June 5, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth conversation with Writer/Producer Je’Caryous Johnson, Rick James’ Daughter & President of the Rick James Estate Ty James, and Grammy-nominated vocalist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Stokley who stars as Rick James in "Superfreak: The Rick James Story," playing at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre for 4 performances ONLY! June 6-8th (tickets available at BroadwayInHollywood.com)…Based on ‘Glow,’ by Rick James and David Ritz and ‘Memoirs of a Super Freak,’ by Rick James; “Super Freak: The Rick James Story is taking over the stage, with Stokely transforming into Rick James and delivering a performance that allows audiences to sink into #ColdBlooded beats, get swept by the #SuperFreak rhythm, and sway to the #MotherFunker vibe” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Joining me now not one, nottwo, but three people instrumental in Super
Freak Rick James story. I'm talkingabout Jacaris Johnson, Ty James, the
daughter of Rick James, and noneother than Stokely himself, who will be
embodying the Rick James spirit as RickJames. All I can say is good
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evening, Thank you so much forcoming on tonight. So let me start
with you. So may not knowof your long history in the business as
the former lead singer of Mint Condition, as a solo artist. You have
had a long time in this businessof music, a lot of which does
overlap with Rick James. Tell meabout your track in this business against the
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backdrop of the history of Rick James. Well, we're listening to his music,
Rosekape through his music, you know, just getting into my system.
We just loved it. You know, read his books a few years ago.
All these things I think I didn'tknow at the time of preparing for
this role. Of course, it'sone thing to sing the songs kind of
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you know, when you roller skating, when you shower, but acting to
die with the character. It's atotally different game. Totally different games.
So it's uh, but I thinkeverything that that I did before brought me
to this, so you know,but I was I was definitely familiar with
the music and the energy and thepulse of it. You know. It
was just lovely, big, bigchange of things. Yeah, we're back,
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Rick James is there. Very nice, nice meeting, and thank you
for being here, sir. Thisis incredible success for you, isn't it.
Yeah? And uh, long timecoming. I mean it didn't happen
overnight like the No, it kindof happened overnight. It did happen over
congratulations. It was about ten yearsin American Yeah. You you have a
wonderful image. Uh, you know, just like women hanging in the klawn
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and so on and so forth.Is I mean is that really you?
No, it's it's really no.I am. I don't know. It's
yeah, it's me. I mean, what now are you when you relax?
I think I think what you meanis Rick James James Johnson. My
real name is James Rick James.Mystage name James Johnson. James Johnson's kind
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of laid back and he likes onewoman at a time, Rick Rick James,
give me, give me now?Where now? When you're when you're
yourself and when you're not performing,what do you do? Where do you
live? I live upstate in Buffalo, New York, inside of Buffalo and
have a ranch and read horses andstuff like that. TDD James. People
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may not know that you are thedaughter and president of the Rick James Estate.
You probably knew this man better thananyone who's still living. What is
it that you see and feel whenyou see Stokely on stage as your father
man? Just a big overwhelming ofemotion. I feel like he's nailing it,
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if I can say it, He'sbodying it. I feel like I'm
doing my dad justice. I feellike he's looking down, he's proud,
and it's just a wonderful feeling.The crowd is enjoying it. The story's
great, well produced, well written, and everything is magnificent. Jakaris Johnson,
as a producer of this show,how do you go about blending what
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is in his memoir with the memoryof him that you may have and time
may have, and also trying tomake sure that Stokely is still within the
pocket, as they say, becauseI remember Rick James. You remember Rick
James, and the world knows RickJames, sometimes through Chappelle's show, or
they may know it through just othermusic. I mean, I go back
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with Rick James in the nineteen seventies. How do you get that all together?
The objective is to just humanize himwhile still keeping a nostalgia of wez
So it's a nostalgic experience with hismusic and with the Rick James that we
came to know and love in thelatter years. But it's also a kind
of a reimagining and a reintroduction ofRick James to the consumer because we tell
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you everything you didn't know about him, which is the kid with a dream
to make it in the music industryand the various genres of music that he
went through. I mean he wasHe wasn't just in funk and soul.
I mean he was the rock,He was everything. You know. So
I think we've done a wonderful job, and I'm very proud of the cast
and the crew in Stokely for embodyingand delivering that level of versatility that's your
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dreams and is Big Summer great whatI've never seen call and me look so
square? In all my life.Can't you get us a braid? I
can get you a bunch of themmoney. Yeah, that is incredible.
Rank. Now do you have ahead breater in the band? Is there
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one person comes in and braids them. We have a lady out here in
Hollywood named Felicia who she does thewhole band. It's about Wow. She's
very slow, but she's very good. Yeah. And how does that work?
I mean you don't have to brushit, you don't have to do
anything. Just put water on itand shampoo conditioner and away you go.
Leave it alone for how long ata time? Three four months, take
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it out and do it again.That's something. Yeah, glad to see
you. My mother would be soproud. Hi, mom, Your mom
is very famous. She was.She used to run numbers as she did.
You know people, it's a veryserious business. It's a thing if
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you're winning. My mother was ashe was a dancer. We cancel them
and done them for one time,and she did run numbers and she supported
eight kids on her own and shedid a great job of it. My
brother, one of the guys whoworked with me as attorney, that's my
brother, one of the best lawschools in the country. I didn't turn
out too bad, not bad atall. I'd like to know who's making
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more money, the lawyer or thesinger. He works for me, ty,
let me ask you this question.If Rick James became a star in
the age of TikTok, what mighthave that looked like? Who might he
have become? Oh? My god, universal, like the greatest space,
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like out of this world? Like, yeah, that that is something I
would have loved to see. Somaybe we can still create that, all
right, It would be one ofthe biggest influences for sure, absolutely if
you just to the end. Ihave not one, not two, but
three guests right now on Later withmo Kelly. We're talking to Stokely who
is starring as Rick James in SuperFreak The Rick James Story. Also jakari
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Is Johnson who's one of the producers, and also Tie James, the daughter
of Rick James himself. We'll havemore in just a moment. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demandfrom KFI AM six forty, and we're
talking about Super Freak The Rick JamesStory, which is coming to the Pantagious
Theater in Hollywood, this week andwe're going to give away a pair of
tickets before the show's over, andit's going to be the opening night.
