Morris Day Reveals Prince KNEW Label Was Trying To K!LL Him │Prince’s Doctor Paid Off? | HO

April 28, 2025

The world was stunned when Prince, the enigmatic genius behind classics like “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry,” passed away in April 2016. While fans mourned, the music industry buzzed with questions. Was it just a tragic accident, or was something more sinister at play?

Now, Morris Day—the legendary frontman of The Time and Prince’s longtime friend and collaborator—has dropped bombshell revelations that suggest Prince may have known his days were numbered. Even more disturbing, Day hints that Prince’s record label and personal doctor may have played roles in the events leading up to the icon’s death.

Denial, Shock, and a Sense of Betrayal

“When I first heard the news, I was in denial, like a lot of people probably were,” Morris Day told Rolling Stone. “I had just been at Paisley Park two months prior, because Prince wanted us to come party with him. When I found out it was really him that died, it didn’t really hit me. It took a while to sink in.”

But as the shock faded, Day began to put the pieces together. He recalled that Prince seemed off in the days before his passing—thinner than usual, more fragile, and almost desperate to reconnect. “At the time, I thought nothing of it, but in retrospect, I thought maybe something wasn’t right. I just felt like he knew—like he knew something wasn’t right.”

A Final Goodbye—and a Warning

The last time Day saw Prince, the superstar was unusually sentimental. After a show, Prince called Day to his dressing room, hugged him, and said, “I love you.” For Day, this was both touching and alarming. “That caught me off guard because that was the first time,” Day said. “It’s almost like he was going around saying his final goodbyes because he knew what was about to go down.”

Fans now speculate that Prince was trying to warn Day about the music industry’s machinations—specifically, his label’s alleged efforts to control, and perhaps even destroy, him.

Prince’s War With the Industry

Prince’s battles with record labels are legendary. He famously changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in protest of Warner Brothers’ control over his music, and he wrote “slave” on his face as a protest against industry exploitation. In 2014, after a bitter decades-long struggle, Prince finally won back ownership of his masters from Warner Brothers.

But according to Day, the victory may have come too late. “The companies felt otherwise,” Day explained, referencing Prince’s belief that he owned his work because he paid for it and created it. The labels, however, saw things differently. “There is nothing they didn’t do in 36 years of having [the masters]… they did it all. It cost them more to keep track of the masters’ sales, preservation, etc., than they were making. Letting him deal with the upkeep was a blessing to them.”

Day believes that Prince’s defiance—and his ultimate victory—made him a target. “He spent his entire life fighting the music industry for the rights to his music. The problem is not a complex one, and the solution is simple: let the baker make the bread. I’m a musician, I make music. But the industry has always been interested in making money, not respecting artists.”

The Estate Battle and the Legacy War

After Prince’s death, the battle over his legacy only intensified. In 2020, Day called out Prince’s estate for refusing to let him use the name “Morris Day and The Time,” a name he and Prince had built together over 40 years. “Now that Prince is no longer with us, suddenly the people who control his multi-million dollar estate want to rewrite history by taking my name away from me, thus impacting how I feed my family,” Day wrote on social media.

A representative for the estate claimed the dispute was a misunderstanding, but fans saw it as a continuation of the exploitation Prince had fought so hard against. “The same label is still feeding off Prince’s legacy—something that he fought against his entire life. It’s sickening,” one fan commented.

Was the Doctor Involved?

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of Day’s revelations involves Prince’s doctor, Dr. Michael Schulenberg. According to official reports, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. But the story is more complicated than that. Police found dozens of pill bottles at Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio, and the fatal dose came from a counterfeit medication—far more dangerous than the legitimate prescription.

Dr. Schulenberg admitted to prescribing painkillers to Prince under the name of Prince’s friend and bodyguard, Kirk Johnson—a move that is illegal under medical law. Prince’s family later sued the doctor, alleging that he “failed to appropriately evaluate, diagnose, treat and counsel Prince for his recognizable opioid addiction and further failed to take appropriate and reasonable steps to prevent the foreseeably fatal result of that addiction.”

Schulenberg’s lawyer insisted the doctor provided appropriate care and would defend himself in court. Ultimately, the case was dismissed and no criminal charges were filed. For many fans, the outcome was suspicious. Prince had been revived from an opioid overdose just six days before his death, and Schulenberg prescribed oxycodone the very same day—again, under someone else’s name.

The Yes-Men and the Industry Machine

Morris Day believes Prince was surrounded by “yes-men” who were too afraid to challenge him or protect him from his own self-destructive tendencies. “He had people who he was like, ‘Go get me another whatever.’ And those people were too scared to say no. He needed someone talking real talk to him.”

Some fans believe that these yes-men, along with the doctor, were complicit in a larger scheme orchestrated by the label. As comedian Cat Williams once said, “Labels make more money from an artist in the grave. In business, nothing is coincidental. Somebody makes big money when these artists get killed.”

Unanswered Questions

To this day, questions about Prince’s death remain. Did his label, threatened by his independence and ownership of his masters, play a role in his demise? Was Dr. Schulenberg paid off—or at least pressured—to keep Prince quiet and compliant? And why, after so many red flags, was no one held accountable?

Morris Day’s revelations have reignited the debate. “I understood him,” Day said. “He was very rebellious in that respect. The amount of money the companies earned off of us and the small amount we saw—it all made sense.”

Prince’s fight for artistic freedom may have cost him everything. As the mystery lingers, one thing is certain: the industry he fought so hard to expose still has many secrets left to tell.

What do you think? Was Prince’s death an accident, or was there a larger conspiracy at play? Share your thoughts below and stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.