Rick James died 16 years ago today. Revisit 10 of the punk-funk king's essential tracks
LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1981: Rick James poses in his bedroom at home circa 1981 in Los Angeles California. , James knocked out three albums in two years, enjoying relative commercial success but flatlining creatively, largely due to his chemically enhanced lifestyle. That drought ended with his career-defining triple-platinum album, which put the punk back in James' funk on manic, lasciviously tipsy first single "Give It to Me Baby.
A suggestive quickie video was shot for the still-new MTV, which was yet to play a clip by a black artist, but James got smacked down by the channel's head of talent and acquisitions, Carolyn Baker: "It wasn't MTV that turned down 'Super Freak.' It was me," she stated flatly in the bookturned it down. You know why? Because there were half-naked women in it, and it was a piece of crap.
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