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You don't want to miss that.Joining me on the line right now is
Stokely himself, who is embodying RickJames as the star of Super Freak The
Rick James Story, Ty James,the daughter of Rick James and also president
of the Rick James Estate, andJakaris Johnson, who's producer for Super Freak
The Rick James Story. Got thatall out, Stokely, let me come
back to you. If anyone knowsanything about the history of Rick James,
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and you and I both know knowsthat there is a complex and complicated story
to be told. It goes todark places. How did you go about
trying to go to that dark placebut not stay there? Very carefully,
very slowly, and as I said, I on the spirit of victims every
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night and I put him back,you know, very carefully to make sure
that it's not integrated with my presentlife. But it is definitely it's it
is spirits aspect of kidding inside.It's serious, you know, I really
do take it seriously, and it'stry an embody that and not play on
the notes because he was, hewas his own person. You can't replicate
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that. It's he's just an island, you know, nobody like him,
but to inviody the spirit of itto make you feel like, okay,
then I can give it that youmake sure that you believe it. Tyd,
My word is complicated, and Ican only imagine it might be tell
me if I'm wrong. Very complicatedfor you as his daughter, seeing portions
of his life being brought to thescreen, which may evoke very specific memories
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or feelings. How do you dealwith the darkness, which I know is
going to be part of this?So that's a great question. In every
show, it's a challenge. There'spart that I was like, Jakari,
is can we just like take thisout? And then I thought about it.
I said, you know what,No, we have to give the
people what it is. You knowwho he is, who he was because
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through those mistakes also came greatness.So you know we have to take the
ups and the downs and literally it'syou know, it's an emotional roller coaster
like I find myself in tears everyshow. Honestly, Jakaris, as a
producer, you have I think oneof the most difficult jobs because you're trying
to balance a lot of competing interests. That's how I would characterize them.
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We're having a limited presence in laIs June sixth through June eighth. But
where might the show go after theleaves la It goes to Riverside after la
and then it plays Atlanta in January. We took a hiatus after that,
and you know, we'll see whatthe Needatlanders saying, But he might go
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to brawling Stokely. I know thatthere are people listening right now who don't
have any firsthand memories of Rick James, who don't know him beyond let's say,
Chappelle's show, who may not knowhim beyond a sample in an mc
hammer song. Unfortunately, what wouldyou hope people learn about him and his
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contributions to music? Because I'm tryingto educate listeners day by day by day.
They don't know nothing about No Fireand Desire. They don't know anything
about the early portions of his career. What do you hope people come away
with when they see you? I'vebecome away of just knowing realizing that he
had about ten different lives before therich change that we need. You know
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the fact that he was signed toMotown a couple of times, one of
them with Neil Young. You knowup in Canada, they head a bunch
of different groups, and there's somany I mean, he was just a
master. He was just going hiscraft, going through his life, you
know, having all these challenges,you know, and learning along the way.
So I mean there's so much thatyou know in the first act that
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you're going to learn before you canget to like the fire and desire you
and I marry Jane, all ofthat stuff. There's so much more.
I mean, it's it's it's explosive, it's so so amazing, Ty James.
I was a senior in college andan intern in Capitol Records in nineteen
ninety and there was this rapper bythe name of mc Hammer who was burning
up the charts because he had thissong called you Can't Touch This, and
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I said, that's super freak.Now, without leading into all the legal
happenings behind the scenes, and waseventually worked out, and it was a
wild wild West as far as Stampleywas concerned. I was disheartened to know
that Rick James's only Grammy was asthe quote unquote songwriter for you can't touch
this because it's basically it's his songwith mc hammer rapping over it. When
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I say that to you, whatcomes to mind? Is it bittersweet or
you pleased with that? That's avery good way to put it. Is
totally bittersweet. You know, lovemc hammer. Initially it was done kind
of like under the table, soto say, and we had to come
back and grab it without permission.I'll say it, yeah, under the
table. I'm trying to be sweetbecause you know, Hammer is are people.
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We love him. And it wasfunny because my dad was kind of
caught off guard, like wait aminute. He literally thought his song was
playing until you know, the firstwhat five seconds, it's like wait,
okay, hold on, and youknow, from there it was honestly,
the genius stepped in is like,okay, well let me handle this correctly,
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and you know, ultimately it workedout for us. So definitely bittersweet,
great record, you know, samplemultiple multiple times. So it is
what it is, well, itis what it is, but it's a
part of the larger history. Ifyou just to the end. That was
the voice of Ty James, thedaughter of Rick James and president of the
Rick James Estate. Also Jakaris Johnson, who's producer of super Freak The Rick
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James Story, and Stokely, whowas playing Rick James and the super Freak
The Rick James Story. We'll haveMorris. We close out our conversation in
just a moment, and oh yeah, we'll be giving away a pair of
tickets to opening night on Thursday,so stick around for that. It's Later
with Moe Kelly k if I AMsix forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM
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six forty. KFI AM six fortyis Later with Moe Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, andwe're still talking about super Freak The Rick
James Story. I'm joined by Stokely, who was playing Rick James, also
Tied James, the daughter of RickJames, and Jacaris Johnson who's producer of
super Freak The Rick James Story.And as we move through this conversation and
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we talk about the show, Jacaris, let me start with you. I'm
quite sure you've had rehearsals and performances. It evokes different memories. How much
is open to be changed from performanceto performance, you may see something that
works or one night in certain location. He wanted to maybe expand to seeing
how much flexibility do you have.In the beginning, there was a little
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bit we're pretty tight. Now we'repretty pretty a well oiled machine. Everybody's
you know, doing a fantastic joband kind of playing their roles for us.
We're just a messengers to deliver astory about a magnetic man and to
put some respect on his name,right, so he's not relegated to a
Dave Chappelle's skin. He's so muchmore than that. And we just want
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people to walk out with a newfound love, a new found admiration and
understanding humanity of who he was asa man, as a father, as
a musician, as a son.And I think people will be pleasantly surprised
about what they didn't know. Andthere seems to be renewed interests in him
in ways that you know, kindof was a little dormant. And now
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I'm excited to say that new generationsare being introduced to who Rick James is
and then following the guy with thepassion and to me, that's the that's
the point. I'm only here tocelebrate and cement the legacy of people.
That's kind of my mission of mycompany, and to be able to tell
the narrative and tell the truth andtell it in a way that we get
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to honor uh and put him onthe pedestal that he deserves to be on
for his contribution to this culture.Ty, I think Jakaris was psychic because
he kind of knew what my nextquestion was going to be last seg when
I asked you about the mc hammerimpact on your father. But I was
not going to let this conversation goby and not mention in ernest the impact
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of Dave Chappelle. For me,it was bittersweet, if only because y'all
are just figuring out who Rick Jamesis. Y'all don't know, and it
blew up Rick James for a wideraudience. I think that's good, but
I think it minimized who he wasto everyone else. And I know your
father was live during that time inwhich Dave Seppelle parodied him. What did
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you think about that? What camefrom it? Correct? So we would
be sitting on the couch just reallycracking up about the like over the whole
skit, because not only was thataccurate, this is how they all interact,
you know, as you know himand Eddie, Murphy, Dave,
Charlie rest in peace, great friendslike three four in the hard way.
