Magazine Special Prince Tribute Cover Issue #270 (2016)

On April 21, 2016, Prince Rogers Nelson, known to the world as the iconic artist, musician and performer Prince, passed away at his Paisley Park estate in Minneapolis. It was a jarring occurrence, analagous to losing a loved one in your family, for many. After all Prince, during his lengthy and ongoing career, didn't just redefine what it meant to write, produce and release music, perform live, and set trends. His music and style was transcendental, and wasn't just refined to genres or awards categories. It changed the way people viewed the world, love, sex, spirituality and everything in between. His cultural and musical offspring range from Beyonce to The Weeknd, and scores of artists, fashion designers and actors in between. Though we were in the final stages of production for Issue #270 when news broke that the world had lost one of its brightest and most profound souls, we were thankfully able to pay a proper tribute to Prince with cover 2-of-2 of Issue #270. Aside from a Prince tribute cover story, our owner and publisher L. Londell McMillan, former attorney, manager and close confidant of Prince's, gives insight like only he can into not just Prince the artist, but who he was as a person and friend, and his mission for his faithful following.