reflecting the complexity of Black life in America. “Ghetto Life” is layered, lived-in, and liberating. Finish story here; 10 Rick James Songs That Still Hit Different Decades Later.

Hip-Hop icon Roxanne Shanté reveals she lived with Rick James for six months at age 16 and now fights to protect young women ...

Look at Pharrell, who has a broad range of influences culturally, from skateboarding, to BMX and to rock and roll, and he has made all this "Black music." I think Rick James was a prototype of ...

There are a number of eye-opening revelations in Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, a new documentary on the late funk legend from filmmaker Sacha Jenkins (Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men).

Video of LeBron James as Rick James surfaced, as the All-Star forward wore a black wig, a tight white shirt and shimmied around the stage during his song. "How y'all doin' tonight?" LeBron asked ...

The two-ton, jet-black gravestone for funk legend Rick James was hoisted into place last week, just in time for the second anniversary of his death Sunday. The Buffalo-born James lives on in his ...

During his five-decade career as a pop libertine, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., a.k.a. Ricky Matthews or Rick James, was reportedly more of a superfreak ...

He regularly reenacted anecdotes told by the comic Charlie Murphy; in one of these, the funk renegade Rick James did some obscene blustering at a bar before announcing “I’m Rick James ...