The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold

The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold is a promotional mixtape^[2][3] by American musician Prince, originally issued as a limited edition cassette and given away to attendees of the Versace collection at the 1995 Paris Fashion Week. The album was intended to promote Prince's then-upcoming album The Gold Experience.^[4]

The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold
2019 re-release cover
Mixtape by Prince
Released	July 8, 1995 (1995-07-08)[1]
Length	32:43
Label	NPG Legacy
Producer	Prince
Prince chronology
The Black Album (1994) The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold (1995) The Gold Experience (1995)

The cassette was re-released posthumously for Record Store Day on April 13, 2019,^[3] and released on CD, vinyl, as a digital download and for streaming through NPG Records and Legacy Recordings on September 13, 2019.^[5]

Music

The cassette was issued in promotion of Prince's 1995 album The Gold Experience and half of the included tracks are excerpts or mixes of songs which were later released on that album: "Pussy Control", "Shhh", "Eye Hate U", "319", "Shy", "Billy Jack Bitch" and "Gold". However, several were originally written for the New Power Generation's second album Exodus (1995), as well as his collaborations with Clare Fischer (issued as "the New Power Generation Orchestra"), and his jazz fusion group Madhouse.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Pussy Control" (Club Mix; edit) – 3:02
2. "Shhh" (X-cerpt) – 3:54
3. "Get Wild in the House" (performed by The New Power Generation) – 2:14
4. "Eye Hate U" (Remix) – 3:28
5. "319" (X-cerpt) – 1:28
6. "Shy" (X-cerpt) – 2:22
7. "Billy Jack Bitch" – 2:31
8. "Sonny T." (X-cerpt) (performed by Prince and Madhouse) – 0:28
9. "Rootie Kazootie" (performed by Prince and Madhouse) – 2:37
10. "Chatounette Controle" – 2:24
11. "Pussy Control (Control Tempo)" (edit) – 1:23
12. "Kamasutra Overture #5" (performed by The New Power Generation Orchestra) – 0:43
13. "Free the Music" (performed by The New Power Generation) – 1:44
14. "Segue" – 0:49
15. "Gold" (X-cerpt) – 3:36

Charts

Chart performance for The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[6]	50
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[7]	19
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[8]	61
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9]	29
French Albums (SNEP)[10]	94
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11]	59
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[12]	25
Scottish Albums (OCC)[13]	38
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[14]	20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15]	30
UK Albums (OCC)[16]	83
US Billboard 200[17]	170
US Top R&B Albums (Billboard)[18]	17