Rick James On His Onstage Vs. Offstage Persona | Letterman 

That surprised me as well😂

That’s cocaine behavior lol

Come on guys I think he knew when he could go out of his mind and I think these type of interviews he knew he had to be straight didn't mean he didn't have a wild night before but I'm sure you had plenty of rest and he looks like he was just calm and relaxed a man smoking on the set wow You'll never see that again

I think that's just high quality cocaine, dawg

When he’s not kidnapping people and burning them with crack pipes

Same! He was on another level in the 80s

"Cold blooded " was by far his best work.

That's a very odd compliment about a man from another man. 🤔

@@HardRockMiner nothing odd about it.Its just your own fear.May wanna yourself why that is 😉

@@macmoney2043- What man actions "lit up your skies"? 🤔

Letterman swag is stronger. Rick James is still up there though

Hells yah, brah!

Facts

"Buy another one ya rich MF'er!"

Let me guess, he had mud all over his shoes LO.L

He’s got a little more sense than that to go around grinding his shoes into peoples couches

"Yeah I remember grinding my feet into Dave's couch."

Yeah i grinded my feet on his couch..

Buffalo NY finest ❤

And up in the snow sticks .He Was the man

How

@@roselynholloway7863 u know

@@prawiraagung4011 no I need them to explain

Lmfao

LOL.

Chapelle nailed it 😂😂😂

😂😂😂

He sounds like Dave's lil Wayne when he talks normal lol

Oh man...Chapelle rocked that one for sure !

Boy, did THAT line get played out over the years. Lol.

Not in today’s time it’s cut with fentanyl now

Lol

Long live Dave Chappelle ( Rick James) .

And it was Vitas Geralitis…a tennis pro. Rick had a very diverse group of friends.

As 1 myself, I must agree with you! I also know that there's a thin line between genius and insanity too!

@@markprice2225 I agree, I think all that talent makes them a little insane to keep topping themselves and others. It’s probably all they can think about.

He's a reminder of that verse; "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:26

Why did I say that in my mind... They mouth and skin.

Yes he would

That’s what his daughter said too

Ongg😂

Why not Dave Chappelle?? 😅

Ayyyye. Love from Maryner towers and Town Gardens ❤❤❤

​@First Of All Correct!

he wrote a book. its good

@First Of All I still remember all the white people coming up to my parents and say your son is so well spoken and I would say thank you because at the time i was young and didn't know any better and thought it was a compliment. Now I say 🖕.

Well, he said before that “Rick James” was more of an alter ego…

I always suspected he was playing a role in the Chappelle show skirt among most other appearances. If you're in a creative business then why the hell not

What are you serious?

@@Lillean dead serious. There are those less talented than he was who are in…

Yeah that's an overdue induction smh

Hahaha

Wow I Would Have Believed He Was Already In There.

I just never found him in the least bit funny.. Dave Chappelle's take on him was hilarious but I am certain we are all aware of that

He’s definitely coked up here

This was before he decided to become the Rick James he describes at the start of the video full time. And when that happened, well, Charlie Murphy has some tales about how things went down in that era.

@@cactaceous For sure, you can see the sweat on his face if you look closely and just his whole demeanor.

​@@werper09 It's glitter!

Wow seriously?

So after 56 years of his life what would you not know.. I heard that Stevie Wonder is a cousin to the Jacksons on their mom's side and they didn't even find out until Michael's funeral..

​@@RickyMoss that's how we do in blacks families, cousins go deep. I've got 5th and 6th cousins that I don't even know exactly how I'm related to

They must be like third cousins, since closer they would know

How was he?

@@erehistruth2356 We had a minor run in one time but he apologized and that was the end of that. He would ask permission to visit another inmate in my dorm to help him with his music who had a Casio portable keyboard.

@@JimmyBahia Wow that's amazing. He was man enough to apologize as well. I am fascinated by Rick's life. People often poke fun at his drug addiction, but he was quite an artist. Thank you for sharing.

@@erehistruth2356 When I saw him at the reggae concert, I was standing in line waiting to enter and he walked by me briskly, it took a few seconds for me to realize who he was. I was used to seeing him in his "prison blues". The venue (The Roxy) let him in and he went backstage where he stayed during the entire concert.

@@erehistruth2356back in the 80’s EVERYONE was on blow

You should see him on judge joe brown.Dave Chapple rick james there😂

Because he also did a song. Musicians usually don't sit down at all.

@@CleverAccountName303 👍

Just thinking that and I seen your comment 😮

@@stephenburke868how

Defintely.Rick was just deep in them white snows😜😂

I was just thinking the same thing....

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It almost sounds like an SNL sketch

peak

I think it goes both ways -- those skits made everyone think Rick James was a crazy weirdo, which he was, while at the same time leaving no doubt that Rick James was an absolute purestrain superstar, which he definitely was.

It is kinda sad in a way, but of course he did it to himself. He really messed his life up.

He's not though. His music will outlast a chapelle skit

@@connora5752 fax

@@randypalmer2328 that’s Rick james his alter ego but he became it

Judge Joe Brown

“Fion”?

​@@negativeindustrialfine

What's that

Yassss❤!

And blow an "O". Baller

I know, it’s always jarring to see that. I was a young kid in 1982 and my parents both smoked in the house back then. It just seems unfathomable now.

@@keefriff99 Unfathomable now ... deplorable then. I recall being in grade 5 ('75/'76) and our social studies teacher told us about the dangers of smoking. Looks like mom & dad had your best interests at heart 😆

You could even smoke in the grocery store!

its funny, Johnny used to light-up all the time. Rick didn't even inhale either, I don't think!

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Charlie Murphy!!!!!!

They propbably settled for like $10M, Ricks actual 'want.' hahaha

i was scrolling to see if anyone was already laughing st that 450 million , who is he Donald Trump ?

2 chains aswell 😂

No

Same here.He was living in his own universe and could care less and it was suave😂

That was COMMON back then. I graduated in 1990, but was a little kid when they were still doing that. Today people woud think he was aiming a grenade at the audience and have a sh!t-f!t !!

People smoked in stores, hospitals, restaurants and kids had a smoking section in high school.

I enjoyed the smoking part in it too even though I hate the smell of smoke now. I remember smoking in Dairy Queen and the local pool hall at age 13 and nobody questioned it. I remember sitting in the smoking section at Perkins at 1:00 A.M and those little Taco Bell ashtrays. My first job was at Burger King, age 16, and smoking in the break room with my adult managers because smoking was allowed and normal in a break room. I'm only in my 40s. People 30 and under have no idea what it was really like back then, smoke everywhere and hilarious politically incorrect jokes 24/7. Also before digital cameras covered every inch of Earth people used to be able to get really really crazy at parties and concerts without worry that it would be all over the world the next day. Life was real, and fun.

High people are always sweaty-jittery and fidgety. He looks calm-as-hell

No social media back then.

@@Odawg96 I mean its still on a TV show in front of millions of ppl

@@justposi Back then Letterman was a NICHE…not like what he became years later. Also consider that Buffalo was never a place people were breaking their necks to get to; it was the other way around. I used to leave there myself, and knew plenty of people who knew Rick. Back then it wasn’t all that unusual for celebs to mention where they lived. I’d say the turning point was when the girl from “My Sister Sam” was murdered by a stalker.

oh that's wild, never thought of that!

They did play Rick James on MTV

Exactly, very sympathetic!

2!! Of course!!

Stay & party!!

GG Allin?? Hell no…I would be outta there. He was legit dangerous.

None of the other 3 would hang out w GG Allin and the other way around

WTF Kind of party is this? The guest list already has me so confused.