For decades, the legacies of Prince and his fellow Minneapolis funk pioneers Morris Day & The Time have been intertwined. Day and Prince were high school classmates and, eventually, bandmates in the group Grand Central. Prince was closely involved when the Time was founded by his associates in 1981. Day, the Time’s lead singer, appears in the Purple Rain movie as Prince’s adversary. Day appeared on stage with Prince at Coachella in 2008 and has participated in numerous tributes to Prince since the Purple One’s death in 2016. But now he appears to be locked in a conflict with Prince’s estate.