{"id":806534,"date":"2020-04-18T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986407"},"modified":"2020-04-18T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:17:25","slug":"apollonia-kotero-slams-sheila-e-over-prince-tribute-lemon-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/apollonia-kotero-slams-sheila-e-over-prince-tribute-lemon-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollonia Kotero Slams Sheila E. Over Prince Tribute \u2018Lemon Cake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Purple Rain<\/em> star Apollonia Kotero slammed Prince<\/a> collaborator Sheila E. in a social media post following the release of Sheila E.\u2019s Prince tribute song \u201cLemon Cake\u201d earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLemon Cake\u201d arrived a week before the Let\u2019s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince<\/em> special<\/a>, featuring Sheila E., airs on April 21st. The drummer also took part in the Grammys\u2019 tribute to Prince<\/a> in February.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with Billboard<\/em><\/a> after the release of \u201cLemon Cake,\u201d \u201cThe Glamorous Life\u201d singer said, \u201cOne day I mentioned to him that I make a good chocolate and lemon cake. His response was, \u2018Oh, I didn\u2019t know you cooked.\u2019 I said, \u2018Of course I do. My mom being Creole and my dad Mexican, I better know how to cook.\u2019 The next day I baked a lemon cake. It was love at first sight and one of his favorite things that we would share in the studio.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are so desperate to be RELEVANT as the brilliant Linda Perry said. Prince refused to acknowledge you for 5 years before his death because of your lies,\u201d Kotero wrote of Sheila E. on Facebook<\/a> (via Okayplayer<\/a>). <\/span>\u201cYou can\u2019t continue to fool our Prince fans any longer. Because I AM here to tell you, it\u2019s over. Time for the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In her Facebook post, Kotero accused Sheila E. of profiting off Prince\u2019s name and trademark, including accusations that Sheila E. held Prince-themed benefit concerts<\/a> for music schools that never came to fruition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPrince was so angry because of all your continuous lies. Your bio filled with lies. He sent you legal letters as you were slandering him. I have copies and will include them in my memoirs. You need to stop using Prince in death. You need to stop using Purple Rain as a vehicle. YOU ARE NOT ON OUR CAST LIST,\u201d Kotero wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

A rep for Sheila E. did not respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you do a Purple Rain boat cruise tour $?$? in 2016? Why would you sell Prince logo tshirts $$$ ?,\u201d Kotero continued. \u201cWhy did you tell The Revolution April 2016 that YOU knew how Prince died BUT you could not tell them!?! Please get over yourself: YOU ARE NOT PRINCE. You will never be. You can copy his attire , try your best, but you will NEVER be Prince. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo get over yourself sad self and face the truth. He did not want anything to do with you for 5 years. You erased all that history by being your desperate egotistical self. Egotistical empty sad desperate for money. Money will not get you to Heaven. Time to come out and tell the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Purple Rain star Apollonia Kotero slammed Prince collaborator Sheila E. in a social media post following the release of Sheila E.\u2019s Prince tribute song \u201cLemon Cake\u201d earlier this week. \u201cLemon Cake\u201d arrived a week before the Let\u2019s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince special, featuring Sheila E., airs on April 21st. The drummer also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 17:34:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}