🎵 Rick James - SUPER FREAK REACTION

[@SargNickFury]

Now imagines a bunch of 10-11 years old singing along to this at a pizzeria between bouts of Pac-Man....we had no idea what we were singing. Gen-X childhood.

[@CdnTrader1]

Straight facts!

[@kierstenridgway4634]

😆🤣😄

[@JTrsqdiver]

😎👍🏻💯

[@lucaswallo8127]

lol nice

[@Du808-o8k]

We was singing anything back those didn’t care how nasty the song was lol…

[@mkattaiify]

Rick James was a super talent. RIP Rick.

[@Daniel-wv7lj]

Rick James is too underrated as an artist. Dude has HITS ON HITS

[@jeffreyriley8742]

And an all-time great entertainer. A total natural.

[@e.abrahamovich8981]

Dude lived the life. Sex, drug and rock ‘n roll.

[@vanyadolly]

Sadly he was the Kanye of his time. Without the antisemitism. So talented, but so self-destructive.

[@Tables-zm7db]

​@vanyadolly he was also the tame R.Kelly with the kidnapping and rape and torture

[@MsMvsc]

Do you not understand what "underrated" means?

[@oldguynewmusic6632]

It's kind of crazy young kids form the 2020's calling this video "explicit" considering the content of most modern day music videos....lol. Great reaction again, Brad & Lex.

[@pauljansen1137]

You guys should watch Dave Chappelle's Show do a great bit on Rick James...."I'm RICK JAMES, BITCH! Hilarious!

[@bluecollardave6370]

Absolutely!!!!!! Guys please listen to this man

[@TheAquaponic1]

Charlie Murphy's True Holly wood stories are some of the best things ever! LMAO

[@pauljansen1137]

@@TheAquaponic1 yeah...just watched it again...couldn't stop laughing😀

[@turng41]

YES!

[@kylejay2180]

Fuck their couch!!! Go buy anotha one!

[@GinaGeeILuvu]

Rick James was a super talented iconic musician who doesn’t get enough credit for his genius! The is song is a classic that stands the test of time! Times have changed, women have owned their freakiness! I love it! ❤️❤️

[@jgates6645]

So much better when you watch the video to the song instead of just reading the lyrics to the song on screen. The visuals in the video greatly improve the whole reaction experience.

[@Danimal77]

@Sunroom 1708 Wrong. You must be young and have not grown up in a day when all we had were music videos. You act like people have no attention span. Some of us DO. Besides, Brad NEVER listens to the music. He ONLY reads the lyrics and that's all he focuses on and talks about.

[@LinkRocks]

Yes but hearing the song first is better for taking in the song. When you're watching a video you're not paying attention to the song like you would by just listening. They did it right by first listening to the song, then watching the video.

[@LinkRocks]

@@Danimal77 I grew up in the 80s and agree with Sunroom. Lyrics are part of the song so there's nothing wrong with focusing on just that. Music is subjective, people react to it how they see fit.

[@aaroncastillo9627]

As far as artistry goes, Rick James is up there with the greatest of all time. He wrote all of his own music. Certified Super Freak as well 😂

[@thomas5643]

Cocaine is a helluva drug 😳 🤣

[@bryanlasermagiktyler3132]

fk yo couch, 😎

[@mredible475]

Love The Temptations in background. Rick was trip. Watch Charlie Murphy (Eddies brother, passed with cancer a few years ago) talk about Rick and fighting hilarious 🤣.

[@TracyfromNC]

We used to walk around singing Temptations Sing! And Blow Daddy! When this came out.

[@AmandaBrecc]

That was Capelle's best, funniest stuff. Sucking on the nose, and "Darkness" ( ) helluvadrug. The Prince one just as good. When the younglings watch the old stuff, preweb, the FCC ruled with an iron fist. So images had to be placed.

[@AmandaBrecc]

@@NateW71 Uniteeeeeeeeeeey. Suhhhhhlap.

[@roytore5062]

Was it a sample fram the Temptations? Or did they record this just for Rick?

[@dggydddy59]

Mary Jane Girls - In My House. Rick James protégé girl group's giant hit from 1985-ish. It.Is.AWESOME!!!

[@jeffreekoch9298]

"All Night Long" from the early '80s, too. 🎶

[@markr.devereux3385]

that song has class! Another Rick James creative high point.

