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quadro2000 · 08-06-2004, 11:21 AM

Breaking news on CNN:

"Singer Rick James was found dead in his home Friday by his caretaker, a Los Angeles police department spokesman said."

More to come...

quadro2000 · 08-06-2004, 11:33 AM

Here's what I got so far...

Link

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Funk Singer Rick James Dies in Los Angeles

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Funk singer Rick James, best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak," died Friday, apparently of natural causes, police said.

James, 56, died at 9:45 a.m. at a residence near Universal City, said Officer Esther Reyes, a Police Department spokeswoman.

"He died apparently of natural causes. We learned of his death after responding to a radio call," Reyes said.

After his big hit, James' fame began to fade as he became embroiled in legal problems and health troubles.

James was convicted in 1993 of assaulting two women. The first attack occurred in 1991 when he restrained and burned a young woman with a hot pipe during a cocaine binge at his house in West Hollywood. He was free on bail when the second assault occurred in 1992 in James' hotel room.

James was sentenced to more than two years in state prison.

In 1997, he released a new album, but a year later he suffered a stroke while performing at Denver's Mammoth Events Center, derailing a comeback tour.

In 1998 he also underwent hip replacement surgery.

I guess I'll be the first one to say it.

(sigh)

He was Rick James, bitch.

squirt · 08-06-2004, 11:34 AM

sailor · 08-06-2004, 11:50 AM

Man, thats simultaneously sad and hilarious.

Charlie Murphy gets his revenge...

matteo101 · 08-06-2004, 11:57 AM

It is a sad day for Chappelle Show fans everywhere.

hex1848 · 08-06-2004, 12:10 PM

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

<a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=46556">~14 meg wmv of the chappelle show skit</a>

Halx · 08-06-2004, 12:35 PM

I'm dead, bitch!

kutulu · 08-06-2004, 12:48 PM

jerk, you beat me to that line!

quadro2000 · 08-06-2004, 12:53 PM

It's not a funeral...

it's a celebration, bitches!

analog · 08-06-2004, 03:12 PM

I just hope they don't think it's necessary to make a movie out of him. I think a VH-1 special (which there already is one made) would be enough.

jdubz · 08-06-2004, 03:15 PM

He's smokin the stickiest of the icky with J.C. and the boys now

RIP Rick

Ella · 08-06-2004, 04:13 PM

Sleep tight, Super Freak.

Rick James web site

whocarz · 08-06-2004, 11:05 PM

Now Chappelle Show can have a skit where he comes back from the grave and says "I'm Rick James Zombie, Beeeotch!"

MSD · 08-06-2004, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whocarz
Now Chappelle Show can have a skit where he comes back from the grave and says "I'm Rick James Zombie, Beeeotch!"

Can't we just let the joke die already? It isn't funny anymore.

whocarz · 08-07-2004, 12:08 AM

Well, I wasn't trying to make a joke so much as predict the future, but ok.

xeem · 08-07-2004, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ella
Sleep tight, Super Freak.

Rick James web site

Thanks for the webbie

RIP Rick James ...

Speed_Gibson · 08-08-2004, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by analog
I just hope they don't think it's necessary to make a movie out of him. I think a VH-1 special (which there already is one made) would be enough.

A movie starring Dave Chappelle has been in the works for some time from what I read somewhere in the past few weeks. Never have seen Dave play him in any capacity, but I imagine he pulls it off decently.

quadro2000 · 09-17-2004, 04:41 AM

Sigh....I hate to say it, but yes, cocaine IS a hell of a drug.

How sad. In recent years, Rick James boasted that he was completely clean.

His death is actually similar in a way to John Entwistle's, from the Who. Cocaine didn't cause his death...but it sure as hell didn't help.

Link

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Coroner: 9 drugs found in Rick James' system
Death attributed to heart attack, ruled accident
Thursday, September 16, 2004 Posted: 9:28 PM EDT (0128 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Flamboyant funk musician Rick James had nine drugs in his system when he died suddenly in August, including cocaine, methamphetamine, valium and vicodin, according to a coroner's report Thursday.

