(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” ...
*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 fire and fury of late Motown punk-funk legend Rick James will leap back to life this week when the brand-new stage musical “Super Freak: The Rick James Story” comes to Detroit. Written by ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Kobe Brown, a Grand Rapids native who came from humble beginnings at GR's Circle and Civic Theatres, is currently playing a young Rick James in "Super Freak: The Rick James Story ...
When Rick James died in 2004, he left the people who knew him with a lot of memories. One friend was Jermain Hill, a Buffalonian who went on to manage a record store in California, part of a chain ...