RICK TALKS ABOUT HIS GOOD FRIEND CHARLIE MURPHY PLAYING PRINCE IN BASKETBALL AT THE 3 MINUTE MARK IN THIS FIRST CLIP.

RICK SAYS THAT PRINCE WOULDN'T HAVE PLAYED ANOTHER GIG IF HE PLAYED HIM IN BASKETBALL INSTEAD OF CHARLIE. SAYS HE WOULD HAVE BUSTED HIM UP.

RIP RICK JAMES

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Love Rick James's music, but he can go fuck himself in his grave.

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Rick James sounded like he had it out for Prince. Thank God Prince stayed away from him.

Sounds like a bit of sour grapes to me. If you're going to dislike someone, at lest have a valid reason

He was a bitter old fuck, but he's still the man

I'm Rick James Bitch!

NeonCraxx said:

Love Rick James's music, but he can go fuck himself in his grave.

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What? Rick is the baddest mofo ever.

Rick was a talented summofa....but I think towards the end he became jealous of Prince. Both ruined their careers with stupid moves (Rick drugs, Prince...well no time to list), but through it all, even though Prince couldn't deliver an album that the "public" wanted, he could still do a stage show to die for, Rick couldn't.

I think he looked at Prince and saw what he threw away.

smoothcriminal12 said:

PRICK JAMES !

sooo jealous of Prince !! Fat old whinging funker - shut the funk up !

Man, he took his jealousy and anger towards Prince to his early grave.

There would be no "Street Songs" if it were not for Prince. Rick stole Prince's keybords and use the same programming that Prince used for Dirty Mind/Controversy to help create Street Songs," his one and only commercial hit.

Rick made the mold, but Prince broke it. Rick will never get over that.

R.I.P you punk funk mofo!!

didn't prince repeatedly blow rick james off the stage when p was his support act in 1980?

i think that is reason enough for a life of bitterness towards prince. by that time rick was the old dog and prince was the new. and rick james always seemed like a bit of a petty goofball anyway. a great muso and entertainer, but certainly not a great human being. so i can't say i'm surprised. that kind of bitterness seems to never go away.

just watching the chappelle show clip with charlie murphy and rick james paints the same picture.

cocaine is a hell of a drug, indeed!!

figital said:

didn't prince repeatedly blow rick james off the stage when p was his support act in 1980?

i think that is reason enough for a life of bitterness towards prince. by that time rick was the old dog and prince was the new. and rick james always seemed like a bit of a petty goofball anyway. a great muso and entertainer, but certainly not a great human being. so i can't say i'm surprised. that kind of bitterness seems to never go away.

just watching the chappelle show clip with charlie murphy and rick james paints the same picture.

cocaine is a hell of a drug, indeed!!

rick was always bitter because early on, Prince stole A LOT OF ricks moves and stage gesture, towards the middle and end of the tour, the audience thought Rick was copying Prince. Prince was the opening act. That was Prince's gift, he was a sponge and soaked up every ounce of someone else's talent, turn it around and do it better than them.

Just ask The Revolution, The Time, The NPG, etc.

dang this was kind of sad

G3000 said:

Man, he took his jealousy and anger towards Prince to his early grave.

There would be no "Street Songs" if it were not for Prince. Rick stole Prince's keybords and use the same programming that Prince used for Dirty Mind/Controversy to help create Street Songs," his one and only commercial hit.

Rick made the mold, but Prince broke it. Rick will never get over that.

R.I.P you punk funk mofo!!

can anyone else confirm this?

uuhson said:

G3000 said:

Man, he took his jealousy and anger towards Prince to his early grave.

There would be no "Street Songs" if it were not for Prince. Rick stole Prince's keybords and use the same programming that Prince used for Dirty Mind/Controversy to help create Street Songs," his one and only commercial hit.

Rick made the mold, but Prince broke it. Rick will never get over that.

R.I.P you punk funk mofo!!

can anyone else confirm this?

