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Rick James

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Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. February 1, 1948August 6, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. [1]

146 relations: A&M Records, All Night Long (Mary Jane Girls song), Alprazolam, Artificial cardiac pacemaker, Behind the Music, Bennett High School (Buffalo, New York), Berry Gordy, BET, Beverly Hills, California, Billboard Hot 100, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, Bruce Palmer, Buffalo, New York, Bupropion, Bustin' Out of L Seven, California, Chappelle's Show, Charlie Murphy, Cher, Chlorphenamine, Citalopram, Cocaine, Cold Blooded (Rick James album), Cold Blooded (song), Columbia Records, Come Get It!, Concept album, Conscription, Crack cocaine, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crossover music, Dance-punk, Dave Chappelle, David Ritz, David Ruffin, Desertion, Diabetes mellitus, Diazepam, Digoxin, Doo-wop, E!, E! True Hollywood Story, Ebony Eyes (Rick James song), Eddie Murphy, Etta James, Fire It Up (Rick James album), Folsom State Prison, Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo), Free base, Funk, ..., Funk rock, Garden of Love (album), Give It to Me Baby, Glow (Rick James album), Grammy Award, Greg Reeves, Hairdresser, Hayward, California, Heart failure, Hydrocodone, In My House, Isaac Hayes, It Must Be Magic, Jay Sebring, Jet (magazine), John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Katherine Dunham, KBLX-FM, Kickin' (Rick James album), La Doña (album), Lawsuit, Life (1999 film), Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Linda Blair, List of signature songs, Los Angeles, Louis Stokes, Madonna (entertainer), Marvin Gaye, Mary Jane (Rick James song), Mary Jane Girls, MC Hammer, Melvin Franklin, Mercury Records, Methamphetamine, Miles Davis, Motown, MTV, Neil Merryweather, Neil Young, New wave music, New York Post, Nick St. Nicholas, Nona Gaye, Numbers game, Ogg, Orchard Park High School, Party All the Time, Pioneer Amphitheatre, Portsmouth Naval Prison, Prince (musician), Procuring (prostitution), Quiet storm, Reflections (Rick James album), Reprise Records, Respiratory failure, Rhythm and blues, Rick James, Rock music, Sexual assault, Sketch comedy, Smokey Robinson, Snoop Dogg, Soul music, Standing on the Top, Steppenwolf (band), Stevie Wonder, Street Songs (album), Substance dependence, Sunset Tower, Super Freak, Teena Marie, The A-Team, The Confessions of Rick James, The Flag (album), The Miracles, The Mynah Birds, The Spinners (American R&B group), The Temptations, The Time (band), Throwin' Down, Toronto, Torture, U Can't Touch This, United States Navy, Urban Rapsody, USS Enterprise (CVN-65), Val Young, Vanity 6, Warner Bros. Records, West Hollywood, California, Wild and Peaceful (Teena Marie album), Wonderful (Rick James album), You and I (Rick James song), 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (96 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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All Night Long (Mary Jane Girls song)

"All Night Long" is a song written, arranged and produced by American musician Rick James for the Mary Jane Girls.

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Alprazolam

Alprazolam, available under the trade name Xanax, is a potent, short-acting benzodiazepine anxiolytic—a minor tranquilizer.

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Artificial cardiac pacemaker

A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to contract the heart muscles and regulate the electrical conduction system of the heart.

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Behind the Music

Behind the Music is a documentary television series on VH1.

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Bennett High School (Buffalo, New York)

Bennett High School was an American high school located in the University Heights section of Buffalo, New York.

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Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy III (known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer.

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BET

Black Entertainment Television (BET, stylised as BET★) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers

Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers were a Canadian soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Bruce Palmer

Bruce Palmer (September 9, 1946 – October 1, 2004) was a Canadian musician notable for playing bass in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Bupropion

Bupropion, sold under the brand names Wellbutrin and Zyban among others, is a medication primarily used as an antidepressant and smoking cessation aid.

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Bustin' Out of L Seven

Bustin' Out of L Seven is Rick James' second album on Motown sub-label Gordy Records.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chappelle's Show

Chappelle's Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by comedians Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, with Chappelle hosting the show and starring in the majority of its sketches.

