Saw a thread on here yesterday wondering about MJ and some of the other high profile deaths of America's musicians. While I don't know much about MJ except that his music was banging I know a lot about Prince, huge fan. Here is what I know about his death and what could have possibly angered the US Corporation Heads.

Prince was apparently in chronic pain. I know someone who worked for him and he says that Prince was very a very abrasive personality. He could have just been an a** or he this could be a side effect of chronic pain. I know people in constant pain and yes they are mean. As such he was using a pain killer Vicodin and at some point along the line he either procured or was given what he thought was Vicodin but was really counterfeit pills which had Fentanyl in them. According to the Rolling Stone this is alarmingly common. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oxycodone-laced-fentanyl-demi-lovato-711045/

Though some sources claimed that Prince had a history of drug use, besides the pain killers I don't really see it. Prince LOVED himself. He was a narcissist (though a justified one) in the highest degree I can't really see someone like that beholden to mind altering drugs.

As for how he could have pissed someone off: when Prince changed his name to that weird symbol the media tried really hard to paint him a total crackpot crazy face. The truth of the change is that Prince, a legitimate musical genius who both composed his own music as well as being able to play multiple instruments, felt that giving money to his then record label Warner Brothers was unfair. The change to the symbol was because Warner Brothers owned his name and his brand. By changing his name to the unpronounceable symbol he sought to escape the record label and urged other artists to do the same. He would even appear with the word "slave" on his face claiming the big labels only wanted to line their own pockets and didn't really work for the artists below them.

Now in 2015 he ended his struggle re-aligning with record labels and he produced albums on Tidal which was a paid subscription platform later the albums went to CD. At least on of the tracks was pro BLM a song.

So was his death accidental? Today I would say yes. It would seem he finally had resigned his fight with the labels. He also performed at the white house for Obama and Big Mike in 2015 cementing his alliance with the left. As I've also said fentanyl in pain killers is unfortunately not uncommon.

I will always love Prince whatever he became he at one point was a champ for the independent artist.