He was a legend, music wouldn't sound the way it does now without him, people like Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, JT or Usher owe him a big deal
His political views and opinions on things such as the Internet don't matter (although I must say his irrational hate against Spotify or streaming unabled me to expand my knowledge of his discography) but because he had real talent to back it up, and yeah, at the end of the day, he was PRINCE, an icon