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Wave your freak flag high! Yes The Flag is indeed talking about your freak flag and not the political flag, or is it? Well it's a mixture of both here. The most conceptual album by Rick James, the concept being "The world's going down because of greedy silly politics and us freaks gotta save it AND I (Rick James) am the main man". Honestly this albums has the no-fucks-given-rock-star vibes and bravado that Rick became known for and well deservedly so. He shows on this record ... read more

Final album of the "Stone City Albums Trilogy" as I like to call it. The three records are simply undeniable masterpieces. They have the staples of Rick's career on them, they have sales and chart success and most impressively they are the saving graces of Motown Records. Although this final record of the bunch released the same year as it's predecessor, is truly the spotlight moment. Now it doesn't have any hits to mention except for the fairly big Love Gun but ... read more

A sabotaged masterpiece! Stupid WB sabotaged not only this but it's predecessor as well. Let me not waste time on stupidity, this album is a masterpiece, a sound of early hip-hop is scattered on this one, G-Funk can be extrapolated from parts but unforgettably there is the Rock and Funky amalgamation that Rick immortalized in his early years. The bass lines are killer and the guitar riffs/solos are simple, predictable yet perfect for the track! This one could've been better received ... read more

What a release! No misses on this one except for maybe the spontaneous Let It Ride but hey, that's what Prince would've done. A suggestive jam hidden in between a sermon! Oh my god, from the tracks that Lenny recorded for this album and the ones he compiled (one being the title-track itself) there are two tracks written by Tony LeMans, those are the jammers! They're the best musical in-memoriam's I've yet sonically experienced (might be forgetting some legendary ones ... read more