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In 1989, Warner Bros. had asked Big Daddy Kane to flip Prince’s “Batdance,” which appeared on the 1989 Batman soundtrack. Apparently having immediately come up with his verses right on the spot at the ...

So, let’s just get this out of the way: My favorite Prince album is the “Batman” soundtrack. It’s criminally underrated. It’s dark, it’s frantic and it’s headlined by “Batdance,” a wild track that ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. As an idea, a ...

A recent reassessment of Prince's Batman album prompts the question: Why has "Batdance," a No. 1 hit, seemingly vanished from his history? In this week's installment of the A.V. Club's "We're No. 1" ...

Batman and Prince are an odd combination. They’re both American icons, however, there’s not a lot of similarities between Prince’s prime funk and Batman’s Gothic heroism. Regardless, the world got ...

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Something that people can expect after a well-known musician dies is the release of unreleased material (see Born Again, Better Dayz, etc). When Prince passed away it was reported that the man who was ...