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You wouldn't see one without the other. And it was so accurate, like
that's why it came off like that. It depicted them correctly. That's how
they treat each other. There wasa genuine love amongst them, and they
just were always joking around. Sohe enjoyed it. You know, we
laughed about it. It was itwas totally okay with him. See,
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I did not know that. Ididn't know that it was based in so
much truth. It was very veryaccurate of these guys. That's how they
joked around with each other. Yet, yes, stokely, I have not
seen super freak the Rick James story, but I imagine it's a very physical
role. It's physically demanding at theend of each performance because I'm only envisioning
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what I know about Rick James.At the end of each performance, how
spent are you? I know you'respent, but how spent? I have
to take a few minutes each speechperformance. You know, it's not just
emotionally, it's a lot. It'sa lot of energy, not just the
singing it all together and being onthe mark and delivering the dialogue. That's
another thing I have to see company. You know, he's speaking to the
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back of the audience and making surehe had a presence with his speech.
He can just fill up a room, you know what I mean. And
so yeah, I have to takea few minutes before anything happens for us
speak to anybody, just to kindof, you know, decompress a bit.
Yeah. This last question is forboth you Tai and you jakarias what
type of feedback have you received fromhis friends, family members, contemporaries,
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people who have had interaction with him, who did know him as a man
outside of being a performer. Whattype of feedback have you received. Let
me take that first, because wehave sat in the audience when I say
family and friends and literally just jumpingout of our skin because Stokely with the
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mannerisms dove into my dad's character andit's almost scary because like we're just jumping
like oh wait, oh shoot,and it's so accurate and he's so on
point and on target that you know, we're all very emotional and proud,
and I'm really so proud of himbecause it's not an easy task. Well,
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there has been several people that havecome to the shows along the way
as we were touring, and fromwhat I can tell, we got one
hundred percent approval rate. In Ithink they were not certain as to how
we were going to tell this story. How do you pull out rich?
You know, and they were justreally shocked and they came up and was
just like, this is phenomenal,it's amazing. And we were in Washington,
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DC, and as one Broadway criticput he said it was the best
show he had seen in fifty fiveyears. And so we took that to
heart. For a Broadway critic tosay that that was the best show he
had seen in fifty five years,and for all of the friends and family
that have come to this show tosay how accurate it was but also how
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human it was right because we wereable to pull off the delicate dance,
the balancing act of complexity, simplicity, love and the complication and the conflict
that resides in him, all ofthat is woven together in a beautiful tapestry
for RJ. And I'm just proudand honored to have had this opportunity to
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tell and deliver this story to theworld and make this woman right here very
proud to be the daughter and thetorch bearer of this man's legacy of mistake.
Well, then give it to you, miss James, because I wanted
to leave it to you to choosea number, because that's going to be
the number of the caller that we'regoing to give away these two tickets to
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the Pantagious Theater to see Super Freak, The Rick James Story starring Stokely who
is to your right and produced byJR. Cars Johnson To your left.
Did you have a number? Let'sstay between one and ten. Okay,
I'm gonna give you a little backstory. I have to go with seven because
that is the month that I wasborn and I'll never forgive. We did
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a red carpet interview and the reporterasked him, what all these things you've
done, all this greatness you've contributedto the world, what would you say
is your most big, you know, accomplishment, What's your proudest moment?
And he looked down and he washugging me and he was like, my
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daughter, and that's seven. Sowe're gonna go with seven. Seven.
Caller number seven. If you're callingnumber seven, you and guests will be
going to see Super Freak The RickJames Story. Let you know right now,
it's not for children, so we'retalking about two adults. Give us
a call, Caller number seven,You and a guest will be going to
see Super Freak The Rick James Storyon Thursday, June sixth, Caller number
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seven. I would like to thankmy guest Stokely, who will be starring
as Rick James himself in Super FreakThe Rick James Story. Jacaris Johnson,
producer of Super Freak The Rick JamesStory, and Tie James, the daughter
of Rick James and president of theRick James Estate. Thank you one,
Thank you all. I cannot waitto see it myself, and I appreciate
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how you are keeping his legacy aliveand also expanding upon it. Thank you
so much for having us. It'sbeen fun. It's later with Moe Kelly
Cafi AM six forty. We're liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We'll check
in with George Norrie Coast to CoastAM in just a moment Jeff am since
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forty years later with mo Keli AliveEverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I hope
you enjoyed that conversation with Tdy Jamesand Jacaris Johnson and Stokely. We're gonna
be giving away another pair of ticketsto super Freak the Rick James Story tomorrow,
but first I have to say happybirthday to our own George Nori.
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How are you, sir ah?That's sweet, well, thank you very
much. Tell me what it's liketo be twenty five again twenty five?
I was one hundred and twenty five. Well, seriously, I would love
to be twenty five again. Andyou are doing well, so I know
you have the secret the fountain ofyou. Wuld you love to be twenty
five and know what you know?Right now, We'll put it this way.
I would want to be twenty fiveagain in my own time. I
don't know if I want to livethe life of a twenty five year old
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now. It would be really difficult. The world has changed a lot since
I was twenty five, probably foryou as well. My best years a
right now? All right, allright, I actually like where I am
as well, but I would liketo have the body of a twenty five
year old. Let me put itlike that. Things are sore every single
day. You're in pretty good shapewhen we went to lunch. You're in
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a pretty good shape. I appreciatethat. But there's a lot of miles
on this body, a lot ofmiles. But did you do anything special
for your day? I came into prep my show and take it easy.
I don't celebrate birthdays. I've stoppedthem after about sixteen years. Okay,
we'll put it this way. It'swe're remembering you on this day.
Call it whatever you want, Thankyou very much. What's coming up on
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the show tonight, We've got anastrologer is going to talk about the year
ahead, and we've got a psychicwho's going to talk about the years ahead,
and then we're going to do somereadings and have some fun on my
birthday tonight. All right, well, I'll be listening in. And even
though you don't celebrate birthdays, Ihope that others will acknowledge the day.
And a significant was that contact inthe desert and Indian wells, And they
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brought me a cake, all right, love it, love it popped all
those candles and blew them all up, all of them all twenty five.
You got it. We'll talk soon. That was the first birthday. There's
a second birthday, which will beformally acknowledging tomorrow, and that is Mark
Ronner's birthday. Happy early birthday,Mark, all right, thanks. I'm
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just happy to have it so closeto Georgia's. I had no idea we
had that much in common. Youhave a lot your simpotticop. I think
it means I'll be guest hosting ashow soon. You know he's listening,
right, if you're listening, George, just let me know the day.
