| |introduction = '''Corporate World''' (sometimes known as '''Corporate World (New Soul Nation)''') is an unreleased song by [[The Time]]. The track was written and mostly performed by Ricky 'Freeze' Smith, while he was working on songs for The Day-Z’s, a girl group produced by with [[Morris Day]]. '''Corporate World''' was initially recorded in 1989 at [https://www.paramountrecording.com/ameraycan-studio-a Ameraycan Studio], Los Angeles, California, USA and overdubbed by [[Prince]] and [[Morris Day]] in Summer 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA. In a 2024 interview, Ricky 'Freeze' Smith discussed the song’s recording:<br>''"[[Morris Day|Morris]] and I were writing for a group he had called the The Day-Z’s, that was signed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Brothers]. We’re recording songs and [[Prince]] came to the studio. [[Morris Day|Morris]] let him hear two of the tracks and next thing I knew he took the 24-track and took it to Minneapolis and not knowing what he was going to do with it. (...) I thought he was going to take all my keyboards off and put his flavor on it and he didn’t touch it. He left it the way that it is and just play guitar and put vocals on it; that was a really big compliment you know to me. (...) It’s a great song then we have another song that I'm sure he may have put vocals on but I haven't heard what he did with the song But there there's another track that that we did so I have to ask this to Morris"''. The second song has not been identified. | | |introduction = '''Corporate World''' (sometimes known as '''Corporate World (New Soul Nation)''') is an unreleased song by [[The Time]]. The track was written and mostly performed by Ricky 'Freeze' Smith, while he was working on songs for The Day-Z’s, a girl group produced by with [[Morris Day]]. '''Corporate World''' was initially recorded in 1989 at [https://www.paramountrecording.com/ameraycan-studio-a Ameraycan Studio], Los Angeles, California, USA and overdubbed by [[Prince]] and [[Morris Day]] in Summer 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA. In a 2024 interview, Ricky 'Freeze' Smith discussed the song’s recording:<br>''"[[Morris Day|Morris]] and I were writing for a group he had called The Day-Z’s, that was signed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Brothers]. We’re recording songs and [[Prince]] came to the studio. [[Morris Day|Morris]] let him hear two of the tracks and next thing I knew he took the 24-track and took it to Minneapolis and not knowing what he was going to do with it. (...) I thought he was going to take all my keyboards off and put his flavor on it and he didn’t touch it. He left it the way that it is and just play guitar and put vocals on it; that was a really big compliment you know to me. (...) It’s a great song then we have another song that I'm sure he may have put vocals on but I haven't heard what he did with the song But there there's another track that that we did so I have to ask this to Morris"''. The second song has not been identified. |
| '''Corporate World''' contains a sample from [[Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey]] (written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Stone Sly Stone], performed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone Sly and the Family Stone], from their 1969 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand! Stand!]). It was included as the seventh track on an early September 1989 configuration of the [[Album: Corporate World (1989)|Corporate World]] album, but it was removed when the album was re-worked to become [[Album: Pandemonium|Pandemonium]]. '''Corporate World''' remains unreleased. | | '''Corporate World''' contains a sample from [[Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey]] (written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Stone Sly Stone], performed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone Sly and the Family Stone], from their 1969 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand! Stand!]). It was included as the seventh track on an early September 1989 configuration of the [[Album: Corporate World (1989)|Corporate World]] album, but it was removed when the album was re-worked to become [[Album: Pandemonium|Pandemonium]]. '''Corporate World''' remains unreleased. |