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"Breakfast Can Wait" is a song by American recording artist
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. The single was released on February 5, 2013 on his website 3rdEyeGirl.com and was re-released on 3rdEyeTunes.com on August 17, 2013. The accompanying artwork for the single features comedian
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'' dressed as '' Purple Rain''-era Prince and serving pancakes, a scene from the 2004 sketch "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories". In June 2014, Chappelle appeared on
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's ''Tonight Show'' and discussed the use of his image on Prince's single: "That's a Prince
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move right there... You make fun of Prince in a sketch and he'll just use you in his album cover... What am I going to do—sue him for using a picture of me dressed up like him? ... That's
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right there." A remix EP, titled ''The Breakfast Experience'', followed on October 24, 2013 on
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the next day. It was made available on 3rdEyeTunes.com on November 5, 2013. The song is included on Prince's thirty-fourth studio album, ''
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'', which was released on September 30, 2014.


Music video

The music video for the song was filmed on September 19 and 20, 2013, in Los Angeles (without Prince present) and released on October 11, 2013. The video was directed by Danielle Curiel, a performer and part of the girl duo group Curly Fryz.


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