Social media can be a vapid, chaotic environment riddled with negativity, but there are times when it can be a place full of nostalgia and happy reminiscing. Such was the case on Thursday when people recalled comedian Charlie Murphy's tale about a time when Prince beat him in a basketball game.
It all started after a Twitter user shared a vintage clip of the late legendary musician Prince nailing a jump shot in the middle of a concert.
Prince fans who were already well aware of the singer's skills on the basketball court were appreciative of the throwback video. However, the clip got some people thinking about the late Murphy, particularly a story he told on Chappelle's Show about losing a basketball game to Prince.
"So the late, great Charlie Murphy trending because his classic Chappelle's Show skit about Prince beating him at basketball was verified as percent true is my favorite thing tonight (though Prince fans knew it). That show was one of the funniest, boldest things ever on TV," Joy-Ann Reid, host of MNBC's The Reidout, tweeted early on Friday.
Murphy appeared on a episode of Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central series and had viewers in stitches with his classic sk
Superstar musician and cultural icon Prince died on Thursday at 57, and while his influence regarding popular music, black culture and gender norms — and even how someone is named — will remain pervasive, his life on the basketball court is shrouded in historical fact and comedic legend.
Standing at 5-foot-2, Prince was an inch shorter than the NBA's tiniest player ever, 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues, but lacked Bogues' height-defying elite athleticism, of course. A mercurial personality whose image was inextricably tied to his own expression of gender-fluid black masculinity, Prince's skill as a basketball player was never mentioned even as he rose to fame in the late '70s and throughout the '80s. Who would guess that the short pop musician in heels could ball?
And for decades, nobody did. It wasn't until Charlie Murphy's infamous retelling of his experience playing a late-night pick-up game against Prince that the world became aware of his abilities on the court. In A "Chappelle's Show" skit that aired in February , Murphy shared the "True Hollywood Story" of the time Prince and his crew whooped Murphy and his friends in a basketball game at Prince's house in
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The True Story Behind Prince's Famous Basketball Game With Charlie Murphy
In , Micki Free found himself at the center of what would become television history: a pick-up basketball game involving Prince and Charlie Murphy. It's a game that has become embedded into pop culture thanks to the Chappelle's Show sketch, which depicted Prince as a basketball-crushing beast that ran Charlie and his famous brother Eddie Murphy off the hard court.
"Being around Prince was surreal," remembers Free, a year-old blues rock guitarist, who is set to drop his upcoming album Tattoo Burn Redux in May. Free was among the rare few allowed inside the late music superstar's closed-off entourage. It was the decade of decadence, and Prince was on one of pop music's most storied runs with such landmark albums like Dirty Mind, , and Purple Rain. Meanwhile, the Grammy-winning Free had re-vitalized the R&B group Shalamar, injecting the act with a rock and roll swag that hit its apex with the top 20 crossover single "Dancing in the Sheets."
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Eddie Murphy recently recounted his side of the iconic story involving Prince and a pick-up basketball game his late brother, Charlie Murphy, once hilariously told and reenacted on “Chappelle’s Show.”
The comedian confirmed during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday that his brother’s account of their iconic match against the late “Purple Rain” legend was “totally and absolutely accurate.”
Eddie Murphy described what everyone was wearing at the time to host Jimmy Fallon, saying that Prince proposed the idea of playing basketball while he was wearing a leather jacket and a gold chain around his waist.
“A waistlet, I think,” Eddie Murphy added with a laugh. (Watch the entire clip below.)
Prince’s revolutionary and iconic style was the center of the memorable “Chappelle’s Show” skit, in which Dave Chappelle portrayed the late singer while donning a purple ensemble, complete with a ruffle shirt.
In the skit from the mids show, Charlie Murphy recounts the night when Prince and his team handedly beat him, his brother and their team in a game of pick-up basketball.
“I dare you to challenge Prince to a game of ball one-on-one,” Charlie Murphy says at on
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