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August 10, 2006

Super Freaky Gravesite

What do you want on your tombstone? A picture of Rick James? Too late! Rick James beat you to it (via TMZ.)

It's not clear if that poem refers to the incident where he held a young woman "hostage for up to six days (depending on the account), tying her up, forcing her to perform sexual acts, and burning her legs and abdomen with a hot crack pipe during a weeklong cocaine binge."

And the two-ton black stone is not as tasteful as say, Aaliyah's.

But ... he's Rick James, bitch.

RIP in Buffalo, super freak.

Posted at 4:30 PM




12 Comments

AMBROSE!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!


AMBROSE!

heh....that is going to make me laugh all night long...

Posted by: seamus at 08/10/06 5:15 PM  | Reply
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aaaah crap, that was gonna be my headstone. I better put off suiciding myself for a while.

Posted by: mandorf at 08/10/06 5:22 PM  | Reply
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that looks photoshopped

Posted by: shsh at 08/10/06 5:28 PM  | Reply
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"I'm James Ambrose Johnson Jr., bitch."

Posted by: Dave Chappelle at 08/10/06 5:37 PM  | Reply
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as a graphic designer, im getting an avocado on my tombstone

Posted by: fred at 08/10/06 5:55 PM  | Reply
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I totally thought it was a Photoshop job, too, shsh...but apparently it's real:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060806/1059336.asp

Posted by: Johnny at 08/10/06 6:02 PM  | Reply
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my grandfather is buried a few rows from babe ruth.

Posted by: Beetlebum at 08/10/06 6:14 PM  | Reply
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My mom just looked at that picture and said, "That's a nice saying!"

Posted by: Kim at 08/10/06 6:31 PM  | Reply
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i wonder if anybody will steal it a la jim morrison and put it in their apartment?

he should have used his lyrics from YOU & I (pre-super freak)...

because they basically say the same thing....

"they'll never see or hear the things i do with you...
-- so far as i'm concerned they all can go to hell.."

rick james was a bad motherfucker.

& his tombstone is final proof.

holy shit.

the only thing better would have been a big joint tombstone with some lyrics about mary jane being his main thing....

god bless him......wait, do you think he's really in heaven chillin' with god?

(hell's got all the good bands any way)

Posted by: maya lucia at 08/10/06 6:31 PM  | Reply
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I can only hope that my tombstone will look so awesome.

Posted by: kibbe at 08/11/06 10:41 AM  | Reply
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that celebrity gravestone site is the most fucked up thing i've ever seen.

Posted by: joe at 08/12/06 12:19 PM  | Reply
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As a Buffalo native, I can guarantee you my friends and I will end up laughing stoned at that stone at least a few times.

Posted by: .... at 08/15/06 12:49 PM  | Reply
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