You Can't Keep a Brother Down Guess who's just collaborated with Prince on a hot new song?

You won't, so I'll give you a hint: His previous musical outing was wrongly described by ignorant or racist (or both) critics as "rap."

You guessed it! Cornel West has teamed up with Prince to record a song called "Dear Mr. Man," which is the "song of the day" today on Salon.com.

Here's writer David Marchese's description of "Dear Mr. Man":

Prince was featured in this space just last week, but today's song, his collaboration with Princeton professor and public intellectual Cornel West, is just too unique to pass by. Horn stabs and some wiggly wah-wah guitar groove along to a greasy beat as Prince wonders, "What's wrong with the world today?" and West chimes in with lines like, "Raise your Socratic questions to the system!" If only all protest music were this funky.

Me, I like it when West shouts out, "Break it down, brother Prince!"

It's a pretty good song, in fact.  ¶ 7:13 AM