After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling ... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
You don't really know your own worth because you don't know what may happen tomorrow.
He suffered a stroke after completing a two-hour show in Denver's Mammoth Events Center.
He joined the navy when he was fifteen.
He was the lead vocalist for the R&B/Soul group The Mynah Birds.
He has three children: Tazman, Ty and Rick James, Jr.
Teena Marie was his protege.
He produced Eddie Murphy's one-hit wonder "Party All the Time".
He is a diabetic.
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