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Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges recently reflected on the time in the ’80s when Eddie Murphy enlisted Rick James to stage an intervention for his drug use. While appearing on The Patrick ...

Rick James is one of the most dynamic, incomparable and multifaceted American musicians of all time — the Godfather of “Punk Funk” whose '70s and '80s megahits like “Super Freak ...

LOS ANGELES – Funk legend Rick James (search), best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak" (search) before his career disintegrated amid drug use and violence that sent him to prison, died Friday ...

Rick James was always more complicated than he’s ever been given credit for. While he may have topped the charts with a boisterous mix of funk and disco, he was a rocker at heart.

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James made an estimated $30 million to $40 million from rapper M.C. Hammer’s 1990 hit “U Can’t Touch This.” It used the musical track from “Super Freak,” which topped the charts in 1981.

So “Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” by director Sacha Jenkins, doesn’t exactly rescue the proto funk-rocker from oblivion. It just gives him his overdue due.

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Todd Bridges looked back at a failed drug intervention, courtesy of Rick James and Eddie Murphy, in a recent appearance on a podcast.

So when Rick James is on stage, when Rick James is in the studio, making music, it's his way of trying to get free and feeling free. And I think that's what Rick James was all about.