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NFT: The True Story Behind Prince's Famous Basketball Game

DanMetroMan : 4/21/2017 11:52 am
"In n 1985, Micki Free found himself at the center of what would become television history: a pick-up basketball game involving Prince and Charlie Murphy. It's a game that has become imbedded into pop culture thanks to the 2003 Chappelle's Show sketch, which depicted Prince as a basketball-crushing beast that ran Charlie and his famous brother Eddie Murphy off the hard court.

"Being around Prince was surreal," remembers Free, a 61-year-old blues rock guitarist, who is set to drop his upcoming album Tattoo Burn Redux in May. Free was among the rare few allowed inside the late music superstar's closed-off entourage. It was the decade of decadence, and Prince was on one of pop music's most storied runs with such landmark albums like Dirty Mind, 1999, and Purple Rain. Meanwhile, the Grammy-winning Free had re-vitalized the R& B group Shalamar, injecting the act with a rock and roll swag that hit its apex with the 1984 top 20 crossover single "Dancing in the Sheets."
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