Street Songs (album)

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Street Songs
Street Songs cover
Studio album by Rick James
Released 1981
Recorded December 1980 - January 1981
Genre R&B
Length 34:46
Label Gordy (Motown)
Producer Rick James
Professional reviews
Rick James chronology
Garden of Love
(1980)		 Street Songs
(1981)		 Throwin' Down
(1982)

Street Songs is a seminal 1981 Rick James concept album. Most of the songs on the record deal with prostitution. The fifth song on this album, "Super Freak", was one of James' biggest hits. A Deluxe Edition was released in 2001 containing an additional seventeen mixes and live versions of the album tracks. The song "Ghetto Life" was featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and later sampled in Busta Rhymes' song "In The Ghetto". "Super Freak" and "Give It to Me Baby" are also featured on the soundtrack of the videogame Scarface: The World Is Yours.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Give It to Me Baby" (4:08)
  2. "Ghetto Life" (4:20)
  3. "Make Love to Me" (4:48)
  4. "Mr. Policeman" (4:17)
  5. "Super Freak" (3:24)
  6. "Fire and Desire" (duet with Teena Marie) (7:17)
  7. "Call Me Up" (3:53)
  8. "Below the Funk (Pass the J)" (2:36)


2002 Remastered Edition

  1. "Give It to Me Baby" (4:08)
  2. "Ghetto Life" (4:20)
  3. "Make Love to Me" (4:48)
  4. "Mr. Policeman" (4:17)
  5. "Super Freak" (3:24)
  6. "Fire and Desire" (duet with Teena Marie) (7:17)
  7. "Call Me Up" (3:53)
  8. "Below the Funk (Pass the J)" (2:36)
  9. "Give It to Me Baby" (12" Version) (5:42)
  10. "Super Freak" (12" Version) (7:05)


Deluxe Edition

Disc One:

  1. "Give It to Me Baby" (4:08)
  2. "Ghetto Life" (4:20)
  3. "Make Love to Me" (4:48)
  4. "Mr. Policeman" (4:17)
  5. "Super Freak" (3:24)
  6. "Fire and Desire" (duet with Teena Marie) (7:17)
  7. "Call Me Up" (3:53)
  8. "Below the Funk (Pass the J)" (2:36)
  9. "Give It to Me Baby" (12" Version) (5:42)
  10. "Give It to Me Baby" (Instrumental) (6:48)
  11. "Super Freak" (12" Version) (7:05)
  12. "Super Freak" (Instrumental) (3:33)

Disc Two: (Recorded Live at Long Beach, California, July 30, 1981)

  1. "Introduction" (1:46)
  2. "Ghetto Life" (4:21)
  3. "Big Time" (7:08)
  4. "Come Into My Life" (4:14)
  5. "I'm a Sucker for Love" (8:28)
  6. "Square Biz" (7:01)
  7. "Fire It Up" (3:35)
  8. "Love Gun" (5:42)
  9. "Do You Want Some Funk (Interlude)" (2:22)
  10. "Mary Jane" (10:39)
  11. "Super Freak" (4:21)
  12. "You and I" (11:48)
  13. "Give It to Me Baby" (6:05)
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