--- title: Sinead O'Connor Calls Prince Music Discussion 'Uncouth' description: Sinead O'Connor sounded off on Prince's unreleased music and accused Arsenio Hall of supplying Prince with drugs canonical: https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-03T21:26:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:06.090Z og:title: Sinead O'Connor Thinks The Discussion Around Prince's Musical Archive Is 'Uncouth' og:description: The outspoken singer also called out actor Arsenio Hall og:url: https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73c62609e6fde863/698891b88e06017a5c465b68/sinead-oconnor-arsenio-hall-prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Sinead O'Connor Performs Live In Sydney og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sinead O'Connor Thinks The Discussion Around Prince's Musical Archive Is 'Uncouth' twitter:description: The outspoken singer also called out actor Arsenio Hall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73c62609e6fde863/698891b88e06017a5c465b68/sinead-oconnor-arsenio-hall-prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sinead O'Connor Thinks the Discussion Around Prince's Musical Archive Is 'Uncouth' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage) Don Arnold—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 3, 2016 9:26 PM UTC Sinead O’Connor suffered no fools today as she commented on the conversations surrounding the [Prince](http://time.com/4303584/prince-dead-facts-surprising-unusual-biography/)‘s rumored unreleased music stash, following his [unexpected death on April 21](http://time.com/4303558/prince-dead-paisley-park-57/). In an email sent to [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/03/sinead-oconnor-speculation-over-princes-unreleased-material-uncouth) and _People_ today, O’Connor wrote, “All this public and private discussion of when his unreleased material will come out is sickening. The man is barely even 10 days mourned,” she wrote. “It is most uncouth…the man was generous enough to give away for free any material he was happy to release.” She ended her email by suggesting that “His musical wishes, in my opinion, ought be respected and the material cremated in respect for him.” O’Connor’s statement comes on the heels of a controversial Facebook post that she wrote yesterday about Prince (who penned her 1990 hit,”Nothing Compares 2 U”), alleging that actor Arsenio Hall had long supplied drugs to legendary singer and Eddie Murphy. Hall’s rep Traci Harper has responded in a statement obtained by _People_, saying that O’Connor’s claims are “absolutely false, ridiculous, and absurd.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/"},"headline":"Sinead O'Connor Thinks the Discussion Around Prince's Musical Archive Is 'Uncouth'","datePublished":"2016-05-03T21:26:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:06.090Z","description":"The outspoken singer also called out actor Arsenio Hall","url":"https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Prince"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73c62609e6fde863/698891b88e06017a5c465b68/sinead-oconnor-arsenio-hall-prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73c62609e6fde863/698891b88e06017a5c465b68/sinead-oconnor-arsenio-hall-prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sinead O'Connor Performs Live In Sydney","caption":"Sinead O'Connor Performs Live In Sydney","creditText":"Don Arnold—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4316987/sinead-oconnor-prince-arsenio-hall-uncouth/","name":"Sinead O'Connor Thinks the Discussion Around Prince's Musical Archive Is 'Uncouth'"}}]}] ```