podcaster at Grantland. And as part of that network he co-hosted the podcast, "Do You Like Prince Movies?" with culture critic Wesley Morris. Pappademas tells The Frame that he and Morris did, in fact, like Prince movies. Pappedemas said of Prince: "He never met a barrier that he didn't want to kick a hole in."

"If anybody's never seen 'Under the Cherry Moon,' it's really worth seeking out. It's one of the stranger products ever created by a pop star."

PRINCE'S MUSIC LEGACY

Alex Pappademas, executive editor of MTV News had this to say about Prince as a musical artist.

All the really great artists manage to embody all of their influences and the place they came from, but still seem to have just come out of nowhere. Like Madonna emerges fromradio didn't play black music, he breaks through with this amazing record that is absolutely a funk record and absolutely a rock record.

We're living in the aftermath of that earthquake. Kids today don't recognize genres. Everybody listens to everything. Prince dreamed that dream before anybody.

PRINCE'S FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY

"I never thought in my life I would get a call on my cell phone from Prince," says Scott Goodman of yourlisten.com.

When Prince fans were uploading his music to share on the file-sharing website, Prince wasn't happy. He'd deliberately made his music only available on Jay Z's Tidal service. So, what did he do? He called the guy who runs that music sharing site and insisted his music be taken down.

"We never had the artist decide to physically call us and