Rick James Wikipedia Page Vadalized

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Nothing too bad, but someone has obviously been watching reruns of Chappelle's Show.

With Young on board, the Mynah Birds returned to Motown to record an album, but their manager pocketed the advance money the label had given the band. The band fired their manager, who in turn told the label that James was AWOL. Motown told him to give himself up to the FBI, to which James replied, "Cocaine's a hell of a drug;" and the Mynah Birds' album was shelved.
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The group recorded an album for Lion Records in Los Angeles in March 1972, but by that summer they had disbanded. Cocaine, it seems, was a hell of a drug.

During this time, he guest-starred on an episode of The A-Team entitled Cocaine is a Hell of a Drug, where he played himself and performed at a prison concert singing "Super Freak"; Isaac Hayes also guest starred in this episode.

I don't know, normally I would find this pretty hilarious, but it just seems to be in bad taste considering the man just died within the past few years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_james

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A coroner's report released September 16, 2004 officially ruled his death as accidental, reporting nine drugs found in James' bloodstream:

"Toxicology revealed the presence of the following drugs,
Alprazolam (Xanax),
Diazepam (Valium),
Bupropion (Wellbutrin),
Citalopram (Celexa),
Hydrocodone (Vicodin),
Digoxin,
Chlorpheniramine,
methamphetamine, and
cocaine (one hell of a drug)

The report went on to state that "[n]one of the drugs or drug combinations were found to be at levels that were life threatening in and of themselves. Except for cocaine, which as we all know, is a hell of a drug."

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In 1993, James was convicted of assaulting two women, with the first assault during one of his cocaine binges. In 1991, he and future wife Tanya Hijazi were accused of holding 24-year old Frances Alley hostage for up to six days (accounts vary on how long she was actually held), tying her up, forcing her to perform sexual acts, and burning her legs and abdomen with a hot crack pipe during a week long cocaine binge.

Unfortunately, that really did happen.

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