Prince (August 8, 2000) – High Album Release Annoucement

High is an unreleased album announced as complete in rough form by NPGOnlineLtd.com on 8 August 2000.

The announcement stated that engineer Femi Jiya had delivered “a rough copy of another new album at the gate of Prince’s estate”.

The album’s ten tracks had all been recorded in early-to-mid 2000 and continued the pop-funk vein of his previous few albums.

It was also expected to be the first album released under the name “Prince” following his return to using that name in May 2000.

Later in August 2000, however, Prince began work on The Rainbow Children and decided to make the material planned for High available in different forms.

U Make My Sun Shine and When Will We B Paid? were released on the U Make My Sun Shine single, before U Make My Sun Shine was also made available as a download on the NPG Music Club.

Supercute and Underneath The Cream were first released on the Supercute single, and later as downloads through the NPG Music Club.

The Daisy Chain and Gamillah were initially released on The Daisy Chain single, credited to the New Power Generation, before also being offered as NPG Music Club downloads.

Golden Parachute, High, My Medallion and When Lay My Hands On U were released through the NPG Music Club.

A High single was also planned at some point, but never released. Of the album’s ten tracks, eight later appeared on the digital compilation albums The Chocolate Invasion (When Lay My Hands On U, Supercute, Underneath The Cream, High, Gamillah and U Make My Sun Shine) and The Slaughterhouse (Golden Parachute and The Daisy Chain).

The album’s sequence has always been tentative and was long believed to have When Lay My Hands On U as its closing track.

Artwork posted on Facebook in December 2016 by its creator Steve Parke, however, shows that it was in fact the first cut on the album.

Another artwork, using the same picture as the one created for the unreleased High single, was designed by DVS around the same time.

Track Listing 

Side one 

• When Lay My Hands On U — Prince

• Supercute — Prince

• Underneath The Cream — Prince

• Golden Parachute — Prince

• When Will We B Paid? — Prince

Side two 

• The Daisy Chain — Prince (lyrics and music - assumed) & DVS (rap)

• Gamillah — Prince

• My Medallion — Prince

• High — Prince

• U Make My Sun Shine — Prince

Personnel

Prince All vocals and instruments, except where noted

Additional Personnel 

Mr. Hayes — additional keyboards on Underneath The Cream

Najee — flute on Golden Parachute and Gamillah

Larry Graham — bass guitar on The Daisy Chain

DVS — rap on The Daisy Chain, background vocals on High

Kip Blackshire — background vocals on High

Angie Stone — co-lead vocals on U Make My Sun Shine

Milenia — background vocals on U Make My Sun Shine

Technical 

Prince — producer (assumed)

Femi Jiya — engineer

SOURCES Discogs, 45 World, Wikipedia, BBC Official Charts, Prince Vault, Sleeveographia2 All magazine scans, photographs, and original text excerpts referenced in this entry remain the property of their respective copyright holders. This Chronicle entry is a transformative, non‑commercial archival summary created for historical documentation and educational reference. No ownership of the original material is claimed or implied.

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