Chappelle's Show
Ep. #204
Wednesday 11 February 2004 on Comedy Central

The Love Contract : A small bit that plays at the beginning episode - this sketch is a satire of the Kobe Bryant incident and how it could have been avoided with 'The Love Contract' as your partner signs it confirming consent. Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories (Rick James) : This is...

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He was given the unofficial title "The King of Punk-Funk". (edit) His hit single "Mary Jane" reached #3 on the U.S. R&B Chart. (edit) He suffered a stroke after completing a two-hour show in Denver's Mammoth Events Center. (edit) He had two stage names: Ricky Matthews and Terry Johnson. (edit) He joined the navy when he was fifteen. (edit)

Rick: During the Throwin' Down tour I went to see Dizzy Gillespie at the Blue Note in New York. Man, I loved Dizzy. He was a guru, a beautiful man filled with the spirit of compassion, the father I never had. Diz was never judgmental. He used to say I was too serious and warn me not to look at life so black and white. He saw I was wild. "Rick," he said, "you remind me of Bird. Boy, you better slow down." But even Dizzy, for all his wisdom, couldn't change my reckless ways. (edit) Rick (talking about his hit single "Super Freak"): "Super Freak" came about after "Street Songs" was complete. I was listening to the tracks, just riffing on my bass, when I hit on this punky-funky sounding line. Reminded me of how punkers look funny when they try to dance. I heard it as a goof and never dreamed it'd take off. The lyrics were silly. The line about "she's the kind of girl you don't take home to mother" was jive. I could take any girl home to mother. Anyway, the song came together, I had the Temps singing behind me, and next thing I know it's a smash. (edit) Rick: I have to establish myself again, but I have to be careful. I don't want to lose the fans I had, and I want to attract new fans, but I don't want to lose my musical integrity either. I don't want to make the same mistakes I made before, but I don't want to blow people away with something foreign or alien to what they expect. I have to find a happy medium. The album is out, yeah, but I'm still in search of that happy medium. (edit) Rick: I'm into rock. I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic, and more lyrically structured. More honest, as opposed to putting riffs together, saying, "Get up and get down. I feel alright. Oomph! Good God! Get up and boogie" and all that redundant bull. (edit) Rick: It was my mother who raised us. She was a small elegant woman of great dignity and strength. She always had two jobs. Sometimes she worked as a maid, but her main income came from running numbers for the Italian mob. She raised us as strict Catholics. (edit)

Recurring Role
Soul Train Guest

Guest Star
American Bandstand Rick James Guest	American Music Awards The 11th American Music Awards Himself - Presenter
Anderson Cooper 360° Friday, November 21, 2003 Himself - Video clip	Behind The Music Rick James Himself
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