The yellow childhood home of the Purple One is abandoned and in need of some TLC, despite the City of Minneapolis recently granting it landmark status. So what will happen to it next? WCCO went there to find out.

It may look modest. But the yellow house on the corner of Upton and Eighth avenues in north Minneapolis is where greatness took shape.

"If they only knew, they wouldn't walk by here and just walk past it, they'd go, 'Wow,'" said Charles Smith. "It totally came together here."

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And Smith had a front row seat.

"It was like we were brothers," said Smith, who was Prince's second cousin. He says their grandmothers were sisters. He lived just up the block when they were little kids.

"I'd come down here every day, we'd sit down by the piano, I'd sit right next to him on the

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