Rick James found dead?!!

[Diesel]

How sad. Rick James died today.

[BOShforRoy]

one of the reason you shouldn't take drugs. Died when 56.

[chillzatl]

you may find it morbid, but I thought it would have been the ultimate way for rick to go out. He's feeling it, he knows he's about to go.. so he picks up the phone, and changes his voicemail message to this:

I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now....I'm dead, bitch, HAHAHAHA, BEEEEEEP".

I have a hard time feeling sorry for Rick. It's sad most any time someone dies. But man, Rick earned his. He partied hard enough to kill most people dead in their tracks and he managed to live to near 60.

Being that I was a bit of a rick james fan when I was a kid, it was nice to see him get some recognition near the end of his life. While I wouldn't exactly call teh Chapelle show good press for him, it at least put his name back in peoples heads and gave him the opportunity to show people that he wasn't the same guy they remember from back in the 80's.