This is true. Rick did steal Prince's gear. See the article below

http://mrberre.posterous....rick-james

Rick] James’s charisma was matched only by his audacity and Teena [Marie] was able to see these sides of the King of Punk Funk both on-stage and off. In 1980, Prince opened for James on the Fire It Up tour. James complained that Prince stole his stage moves and according to Marie, Rick paid Prince back by stealing his gear. “Back then people weren’t really programming their own synthesizers,” says Teena. “Prince - you know – he’s a genius... he was one of the only one’s who could really do that – probably him and Stevie [Wonder] were the only one’s really doing it…[Prince] was programming all his synthesizers and setting the presets with his own sound and …at the end of the tour [Rick] took [Prince’s] synthesizers.” Teena cannot help but chuckle as she recounts the story. “He took them to Sausalito and he actually used them on the Street Songs album and then he sent them back to [Prince] with a thank you card. He was a piece of work…and a brilliant genius, too!”

Teena later found herself wedged between the two future legends when she went on the road with Prince. “We were on the Dirty Mind tour together… [Prince and I] never had a problem. We would kick it…neither one of us drank so after the concerts we’d go and sit and have our little orange juice or whatever. He had a lot of respect for me. There were some nights that I would come on stage and I would kick his butt, you know, and [afterwards] he’d walk by me and go “Whew! I have to work hard tonight’ and there were some nights that he would come by and say ‘I whooped you! I whooped you tonight!’ so it was really awesome and he’s always been really wonderful to me.”

For James, however, it was a different story. “I don’t think Rick really liked the fact that [Prince and I] were friends but you know….The rivalry to me as I look back on it - it was really Rick. It wasn’t really Prince. It was more Rick than anything. I never really saw Prince feeding into it too much. It really actually saddened me because I think the two of them would have made some amazing music together. It would have been ridiculous…but you know…it was what it was…I’m not really sure why it started. Rick always said it was because Prince snubbed his mother.” Indeed, James claimed that Prince had insulted his mother at the 1982 American Music Awards by refusing to give her an autograph. The mood should have been celebratory - Teena was nominated for Favorite Soul R&B Female Artist and Rick won Best Soul/R&B Album for Street Songs - but Rick was having none of it. Backstage, Prince’s manager at the time (the late Steve Fargnoli) hastily arranged for Prince to apologize but James ignored him. Even today, Teena views the story skeptically. “I really find that hard to believe and if it did happen, I don’t think it was intentional because Prince just isn’t that kind of guy. So it could have just been unintentional where she was around and he didn’t see her, you know what I’m saying? And Rick really knew how to take stuff and run with it…but from everything that I know [Rick] really, really did like [Prince’s] music….” Laughing, Teena adds one more caveat: “Although he would never admit to it. He would never admit to that.”

BklynDiamond said:

Rick was a talented summofa....but I think towards the end he became jealous of Prince. Both ruined their careers with stupid moves (Rick drugs, Prince...well no time to list), but through it all, even though Prince couldn't deliver an album that the "public" wanted, he could still do a stage show to die for, Rick couldn't.

I think he looked at Prince and saw what he threw away.

Toward the end? He was bitter toward Prince his entire career.

He's accused Prince of stealing everything from him to his style, his music, the idea for a Girl Group. I think Rick even said Prince stole the idea for the movie Purple Rain from him.

As for both of them ruining their careers. Prince can play just about anywhere in the world today and sell it out.

He's looked at as an Elder Statesman of Music.

I think most musicians would kill to "ruin" their careers the way Prince has.

Funny how he refers to Prince as an "androgynous wannabe man" when he is sitting up there with eye shadow, eye liner and blush himself. Clearly he was just bitter, which is not surprising given that he was a substance abuser.

PurpleChi said:

Funny how he refers to Prince as an "androgynous wannabe man" when he is sitting up there with eye shadow, eye liner and blush himself. Clearly he was just bitter, which is not surprising given that he was a substance abuser.

You forgot that gold crap in his hair. I always thought that Rick was bitter over the fact that so many women from his camp wound up in Prince's camp eventually. He clearly felt competitive with Prince but he shouldn't have because he made great songs all his own and was funky as well. It was those drugs giving him a mad on for Prince(and probably losing Vanity and Jill Jones).

