Prince’s Vault Of Unreleased Music Was Reportedly Drilled Open

Christina Lee | April 30, 2016 10:48 am
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Before Prince died on April 21, he mentioned in interviews that he had a vault of unreleased music. According to new reports, he wasn’t joking.

That vault was reportedly drilled open by Bremer Bank, which Prince trusted with his finances, according to People. The vault was an actual walk-in safe at his estate with a combination door, for which only he knew the code.

“I have a couple of Revolution albums in the vault and two Time albums, one Vanity 6 album … and tons of stuff recorded in different periods,” Prince said to Rolling Stone in 2014. “But so much gets recorded that you don’t have time to compile everything. In the future you could put all the best stuff from one particular time period together and then you can release it. It’d just be like if we found a Sly and the Family Stone album and they saved their best stuff. If that’s even possible!”

According to ABC News, Prince had enough music to release one new album per year for the next century.

Prince didn’t mind alluding to that vault. But he didn’t love thinking about what would happen to it. “No, I don’t think about gone,” he said in that same interview. “I just think about in the future when I don’t want to speak in real time.”

Below, watch Prince talk his vault on The View in 2012, starting at 2:30.

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