[@christinewaide5249]

My old going out dancing song back in the day. 💕

[@brasco96wired67]

FUN FACT- Rick James was once in a band called Mynah Birds with Neil Young and future members of Steppenwolf. James and Young even lived together in 1966 and wrote a song for Motown together. James was also friends with Joni Michell.

[@alukuhito]

Sounds like he was practically Canadian.

[@elchappio305]

Neil Young calls him "Ricky James"

[@sjd5750]

@@alukuhito I think he grew up in Buffalo, NY..Close enough.

[@sjd5750]

He also was in a serious relationship with actress Linda Blair (Regan, from the Exorcist.)

[@alukuhito]

@@sjd5750 Buffalo is an interesting city, and, yeah, right near Canada.

[@jeffstone7912]

I remember him performing live on Tv on New Year’s Eve 1980. Home alone with my sister while my parents were at a New Years party. I was a freshman in High School.

[@ericlynnes1228]

In the 90s there was an MC Hamner doll that sang U Can't Touch This. I'm guessing that's the doll you remember.

[@paulyearley1084]

The pride of Buffalo, NY right here (seriously, I wish he was a bigger deal as a point of pride about this region)

[@maxdamagusbroski]

It's the year 2022. I was young enough to remember MC Hammer "Can't touch this" being in the charts. Today I learned.

[@peggiebradley7434]

ah Rick James! Yes and yes. Loved this then... Love this now.

[@lafierraortega6355]

Hummm? How many times danced this in the 80s!!! Wow!!!

[@coreyz.2800]

Years ago I came across a VHS tape my dad made back in the 80s, with a whole crapload of 80s music videos, including this one. It was like a time capsule of what was being put on TV back then. Some of the other great songs on that tape I think would be worth checking out are Rockwell's "Obscene Phone Caller," Lionel Richie's "Hello," Chris DeBurgh's "Don't Pay the Ferryman," Cinderella's "Nobody's Fool," and the Stray Cats' "Stray Cat Strut." So much great music came out of the 80s.

[@rickdavis7005]

When he yells "Temptations, sing!" that's an inside joke, because one of The Temptations--Melvin Franklin--was his uncle.

[@vaportrails7943]

He was on Motown, so it may have actually been them.🤔

[@rickdavis7005]

@@vaportrails7943 That clip they showed was them, but it was obviously from the early or mid- '60s, most likely taken from an "American Bandstand" episode.

[@HorrorGenreLady]

On tiktok there is a creator called Rick James baby she is a toddler who only stops crying if Rick James music is playing so far super freak seems to be her favorite

[@sonictonic_]

As a kid who grew up in the 80s/early 90s, I first heard this beat on MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This, and then I learned about music “sampling”… so then sought out this original, and was blown away how good it was. Still kinda crazy to me this many year’s later that I learned about and got into Rick James because of MC Hammer, lol.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Laugh. Basically a cutting-edge party song at the time. There was this girl in my school that I already had a crush on and then one day before class I stopped at her locker to talk to her and she pulled this record album out, it had just dropped and she already had it and my crush on her quadrupled right in that moment!

[@caroldaronch1974]

I first heard of Rick on the Midnight Special show in the late 1970s. He sang “You and I” I was hooked. I loved his kinky ways🥰 what MTV thought was inappropriate was 100% appropriate to me. He was truly a genius and is missed very much

[@laurakali6522]

This song will never be the same to me after the scene in the movie “Little Miss Sunshine”.

[@Jahera411]

Yessssssssssss Everytime I hear this song I think of that scene🤣 and the beauty queen was all for it 💀

[@williambeasley7423]

Beautiful movie.

[@markstokes1401]

That Dave Chappelle skit with Charlie Murphy about Rick James is hilarious.

[@maxbrazil3712]

"Bustin' Out" is my favorite Rick James jam.

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Hammer time! 🔨 😆 Rapper MC Hammer sampled this year's back, cool song, video "Can't Touch This". Check out songs and video from Rick James female protégé group Mary Jane Girls, pretty ladies and good songs and video. They were a funky R&B group. Like Ricky James music, had saxophone 🎷 solos, typical '70s, '80s, early '90s. James was a party animal, yall are right (RIP). Ended up having diabetes and heart issues when he got older, too much partying over the years caught up to him, especially harder drugs like cocaine and other stuff. He was only 56, 2004ish (heart attack I believe). He was a great singer, bass guitar player. Played funk rock music.. very funky. The ladies loved him, too. Check out more Rick James stuff.. "Ghetto Life" is a good one! "Give it to me, Baby" is another cool, funny video. He was from Buffalo, NY (near Canadian border) and teamed up with Neil Young (Toronto, Ontario Canada) and started up a Canadian R&B, garage rock band Mynah Birds back in the '60s! Check out their music, too.

