Prince

Questlove is in a large dressing room backstage at Carnegie Hall, getting his Afro picked out before going onstage to lead a tamasha honoring the muziki of his all-time inayopendelewa recording artist, Prince. His mother is sitting beside him, beaming at her boy. Back when Quest, now the Roots drummer, ngoma and Jimmy Fallon bandleader, was a teenager, she and his father only listened to Christian radio and behaved like “the black Ned and Maude Flanders,” he writes in his upcoming memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. When she found Prince records in his room, she would throw them...

​It seems cosmically fitting and timely that the Jacaranda trees are now in full, glorious bloom, painting the LA skyline with purple flowers, which eventually rain to the ground, a purple rain, creating impressionist paintings made kwa nature for all to appreciate and enjoy. June also brings with it another purplesque moment, June 7, 1958, which is the siku that Prince Rogers Nelson was born to the world.

When wewe think of the legendary musician Prince, you’ve probably never even considered the possibility of yoga having any sort of connection to him au his music. Then again, you’ve probably...