All can be said is, OOOOOWHHHHHEEEEE!!!!







http://www.youtube.com/wa...es%20brown

When will we see a James Brown movie? They should do it while he's alive...

Who would play him? I think Leon (5 heartbeats and Little Richard) is too tall, LOL

I think Eddie Griffin would be a perfect choice to play James Brown.

that's pretty tight funkpill, that shit is like 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 BAMM!!!-2-3-4-5-6-7-8....
to play the role of "JB" somewhere around late 60's to early 70's, i think of Wayne Brady.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Eddie lived with Ike Turner for a few weeks doing prep work 2 play Ike but the movie fell thru.

In September 1988, Brown carried a shotgun into an insurance seminar, briefly held it hostage, and then led police on a multi-state highway chase, for which Brown was fined $6,000 and sentenced to 6 years in prison. He was paroled after two years.

Months before that incident, Brown was charged with assault and intent to kill after being accused of savagely beating Adrienne Brown with a mop handle and firing a rifle into the car she was driving. Adrienne Brown later dropped those charges.

"This man has worked very diligently to turn his reputation around," said Debra Opri, Brown's West Coast lawyer, when asked about the incidents by Women's eNews. Opri characterized Brown as a quiet Southern gentleman. "He's very determined to let people know the real James Brown," she said.


Mixon thinks that the real James Brown is a wife batterer. "The real James Brown is not that man that curls his hair, and puts on the make-up, and puts on the clothes," she said. "The real James Brown is the one you saw in that mug shot," referring to a widely distributed police photograph in which Brown looked extremely disheveled.

In the years following his release from prison, charges of sexual harassment dogged the performer. Lisa Agbalaya, a former employee of Brown's, sued Brown in 2000 for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. A divided jury failed to find against Brown on the harassment charges, but ruled that Agbalaya was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for a formal complaint of harassment she filed against Brown.

The judgment ordered his company, the New James Brown Enterprises, Inc., to pay $40,000 to Agbalaya in March of 2002. So far, the judgment has not been paid, said Matthew Herrell, one of Agbalaya's lawyers.

In August 2000, Lisa Rushton, a former backup singer for Brown, filed sexual harassment charges against Brown, alleging that the performer demanded sex from her beginning in 1994. She says that when she refused, Brown retaliated by cutting her from performances and reducing her pay. Those charges were dismissed, according to Dallas.

Strange and sad to know that James Brown has been imprisoned once. Do you think he did the Jailhouse Rock?
[Edited 7/18/06 1:48am]

Godfather of Soul James Brown tells Contact Music that his previous problems with women – which include accusations of being abusive and controlling – stem from incidents in which they did not know “their limitations.”

According to the Web site, Soul Brother No. 1 says he adopts an old school way of handling the fairer sex.

"I got back to how it was years ago, when men controlled women,” he said. "A woman should know her limitations, as a man should know his obligations. I'm going to stay into that philosophy, unless I quit reading the Bible.

"You can't give a woman limitations if you don't find your obligations. But once I've taken care of her like a queen, I'm not going to go along with so much.”

Brown’s rap sheet is rife with domestic violence charges. In Feb. 2004, he was arrested and charged with criminal domestic violence for allegedly shoving his wife, Tomi Rae Brown, to the ground and threatening her with a chair.

In November 2003, some advocates for victims of violence spoke out against a decision by leaders at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to give Brown a lifetime achievement award.

In 1988, Brown was charged with assaulting his then-wife Adrienne, but the charges were dropped when she refused to testify against him. He also has settled several lawsuits filed against him that alleged sexual harassment.

Kay Mixon, President of the Comby Center for Battered Women, a shelter that served Adrienne Brown, told the New York Post: “He is a batterer. He didn’t batter her just once, but over and over again.”

When asked to comment about his past abuse, James Brown told Contact Music: "I did do some of the things reported and admittedly, they weren't so great."