In 1985, R&B/pop icon Rick James was going through a bit of a transition in his career. A couple of years removed from the smash hit “Super Freak” (1981) and its accompanying album, Street Songs, both ...

Murphy confirmed that he'd once been trapped inside with James in Buffalo during the 1980s for two weeks. “I went up there to record ‘Party All The Time,'” Murphy began. “It was maybe the most fun I ...

Todd Bridges is looking back on one of the more unusual moments from his past struggles with addiction: a drug intervention that involved both Eddie Murphy and Rick James and ended in the most ...

Rick James, the self-proclaimed "king of punk funk" whose brash, boisterous, self-destructive life epitomized the title of his greatest hit, "Super Freak," died Aug. 6 at his home near Universal City, ...