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Another previously unreleased Prince song, "Born 2 Die," dropped on Thursday. The track is set to appear on the late icon's upcoming posthumous release, Welcome 2 America, dropping later this summer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Prince Estate and Sony Music have released “Born 2 Die,” is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming, previously unreleased 2010 studio album “Welcome 2 America.”  According to the announcement, song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play in the social justice movement.The song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, and the drummer Chris Coleman, and with vocals added by Shelby J., Liv Warfield, and Elisa Fiorillo. Morris Hayes added final production to the track.

Prince‘s estate has shared ‘Born 2 Die’, an unreleased track from the music icon.The new offering features on ‘Welcome 2 America’, a record previously shelved by the singer after he completed it in 2010.The track was recorded as a direct rebuke to Dr.