And we have a third birthday wehave to acknowledge. Get Tawala sharp in
here, Get in here, becausehe can only tell this story. Twala
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Sharp, run your behind in here. There are three birthdays here. You
may not know. Twala is adouble organ transplant recipient, both kidney and
pancreas. Today, Mark's fourteen yearssince he was given been a new lease
on life. Absolutely, today ismy rebirthday. I had my annual checkup
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at Cedar side and nine and mydoctor said that your progress, your transplant
status is miraculous. There is Therearen't many people who are fourteen years into
their transplant and it's still going asstrong as mine is. And she says
I'll see you in a year,and I had to hold it in because
I'm like, this is fourteen yearsof a new lease on life after six
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and a half years of being ondialysis, which is hell. If I'm
not mistaken, Transplants usually don't lastthat long, right, No, they
do not lie. On average.On average, you're given about seven years
on a transplant. I've doubled that. That's miraculous. Yeah, pretty much.
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It's just a good day all around. Well, let me say happy
birthday to Mark pre Happy birthday,Happy rebirthday to you, Tuala. And
now let me say congratulations to Karenin Eagle Rock, who is our winner
for the tickets to see Super Freakat the Pantagious Theater. The Rick James
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Story. Karen, congratulations and thankyou for calling in tonight. Yay am,
I am so excited about this.Now. I don't know how old
you are, and I'm not askingyou your age, but I have the
suspicion that you have of some memoryof Rick James in his heyday. Yeah.
So well, I was born inthe seventies. I was a kid
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in the eighties and I was ateenager in the nineties, so I'm I'm
pretty familiar. So and while Idon't go deep, I'm like, I
couldn't be more excited about this.Your conversation with the whole crew was fabulous,
and I just I was like,I want to win these tickets.
This is so great, I cango. You've made a lot of people
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bad, made a lot of peoplejealous because there were plenty of people calling
in and only you could win.Now we're giving away tickets tomorrow, but
you are our winner tonight. Haveyou decided who will be attending with you?
So I have about three people Icould ask, and I've got to
think about this before I you knowthat you're friendly listening Ei. There's three
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people I know who would absolutely wantto go. So now I've got to
like, I've got to think aboutit for a minute and think who's going
to be the easiest and on time. I just want to make this an
easy night because I wanted to befantastic. It's going to be great.
Do you have a particular Rick Jamessong that you like the most? Well,
oh my gosh, Now you're puttingme on the spot here, so
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this is super Freak because I I, well, I do love that,
and I'll be honest with you.I request that at our company Christmas party
because there's nothing funnier than Beverly fromfrom accounting get down to super Freak.
So so yeah, so there's that. You know. We're getting ready to
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call you in the co host thisshow because you are as funny as can
be. I'll do it. Iactually wanted to go into radio, but
I never did, so well,hang around for a while. I might
be able to help you out.But can you do this for me?
Since you are going Thursday night,please take some pictures that you can send
us that can show us the beautyof the Pantagious Theater. I've seen it
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any number of times. I knowit's gorgeous, and just your thoughts about
the evening. Stay in touch withus. We have your information so we
can check in with you before theweek is out or maybe next week,
because I would love to hear youraccounting of Super Freak, the Rick Jangs
story, if you could do thatfor us, Karen, I can do
that, and I've never been tothe Pantagous so this is great. Oh
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my goodness, you are in storefor great, a great, great evening,
having nothing to do with just seeingthe show, which I hear is
fantastic. The fantas is just legendary. Okay, good to know I'm in
So we'll talk soon. Yes,all right, thank you so much,
Karen, and congratulations. I lovethis. Thank you so much. You're
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most welcome. And now see,that's why I love I love love this
job. Because I could hear itin her voice. She was sincere,
genuine, she wants to see superfree Rick James's story. We have one
more pair of tickets that we're givingaway tomorrow, and we're giving away a
pair of tickets to Disney's The LittleMermaid at Lamarada Theater as well tomorrow,
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and we'll be speaking to the starof Disney's The Little Mermaid at Lamarada Theater,
Leanna Weaver. I'm sorry, thismight be the coolest showing all of
radio. Can I say that?I mean, look, can I say
that? At least you forget wehave another show on the horizon and I
can't even care about you can't talkabout it again. Oh my goodness,
(29:57):
I think we're gonna cry going toshop the show. Okay, now I'm
fine, but it's going to getbetter and better and better. This is
why we're doing this. I wasraised on musicals, Broadway shows, and
now I'm just passing that on.My parents gave that to me, and
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now I'm going to give it toyou. Karen said she was born in
the seventies, so we were aroundthe same age. We probably had similar
experiences. I don't know about playingsuper Freak of the office, because you
know, that was just a littletoo much, just a little too rowdy
for where I usually worked, evenin the music industry. Can do all
that. But this is the bestpart of what I do. That's this
is why I say that the bestjob in the world. In spite of
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having to work with Mark Ronner.It's not his birthday yet, so I
can well, he's getting his licksnow, that's right, because I can't
do it tomorrow. No, no, help yourself, not inappropriate. I'm
not that guy who's gonna punch youin the shoulder because it's your birthday.
I don't do that. You mightas well. I mean, it's a
listeners understand, that's how you showyour affection for me. So just go
ahead and let it all out.Okay, I'm good. Are you sure?
Oh, I'm positive. I'm positive. Actually, because I want I
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would hang around, but I've gotto get home because I have to see
the first two episodes of The Acolyteon Plus tonight. I'm hearing mixed reviews.
To throw my phone the trailers.Great, I get one more text
message. No, you're not supposedto look at the text. Man,
I can't. But I don't know. We're working. I don't know who
it is. Well, what ifit's Big Robin reaching out? No?
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No, no, I always know. I have our text threat. I
put it on mute for times justlike this. I got to forget how
to do that. Okay, Well, I'll help you out sometime. But
I have to catch up on alot of documentaries that we've talked about here.
I want to check out the PhilHendry documentary. Haven't got a chance
to check that out? Yeah,me too. That's got to be hilarious.
