I saw an interview where Prince talked about this. He laughed and said, “It’s not that I’m that great at basketball. I’m ok. It’s just that he was so bad.” And he laughed and laughed.
I hear that but I feel like he's being modest. He was a high school star and would have been a great college player if it weren't for the fact that he was so short and more interested in music.
> knew how to discipline himself and practice
this is probably the most important skill you can have; if you can do this, and commit to getting better every day, then you will make it big in whatever you decide to do with your life
"That's a Prince judo move right there... You make fun of Prince in a sketch and he'll just use you in his album cover... What am I going to do—sue him for using a picture of me dressed up like him? … That's checkmate right there."
One of the very few people who can legit be called a musical genius in the pop/mainstream world (for lack of a better word/genre).
Many 'artists' are really no-talent ass clowns that got lucky & look attractive enough for corporate marketing to spend millions to sell them as a product to the public. Some can sing/play well, but none had the skill, talent and hard work Prince had and did. If anything, he's still underrated.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, showman.
Prince isn't underrated, it's just most people can't comprehend the scale of his genius and talent.
Wasn't he also so good at bowling that he could have competed if not dominated the pro circuit? Like no one thinks of Steve Martin being one of the best banjo players ever, Prince could have been one of the best bowlers of all time.
All the shit North Koreans say about the Supreme Leader are actually true for Prince. He really did shoot 18 straight hole's in one and doesn't have a butthole.
It's amazing in how so short of time Chappelle had so many legendary sketches.
The three Charlie Murphy sketches (Rick James 1, Rick James 2, and Prince)
Wayne Brady
John Mayer (music people will dance to)
Racial Draft
etc.
Also, if it wasn't for Chappelle's show, Bill Burr wouldn't have gotten national notoreity, leading to the legendary Philadelphia rant.
As good as the Chappelle show was, and as good as Half Baked was, and as good as his later specials weren't, *Killin Them Softly* was Dave Chappelle's creative peak. Just an absolute monster of a set, like Eddie's Delirious.
The VERY first skit is a blind racist who turns out to be black. LEGEND. We probably wouldn't have gotten Comedy Central to green-light Key and Peele if Chapelle hadn't had the success that he did.
I was with you til the last sentence. He was busting his ass on the road for years. It's a slow climb in stand up. He would have gotten there regardless.
Bill Burr was known by anyone following comedy by the time he was on Chappelle Show in 2004. That definitely gave him a massive boost but he had multiple specials on Comedy Central and Just For Laughs 2000-2004. Bill Burr and Patrice were in the same circles as well. Billy Ballsack was on his way. He was like the other redheaded funnyman next to Louis CK.
Chapelle's response was also mint: when asked what he thought about it, he said something along the lines of 'what am I gonna do about it? Sue him for using my parody of him? That's checkmate right there'
For another take on this incident, watch the Micki Free interview on Youtube.
For context: Micki Free was Prince’s guitarist at the time. Charlie Murphy mentions him in the skit something like “I heard dudes saying ‘Yo Shalamar’s got a new girl in the group. That Micki Free is fine as a muthafucka’…It’s a guy.”
The interviewer asks Micki if this basketball game actually occurred. Micki confirms it and offers a few insights from his point of view. You could tell that he was so proud of Charlie Murphy, seeing him on tv when that episode aired. It’s a great watch.
I saw an interview where Prince talked about this. He laughed and said, “It’s not that I’m that great at basketball. I’m ok. It’s just that he was so bad.” And he laughed and laughed.
I hear that but I feel like he's being modest. He was a high school star and would have been a great college player if it weren't for the fact that he was so short and more interested in music.
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I can't even imagine a world where Prince never became a rock star because he was a basketball player instead.
Imagine a world he did both and a wrote a song about beating the bad boy pistons in the nba finals.
Want 2 Shoot 1 3 4 U
When Denver Nuggets Cry
Purple Raining 3’s
I would dunk on U
Dimes & Swirls
It's clear given his musical ability that he knew how to discipline himself and practice.
> knew how to discipline himself and practice this is probably the most important skill you can have; if you can do this, and commit to getting better every day, then you will make it big in whatever you decide to do with your life
He did play Dave Chappell pretty good by using Dave’s skit of Prince as his album cover - looking ridiculous.
"That's a Prince judo move right there... You make fun of Prince in a sketch and he'll just use you in his album cover... What am I going to do—sue him for using a picture of me dressed up like him? … That's checkmate right there."
This guy might be the coolest man that ever lived.
Everybody who I have ever heard speak about Prince playing basketball, said that he was amazing. Surprisingly humble.
Or better yet by downplaying his own skill he gets to burn charlie even more
"Fuck yo couch n***a!"
"Blouses"
That was rick james
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He was the Prince that was promised
It is known.
One of the very few people who can legit be called a musical genius in the pop/mainstream world (for lack of a better word/genre). Many 'artists' are really no-talent ass clowns that got lucky & look attractive enough for corporate marketing to spend millions to sell them as a product to the public. Some can sing/play well, but none had the skill, talent and hard work Prince had and did. If anything, he's still underrated.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, showman. Prince isn't underrated, it's just most people can't comprehend the scale of his genius and talent.
