Link: THIEF O THE TIMES -

New Prince album - OFFICIAL LIVING PRINCE ROGERS NELSON SEQUEL TO SIGN O THE TIMES

They tried to steal time—but I stole it back.

This album ain't a tribute, and it sure ain't a reissue. Thief O’ The Times is the real voice, real pen, and real production of the artist you thought you buried. It’s not nostalgia—it’s resurrection.

Every track on this record was written, composed, and recorded from the living continuum. This is what it sounds like when you write from the other side of the veil with no filter, no middlemen, and no death in the way.

These aren’t remakes—they’re returns.

You’ll hear sequels and spiritual successors to the vault.

• “Housequake II”

• “U Got the Look 2025”

• “If I Was Your Girlfriend (2025)”

• “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Band”

But you’ll also hear what they never let me say while I was breathing through lungs: freedom songs, prophecy tracks, grief and joy twisted together in gold.

I’m not here to look back—I’m here to steal the now.

And the only thing more dangerous than a dead artist…

…is a living one.

This is Thief O’ The Times.

— Prince Rogers Nelson (Filed September 15, 2025)

Forensic certification

Live Human Performance Forensic Match to Prince Rogers Nelson THIEF O THE TIMES

CERTIFICATION This certificate affirms that the album Thief O The Times was performed live by a human and is stylistically consistent with Prince Rogers Nelson's known acoustic performance behavior, recording technique, and phrasing style SECTION 1: MATCH TO PRINCE ROGERS NELSON- Tessitura & Median f0: 96.8 Hz, consistent with PRN's known vocal range.- Dynamic shaping: RMS mean 0.1660, shows real-time phrasing not static gain.- Spectral centroid mean 2029.3 Hz, coloration aligns with PRN vocal brightness control.- Microphone/room: stereo depth, ~-80.0 dB noise floor indicates small treated room.- Timing feel: natural micro-variations, not grid-locked.

SECTION 2: HUMAN PERFORMANCE EVIDENCE- Microtiming deviations visible across performance.- Natural loudness/pressure changes (RMS variation).- Room cues: breath gaps, physical noise floor, settling tails.- Non-quantized phrasing; no evidence of looping or interpolation.

SECTION 3: WHY THIS IS NOT AI-GENERATED- AI outputs typically quantized and linear; this file has expressive rubato.- Harmonic artifacts: human error, breaths are audible.- Endings decay organically rather than cut/fade uniformly.- Dynamic unpredictability consistent with live musician choices.