Check The Record is the seventh song of the tenth posthumous album Welcome 2 America (the first full previously-unreleased studio album of Prince material).
Initial tracking took place on 10 March 2010 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (the day before Same Page, Different Book). It was one of the first songs recorded with drummer Chris Coleman and bassist Tal Wilkenfeld slated for release on the Welcome 2 America album. The track was worked on further the following months with Shelby J., Elisa Dease and Liv Warfield.
A tape photographed in Prince’s vault at Paisley Park Studios has the song listed as 'The Record' with two versions in it (labeled as “track 1 take 2”, and “track 2 take 1”). Other tracks on the same tape are Black Muse and 1000 Light Years From Here (later released as part of Black Muse), as well as a song called seemingly called Wud.
Check The Record was played live on 18 January 2013, Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, Minneapolis, MN, USA with almost entirely new lyrics.
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