himself "prince," instead using a key-like logo known as the "love symbol" and referred

. >> he was very different in that package we saw with tavis smiley. >> yeah because he can be, you knowod. in so many ways -- i read earlier and i hope i don't mess this up, but that he was as defiant as james brown, as traditionally -- what is it -- as traditionally masculine as teddy pendergast, as electric as michael jackson. >> all in one. >> all in one. there were blues, there was jazz, there was rock, there was funk, there was gospel, right. all in one. and yet the music was commercial. and huge big hit songs. one of a kind. >> he did it all. >> yeah. >> i keep thinking, too, of course his music, classic. but, too, the businessman. the way he battled with warner. he didn't like digital. didn't like streaming. describe that side of him. >> well, it's interesting because he was as comfortable talking to other performers as he was talking to lawyers. >> brilliant. >> we have a lawyer at sony, julie swidler, who spent so much time talking to prince about business and compulsory licensing. and he'll spend as much time doing that with comfort as he would with alicia keys, as a musician.

for example, come into for the schools, they get people like steve harley and tavis smiley. you do not see people at a black republican party, janet jackson we do not see, them in the black community. i do not see them in miami and i did not see them in georgia. you have opened up a big box there. there are a lot of reasons we see the current party structure operating the way does. the court of the argument is the key thing. i made it very important and very clear to the 168 members of the national committee, that they have to be in the community. they cannot build the party from top down. it is not a washington centric organization nor should it be. you should know who the black leadership is in your state and york county, whether through the ncaa peak, the urban league, whether it is the black chamber or whatever is going on in the community, you should have the finger on the pulse if you are about the business of making the argument for your party relevant in the conversation that they are having in those town halls and community. and hearo sit outside the institutions an

joining us is tavis smiley, pbs host and author of "50 for the future" lessons down the road. >> niceo have you on the show. >> an honor to be here. stuart: i say what you're missing here is economic growth. president obama went for fairness, spread it around. if he'd gone for economic growth, everybody would have been better off. where am i going wrong? >> i'm not sure you're necessarily wrong about that. i think the historians are going to debate whether he should have started with economics first or health care policy. that's a debate for years to come. the point of the book i wrote, we did a version a decade ago, we found the past ten years black people lost ground in every major economic category and every major category black folks. and there is-- his loyal constituency didn't get that and that saddens me. stuart: because of the basic obama policy, all government all the time. private end prize will be tightly regulated and teach people taxed more and you run up the debt ap didn't work for anyone except the super rich. >> the rich get richer and poor get poorer. the gap between