ABSTRACT This study argues that Prince was fundamentally ambivalent towards the genre of hip-hop, and proposes a four-phase model for understanding Prince’s engagement with it. Though Prince was initially dismissive towards hip-hop, over time he incorporated hip-hop elements such as rapped vocals and drum-machine based musical textures. As hip-hop gained national popularity and threatened Prince’s vanguard position among African American artists, however, his attitude towards hip-hop became more subversive. By using stylistic analysis of songs from the first two phases, this study demonstrates how Prince adopted certain techniques of hip-hop but reframed them within his own aesthetic value system.

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“说唱完成让我们失望”：Prince 的嘻哈矛盾心理

摘要 本研究认为普林斯从根本上对嘻哈流派持矛盾态度，并提出了一个四阶段模型来理解普林斯与它的接触。尽管普林斯最初对嘻哈不屑一顾，但随着时间的推移，他融入了嘻哈元素，例如说唱人声和基于鼓机的音乐质感。随着嘻哈风靡全国，威胁到普林斯在非裔美国艺术家中的先锋地位，他对嘻哈的态度变得更具颠覆性。通过对前两个阶段的歌曲进行风格分析，本研究展示了普林斯如何采用嘻哈的某些技巧，但在他自己的审美价值体系中重新构建它们。