(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to funk music royalty, few artists embodied the genre’s flamboyance, power, and unfiltered creativity quite like Rick James. The self-proclaimed “King of Punk Funk” ...

On Friday (Sept. 27), 50 Cent decided to poke fun at Diddy and Meek Mill by posting an altered version of a Rick James music video with their faces on it. In his Instagram post, which can be viewed ...

The fire and fury of late Motown punk-funk legend Rick James will leap back to life this week when the brand-new stage musical “Super Freak: The Rick James Story” comes to Detroit. Written by ...

When Rick James died in 2004, he left the people who knew him with a lot of memories. One friend was Jermain Hill, a Buffalonian who went on to manage a record store in California, part of a chain ...

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, ...