Rick James is one of the most dynamic, incomparable and multifaceted American musicians of all time — the Godfather of “Punk Funk” whose '70s and '80s megahits like “Super Freak,” “Give It to Me Baby, ...

Rick James may be as well known for his No. 1 hit, “Superfreak,” (which featured a hook that allowed it to crossover to white audiences) as he was for his drug addiction and brushes with the law.

After years of trying to funk his way to stardom, Rick James finally broke through in 1978 on the back of a pair of dynamite singles: “You and I,” an eight-minute dance-floor workout that includes a ...

A service for James A. Johnson Sr., father of funk singer Rick James, will be held at noon Thursday in Thomas T. Edwards Funeral Home, 995 Genesee St. Burial, with military honors, will be in Mount ...

NEW YORK −Perhaps it’s an unlikely story: Big Time Rush, the boy band that launched in 2009 with a Nickelodeon TV show, is back with the group’s first album in a decade. Almost as unlikely: Rick James ...