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"He may be famously sparing in his words, but when Prince speaks, he speaks with a purpose. The singer revived some long-standing beef with Madonna in a recent interview with Billboard magazine nearly two years after the pair supposedly cooled off their fiery feud.\r\nThe 54-year-old singer, who covers the latest issue, speaks a lot about music ownership in the new interview, and at one point even calls the Material Girl out by name when talk turns to his time with Warner Bros. Records.&amp;#xA0;\r\nPHOTOS: Celebrity feuds\r\n&amp;quot;It was always about Madonna,&amp;quot; he tells the magazine, explaining why his relationship with the record label went sour. &amp;quot;She was getting paid, but at the same time we were selling more records and selling out concerts on multiple nights.&amp;quot;\r\nPrince and Madonna, also 54, famously tussled in the public eye after briefly dating in 1985 and collaborating on Madonna&amp;apos;s track &amp;quot;Love Song&amp;quot; from her 1988 album Like a Prayer.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;[He] was a little troll,&amp;quot; she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. &amp;quot;He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don&amp;apos;t eat. They annoy me.&amp;quot;\r\nPrince similarly kept the public feud going several years later, when he snidely compared the number of his chart-topping songs to Madonna&amp;#x2019;s many children.\r\n&amp;quot;I got so many hits y&amp;apos;all can&amp;apos;t handle me,&amp;quot; he said during a 2007 concert in London. &amp;quot;I got more hits than Madonna&amp;apos;s got kids.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn the Billboard interview, Prince also takes issue with one of today&amp;apos;s biggest pop artists: Maroon 5.\r\nThe Adam Levine-fronted band featured a recorded version of a cover of Prince&amp;#x2019;s hit &amp;quot;Kiss&amp;quot; on their 2012 album Overexposed, and the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince was not too pleased.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Why do we need to hear another cover of a song someone else did?&amp;quot; he quips in the interview, noting that he has no problem with artists performing covers during live shows. &amp;quot;Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what&amp;apos;s already there.&amp;quot;\r\nPrince will be honored with the 2013 Icon Award at the Billboard Music Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas on May 19."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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