3. Rick James – Tortured A Girl During A Binge
Thanks to Dave Chappelle, the name Rick James is going to make people smile more often than not. When you listen to the music, you can also understand why people can get down with James. You know what James got down with? Partying and drugs, and I mean, a lot of partying and drugs. As James was hitting his musical peak, he also discovered freebasing cocaine. He stated, “The physical exhilaration of smoking coke in pure form overpowered any semblance of sense I ever possessed.”
After James lost his mother to cancer, he went off the deep-end. Of that time, he’s stated, “That meant orgies. That meant sadomasochism. That even meant bestiality. I was the Roman emperor Caligula. I was the Marquis de Sade.” So, basically, he spent time having sex with random women on floors of crack dens.
There was also the incident in which he and his wife held a 24-year-old girl hostage, burning her legs with a crack pipe during a week-long cocaine binge. He ended up spending two years in jail as a result.
While you would hope this would cause him to become clean, there were 9 different types of drugs found in his system when he died at the age of 56.
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