June 07, 2004
Rick James: Financial Wizard
Learn how you can blow "$7,000 a week" on crack cocaine and still be worth $40 million.
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I'm Rick James, Bitch! Soooo excited that I beat everyone else to that line!
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Here's the Rick James soundboard.
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That [Rick James] is pretty wild now That [Rick James]'s a super freak The kind of [Rick James] you read about In [financial] magazines.
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"Just one word: holographic imagery. Well, it's two words, but you get it, right, bitch?"
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The money quote: "Pork bellies I'm a fan of, because people, especially black people, whenever there's hard times, times of financial insecurity, black people going to eat some bacon."
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I'm the most sampled artist in history. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that title went to James Brown's "Funky Brother".
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Or "Funky Drummer".
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Is that the most used sample, or the most sampled artist? Besides, Rick James is braggadocious, if he isnt #1, hes up there.
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Surely the title of most sampled artist belongs to George Clinton & Company (P-Funk, etc.). Rick James only had a very few minor hits, and only one major one. And yet we are all his bitches, so go figure....
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I'm sure some enterprising producers have dug up some of his more obscure tracks for sampling as well. Darkness everybody, darkness!!!
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I'm pretty sure Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express has been sampled as much as Super Freak...
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Given the divergent musical path's of the two, some of you may be surprised to learn that Rick James and Neil Young used to play togethor--a looooong time ago. A group called the Mynah Birds, mid/late 60's. Frankly, I was amazed when I learned of that one. I think that instead of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, maybe it should have been 6 Degrees of Rick James!
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I am at one degree of separation from Gene Simmons, a fact I occasionally boggle at.
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When I'm drunk, I am Gene Simmons.
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Charlie Murphaaayy!!! *BAM!*