Rick James: Last News

Eliza Rose's B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All) reaches Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart today, as its stratospheric rise continues. 

Rapper Nicki Minaj puts on a busty display in a cherry-print bikini while lip-syncing her raunchy new hit Super Freaky Girl, which she released last week. While promoting her latest single, which samples Rick James' 1981 hit Super Freak, the 39-year-old Anaconda hitmaker shared a video of herself listening to the track as she mouthed the risqué lyrics. 'He want a F R EEE A K❗️' she captioned the sultry video, which has garnered more than 431,000 likes and thousands of comments. Sexy: Rapper Nicki Minaj puts on a busty display in a cherry-print bikini while lip-syncing her raunchy new hit Super Freaky Girl, which she released last week In the footage, she sported a hot pink lipstick, which coordinated with her cotton candy-hued hair and nails.

Eliza Rose’s B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All) flew into the Official Singles Chart Top 10 for the first time last week, after successfully translating its viral origins into chart success. Now, the white hot track has its eyes on cracking the Top 5 too - it’s currently up six places to Number 4.

Nicki Minaj has dropped new song "Super Freaky," built around a sample of Rick James'1981 hit "Super Freak." Nicki brings her A-game to the song, spitting x-rated bars and confident boosting mottos ("I got a princess face, a killer body, samurai mind"), making it a natural sister track to her own "Anaconda." Check the new song out below. Earlier this month Minaj asked her followers on social media to help select the name of the song, offering them the option of “FREAK” or “Super Freaky Girl.” While “FREAK” won the vote, Minaj explained that she couldn't use that name for legal reasons.

Nicki Minaj has returned with her first solo track in more than two years, an upbeat and decidedly NSFW new single titled ‘Super Freaky Girl’.‘Super Freaky Girl’ marks Minaj’s first solo release since July of 2019, when she dropped the standalone single ‘Megatron’. She’s kept busy since then, however, releasing four collaborative joints – ‘Do We Have A Problem?’ and ‘Bussin’ with Lil Baby, ‘Blick Blick’ with Coi Leray, and ‘We Go Up’ with Fivio Foreign – this year alone.Over a beat that samples the lead melody of Rick James’ 1981 hit ‘Super Freak’, Nicki raps on the new song’s chorus: “I can lick it, I can ride it, while you slippin’ and slidin’ / I can do all them little tricks, and keep the dick up inside it / You can smack it, you can grip it, you can go down and kiss it / And every time he leave me ’lone, he always tell me he miss it.”Have a look at the lyric video for ‘Super Freaky Girl’ below:It’s been a packed year for Minaj thus far, even aside from her aforementioned single releases.

Nicki Minaj has released her new song “Super Freaky Girl” and you can listen here!

The Hollywood Critics Association has unveiled its 2022 TV award nominations. NBC’s This Is Us and HBO’s Succession lead the broadcast network and cable nominations, and Apple TV+s Severance and Ted Lasso top the streaming awards noms.

A&E Network has signed on for a feature documentary about Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the late founding member of pioneering hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

Grammy Awards airing on April 3, we have a bunch of amazing performances to look forward to, as usual.Hosted by The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah for the second consecutive year, this Sunday’s award ceremony features a star-studded list of musicians hitting stage, including Jon Batiste – who leads all artists with 11 nominations – Silk Sonic, John Legend, Nas, H.E.R., Lil Nas X, and more.In years past, the Grammy’s had plenty of iconic performances.

John Lurie finished work on a watercolour he titled Bear Surprise. The painting depicts the animal in a meadow standing on its hind legs in front of a couple having sex on a picnic blanket, with the bear saying: “Surprise!” Within weeks the picture was uploaded to a Russian blog with the speech bubble altered to read “Preved”, a portmanteau that translates as “Hello Bear”. This strange image captured the imagination of the Russian-language internet and by May that year The Moscow Times reported it had “gained vast popularity with the speed of an avalanche”.

A delightfully dysfunctional family. Little Miss Sunshine quickly became a beloved cult classic after it was released in 2006.

Prince once beat him at a game of basketball and then made pancakes has once again been confirmed to be true.In the early 2000s, during an episode of Chappelle’s Show, Charlie – the late brother of comedian Eddie Murphy – recalled the time he and his friends faced off against Prince on a court at his condo.Prince, who is said to have played in a pair of heels, came out on top, and according to Charlie’s story, after the win he went made pancakes for everyone.Howard Hewett, a former member of ’80s R&B group Shalama, recently sat down with DJ Vlad for an interview, and during the conversation he revealed the events in Charlie Murphy’s infamous story did in fact happen.“I wasn’t there, but they met up at this place that everybody used to go to called El Privado’s down on Sunset Boulevard. Every Monday night everybody used to hangout there Rick James, Prince everybody,” Hewett said.

released the trailer for “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James” Tuesday and it gives viewers a taste of the music icon’s crazy life.The doc will spill some juicy tea about James’ music career, his journey to Toronto to escape joining the Navy, his drug use, sexual trysts and much more.“There was plenty of dope around,” keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. revealed in the doc.

Super Freak was confirmed by Variety who described the project as “a funkadelic mix of music biopic and true crime, chronicling James’ plans for a comeback in the early 1990s amidst a heated trial that threatened to destroy his legacy.”Super Freak will be written and executive produced by Randy McKinnon, while Rick’s Daughter Ty James will also be on board as an executive producer.“We are truly ecstatic about this new project with UCP and extremely excited to work with the writer Randy McKinnon,” Ty said in a statement.

Is it me or did this week just fly by? Even time can’t wait for that next Verzuz episode. I’m glad we all could make it together to enjoy another episode of ESSENCE’s The Playlist.