I love Prince. He's always been a bit off, even prescient in figuring out the plot of Terminator 3 while stating his fear that the Internet could become self-aware one day. But I always liked the dude.
The Pancakes I figured had to be real. I mean, like Charlie said, how the hell can you make up something like that?
The thing was, he's been doing it on his own, from his own label, and doing all the production in his own private studio. He got sick of playing along with the whole corporate/MTV game, and how they were screwing him out of his royalties.
Have you heard any of his new stuff? Man, it is THE FUNK - pure, sweet FUNK.