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PRINCE OF MINNEAPOLIS?

MINNEAPOLIS—For starters, we're talking God or at least E.F. Hutton. You drop the name Prince in a lot of Minneapolis circles and suddenly you're reading from the Bible at a tent revival. It wasn't always that way. Here in separatist Minneapolis (probably the only city that would dub one of its black-settled suburbs Coon Rapids and let the name stand), Prince Rogers Nelson came from the northside—not exactly a ghetto, but a doomed side of the tracks considered Nowheresville by the tight-lipped white folks who roll through on the Freeway and never stop to smell the barbeque.

September 1, 1984
Greg Linder

PRINCE OF MINNEAPOLIS?

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