And Mark, you were telling meabout what today the movie Past documentary
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on HBO slash Max. You mustsee this. I mean you almost don't
need to, because we know onits face that that was insane and ridiculous
when it was announced and there's noway it was going to work, but
watching everybody involved talk about it andthen seeing how it went from bad to
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just astonishingly bad. You got tosee this and we got to talk about
it after you have. Did yousee the Hulu documentary Fire Festival? Bits
and pieces of it? It wason while I was in the vicinity,
the long suffering One was watching it, so semi yes, I was wondering
ifull because if it was a trainwreck on that level, yes, right
(32:31):
out there? Okay, yeah,all right, we'll see you tomorrow and
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Joining me now not one, nottwo, but three people instrumental in Super
Freak Rick James story. I'm talkingabout Jacaris Johnson, Ty James, the
daughter of Rick James, and noneother than Stokely himself, who will be
embodying the Rick James spirit as RickJames. All I can say is good
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evening, Thank you so much forcoming on tonight. So let me start
with you. So may not knowof your long history in the business as
the former lead singer of Mint Condition, as a solo artist. You have
had a long time in this businessof music, a lot of which does
overlap with Rick James. Tell meabout your track in this business against the
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backdrop of the history of Rick James. Well, we're listening to his music,
Rosekape through his music, you know, just getting into my system.
We just loved it. You know, read his books a few years ago.
All these things I think I didn'tknow at the time of preparing for
this role. Of course, it'sone thing to sing the songs kind of
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you know, when you roller skating, when you shower, but acting to
die with the character. It's atotally different game. Totally different games.
So it's uh, but I thinkeverything that that I did before brought me
to this, so you know,but I was I was definitely familiar with
the music and the energy and thepulse of it. You know. It
was just lovely, big, bigchange of things. Yeah, we're back,
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Rick James is there. Very nice, nice meeting, and thank you
for being here, sir. Thisis incredible success for you, isn't it.
Yeah? And uh, long timecoming. I mean it didn't happen
overnight like the No, it kindof happened overnight. It did happen over
congratulations. It was about ten yearsin American Yeah. You you have a
wonderful image. Uh, you know, just like women hanging in the klawn
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and so on and so forth.Is I mean is that really you?
No, it's it's really no.I am. I don't know. It's
yeah, it's me. I mean, what now are you when you relax?
I think I think what you meanis Rick James James Johnson. My
real name is James Rick James.Mystage name James Johnson. James Johnson's kind
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of laid back and he likes onewoman at a time, Rick Rick James,
give me, give me now?Where now? When you're when you're
yourself and when you're not performing,what do you do? Where do you
live? I live upstate in Buffalo, New York, inside of Buffalo and
have a ranch and read horses andstuff like that. TDD James. People
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may not know that you are thedaughter and president of the Rick James Estate.
You probably knew this man better thananyone who's still living. What is
it that you see and feel whenyou see Stokely on stage as your father
man? Just a big overwhelming ofemotion. I feel like he's nailing it,
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if I can say it, He'sbodying it. I feel like I'm
doing my dad justice. I feellike he's looking down, he's proud,
and it's just a wonderful feeling.The crowd is enjoying it. The story's
great, well produced, well written, and everything is magnificent. Jakaris Johnson,
as a producer of this show,how do you go about blending what
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is in his memoir with the memoryof him that you may have and time
may have, and also trying tomake sure that Stokely is still within the
pocket, as they say, becauseI remember Rick James. You remember Rick
James, and the world knows RickJames, sometimes through Chappelle's show, or
they may know it through just othermusic. I mean, I go back
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with Rick James in the nineteen seventies. How do you get that all together?
The objective is to just humanize himwhile still keeping a nostalgia of wez
So it's a nostalgic experience with hismusic and with the Rick James that we
came to know and love in thelatter years. But it's also a kind
of a reimagining and a reintroduction ofRick James to the consumer because we tell
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you everything you didn't know about him, which is the kid with a dream
to make it in the music industryand the various genres of music that he
went through. I mean he wasHe wasn't just in funk and soul.
I mean he was the rock,He was everything. You know. So
I think we've done a wonderful job, and I'm very proud of the cast
and the crew in Stokely for embodyingand delivering that level of versatility that's your
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dreams and is Big Summer great whatI've never seen call and me look so
square? In all my life.Can't you get us a braid? I
can get you a bunch of themmoney. Yeah, that is incredible.
Rank. Now do you have ahead breater in the band? Is there
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one person comes in and braids them. We have a lady out here in
Hollywood named Felicia who she does thewhole band. It's about Wow. She's
very slow, but she's very good. Yeah. And how does that work?
I mean you don't have to brushit, you don't have to do
anything. Just put water on itand shampoo conditioner and away you go.
Leave it alone for how long ata time? Three four months, take
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it out and do it again.That's something. Yeah, glad to see
you. My mother would be soproud. Hi, mom, Your mom
is very famous. She was.She used to run numbers as she did.
You know people, it's a veryserious business. It's a thing if
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you're winning. My mother was ashe was a dancer. We cancel them
and done them for one time,and she did run numbers and she supported
eight kids on her own and shedid a great job of it. My
brother, one of the guys whoworked with me as attorney, that's my
brother, one of the best lawschools in the country. I didn't turn
out too bad, not bad atall. I'd like to know who's making
(06:06):
more money, the lawyer or thesinger. He works for me, ty,
let me ask you this question.If Rick James became a star in
the age of TikTok, what mighthave that looked like? Who might he
have become? Oh? My god, universal, like the greatest space,
(06:30):
like out of this world? Like, yeah, that that is something I
would have loved to see. Somaybe we can still create that, all
right, It would be one ofthe biggest influences for sure, absolutely if
you just to the end. Ihave not one, not two, but
three guests right now on Later withmo Kelly. We're talking to Stokely who
is starring as Rick James in SuperFreak The Rick James Story. Also jakari
(06:54):
Is Johnson who's one of the producers, and also Tie James, the daughter
of Rick James himself. We'll havemore in just a moment. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demandfrom KFI AM six forty, and we're
talking about Super Freak The Rick JamesStory, which is coming to the Pantagious
Theater in Hollywood, this week andwe're going to give away a pair of
tickets before the show's over, andit's going to be the opening night.
(07:17):
You don't want to miss that.Joining me on the line right now is
Stokely himself, who is embodying RickJames as the star of Super Freak The
Rick James Story, Ty James,the daughter of Rick James and also president
of the Rick James Estate, andJakaris Johnson, who's producer for Super Freak
The Rick James Story. Got thatall out, Stokely, let me come
back to you. If anyone knowsanything about the history of Rick James,
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and you and I both know knowsthat there is a complex and complicated story
to be told. It goes todark places. How did you go about
trying to go to that dark placebut not stay there? Very carefully,
very slowly, and as I said, I on the spirit of victims every
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night and I put him back,you know, very carefully to make sure
that it's not integrated with my presentlife. But it is definitely it's it
is spirits aspect of kidding inside.It's serious, you know, I really
do take it seriously, and it'stry an embody that and not play on
the notes because he was, hewas his own person. You can't replicate
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that. It's he's just an island, you know, nobody like him,
but to inviody the spirit of itto make you feel like, okay,
then I can give it that youmake sure that you believe it. Tyd,
My word is complicated, and Ican only imagine it might be tell
me if I'm wrong. Very complicatedfor you as his daughter, seeing portions
of his life being brought to thescreen, which may evoke very specific memories
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or feelings. How do you dealwith the darkness, which I know is
going to be part of this?So that's a great question. In every
show, it's a challenge. There'spart that I was like, Jakari,
is can we just like take thisout? And then I thought about it.
