Video: Jamie Foxx Says He Was 'Like a Little Schoolgirl' at Prince Concert

The hands-down highlight of Jamie Foxx's appearance on David Letterman's show last night was his discussion of Prince's concert at Madison Square Garden last weekend. "It was the vintage Prince!" said Foxx, who brought his 16-year-old daughter to the show.

"I've seen Prince a lotta times and sometimes he'll go into himself and start singing about scriptures and stuff like that," he laughed, imitating Prince reading a Bible passage and then squealing. "But this time, he came out and went straight into ['Let's Go Crazy']. I was like a little schoolgirl, singing all the songs — to see a grown man singing 'Raspberry Beret' at the top of his lungs?"

Rob Sheffield reviews the first night of Prince's Welcome 2 America tour

Later in the show, Foxx and his daughter joined Whoopi Goldberg, Naomi Campbell and others dancing onstage during "Kiss," and they met Prince backstage after the show.

"He had, like, a shawl on," Foxx said. "He's the only guy that can get away with that: To be able to rock a shawl as a grown man? That's amazing!"

Foxx also performed "Yep Dat's Me," from his new LP Best Night of My Life. (Watch below.)

Jamie Foxx On David Letterman [RapRadar]

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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