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Charlie Murphy

Charles Quinton Murphy (July 12, 1959 – April 12, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and writer.

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Cher

Cher (born May 20, 1946 as Cherilyn Sarkisian, Շերիլին Սարգիսեան) is an American singer and actress.

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Chlorphenamine

Chlorphenamine (also known as chlorpheniramine, CP, or CPM) is a first-generation antihistamine used in the prevention of the symptoms of allergic conditions such as rhinitis and urticaria.

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Citalopram

Citalopram (brand names: Celexa, Cipramil and others) is an antidepressant drug of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.

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Cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.

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Cold Blooded (Rick James album)

Cold Blooded is a 1983 Rick James album, released on the Gordy Records imprint of Motown Records.

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Cold Blooded (song)

"Cold Blooded" is a funk song written and recorded by Rick James in 1983.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Come Get It!

Come Get It! is Rick James and the Stone City Band's debut album on Motown sub-label Gordy Records.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Crack cocaine

Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a vocal folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

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Crossover music

Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience, for example (especially in the United States) by appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical styles or genres.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

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David Ritz

David Ritz (born December 2, 1943 in New York City) is an American author.

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David Ruffin

David Eli Ruffin (born Davis Eli Ruffin, January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of The Temptations (1964–68) during the group's "Classic Five" period as it was later known.

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Desertion

In military terminology, desertion is the abandonment of a duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Diazepam

Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that typically produces a calming effect.

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Digoxin

Digoxin, sold under the brand name Lanoxin among others, is a medication used to treat various heart conditions.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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E!

E! (originally an initialism of Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.

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E! True Hollywood Story

E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows, and well-known public figures.

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Ebony Eyes (Rick James song)

"Ebony Eyes" is a 1983 hit R&B/Soul single recorded by American singers Rick James and Smokey Robinson for the Gordy (Motown) label.

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Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, writer, singer, and producer.

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Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.

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Fire It Up (Rick James album)

Fire It Up is the third album by American musician Rick James, released on October 16, 1979, on the Motown sub-label Gordy Records.

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Folsom State Prison

Folsom State Prison (FSP) is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, U.S., approximately northeast of the state capital of Sacramento.

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Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)

Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York was founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke.

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Free base

Free base (freebase, free-base) is the conjugate base (deprotonated) form of an amine, as opposed to its conjugate acid (protonated) form.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funk rock

Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock.

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Garden of Love (album)

Garden of Love is Rick James' fourth album on Motown sub-label Gordy.

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Give It to Me Baby

"Give It to Me Baby" is a song written by American singer Rick James.

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Glow (Rick James album)

Glow is a 1985 Rick James album, released on the Gordy Records imprint of Motown Records.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Greg Reeves

Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist.

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Hairdresser

A hairdresser is a person whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image.

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Hayward, California

Hayward (formerly, Haywards, Haywards Station, and Haywood) is a city located in Alameda County, California in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.

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Hydrocodone

Hydrocodone, sold under brand names such as Vicodin and Norco among many others, is a semisynthetic opioid derived from codeine, one of the opioid alkaloids found in the opium poppy.

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In My House

"In My House" is a song produced, written and arranged by American musician Rick James.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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It Must Be Magic

It Must Be Magic is the fourth studio album by Teena Marie, released in 1981.

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Jay Sebring

Thomas John Kummer (October 10, 1933 – August 9, 1969), who called himself Jay Sebring, was an American hair stylist for celebrities, and the founder of the hairstyling corporation Sebring International.

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Jet (magazine)

Jet is a magazine, currently in digital format, marketed to African-American readers.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Katherine Dunham

Katherine Mary Dunham (also known as Kaye Dunn, June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist.

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KBLX-FM

KBLX-FM, 102.9 MHZ is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to Berkeley, California and serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Kickin' (Rick James album)

Kickin is a Rick James album from 1989.

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La Doña (album)

La Doña is the eleventh album by Teena Marie, released in 2004 on the Cash Money label.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.

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Life (1999 film)

Life is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone and directed by Ted Demme.

