I'm Rick James, bitch! Sorry, couldn't resist. The Master of Funk, Rick James, began crossing over into the mainstream dance charts in 1981. The bassline riff is a classic, being sampled on MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" in 1990. Also, 10-year old Abigail Breslin does a very inappropriate burlesque routine to the song at a children's beauty pageant in "Little Miss Sunshine".
The video featuring James and his bevy of "freaks" is pure fun. One particularly overzealous "freak" dancing around him before jumping in a limosine is entertaining simply for holding a quellazaire very close to Rick's heavily jheri curled glittery wig! Hopefully, it was not lit.
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