Singer Rick James was found dead in his home Friday by his caretaker, a Los Angeles police department spokesman said.

A moment of silence please.

He will always live on in that one awesome episode of Chappelle's Show.

The lifestyle finally caught up with him.

I LOVED his music and I'll miss him.

Who gets his hair?

Wow, If I have to be honest I really did like his song Super Freak! He will live on through some of the good music he gave us. Sad when the talented one's die fairly early.

rick james was the original super freak!

hope he has a piece of peace now.

musician,producer, and funktitioner - he will be missed.

From msnbc:

James was convicted in 1993 of assaulting two women. The first case occurred in 1991, when prosecutors said James and his girlfriend tied a woman to a chair, burned her with a hot crack pipe and forced her to perform sex acts during a cocaine binge at his West Hollywood home. He was free on bail when the second assault occurred in 1992 in James’ hotel room.

James served more than two years in Folsom Prison.

A lifetime of drugs and mental illness never ends well...but usually ends early.

R.I.P. Mr. James...