Master P is a little skeptical of all the praise being heaped on Prince now that the legendary performer is dead.
On Monday, Master P told TMZ, “A lot of people called Prince ‘weirdo’ and all that other stuff, even though he’s one of the greatest entertainers in the world, but it took him to die for everybody to talk about how great he is.”
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“I think there’s a lot of genuine stuff, but I also think people… once somebody’s gone, then everybody talks about… It’s like Michael Jackson, you talk about how great he was.”
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“A lot of people don’t keep it real and say the truth,” he continued. “A lot of them will say stuff, like, they’ll say all the bad stuff about you. They make up all kinds of rumors when you’re alive, they’ll make all kind of jokes.”
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