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is an American television series that aired in syndication from 1984 to 1995.

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Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959)Official website for "The Exorcist".

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Stokes

Louis Stokes (February 23, 1925 – August 18, 2015) was an American attorney and politician.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mary Jane (Rick James song)

"Mary Jane" is a song by American funk singer Rick James.

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Mary Jane Girls

The Mary Jane Girls were an American R&B, soul and funk group in the 1980s.

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MC Hammer

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur.

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Melvin Franklin

David Melvin English (October 12, 1942 – February 23, 1995) better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin, or his nickname "Blue", was an American bass singer.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Neil Merryweather

Neil Merryweather (born Robert Neilson Lillie on December 27, 1945 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian rock singer, bass player and songwriter.

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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Nick St. Nicholas

Nick St.

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Nona Gaye

Nona Marvisa Gaye or Nona Aisha Gaye (sources differ) (born September 4, 1974) is an American singer, former fashion model, and actress.

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Numbers game

The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the policy racket, the Italian lottery, the policy game, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Orchard Park High School

Orchard Park High School is a secondary school in Orchard Park, New York.

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Party All the Time

"Party All the Time" is a 1985 single by comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, written and produced by Rick James and Kevin Johnston.

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Pioneer Amphitheatre

The Pioneer Amphitheatre is an amphitheatre located at the north-eastern corner of the Hayward Hills Campus of California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California.

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Portsmouth Naval Prison

Portsmouth Naval Prison is a former U.S. Navy and Marine Corps prison on the grounds of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) in Kittery, Maine.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Quiet storm

Quiet storm is a radio format and a "super genre" of contemporary R&B, jazz fusion and pop music that is characterized by understated, mellow dynamics, slow tempos, and relaxed rhythms.

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Reflections (Rick James album)

Reflections is a compilation of Rick James songs released in 1984.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Respiratory failure

Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide or both cannot be kept at normal levels.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rick James

Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. February 1, 1948August 6, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Smokey Robinson

William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Standing on the Top

"Standing on the Top" is a funk song recorded by the Motown group The Temptations, written and produced by (and featuring) musician Rick James.

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Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Street Songs (album)

Street Songs is the fifth album by American musician Rick James, released in April 1981 via Gordy Records.

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Substance dependence

Substance dependence also known as drug dependence is an adaptive state that develops from repeated drug administration, and which results in withdrawal upon cessation of drug use.

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Sunset Tower

The Sunset Tower Hotel, previously known as The St.

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Super Freak

"Super Freak" is a 1981 single produced and performed by Rick James.

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Teena Marie

Mary Christine Brockert (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010), better known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer-songwriter, and producer.

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The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit.

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The Confessions of Rick James

The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak is a book that funk musician Rick James was working on, before his death on the 6th of August 2004.

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The Flag (album)

The Flag is a 1986 Rick James album.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Mynah Birds

The Mynah Birds were a Canadian R&B band formed in Toronto, Ontario, that was active from 1964 to 1967.

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The Spinners (American R&B group)

The Spinners are an American rhythm and blues vocal group that formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Time (band)

The Time, also known as Morris Day and the Time and The Original 7ven, is an American musical group that was formed in Minneapolis in 1981.

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Throwin' Down

Throwin' Down is a Rick James album from 1982.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

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U Can't Touch This

"U Can't Touch This" is a song co-written, produced and performed by MC Hammer from his 1990 album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Urban Rapsody

Urban Rapsody is the final album released by American funk singer Rick James before his death.

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USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned United States Navy aircraft carrier.

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Val Young

Val Young (born Valaria Marie Young; June 13, 1958) also known as "Lady V", is an American recording artist from Detroit, Michigan, who achieved success during the 1980s.

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Vanity 6

Vanity 6 was an American female vocal trio assembled by American musician Prince in mid–1981.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Wild and Peaceful (Teena Marie album)

Wild and Peaceful is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Teena Marie.

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Wonderful (Rick James album)

Wonderful is a 1988 Rick James album.

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You and I (Rick James song)

"You and I" was the name of a hit song for R&B/funk musician Rick James.

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33rd Annual Grammy Awards

The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_James

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