| |introduction = '''The Flow''' is the 13th track (12th song) on [[Prince]]'s 14th album [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]], the second to be credited to [[Prince and the New Power Generation]]. | | |introduction = '''The Flow''' is the 13th track (12th song) on [[Prince]]'s 14th album [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]], the second to be credited to [[Prince and the New Power Generation]]. |
− | [[Tony M.]] began adding a rap which ended up being used in the track to [[The Future]] during later dates on the [[Nude Tour]] (beginning [[05_August 1990|5 August 1990, IJsstadion Thialf, Heerenveen, the Netherlands]]), but basic tracking only took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/September 11|11 September 1990]] at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same session as [[Fancy Dancer]], [[Horny Pony]], [[Jughead]] and a reworked version of [[Something Funky (This House Comes)]]) within hours of returning to the USA from the [[Nude Tour]] in Japan. The track was included as the 13th and final track on the December 1990, configuration of the [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls|Diamonds And Pearls]] album, but was removed for later configurations. The track was re-recorded in early 1992 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] (during the same set of sessions that produced [[The Continental]], [[Damn U]], [[3 Chains O' Gold]], [[Born 2 B.R.E.E.D.]], [[With This Tear]], [[Qualified]] and a revamped version of [[Sex]]). It was included as the 17th track (eleventh song) on a March 1992, configuration of the [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]] album and the 17th track (twelfth song) on a late Summer 1992, configuration, before the album's [[Symbol_segues|segues]] were removed for release. | + | [[Tony M.]] began adding a rap which ended up being used in the track to [[The Future]] during later dates on the [[Nude Tour]] (beginning [[05_August 1990|5 August 1990, IJsstadion Thialf, Heerenveen, the Netherlands]]), but basic tracking only took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/September 11|11 September 1990]] at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same session as [[Fancy Dancer]], [[Horny Pony]], [[Jughead]] and a reworked version of [[Something Funky (This House Comes)]]) within hours of returning to the USA from the [[Nude Tour]] in Japan. The track was included as the 13th and final track on the December 1990, configuration of the [[Album: Diamonds And Pearls|Diamonds And Pearls]] album, but was removed for later configurations. The track was re-recorded in early 1992 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] (during the same set of sessions that produced [[The Continental]], [[Damn U]], [[3 Chains O' Gold]], [[Born 2 B.R.E.E.D.]], [[With This Tear]], [[Qualified]] and a revamped version of [[Sex]]). It was included as the 17th track (eleventh song) on a March 1992, configuration of the [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]] album and the 17th track (twelfth song) on a late Summer 1992, configuration, before the album's [[Symbol_segues|segues]] were removed for release. |
| The 1990 version contained a chant of "[[Michael B.]] in the house", which was later reused on [[Daddy Pop]]; this isn't considered to be a sample or reference to this track, however. Also of note in the re-recording is that a lyric about "the brother" was changed to "the woman" to fit in with the female reporter storyline running throughout the [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]] album. | | The 1990 version contained a chant of "[[Michael B.]] in the house", which was later reused on [[Daddy Pop]]; this isn't considered to be a sample or reference to this track, however. Also of note in the re-recording is that a lyric about "the brother" was changed to "the woman" to fit in with the female reporter storyline running throughout the [[File:SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Album: Symbol]] album. |