7 is a Prince and the New Power Generation video released for broadcast and to promote the single.
It features Prince and Mayte as well as twelve boys and twelve girls dressed as them. Footage of Prince in the glass cylinder and Mayte’s sword dancing was filmed at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, while the footage with the children was filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles, possibly in May 1992 (see trivia).
The video follows the initial storyline of the album with Mayte telling Prince that she is the sole heir to a $10 million estate that her father left her when he was killed by the seven men who are her bodyguards. She states "They must never find them. They must never find us. If anything should happen to you..." before the song begins. This introduction was planned to be included in the album as a [http://princevault.com/index.php?title=Symbol_segues
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