"cocaine is a hellah of a drug"............"im rick james bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!" for some reason i just cant take him seriously, even though he's dead. maybe its because he burned some girl with a crack pipe......or maybe its those absurd outfits he wore....Rick james we'll mis you dearly...

oh, c'mon. Lame outfits, a crack problem and history of violence against women shouldn't undervalue his contributions as an artist.





That was tongue in cheek, by the by.

dont hate the playa, hate the game

fo sho......
Im with mdler

the odd thing is that dave chappelle is scheduled to make a bio pic about James and will star as James. jamie foxx was on some talk show talking about how Rick came to a party at his house and broke his bed.

i remember hearing Superfreak for the first time when i was a kid, man that shit was fresh.

pour a 40 for the man.

"Cocaine is a powerful drug," Mr. James told a reporter for the Detroit News this year. "We would eat dinner and do cocaine. We didn't know anything about the Betty Ford Clinic then. The biggest mistake I made is that I tried to become my alter ego. I wanted to be Rick James, wild man, party machine, lady slayer, and the cocaine told me I could. I forgot that I was James Johnson, a nerdy kid, who grew up reading 'Dante's Inferno' on Saturday nights."

sounds like some blow might help me out these days...

dgg - "she's a very freaky girl, from her head down to her toenails..."

superfreak superfreak <- so good they named them twice

Hmm, I wonder if that song WAS about me... probably not, I think I was 4 when it came out... but still, it would have been nice to be immortalized in song, even if it is about being a superfreak...

he will be missed

A striking relevance because he was the definition of the transition between Disco & Funk....and more importantly because he is why no one under any cricumstance should try and revive the "DISCO" attitude and lifestlye

based on the few of his bits i recognize, I'd say that RJ was a follower, even at his best.

http://www.bet.com/articles/0,1048,p579gb10332-11397,00.html

tunes were almost completely weak, dated, and the infrequent funkiness was borrowed.

OTOH, the only decent part of "Around the Way Girls" was the rj sample (or pseudo sample).

btw, both 60's and 70's funk precededdisco (with some overlap, such as PFunk) :-)

Coroner: 9 drugs found in Rick James' system
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/16/rick.james.reut/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Flamboyant funk musician Rick James had nine drugs in his system when he died suddenly in August, including cocaine, methamphetamine, valium and vicodin, according to a coroner's report Thursday.

jeez, rick james was a vampire? i hear that rush survived the blood loss...