I said, you know what,No, we have to give the
people what it is. You knowwho he is, who he was because
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through those mistakes also came greatness.So you know we have to take the
ups and the downs and literally it'syou know, it's an emotional roller coaster
like I find myself in tears everyshow. Honestly, Jakaris, as a
producer, you have I think oneof the most difficult jobs because you're trying
to balance a lot of competing interests. That's how I would characterize them.
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We're having a limited presence in laIs June sixth through June eighth. But
where might the show go after theleaves la It goes to Riverside after la
and then it plays Atlanta in January. We took a hiatus after that,
and you know, we'll see whatthe Needatlanders saying, But he might go
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to brawling Stokely. I know thatthere are people listening right now who don't
have any firsthand memories of Rick James, who don't know him beyond let's say,
Chappelle's show, who may not knowhim beyond a sample in an mc
hammer song. Unfortunately, what wouldyou hope people learn about him and his
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contributions to music? Because I'm tryingto educate listeners day by day by day.
They don't know nothing about No Fireand Desire. They don't know anything
about the early portions of his career. What do you hope people come away
with when they see you? I'vebecome away of just knowing realizing that he
had about ten different lives before therich change that we need. You know
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the fact that he was signed toMotown a couple of times, one of
them with Neil Young. You knowup in Canada, they head a bunch
of different groups, and there's somany I mean, he was just a
master. He was just going hiscraft, going through his life, you
know, having all these challenges,you know, and learning along the way.
So I mean there's so much thatyou know in the first act that
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you're going to learn before you canget to like the fire and desire you
and I marry Jane, all ofthat stuff. There's so much more.
I mean, it's it's it's explosive, it's so so amazing, Ty James.
I was a senior in college andan intern in Capitol Records in nineteen
ninety and there was this rapper bythe name of mc Hammer who was burning
up the charts because he had thissong called you Can't Touch This, and
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I said, that's super freak.Now, without leading into all the legal
happenings behind the scenes, and waseventually worked out, and it was a
wild wild West as far as Stampleywas concerned. I was disheartened to know
that Rick James's only Grammy was asthe quote unquote songwriter for you can't touch
this because it's basically it's his songwith mc hammer rapping over it. When
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I say that to you, whatcomes to mind? Is it bittersweet or
you pleased with that? That's avery good way to put it. Is
totally bittersweet. You know, lovemc hammer. Initially it was done kind
of like under the table, soto say, and we had to come
back and grab it without permission.I'll say it, yeah, under the
table. I'm trying to be sweetbecause you know, Hammer is are people.
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We love him. And it wasfunny because my dad was kind of
caught off guard, like wait aminute. He literally thought his song was
playing until you know, the firstwhat five seconds, it's like wait,
okay, hold on, and youknow, from there it was honestly,
the genius stepped in is like,okay, well let me handle this correctly,
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and you know, ultimately it workedout for us. So definitely bittersweet,
great record, you know, samplemultiple multiple times. So it is
what it is, well, itis what it is, but it's a
part of the larger history. Ifyou just to the end. That was
the voice of Ty James, thedaughter of Rick James and president of the
Rick James Estate. Also Jakaris Johnson, who's producer of super Freak The Rick
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James Story, and Stokely, whowas playing Rick James and the super Freak
The Rick James Story. We'll haveMorris. We close out our conversation in
just a moment, and oh yeah, we'll be giving away a pair of
tickets to opening night on Thursday,so stick around for that. It's Later
with Moe Kelly k if I AMsix forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM
(13:22):
six forty. KFI AM six fortyis Later with Moe Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, andwe're still talking about super Freak The Rick
James Story. I'm joined by Stokely, who was playing Rick James, also
Tied James, the daughter of RickJames, and Jacaris Johnson who's producer of
super Freak The Rick James Story.And as we move through this conversation and
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we talk about the show, Jacaris, let me start with you. I'm
quite sure you've had rehearsals and performances. It evokes different memories. How much
is open to be changed from performanceto performance, you may see something that
works or one night in certain location. He wanted to maybe expand to seeing
how much flexibility do you have.In the beginning, there was a little
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bit we're pretty tight. Now we'repretty pretty a well oiled machine. Everybody's
you know, doing a fantastic joband kind of playing their roles for us.
We're just a messengers to deliver astory about a magnetic man and to
put some respect on his name,right, so he's not relegated to a
Dave Chappelle's skin. He's so muchmore than that. And we just want
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people to walk out with a newfound love, a new found admiration and
understanding humanity of who he was asa man, as a father, as
a musician, as a son.And I think people will be pleasantly surprised
about what they didn't know. Andthere seems to be renewed interests in him
in ways that you know, kindof was a little dormant. And now
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I'm excited to say that new generationsare being introduced to who Rick James is
and then following the guy with thepassion and to me, that's the that's
the point. I'm only here tocelebrate and cement the legacy of people.
That's kind of my mission of mycompany, and to be able to tell
the narrative and tell the truth andtell it in a way that we get
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to honor uh and put him onthe pedestal that he deserves to be on
for his contribution to this culture.Ty, I think Jakaris was psychic because
he kind of knew what my nextquestion was going to be last seg when
I asked you about the mc hammerimpact on your father. But I was
not going to let this conversation goby and not mention in ernest the impact
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of Dave Chappelle. For me,it was bittersweet, if only because y'all
are just figuring out who Rick Jamesis. Y'all don't know, and it
blew up Rick James for a wideraudience. I think that's good, but
I think it minimized who he wasto everyone else. And I know your
father was live during that time inwhich Dave Seppelle parodied him. What did
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you think about that? What camefrom it? Correct? So we would
be sitting on the couch just reallycracking up about the like over the whole
skit, because not only was thataccurate, this is how they all interact,
you know, as you know himand Eddie, Murphy, Dave,
Charlie rest in peace, great friendslike three four in the hard way.