James, 56, died in his sleep on August 6 in his Los Angeles home of a heart attack, but the drugs in his system likely contributed to the organ's failure, the report said.

James, best known for his 1981 hit "Super Freak," suffered from diabetes, had a pacemaker and had been in fragile health after a stroke in 1998. He had been hooked on crack cocaine and once proclaimed himself an "icon of drug use and eroticism."

His family attributed his death to natural causes, but the Los Angeles County coroner took over the case because James had not seen a doctor in recent weeks. An autopsy failed to establish the cause and toxicology tests were ordered.

The coroner listed nine drugs, including prescription medications for anxiety, pain relief and heart failure, along with cocaine and methamphetamine that were found in James's body.

"None of the drugs or drug combinations were found to be at levels that were life-threatening in and of themselves," the report said. It gave the cause of death as a heart attack and ruled the death accidental.

James, who received a lifetime achievement award in June, had recently finished recording an album and was in talks with Hollywood studios for a movie about his life.

tspikes51 · 09-17-2004, 08:31 AM

That sucks.

08-06-2004, 11:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
quadro2000 All Possibility, Made Of Custard Location: New York, NY	Rick James Found Dead Breaking news on CNN: "Singer Rick James was found dead in his home Friday by his caretaker, a Los Angeles police department spokesman said." More to come... __________________ You have to laugh at yourself...because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. - Emily Saliers

08-06-2004, 11:34 AM	#3 (permalink)
squirt Upright	damn

08-06-2004, 11:50 AM	#4 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	Man, thats simultaneously sad and hilarious. Charlie Murphy gets his revenge... __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

08-06-2004, 12:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I'm dead, bitch! __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

08-06-2004, 12:53 PM	#9 (permalink)
quadro2000 All Possibility, Made Of Custard Location: New York, NY	It's not a funeral... it's a celebration, bitches! __________________ You have to laugh at yourself...because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. - Emily Saliers

08-06-2004, 11:57 AM	#5 (permalink)
matteo101 In transition Location: north, no south abit, over to the right, getting warmer...there!	It is a sad day for Chappelle Show fans everywhere.

08-06-2004, 12:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
hex1848 Upright	Cocaine is a hell of a drug. <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=46556">~14 meg wmv of the chappelle show skit</a>

08-06-2004, 12:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie	jerk, you beat me to that line!

08-06-2004, 03:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
analog Banned	I just hope they don't think it's necessary to make a movie out of him. I think a VH-1 special (which there already is one made) would be enough.

08-06-2004, 03:15 PM	#11 (permalink)
jdubz Tilted	He's smokin the stickiest of the icky with J.C. and the boys now RIP Rick

08-06-2004, 04:13 PM	#12 (permalink)
Ella Ella Bo Bella Location: Australia	Sleep tight, Super Freak. Rick James web site __________________ "Afterwards, the universe will explode for your pleasure."

08-06-2004, 11:05 PM	#13 (permalink)
whocarz Jarhead Location: Colorado	Now Chappelle Show can have a skit where he comes back from the grave and says "I'm Rick James Zombie, Beeeotch!" __________________ If there exists anything mightier than destiny, then it is the courage to face destiny unflinchingly. -Geibel Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -Marcus Aurelius Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? -GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly

08-07-2004, 12:08 AM	#15 (permalink)
whocarz Jarhead Location: Colorado	Well, I wasn't trying to make a joke so much as predict the future, but ok. __________________ If there exists anything mightier than destiny, then it is the courage to face destiny unflinchingly. -Geibel Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -Marcus Aurelius Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? -GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly

09-17-2004, 08:31 AM	#19 (permalink)
tspikes51 Fuckin' A Location: Lex Vegas	That sucks. __________________ "I'm telling you, we need to get rid of a few people or a million." -Maddox