Rick James Dead...

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Wonder if it was a drug overdose?

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Funk Singer Rick James Dies in Los Angeles, Apparantly of Natural Causes

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES Aug. 6, 2004 — Funk singer Rick James, best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak," died Friday, apparently of natural causes, police said.
James, 56, died at 9:45 a.m. at a residence near Universal City, said Officer Esther Reyes, a Police Department spokeswoman.

"He died apparently of natural causes. We learned of his death after responding to a radio call," Reyes said.

After his big hit, James' fame began to fade as he became embroiled in legal problems and health troubles.

James was convicted in 1993 of assaulting two women. The first attack occurred in 1991 when he restrained and burned a young woman with a hot pipe during a cocaine binge at his house in West Hollywood. He was free on bail when the second assault occurred in 1992 in James' hotel room.

James was sentenced to more than two years in state prison.

In 1997, he released a new album, but a year later he suffered a stroke while performing at Denver's Mammoth Events Center, derailing a comeback tour.

In 1998 he also underwent hip replacement surgery.

[SPAWN]

cocaines one hell of a drug

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

56, how unfortunate.

[Thundarr]

Wow, that's awfully young, but he was pretty hard on that body of his.... :(

[PJ'l_Master]

cocaines one hell of a drug
you would know at the moment wouldnt you

[SPAWN]

:D :woohoo:

yeh...though it reall does suck he died :down:

[FUS1ON]

Shocked to hear this but i'm not sure why because it's sad when someone has talent and just throws it away on drugs, but it's even more sad when someone that can't even spell praises that drug and it's use. Keep it up, you will burn out too soon also. :rolleyes:

[UZI]

Sad. Drugs ruins so many lives.

Well said Shogun.