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You wouldn't see one without the other. And it was so accurate, like
that's why it came off like that. It depicted them correctly. That's how
they treat each other. There wasa genuine love amongst them, and they
just were always joking around. Sohe enjoyed it. You know, we
laughed about it. It was itwas totally okay with him. See,
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I did not know that. Ididn't know that it was based in so
much truth. It was very veryaccurate of these guys. That's how they
joked around with each other. Yet, yes, stokely, I have not
seen super freak the Rick James story, but I imagine it's a very physical
role. It's physically demanding at theend of each performance because I'm only envisioning
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what I know about Rick James.At the end of each performance, how
spent are you? I know you'respent, but how spent? I have
to take a few minutes each speechperformance. You know, it's not just
emotionally, it's a lot. It'sa lot of energy, not just the
singing it all together and being onthe mark and delivering the dialogue. That's
another thing I have to see company. You know, he's speaking to the
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back of the audience and making surehe had a presence with his speech.
He can just fill up a room, you know what I mean. And
so yeah, I have to takea few minutes before anything happens for us
speak to anybody, just to kindof, you know, decompress a bit.
Yeah. This last question is forboth you Tai and you jakarias what
type of feedback have you received fromhis friends, family members, contemporaries,
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people who have had interaction with him, who did know him as a man
outside of being a performer. Whattype of feedback have you received. Let
me take that first, because wehave sat in the audience when I say
family and friends and literally just jumpingout of our skin because Stokely with the
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mannerisms dove into my dad's character andit's almost scary because like we're just jumping
like oh wait, oh shoot,and it's so accurate and he's so on
point and on target that you know, we're all very emotional and proud,
and I'm really so proud of himbecause it's not an easy task. Well,
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there has been several people that havecome to the shows along the way
as we were touring, and fromwhat I can tell, we got one
hundred percent approval rate. In Ithink they were not certain as to how
we were going to tell this story. How do you pull out rich?
You know, and they were justreally shocked and they came up and was
just like, this is phenomenal,it's amazing. And we were in Washington,
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DC, and as one Broadway criticput he said it was the best
show he had seen in fifty fiveyears. And so we took that to
heart. For a Broadway critic tosay that that was the best show he
had seen in fifty five years,and for all of the friends and family
that have come to this show tosay how accurate it was but also how
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human it was right because we wereable to pull off the delicate dance,
the balancing act of complexity, simplicity, love and the complication and the conflict
that resides in him, all ofthat is woven together in a beautiful tapestry
for RJ. And I'm just proudand honored to have had this opportunity to
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tell and deliver this story to theworld and make this woman right here very
proud to be the daughter and thetorch bearer of this man's legacy of mistake.
Well, then give it to you, miss James, because I wanted
to leave it to you to choosea number, because that's going to be
the number of the caller that we'regoing to give away these two tickets to
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the Pantagious Theater to see Super Freak, The Rick James Story starring Stokely who
is to your right and produced byJR. Cars Johnson To your left.
Did you have a number? Let'sstay between one and ten. Okay,
I'm gonna give you a little backstory. I have to go with seven because
that is the month that I wasborn and I'll never forgive. We did
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a red carpet interview and the reporterasked him, what all these things you've
done, all this greatness you've contributedto the world, what would you say
is your most big, you know, accomplishment, What's your proudest moment?
And he looked down and he washugging me and he was like, my
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daughter, and that's seven. Sowe're gonna go with seven. Seven.
Caller number seven. If you're callingnumber seven, you and guests will be
going to see Super Freak The RickJames Story. Let you know right now,
it's not for children, so we'retalking about two adults. Give us
a call, Caller number seven,You and a guest will be going to
see Super Freak The Rick James Storyon Thursday, June sixth, Caller number
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seven. I would like to thankmy guest Stokely, who will be starring
as Rick James himself in Super FreakThe Rick James Story. Jacaris Johnson,
producer of Super Freak The Rick JamesStory, and Tie James, the daughter
of Rick James and president of theRick James Estate. Thank you one,
Thank you all. I cannot waitto see it myself, and I appreciate
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how you are keeping his legacy aliveand also expanding upon it. Thank you
so much for having us. It'sbeen fun. It's later with Moe Kelly
Cafi AM six forty. We're liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We'll check
in with George Norrie Coast to CoastAM in just a moment Jeff am since
(22:06):
forty years later with mo Keli AliveEverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I hope
you enjoyed that conversation with Tdy Jamesand Jacaris Johnson and Stokely. We're gonna
be giving away another pair of ticketsto super Freak the Rick James Story tomorrow,
but first I have to say happybirthday to our own George Nori.
(22:29):
How are you, sir ah?That's sweet, well, thank you very
much. Tell me what it's liketo be twenty five again twenty five?
I was one hundred and twenty five. Well, seriously, I would love
to be twenty five again. Andyou are doing well, so I know
you have the secret the fountain ofyou. Wuld you love to be twenty
five and know what you know?Right now, We'll put it this way.
I would want to be twenty fiveagain in my own time. I
don't know if I want to livethe life of a twenty five year old
(22:52):
now. It would be really difficult. The world has changed a lot since
I was twenty five, probably foryou as well. My best years a
right now? All right, allright, I actually like where I am
as well, but I would liketo have the body of a twenty five
year old. Let me put itlike that. Things are sore every single
day. You're in pretty good shapewhen we went to lunch. You're in
(23:12):
a pretty good shape. I appreciatethat. But there's a lot of miles
on this body, a lot ofmiles. But did you do anything special
for your day? I came into prep my show and take it easy.
I don't celebrate birthdays. I've stoppedthem after about sixteen years. Okay,
we'll put it this way. It'swe're remembering you on this day.
Call it whatever you want, Thankyou very much. What's coming up on
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the show tonight, We've got anastrologer is going to talk about the year
ahead, and we've got a psychicwho's going to talk about the years ahead,
and then we're going to do somereadings and have some fun on my
birthday tonight. All right, well, I'll be listening in. And even
though you don't celebrate birthdays, Ihope that others will acknowledge the day.
And a significant was that contact inthe desert and Indian wells, And they
(23:56):
brought me a cake, all right, love it, love it popped all
those candles and blew them all up, all of them all twenty five.
You got it. We'll talk soon. That was the first birthday. There's
a second birthday, which will beformally acknowledging tomorrow, and that is Mark
Ronner's birthday. Happy early birthday,Mark, all right, thanks. I'm
(24:18):
just happy to have it so closeto Georgia's. I had no idea we
had that much in common. Youhave a lot your simpotticop. I think
it means I'll be guest hosting ashow soon. You know he's listening,
right, if you're listening, George, just let me know the day.
