Stevie Wonder is the most recent legendary artist to pay tribute to the late great Prince.

Wonder issued his tribute to the Purple One in a piece written for rollingstone.com and says that if "Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, Prince was the Emperor."

"Prince was so inspired, and so inspiring. He was kind, he was disciplined and he knew where he wanted to go.

He was able to make big transitions. If Michael was the King of Pop, Prince should be the Emperor.

Prince fought for his artistic freedom. He didn't allow anyone or anything to get in his way.

By following his own path, Prince took music to a whole other place, like the Beatles did.

He wanted to change the way things were, like Marvin Gaye did.

When you do that, you have to be very sure of yourself," Wonder wrote.

He added, "That spirit that drove him gave us an incredible reservoir of music.

He loved funk, so he really needed to know how to make things funky.

He loved jazz, so he needed to break down what made things truly swing.

If Prince wanted to talk about love and sex, he got really into that - deep. And he made us see and feel it all with him.

In fact, I'm trying to figure out which child of mine was born because of listening to Prince."