James Brown was a lot of things, even beyond the many stage nicknames he bestowed upon himself: The Hardest-Working Man In Show Business, Soul Brother No. 1, Minister Of The New New Super Heavy Funk, etc. In the late ’60s, he called himself “75 percent businessman and 25 percent entertainer,” right before several long-term investments not related to music went belly-up. He spoke out loudly and frequently against drugs, only to become addicted to PCP—a major contributing factor to his infamous 1988 arrest, and the high-speed car chase that preceded it
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