{"id":14020,"date":"2004-08-09T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/rick-james-dead-at-56\/"},"modified":"2004-08-09T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T11:55:00","slug":"rick-james-dead-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/rick-james-dead-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick James Dead At 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/08\/06\/rick.james\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/rickjames.jpg\" alt=\"Rick James\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B17D346A87620C9933648E9B061FB02D10DF59C193C7941D5BB361ADC112EAE05BADBCDB1FE39B373AAFE24A65B1FA2B7&amp;sql=11:rxk9ikc6bbo9\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Punk funk&rdquo; icon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/08\/06\/rick.james\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rick James died last week of a heart attack<\/a> at the age of 56.  Although he was best known for his 1981 single <i>Super Freak<\/i> (which was later sampled in M.C. Hammer&rsquo;s hit <i>U Can&rsquo;t Touch This<\/i>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickjames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James&rsquo; career<\/a> as a composer and producer spanned the &lsquo;70s and &#8217;80s.  His (infamous) reputation was to a degree resurrected by an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/chappellesshow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Chappelle&rsquo;s Show<\/i><\/a>; it&rsquo;s a pretty funny episode if you can catch it in a rerun.  I hope that he&rsquo;s remembered as more than a footnote in a TV show, though&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109184833374272560?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Punk funk&rdquo; icon Rick James died last week of a heart attack at the age of 56. Although he was best known for his 1981 single Super Freak (which was later sampled in M.C. Hammer&rsquo;s hit U Can&rsquo;t Touch This), James&rsquo; career as a composer and producer spanned the &lsquo;70s and &#8217;80s. His (infamous) reputation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/rick-james-dead-at-56\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rick James Dead At 56&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}