Famous Prince Beefs

We'll miss you Prince, the OG savage.

Prince vs. Madonna - Prince and Madonna briefly dated in the '80s and were labelmates but the friendship quickly went left. He told Billboard in 2013 that a lot of his previous issues with Warner Bros. were because of the pop diva. "It was always about Madonna. She was getting paid, but at the same time we were selling more records and selling out concerts on multiple nights."Madonna also spoke of their brief time together in a 1994 interview stating, "[He] was a little troll. He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don't eat. They annoy me."(Photos from Left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)
Prince vs. Rick James - Rick James and Prince never quite saw eye-to-eye and James even claimed that Prince snubbed his mother by refusing to give her an autograph, which set the feud in motion. Prince actually used to open for James, and at the height of the rivalry, it was reported that Prince sat on his bodyguard's shoulder as he walked through the crowd, which drew some of the spotlight away from The Superfreak's performance.(Photos from Left: Staff/Getty Images, WENN.com)
Prince vs. Maroon 5 - The man who put Minneapolis on the music map wasn't pleased in 2012 when Maroon 5 took a shot at his classic hit "Kiss." When asked about the cover, Prince stated to Billboard, "Why do we need to hear another cover of a song someone else did? Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there."(Photos from Left: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Prince vs. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - Prince obviously felt some type of way when he fired Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis from The Time because they missed a concert date. The duo were moonlighting and producing for the S.O.S. Band (which Prince wasn't fond of) when they were trapped by a snow storm and couldn't make a flight for a show. After relieving them of their duties, Prince told Jesse Johnson of The Time, "You'll never hear from those guys again."Obviously wrong, the Grammy Award-winning duo went on to produce No. 1 records for the likes of Janet Jackson, Usher, George Michael, Mariah Carey and countless others.  (Photos from Left: Kevin Mazur/NPG Records 2010/Getty Images, Paul Morigi/Getty Images for BET)  Prince vs. Sinead O'Connor - Prince has kicked a fuss over the years with people re-recording his songs, although he's covered a few hits as well. He and Sinead O'Connor have exchanged words over the years mostly because she scored a huge hit with "Nothing Compares 2 U," a track by Prince's side group The Family which he wrote and produced. O'Connor told U.K. paper The Mirror she exchanged words and blows with Prince back in the '90s when they met face to face, and years later, when fans at a 2005 concert shouted "Prince!" during an encore, Sinead responded, "F--k that f---ing midget!"(Photos from Left: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for NPG Records 2013/Getty Images, Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Prince vs. Rick James - Rick James and Prince never quite saw eye-to-eye and James even claimed that Prince snubbed his mother by refusing to give her an autograph, which set the feud in motion. Prince actually used to open for James, and at the height of the rivalry, it was reported that Prince sat on his bodyguard's shoulder as he walked through the crowd, which drew some of the spotlight away from The Superfreak's performance.(Photos from Left: Staff/Getty Images, WENN.com)

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