When Rick James was doing time in prison at CRC, he was mostly well liked by the prisoners, but he revealed in his book that the prison guards often gave him a hard time and Rick would always tell them they better not try to hurt him, or else it was going to be hell to pay. Well eventually the guards became cool with Rick and he even sent flowers and gifts to their wives’ homes every now and then.
Here’s the thing though, although Rick was able to turn around the guards’ attitude toward him, he couldn’t win over all of the prisoners. So one time Rick James ended up causing a huge race riot on the yard after having a brawl with a member of the…