Prince new album features 'aggressive and menacing' rap song with Rita Ora

Prince has recorded another unreleased album on top of Plectrum Electrum

Prince has recorded another album featuring a rap song in collaboration with Rita Ora, he has revealed.

Speaking to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the singer did not release the album’s title or release date but said he wanted to release the single with Ora as soon as possible.

The interviewer was invited to listen to the song, which he said was “a rare rap song on which the music was as aggressive and menacing as the rapping”.

Prince said another stand-out song, “This Could Be Us,” was inspired by a meme of him and actress Apollonia Kotero riding a motorbike in his 1984 film Purple Rain.

The Star Tribune reporter called the song “joyful”, with “ecstatic vocalising” from Prince.

Other tracks included an electro-funk number called “The Gold Standard”.

The untitled album is also said to include a “funkier and nastier” remix of Prince’s single “Funk ‘n’ Roll”.

It is separate from Plectrum Electrum – his other unreleased album recorded with 3rd Eye Girl.

The artist said he believes in albums rather than singles. “I’ve finally got something that is a cohesive statement,” he added.

After more than 30 years in the music industry, Prince told the Star Tribune had was tired of how slowly work progresses.

“Every number one song, every Top 10 song, every song in the Top 40 is at least six months old,” he said. “We should be able to make music and put it out now.”

The 56-year-old recently played to sell-out crowds in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and London on his latest world tour.