[@joegreen9987]

Lex you would have been great back in the early 80` because she likes to rock out and mr Rick James is a great rock star i love Rick James ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Written by the late Rick James. Sampled for Can't Touch This. Rap written by MC Hammer 🔨 Backing vocals from The Temptations. They also sang in the Lionel Richie song You Are, 40 years ago. 🎂 Suggested duet video 📹 Rick James and Smokey Robinson sing Ebony Eyes. RIP Rick James

[@melissatuel862]

You HAVE to watch the scene in "Little Miss Sunshine" that features this song 🤣

[@jasonfirewalker3595]

All I can think of is Charlie Murphy on Chappell Show.

[@C_mao]

That saxophone goes harder than today's NBA. (JK) Actually the playoffs have been good I think it's pretty cool that Rick gave a 'shout-out' to those that came before him (in this song; "Temptations sing!" ..) (old school group The Temptations) Rick did like 2 years in prison. He and his gf, got in trouble, for supposed "kidnapping, and holding a girl against her will", basically non-stop partying. Rick stated that he had a 10k/mo coke habit. He really lived his music and then some (: He seemed like a cool dude tho. He died in 2004, he was 56.

[@jay_Van_Money]

Rick was a genius!

[@dr.zippymcscoots8725]

Rick James was also a showman

[@d4mdcykey]

I remember throwing wild house parties WAY back in the day and playing this on a VHS tape when I was ready for the party to get down-n-dirty...it always worked. RJ was a bone fide lunatic but the man could drop some insanely good tunes that stand the test of time.

[@Lfg117]

Rick made that song as a cold shot at tired white ppl: the song was designed, on purpose, to be a crossover hit - and went viral. Rick told his band: we need to write a song white ppl will dance to. If u listen to other RJ's songs they have much more soul. James' platform shoes, hair, drip, flow, etc. - were all ahead of their time. U do know that Hammer's #1 all-time hit sampled Rick James's hook, right? Look it up. Like Prince, James could do everything: write, arrange, play multiple instruments & sing - similar to Alicia Keys. James: transcendent icon - and a Navy veteran. #Respect

[@rehull1973]

Grew up skating to this with so much energy and fun. The floor was packed when this was playing.

[@maureenwagg5305]

The one girl with the floor length hair was a dancer on Soul Train. Can't go wrong with Slick Rick. Try some stuff he did with The Stone City Band such as Hard to Get and She Blew My Mind. There is so much glitter. lol

[@onsesejoo2605]

LOL ! I would like to meet the person who suggested the doll to sing "Superfreak" instead of "Mary had a little lamb" or something ! Predecessor to Prince in many ways. Rick could play guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. He also composed, arranged and produced himself, like Prince did. James was asked to join Crosby, Stills & Nash before they became Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He declined but recommended Greg Reeves, who plays bass on Deja Vu - album. Rick James & Neil Young were at the same time in early band Mynah Birds. If you search them in tube, it makes sense that CSN asked James, the style is very different.

[@TheBooey1650]

One of my favorite songs...loved to dance to this. So....I tried to recapture my youth and started dancing. Ummm. did not go well. lol. I love watching you two. Your reactions are always so great and fun too. Thanks so much.

[@mistymichelle9957]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 **wipes tears off her face & tries to catch her breath** Y'all!! I just had to watch that *entire* video with a pillow over my mouth cuz my laughter was keeping my roommates awake! My sides hurt, my face hurts, my eyes are *still* watering... Thank you for *everything* you do & are. P.L.U.R.R. from Texas!

[@kenrogers1948]

Yes, this Rick James album was everywhere when it came out... You want to really blow your mind?... go back to one of your Neil Young reactions and imagine Rick James and Neil Young in the same band -they were, for a short time in the early/mid 1960s...

[@sporkfindus4777]

Ha! Did not know this

[@hmpz36911]

What!? What band???

[@PhilippoDan]

Was that for Motown?

[@strqrt70]

@@hmpz36911 The Mynah Birds

[@jeffreekoch9298]

'60 R&B, garage rock band. Mynah Birds. Canadian band from Toronto, Ontario Canada. James was from near there, US/Canada border (Buffalo, NY). Young and the rest are from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦

[@brianforgie7724]

Probably the most ear pleasing song i have heard in my 61 years. It just does some thing to you. This and Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy with Rick hanging around are just musical crack.

