The One (Intro) is an interlude performed live by Prince & The NPG. It is tentatively titled as such as it was first played serving as an intro segueing into The One in August 1998 on the New Power Soul Tour. Musically, it has little to do with the song The One and hardly qualified as a song. This piece uses a prominent loop of a track called Encounter (composed by Lisa Bloom Cohen and Serge Colbert) taken from the professional sample library "Scoring Tools Volume 1" released by East West in January 1998 and synth flute sound played over it.
On the Hit N Run Tour in November 2000 Prince began using the music as an interlude with the lyrics of I Would Die 4 U recited over it, accumulating in saying words to the effect of 'Baby I’m a star... in the true sense of the word.'
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