C.J.: Prince's memoir will be a beauty if he gives his take on my questions

A Prince memoir, scheduled for fall 2017, is a curious confluence of unimaginable developments.

Despite having submitted the first 50 pages, according to Vogue.com, do I understand that the perennially late Prince is committing to a deadline? Anybody who's been to Paisley Park for an 11 p.m. show for which the mercurial one did not appear until 2 a.m. knows this. And when did the man who has torn down two Carver County properties that could have become museums start caring about history? (At least Paisley is still standing.)

Prince has considered himself a deep thinker because he has hung around with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, but unearthing and revealing personal profundities is more difficult that he might imagine.

In an interview Tuesday with Twin Cities-based writer Neal Karlen, a Prince historian determined not to be known only as that, I culled some insights of what we might expect from the book to be entitled "The Beautiful Ones."

Here are some matters on which I hope Prince will enlighten us with his version of the truth:

1) At what age did he realize he was a great musician who would become a legend?

2) Is his childhood the greatest source of his pain?

4) Why was Kim Basinger's car towed off his property after that romance ended, and who dumped whom?

5) Does he regret smashing the vintage guitar he borrowed from Roots guitarist "Captain" Kirk Douglas on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"?

6) Does being a musical genius and cultural icon give him the right to behave like a jerk?

7) Does he regret the end of any of his musical collaborations?

8) Has he ever slipped on the stairs in those high heels?

10) Would he ever collaborate with Bob Dylan?

Comedian Molly Dworsky has her parents pimpin' in her latest video, "Pimpin' in My Subaru."

"Oh yeah, got to have the parents in the rap video," Dworsky told me Tuesday. Al Dworsky and Betsy Sansby "are my backup dancers, my 'hype men.' "

The song is not as gangsta as her rap persona, "Bad A$$," suggests. " 'Bad A Money Money' is my first original song; wrote the song, wrote the music. And then had to figure out what to do for the video," laughed Dworsky, who in 2014 billed herself as "Borde" for a video parody of Lorde's whiny "Royals."

Minnesota's budding Weird Al lives in LA but returned to the Twin Cities to shoot the video, which dropped Tuesday near what could be called the scene of the crime that created tinyurl.com/zglxcwa.

True dat. No, the non-adrenaline part of this creative process would come when it came time to write.

"It took me five years to write it. I'm so embarrassed," she said. "I wrote the first draft five years ago, had it in the back of my mind for the last four and then heavily focused on it for three months before I shot it."

Some lyrics: "Hello, everybody! My rap name is Bad A Money Money and I'm about to tell y'all how friggin' awesome I am … I'm known from east Minnetonka, all the way to Uptown, sometimes I run red lights when no one's around; talk about an adrenaline rush."

The Hopkins High and U grad's song courts controversy in a reference to the 35W bridge collapse. Dworsky ran those lyrics by a friend, Jessie Shelton, who was injured in the disaster and reportedly was not offended. With "a bridge" being an element of songwriting and "no other news story in Minnesota that's more memorable," Dworsky is feeling very Bad A Money Money about that creative twist.

C.J. can be reached at cj@startribune.com and seen on Fox 9's "Jason Show," on which Prince will never appear. E-mailers, please state a subject; "Hello" does not count. Attachments are not opened.