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Rick James: Glow (Gordy)

Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 15 August 1985

OH, SLICK RICK, you can trade your beads for a hennaed perm, but they still won't put you on MTV. As Dylan said of George Jackson, "Authorities they hated him, because he was just too real." You and I know that you are truly one of the baddest.

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