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10 Rick James Songs That Still Hit Different Decades Later.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to funk music royalty, few artists embodied the genre’s flamboyance, power, and unfiltered creativity quite like Rick James. The self-proclaimed “King of Punk Funk” ...
American Songwriter

4 Songs You Didn’t Know Rick James Wrote For Other Artists

Rick James may be best known for salacious funk hits like “Give It to Me Baby” and “Super Freak,” but the artist was so much more than those two songs. Beyond being a beloved entertainer and enduring ...
EURweb

10 Things That Need to Change Before ‘Super Freak: The Rick James Story’ Goes On Broadway

*James Ambrose Johnson, better known by his adopted stage name “Rick James” was among the most colorful, outrageous, and outspoken African American music artists of the late `70s through the `80s. He ...
The Washington Post

Funk Musician Rick James Dies

Rick James, the self-proclaimed "king of punk funk" whose brash, boisterous, self-destructive life epitomized the title of his greatest hit, "Super Freak," died Aug. 6 at his home near Universal City, ...