[@joedonlewis9820]

Incense, wine, and candles....and a water bed

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

Rick WAS a super freak.

[@theresamillaway6398]

I love you Lexi!!! U r a bright light in the world!!! And Mr. Brad with the eyebrows!!! So handsome and funny! Thanks guys!!! Love and peace y'all

[@donaldgilbreath4200]

I remember my son was about 3, we would play the radio and dance around cleaning house. After this song ended, he blurted out, " Daddy, Mamma's a Super Freak Huh!?" I didn't really know how to respond, so I just said, " Sometimes..."

[@thaitim007]

The 1980s were such great years for living and listening to music for us. Get the vibes. Watch Police Academy some time. Watch wierd science, planes trains and automobiles, lampoons vacation.. and so many other films.

[@billieyoung497]

thinking rick had serious serious fun back in the day....he was music royality back then...everyone loved him to pieces..he songs were dang good..he was rich and famous and I bet he too advantage of that at every moment of his life..sorry he is gone.always like that guy.

[@jpace4608]

Now you need to watch The Chapelle Show's Rick James skit.

[@ericsmith6615]

Wife here..This song was HUGE back in the day..!!...Still is..I remember my Dad buying the 45 and playing the heck out of it..!! Yes Brad..Such a character ...Well said..Thanks again you two!!!

[@alukuhito]

You were his wife?

[@ericsmith6615]

@@alukuhito No..I communicate under my Husband's name:).. cute

[@alukuhito]

@@ericsmith6615 I see.

[@gengel6737]

I remember that girl with the very long black hair from Soul Train music and dance show. They always had her front and center on camera through out their shows!

[@jamzales]

This is the same melody MC Hammer uses in "You Can't touch this".

[@DerEchteBold]

Not just the same melody, it was directly sampled from this song.

[@39Hundred]

“Room 714, I’ll be waiting.” Rick James was referencing the drug methaqualone or brand name Quaalude. The drug was manufactured in the United States under the name Quaalude with the number 714 stamped on the tablet. Quaaludes became popular for recreational use in the late 1960s and 1970s in discos - where they were known as “disco biscuits” - and in juice bars. It is a central nervous system depressant that acts as a sedative and hypnotic. Hypnotics are drugs that induce sleep.

[@jeffreyswanson192]

Can lex more vague in describing her 'singing' doll...😂😂

[@andrewmoreno782]

That song came from the Street Songs album between 1980-82. B4 that album, there was Bustin out the L7 there’s a song called Spacey Love dedicated to Patti LaBelle. So the story goes. Also checkout “BITCH’N The sound & fury of Rick James” on Showtime. The master of punk funk! Great songs he made over that time!!

[@guitarman8462]

Rick James is all Funk from the late 70's & early 80's 👌

[@R.POWELL]

I read that his uncle was one of The Temptations - both very talented!! 👍

[@richardctaylor79]

That actually was the temptations on that song, Rick was dating one of their daughters at the time...RIP you legend...

[@kevinfitzpatrick8532]

He definitely was a character. 😄

[@STEELCITYBERMA]

80’s timeless classic

[@jamielandis4308]

WAP for the 80’s! Love it!

[@willie417]

y'all should watch Chappelles Show, Charlie Murphy True Hollywood Story (Rick James)

[@danielwalker1538]

Rick James - Ghetto Life

[@bronsongetseven7326]

This song is considered Funk Pop music.

[@twenty3enigma]

You nailed it, Brad. In the 80s -- in between periods when we'd actually have a girlfriend -- there were the inevitable one night stands. No different than today, actually. Single guys still go out to "get some" -- as they always have -- and always will.

[@kimson305]

Same as women except women didn't do it back then as much but damn sure do it today🤷‍♀️

[@twenty3enigma]

If you were in the right bar, then as now, it wasn't a difficult task,@@kimson305 . Just like opening a restaurant -- location is key to success.

[@glyoung99]

@@kimson305 well for every man that was doing it there had to be a woman that was doing it or none of it works.

[@chrisnorman1902]

@@glyoung99 exactly 😆

[@BobTarzan]

@@glyoung99 well... she got around... 😏 Poor sods... thought it was love.

