Questlove defends Madonna’s Prince tribute at Billboard Awards

Questlove has a public service announcement for you and your Madonna/Prince Tribute shade: Put it aside ya'll...

May 23, 2016

Questlove has a public service announcement for you and your Madonna/Prince Tribute shade: Put it aside.

The Roots drummer launched a series of tweets late Sunday night following Madonna’s tribute to the fallen legend at the Billboard Music Awards.

Some felt the pop star’s performance wasn’t up to the Purple One’s standard. BET’s shade stood out, with the cable channel tweeting a veiled shot at Madonna’s performance:

https://twitter.com/BET/status/734584199546589184

“Yeah, we saw that. Don’t worry. We got you.”

Ouch.

Questlove defended Madonna and other artists’ ‘right’ to tribute Prince because — well, everyone will fall short of capturing Prince’s spirit.

To put it more frank, the drummer said every Prince rendition will *not* be an “orgasmic experience.”

Check out some of Quest’s tweets below:

For starters it's hard to accept him no longer being here. & in the upcoming award season for '17 there will be a gang of tributes

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

Naturally there will be folded arms & shade thrown because the Purple Standard is hard boots to fill & a lot of us don't wanna come 2 grips

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

—w the fact that Prince–(an on the surface) face of health & invincible agelessness subcomb to something so….friggin basic

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

So w mourning will come sadness & anger. 1st week I cried. 2nd week I tried to atone for his sins w gettin 8-10 hrs of sleep he didn't get

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

Now anger is in the air w who (in our eyes) is allowed to mourn & how they are allowed to mourn.—none of us were prepared for his death

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

So I know there is gonna be ALOT of "feel a certain ways" about who you want to see do his music justice—but you gotta put that aside yall

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

Every Prince rendition will not be a life changing orgasmic xperience. Just to SING his work is brave enough. Again feeling are on high

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

And EVERYBODY wants and deserves a chance to say goodbye in their own way. But remember: there will be AMAs, SoulTrain, NAACP, mtv, GRAMMYS

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016

And a gazillion other tributes. But the point is let's not get ugly w playing the "Prince would and wouldn't approve" game.

— ?st (@questlove) May 23, 2016