PurpleChi said:

Funny how he refers to Prince as an "androgynous wannabe man" when he is sitting up there with eye shadow, eye liner and blush himself. Clearly he was just bitter, which is not surprising given that he was a substance abuser.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

jeez rick was alright man

and the prince v rick is one of the great music stories

G3000 said:

Man, he took his jealousy and anger towards Prince to his early grave.

There would be no "Street Songs" if it were not for Prince. Rick stole Prince's keybords and use the same programming that Prince used for Dirty Mind/Controversy to help create Street Songs," his one and only commercial hit.

Rick made the mold, but Prince broke it. Rick will never get over that.

R.I.P you punk funk mofo!!

That's such a ridiculous statement. Do you REALLY think Prince was responsible for the success of "Street Songs"???? Just because he used (probably minimally, if at all) his keyboard? Now THAT'S some purple Kool-Aid gulpin'. Rick's talent was what was responsible for SS, and nothing else!

HonestMan13 said:

PurpleChi said:

Funny how he refers to Prince as an "androgynous wannabe man" when he is sitting up there with eye shadow, eye liner and blush himself. Clearly he was just bitter, which is not surprising given that he was a substance abuser.

You forgot that gold crap in his hair. I always thought that Rick was bitter over the fact that so many women from his camp wound up in Prince's camp eventually. He clearly felt competitive with Prince but he shouldn't have because he made great songs all his own and was funky as well. It was those drugs giving him a mad on for Prince(and probably losing Vanity and Jill Jones).

"So many women", huh? Like who (besides Jones and Vanity)?? I mean, really.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

G3000 said:

Man, he took his jealousy and anger towards Prince to his early grave.

There would be no "Street Songs" if it were not for Prince. Rick stole Prince's keybords and use the same programming that Prince used for Dirty Mind/Controversy to help create Street Songs," his one and only commercial hit.

Rick made the mold, but Prince broke it. Rick will never get over that.

R.I.P you punk funk mofo!!

That's such a ridiculous statement. Do you REALLY think Prince was responsible for the success of "Street Songs"???? Just because he used (probably minimally, if at all) his keyboard? Now THAT'S some purple Kool-Aid gulpin'. Rick's talent was what was responsible for SS, and nothing else!

Doesn't matter how you slice it, Prince made a "contribution" to Street Songs. If the story werent true, we would give Rick all the credit. It was Prince's programming on those keys. IMHO, Dirty Mind came out before we heard "Super Freak," you think Rick wasn't listening to and influenced by "When You Were Mine."

It's strange how almost everyone on this site believes that a person is "bitter" or "jealous" just because he/she genuinely dislikes or loathes another person, when that's usually never the reason.

what did rick have to be bitter about? even when he was in jail and down on his luck, he was still bringing more money then prince because he owns his master and his publishings. prince never blew rick off the stage on the fire it up tour, wb was paying critics to praise prince on that tour despite the fact that in most of the dates on that tour he was booed off the stage. rick is just as talented as prince is in anything he does. please stop drinking the purple kool aid.

James just as talented?LOL To each their own. I dont think his little hate filled rant tells us anything about Prince. It does show him to be an insecure, nasty, homophobic sexist with masculinity issues. But no great suprise as he kidnapped raped and beat a woman. I cant even listen to his old music anymore; I just think about the stuff he did and it kills it.

As to Charlie Murphy ya sure parts of the Chappelle skit are funny, but, as usual for them it uses sexist homophobic humor which gets old real quick and bigotry is never cool in any form. All these guys think they get respect from putting others down and that somehow elevates them but they only make themselves look like trash. Especailly when Murphys brother was the one out buying trans prostitues. Pathetic.

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead" James Baldwin.

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alexnvrmnd777 said:

HonestMan13 said:

You forgot that gold crap in his hair. I always thought that Rick was bitter over the fact that so many women from his camp wound up in Prince's camp eventually. He clearly felt competitive with Prince but he shouldn't have because he made great songs all his own and was funky as well. It was those drugs giving him a mad on for Prince(and probably losing Vanity and Jill Jones).