This Is the Amazing Cover Art for Prince's New Single

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Taylor Berman

08/18/13 10:09PM

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On Friday, Prince used his new Twitter account to share the amazing and perfect cover art for his single, "Breakfast Can Wait." Yes, it's a picture of Dave Chappelle holding pancakes, taken from the classic 2004 Chappelle's Show sketch.

Game: Blouses http://t.co/3jShq2r9Ci http://t.co/3oEI8kQsKB http://t.co/G0uLp2mbJk pic.twitter.com/dNwDPifP8j
— PRINCE 3RDEYEGIRL (@3rdeyegirl) August 16, 2013

Here's a snippet of the new song (the full version of which can be purchased here) and, below that, the full Chappelle's Show sketch:

[via Vulture]

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AuntEggmaBlowtorch Taylor Berman 08/18/13 10:27PM

Dude looks just like the guy who brought my Watchtower yesterday.

RafaellaGabrielaSarsaparilla AuntEggmaBlowtorch 08/18/13 10:36PM

Do you live in suburban Minneapolis? Rumor has it that he does, in fact, go door to door spreading the good word.

antisam RafaellaGabrielaSarsaparilla 08/18/13 10:56PM

I'm from the southwest suburbs, and I'd become a Jehova's Witness on the spot if Prince showed up at my door.

Chip Skylark of Space RafaellaGabrielaSarsaparilla 08/18/13 10:57PM

He does

graphemeist RafaellaGabrielaSarsaparilla 08/18/13 11:06PM

Damn. That is one Witness I would invite in. The ONLY one.

SecretlyQuebecois Taylor Berman 08/18/13 10:13PM

Prince is a national treasure.

TCB777777 SecretlyQuebecois 08/18/13 10:20PM

They don't cal him "His Royal Badness" for nothing.

RedDwarfGreenBug SecretlyQuebecois 08/18/13 11:02PM

He's also a stuck-up asshole, but hey, he sure can play that gee-tar!

nomanous SecretlyQuebecois 08/19/13 12:06AM

To me he's more of a Book of Secrets.

iammonsterface TCB777777 08/19/13 01:31AM

My roommate and I were watching that on the first airing while incredibly high. When he threw the guitar, we both looked at each other and were sure that we were being trolled.

Where did it go?

Gregoire Taylor Berman 08/18/13 10:34PM

Font-wise, it's very un-sarcastic late 80s/early 90s Manchester fake-hippy vibe. As in, designed by a New Power Generation intern.

jmo_jillyfromtheblock Gregoire 08/18/13 10:39PM

Agreed. Mayhaps,he was hacked?

sportzzzgirl Gregoire 08/18/13 10:49PM

Lordy. I went way further back than that — but I was looking at the art not the font. The Purple Rain years were totally behind this cover imho.

Turdit 9000 Gregoire 08/18/13 11:00PM

The font appears to be a variant of "Pricedown" which was a Price is Right-style font clone that was extremely abused in the mid 90's.

lobstr Gregoire 08/18/13 11:06PM

Ahem...

sui_generis Taylor Berman 08/18/13 10:53PM

Wait — Prince has suddenly developed a sense of humor about himself in his old age?

My entire worldview is shattered!

JaJaLinks sui_generis 08/18/13 11:32PM

If those 80s movies weren't on some level intended to be funny then I need to go back and learn how to watch TV again.

lecomtedeVaudreuil sui_generis 08/19/13 01:35AM

I think that it is more likely that Prince didn't realize that the Dave Chapelle image was a reference to himself. He probably thought this Dave Chappelle guy is a snazzy dresser.