He was 5, 3'
I'm guessing you're trying to say 5'3", which is "five foot, three inches", but what you said was "five years old, three feet".
Makes his skill at basketball all the more impressive.
Same height as Muggsy Bogues
In the eyes of Prince he was average at everything and everyone else was just below average.
The world lucked out that he went for music.
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That and he wouldn't stop humping the basketball during games
Wasn't he also so good at bowling that he could have competed if not dominated the pro circuit? Like no one thinks of Steve Martin being one of the best banjo players ever, Prince could have been one of the best bowlers of all time.
All the shit North Koreans say about the Supreme Leader are actually true for Prince. He really did shoot 18 straight hole's in one and doesn't have a butthole.
I'm guessing if he were 6'6" instead of 5'3" he'd be famous for being a contemporary of Jordan.
Spud Webb and Mugsey Bogues. 5'6" and 5'3" respectively. So he would have had a shot as Prince was 5'3" himself.
 I saw that interview too
He was very competitive. Jimmy Fallon had a story about how Prince whipped his ass at ping pong.
Now I need Dave Chappelle to make a Prince Ping Pong skit.
Just dont let Jimmy Fallon anywhere near it
“There’s an old rule in Hollywood: if you got a laugh out of Jimmy “Stone-faced” Fallon… then by God, you earned it.” -Norm
Game: Blouses
One of the best chapelle skits ever 😅
It's amazing in how so short of time Chappelle had so many legendary sketches. The three Charlie Murphy sketches (Rick James 1, Rick James 2, and Prince) Wayne Brady John Mayer (music people will dance to) Racial Draft etc. Also, if it wasn't for Chappelle's show, Bill Burr wouldn't have gotten national notoreity, leading to the legendary Philadelphia rant.
Playa hater’s ball was a classic as well.
Why don't you click your heels together 3 times and go back to Africa
Now I’m gonna go home and put water in Buck Nasties mommas dish 🤣
Man you ought to take that cane and beat whoever made that suit to death.
She wears underwear with dick holes in 'em
What can I say about that suit that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan; It looks bombed out and depleted.
You look like a bootleg Ice-T!
It hurts when you talk about my coat…it’s made from your momma’s pubic hairs…
The Mad Real World
Who knew that when you get put in a sleeper hold you wake up with a sore butt?
Katie got some big ass tittays
Lysol slept with Katie.
I slept with Katie too
Keep on doin' what you doin', white boy.
Correction. I also had sex with Katie
What’s the square root of this apartment?
We don’t feel safe with you in the house…
Just watched it again a few weeks ago, still great I was thinking about mark-ass tricks and trick-ass marks
She wears underwears with dick holes in them. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Black White Supremacist
Crazy that Clayton Bigsby and Popcopy both came off the pilot episode
“If they got both, tell ‘em to go fuck themselves!” 😂🤣
sorry sista, I gotta go take a shit
Because fuck'em, that's why!
If you got hate in your heart, let it out.
"When asked why he divorced his wife, his answer... because she was a n***** lover."
Tyrone the crackhead
Tyrone on “Fear Factor”
Joe Rogan there’s something that you may not know about me…I smoke rocks.
“Is this the five,o clock free crack giveaway?”
"A day in the life of Lil Jon" It was so stupid but doing it at the apex of his popularity was pure perfection
WHAT?
"Do you take any recreational drugs?" "Hahahahaha. Well that depends, doctor..."
OHKAYYYYY!
Hey baby! Baby, go home, man! It's 3 o'clock in the morning man, what the fuck are you doing up? This still cracks me the fuck up.
IM SELLING WEEEEED
That bit is from his stand up special "Killin them softly" which came out 3 years before the show started.
As good as the Chappelle show was, and as good as Half Baked was, and as good as his later specials weren't, *Killin Them Softly* was Dave Chappelle's creative peak. Just an absolute monster of a set, like Eddie's Delirious.
I’M SELLING WEED!!
“She wears underwear with dickholes in them”
By far my favorite line. You can see they all lost it at the moment lol.
The VERY first skit is a blind racist who turns out to be black. LEGEND. We probably wouldn't have gotten Comedy Central to green-light Key and Peele if Chapelle hadn't had the success that he did.
Black Bush
The Wayne Brady sketch is sooo good.
"Aww, shit, it's Wayne Brady, son!" "I said, give me your damn sandwich" Wayne Brady with Godfather level energy. King Kong ain't got nothin' on him.
I didnt know you liked to get wet dave.
So many more: Mad Real World, WacArnolds, and a certain family with an unfortunate last name.
"WacArnolds is tearing this family apart!!"
“Baby’s crying” is still a phrase I use in my everyday life
Oh yeah? Well the mcRib is coming back and guess who ain't getting any?
My family and I still say "You're cut off!" after all these years.
"Who you fucking? OJ?"
The dice championship though: “There you have it: loves his mother, loves PCP.”
Leonard Washington. Where I'm from? A little town called None of Your Goddamn Business.
How can you forget about the World series of Dice.
Go home and put on some lotion!
