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Prince is back with his new offering 3121. The album is full of classic Prince song's including the current single 'Black Sweat'. The first initial run of the CD will include 7 tickets that will grant those 7 lucky winners an performance with Prince at his home in Los Angeles. Universal. 2006. .com ---- Add 3121 to the ing pile of evidence: Prince is the black Beck. He's a whole lot sexier, no doubt, but there's more to both musicians than image. All-out weirdness for one. Edginess for another. And a fine-tuned sense of how to combine the two to create some of the decade's most vital music for a third. Prince--looking ageless in videos for the first two singles, the controversy-courting "Black Sweat" and the sauna-steeped "Te Amo Corazon"--proves fearless as ever here, folding slabs of disco-funk into rock, heaping measured doses of hip-hop atop soul-tinted jazz supports, and slamming Latin rhythms against old-school R&B riffs. Nothing sounds as slinky-stylish-smart. And nobody delivers quite so deliciously, especially when what they're delivering is ultimately a madcap sonic mash. The usual hype surrounding a Prince release attended this one; over the long-term, expect a few standouts within a way worth-it set to emerge. They include the danceable "Love"; the gospel-lite falsetto feast "Satisfied"; and the summer-breezy "Beautiful, Loved & Blessed." --Tammy La Gorce More from Prince Dirty Mind ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002KLP/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) 1999 ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002KY8/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) Purple Rain ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002L68/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) Musicology ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001XTRCI/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) Prince - Live at the Aladdin Las Ve ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AVHDC/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) Purple Rain (20th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition) ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002CTSUY/ref=ed_mus_6x_prince ) Review ------ "...a masterpiece..." -- Strange Days Mag "A consumate comeback...sexy, inventive, it exudes class...3121 deserves to be #1." -- The Sun / UK "All hail Prince's royal return." -- New York Post "Hallelujah" -- Newsweek "Prince can still run the musical gamut with awe-inspiring ease." -- Philadelphia Inquirer