Super Freak
Written by Alonzo Miller and Rick James recorded by Rick James was what he called a Funk Punk composition. But it was also a women’s rights song. Political in its own right celebrating a woman who was outspoken in her feminine power. Even if she is on the street. “The kind you don’t take home to mother” has got to be one of the nastiest most honestly funny lyrics in R&B. Rick was an all round musician playing most of the parts himself, But rooted in the groove with bass playing by Oscar Alston. His voice spoke for a lot of disenfranchised people. He was from Buffalo, New York. My JukeBox brain is looping on his hook like it was the last hot lick in the world. Maybe it is,
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