And we have a third birthday wehave to acknowledge. Get Tawala sharp in
here, Get in here, becausehe can only tell this story. Twala
(24:41):
Sharp, run your behind in here. There are three birthdays here. You
may not know. Twala is adouble organ transplant recipient, both kidney and
pancreas. Today, Mark's fourteen yearssince he was given been a new lease
on life. Absolutely, today ismy rebirthday. I had my annual checkup
(25:07):
at Cedar side and nine and mydoctor said that your progress, your transplant
status is miraculous. There is Therearen't many people who are fourteen years into
their transplant and it's still going asstrong as mine is. And she says
I'll see you in a year,and I had to hold it in because
I'm like, this is fourteen yearsof a new lease on life after six
(25:33):
and a half years of being ondialysis, which is hell. If I'm
not mistaken, Transplants usually don't lastthat long, right, No, they
do not lie. On average.On average, you're given about seven years
on a transplant. I've doubled that. That's miraculous. Yeah, pretty much.
(25:57):
It's just a good day all around. Well, let me say happy
birthday to Mark pre Happy birthday,Happy rebirthday to you, Tuala. And
now let me say congratulations to Karenin Eagle Rock, who is our winner
for the tickets to see Super Freakat the Pantagious Theater. The Rick James
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Story. Karen, congratulations and thankyou for calling in tonight. Yay am,
I am so excited about this.Now. I don't know how old
you are, and I'm not askingyou your age, but I have the
suspicion that you have of some memoryof Rick James in his heyday. Yeah.
So well, I was born inthe seventies. I was a kid
(26:38):
in the eighties and I was ateenager in the nineties, so I'm I'm
pretty familiar. So and while Idon't go deep, I'm like, I
couldn't be more excited about this.Your conversation with the whole crew was fabulous,
and I just I was like,I want to win these tickets.
This is so great, I cango. You've made a lot of people
(27:00):
bad, made a lot of peoplejealous because there were plenty of people calling
in and only you could win.Now we're giving away tickets tomorrow, but
you are our winner tonight. Haveyou decided who will be attending with you?
So I have about three people Icould ask, and I've got to
think about this before I you knowthat you're friendly listening Ei. There's three
(27:23):
people I know who would absolutely wantto go. So now I've got to
like, I've got to think aboutit for a minute and think who's going
to be the easiest and on time. I just want to make this an
easy night because I wanted to befantastic. It's going to be great.
Do you have a particular Rick Jamessong that you like the most? Well,
oh my gosh, Now you're puttingme on the spot here, so
(27:45):
this is super Freak because I I, well, I do love that,
and I'll be honest with you.I request that at our company Christmas party
because there's nothing funnier than Beverly fromfrom accounting get down to super Freak.
So so yeah, so there's that. You know. We're getting ready to
(28:07):
call you in the co host thisshow because you are as funny as can
be. I'll do it. Iactually wanted to go into radio, but
I never did, so well,hang around for a while. I might
be able to help you out.But can you do this for me?
Since you are going Thursday night,please take some pictures that you can send
us that can show us the beautyof the Pantagious Theater. I've seen it
(28:30):
any number of times. I knowit's gorgeous, and just your thoughts about
the evening. Stay in touch withus. We have your information so we
can check in with you before theweek is out or maybe next week,
because I would love to hear youraccounting of Super Freak, the Rick Jangs
story, if you could do thatfor us, Karen, I can do
that, and I've never been tothe Pantagous so this is great. Oh
(28:51):
my goodness, you are in storefor great, a great, great evening,
having nothing to do with just seeingthe show, which I hear is
fantastic. The fantas is just legendary. Okay, good to know I'm in
So we'll talk soon. Yes,all right, thank you so much,
Karen, and congratulations. I lovethis. Thank you so much. You're
(29:12):
most welcome. And now see,that's why I love I love love this
job. Because I could hear itin her voice. She was sincere,
genuine, she wants to see superfree Rick James's story. We have one
more pair of tickets that we're givingaway tomorrow, and we're giving away a
pair of tickets to Disney's The LittleMermaid at Lamarada Theater as well tomorrow,
(29:34):
and we'll be speaking to the starof Disney's The Little Mermaid at Lamarada Theater,
Leanna Weaver. I'm sorry, thismight be the coolest showing all of
radio. Can I say that?I mean, look, can I say
that? At least you forget wehave another show on the horizon and I
can't even care about you can't talkabout it again. Oh my goodness,
(29:57):
I think we're gonna cry going toshop the show. Okay, now I'm
fine, but it's going to getbetter and better and better. This is
why we're doing this. I wasraised on musicals, Broadway shows, and
now I'm just passing that on.My parents gave that to me, and
(30:17):
now I'm going to give it toyou. Karen said she was born in
the seventies, so we were aroundthe same age. We probably had similar
experiences. I don't know about playingsuper Freak of the office, because you
know, that was just a littletoo much, just a little too rowdy
for where I usually worked, evenin the music industry. Can do all
that. But this is the bestpart of what I do. That's this
is why I say that the bestjob in the world. In spite of
(30:41):
having to work with Mark Ronner.It's not his birthday yet, so I
can well, he's getting his licksnow, that's right, because I can't
do it tomorrow. No, no, help yourself, not inappropriate. I'm
not that guy who's gonna punch youin the shoulder because it's your birthday.
I don't do that. You mightas well. I mean, it's a
listeners understand, that's how you showyour affection for me. So just go
ahead and let it all out.Okay, I'm good. Are you sure?
Oh, I'm positive. I'm positive. Actually, because I want I
(31:04):
would hang around, but I've gotto get home because I have to see
the first two episodes of The Acolyteon Plus tonight. I'm hearing mixed reviews.
To throw my phone the trailers.Great, I get one more text
message. No, you're not supposedto look at the text. Man,
I can't. But I don't know. We're working. I don't know who
it is. Well, what ifit's Big Robin reaching out? No?
(31:25):
No, no, I always know. I have our text threat. I
put it on mute for times justlike this. I got to forget how
to do that. Okay, Well, I'll help you out sometime. But
I have to catch up on alot of documentaries that we've talked about here.
I want to check out the PhilHendry documentary. Haven't got a chance
to check that out? Yeah,me too. That's got to be hilarious.
And Mark, you were telling meabout what today the movie Past documentary
(31:49):
on HBO slash Max. You mustsee this. I mean you almost don't
need to, because we know onits face that that was insane and ridiculous
when it was announced and there's noway it was going to work, but
watching everybody involved talk about it andthen seeing how it went from bad to
(32:10):
just astonishingly bad. You got tosee this and we got to talk about
it after you have. Did yousee the Hulu documentary Fire Festival? Bits
and pieces of it? It wason while I was in the vicinity,
the long suffering One was watching it, so semi yes, I was wondering
ifull because if it was a trainwreck on that level, yes, right
(32:31):
out there? Okay, yeah,all right, we'll see you tomorrow and
give away more tickets tomorrow. We'relive everywhere the iHeartRadio app free range,
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