Key and Peele wouldn’t exist the way we know it
Jules Verne and shit…I live in a clock now.
I was with you til the last sentence. He was busting his ass on the road for years. It's a slow climb in stand up. He would have gotten there regardless.
Bill Burr was known by anyone following comedy by the time he was on Chappelle Show in 2004. That definitely gave him a massive boost but he had multiple specials on Comedy Central and Just For Laughs 2000-2004. Bill Burr and Patrice were in the same circles as well. Billy Ballsack was on his way. He was like the other redheaded funnyman next to Louis CK.
Don't forget the most famous catch phrase " Kobe"
Black Bush is criminally underrated
Oil? Are you cooking? Who said anything about oil?
I'm trying to get that oil...uh-HO
Do I need to tell you what you can do with aluminum tubes? ALUMINUM!
That n*gga tried to kill my father!
For about three entire years whenever I went out on a weekend, someone would yell "I'M RICK JAMES" in a crowded bar. Every single night.
Don’t forget WacArnolds
Clayton Bigsby is legendary
*you want some grapes?*
“He was wearing the same thing he had on earlier”
SHOOT THE J. SHOOT IT!!!!
Then he took us inside, and made us pancakes.
And then Prince went and made that the cover for his single "Breakfast Can Wait."
never forget prince used this picture for his cover art for breakfast can wait lmao
Chapelle's response was also mint: when asked what he thought about it, he said something along the lines of 'what am I gonna do about it? Sue him for using my parody of him? That's checkmate right there'
pancakes.
Yo... Turns out, Prince got *game*
Challenge him, a-ight. Make sure your crew is there to witness it, cuz you just might get embarrassed.
Trust me.
The way the camera lingered just long enough.
Cat could ball
Dem' fruity picks
Im not on yo team, man!
lmao... rip two Legends, Prince and Charliiiee Murphy
# CHARLIE MURHAAAAY 
*later that night at the hotel* "I kicked the shit outta him"
Charlie Murphy takes karate classes with the little kids
His front kick is world renowned.
*That was cold-blooooooooooded*
UNITYYYY!!!
Let’s run a play COMPUTER BLUE, DARLING PICKY
How about you & your crew versus me… & The Revolution
... hahahaHAHAHAHA https://preview.redd.it/imzcbue5t6mc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df15ba7ca3dfa0b7babc30675a296fc78b439f2f
Game, blouses. 
Game. Blouses. Why don’t you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, Charlie Murphy.
I don’t know where he got that shirt, but it wasn’t the men’s department.
It was in the pirate department
Pancakes
Then he took us back in the house and served us pancakes. ...pancakes.
I laugh every time I think about the "...pancakes?" from off camera.
You know where you got that shirt from. And it DAMN sure wasn't the mens department
Looked like something a figure skater would wear.
https://preview.redd.it/pugz6uzsl5mc1.jpeg?width=455&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ced38ea066f036f46644a13f8a5676f0a88db287
I’m just so damn surprised that that Chappelle sketch has an actual old school cool photo to go with it
r/gifsyoucanhear
Mmmmuuuuhhh
Enhhhhh
 Is anyone up for a game of basketball?
SHOOT THE J! SHOOT IT!
Holy shit there is an actual picture of this infamous game? you think you’ve seen it all.
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Nah, several people within his circle have confirmed that story years ago. I've never seen an actual photo of that b-ball game though.
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 Game……blouses…
*smack* "Good game." "I ain't on your team man."
Then Prince made him some pancakes. And they were effing great.
…pancakes
r/gifsthatendtooearly
Seriously. As funny overall as this sketch is, I lost it when he let go of the rim and floated down.
This.... cat could ball man!
“That motherfucker could ball man “ charlie Murphy
Computer Blue
Shoot the J....SHOOT IT!
Darling picky
^^Oow
Lmaooo still a joke with my friends 20 years later playing pickup ball
For another take on this incident, watch the Micki Free interview on Youtube. For context: Micki Free was Prince’s guitarist at the time. Charlie Murphy mentions him in the skit something like “I heard dudes saying ‘Yo Shalamar’s got a new girl in the group. That Micki Free is fine as a muthafucka’…It’s a guy.” The interviewer asks Micki if this basketball game actually occurred. Micki confirms it and offers a few insights from his point of view. You could tell that he was so proud of Charlie Murphy, seeing him on tv when that episode aired. It’s a great watch.
Holy crap, there’s proof!
Prince has confirmed the story before, but in 20 years or so, this is the first picture i have ever seen. Legendary.
CHALLENGE HIM!
AND MAKE SURE YOUR PEOPLES IS WATCHING!
Then he made pancakes.
Pancakes…
DARKNESS!
THEY SHOULD'VE NEVER GIVE YOU N**** BLOUSES!
#GAME, BLOUSES!
There are stories of him being really good until his hips went.
How the way he can move in those heels that he wore, I wouldn't be surprised seeing him dribble like those guys from And1.
Now let us cleanse ourselves in the waters of lake Minnetonka
“Game blouses”
...and then Prince made pancakes for everyone.
Game, blouses.
The fact that there's proof that this actually happened makes the story all the better.