Whether you’re vibing on vinyl or streaming through your favorite playlist, Rick’s music remains as bold and brilliant as ever. As a music critic, revisiting Rick James is not just a nostalgic ...

During his five-decade career as a pop libertine, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., a.k.a. Ricky Matthews or Rick James, was reportedly more of a superfreak ...

“Working three hours with Rick James,” Lanois told The Times last year, “that’s like five years in a university studying record-making. Inside of 40 minutes you’d have a fully finished ...

Funk legend Rick James, best known for the 1981 hit “Super ... “Come and Get It,” which was released in 1978 and produced the hit “You and I.” He followed with “Bustin’ out of ...

“You can judge Rick James by today’s metrics, or you can try to be realistic about the times he was living in and what he was doing,” he said. By maintaining a bad-boy image, James and many ...