[@klfrostmediallc334]

Rick James looks like “Lashonda” from Napoleon Dynamite

[@TracyfromNC]

But LaShonda was nice and helpful!

[@monogramadikt5971]

ricks a legend, shame he didnt keep putting out the sick jams like this

[@woodymeadows9363]

About f'ing time!!!!! rICK IS THE F'ING man!!! mAN, YOU MISSED OUT BACK IN THE DAY. this IS THE REAL DEAL!!!! Had this on tape, back in the day!!!! He is the man!!!!

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Game blouses! 👚 🍇 😃

[@ridemfast7625]

Rick... hahaha Lived in lake Tahoe way back and Rick was playing at one of the casinos. I was with a couple gf's in a local bar and Rick with a few BIG friends/guards showed up. They wasted no time trying to get any woman to come to his room. They literally walked around the bar and hit on anything. Fun to watch. My gf's laughed when they got approached. Anyway, no takers that in that crowd.

[@mikecaetano]

Rick James played with Neil Young for a time back in the sixties believe it or not. Super Freaking in the Free World! When Brad said James was a character, I couldn't help but remember how much he sounds like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz when he sings "She says that I'm her all time fav'rite" -- James was the king of the forest for a time back when. RIP.

[@calebclunie4001]

His uncle was in The Temptations. He even produced, some of their later stuff, and saved Motown Records.

[@kookiemonster3261]

Prince approved!!!

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Seeing the Mary Jane Girls reminded me of when my friend was trying to get me a job with him at 1-800-DENTIST and I went in for the interview and the manager was Yvette from The Mary Jane Girls. I was very confused.

[@robdaniel3211]

“Give it to me baby” song off the same album

[@longfootbuddy]

paints a better picture than burning them with crackpipes and stuff

[@haroldsockey6987]

Was wondering if anyone was going to mention that.

[@longfootbuddy]

@@haroldsockey6987 leave it to me

[@bradcolorado8149]

Used to ride the Rollercoasters listening to THIS SONG

[@marwenplukol9235]

Off of the 1981 STREET SONGS, possibly the best Funk album ever produced. It also contains FIRE AND DESIRE, a classic slow jam with the late great Teena Marie. Check out GIVE IT TO ME BABY.....video is H-O-T!!!

[@marjolewis9405]

What did the five fingers say to the face? Slap bitch! Cocaine, it's a helluva drug. RIP Rick James and Charlie Murphy!

[@jaemyrick5277]

Rick James. What can I say. He was a character. R.I.P. Yes in the 80’s.

[@darkmagus64]

Rick was freaky, he even did some time over it.

[@BradAndLex]

🤯🤯

[@stack_of_records]

Great song! Funky!

[@vaportrails7943]

GIVE IT TO ME BABY. You must do that song. And watch the music video. 😂

[@onepcwhiz6847]

Next vid needs to be Charlie Murphy's True Story about RIck James!

[@johngarcia8872]

The girl that Rick James is talking about, is Linda Blair from the movie "The Exorcist". At some point in time, they were dating.

[@scottfeuerhammer3595]

Zoinks!, Man Lex. This isn't appropriate in 1982 much less 2022. Woo! Let's hit it! Rick James! Brother from another mother. Play it Lex.

[@tonyponchopeters]

One of Rick James's Super freaks was the Exorcist girl Linda Blair for awhile.

[@shannonjohnson2530]

Slick Rick

[@KennyWhite115]

ty for including the sax solo at the end. Love that solo.

[@BobTarzan]

Damn Bass is so "Cant touch this" - MC Hammer... and I guess MC Hammer shamelesly stole that... :-)

[@storiedworlds6261]

*sampled 🙂

[@davidmazon7516]

Something a lot of people don't know and don't believe me when I tell them is that the Temptations are his backup singers. Before they had smartphones I couldn't prove it to them. Listen when he says Temptations singing. I got all his music. There's also an extended version of this song.

[@Goldenowl66]

This Gen Xer created a dance routine for this song for a high school slimnastics class. We understood the naughtiness of the lyrics but we just ignored them.

[@craigcassidy6078]

Lex did her hair specially for this clip 🤣

[@ronlondo66]

Rick was fun.

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

Brad with the social commentary!

[@lauriehollingsworth7612]

Lmao Lex You're so damn funny! I get a kick outta your reactions, you're a trip. I love watching you & Brad's videos...... Keep reacting to the music. Shine On

[@ckobo84]

"Expression of his freaky side". Lol, that's all his sides.