"Super Freak" is a 1981 hit single, written, produced, and performed by Rick James for the Motown label. The song, which reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, features background vocals from Motown lablemates The Temptations, the bass singer in which is James' uncle Melvin Franklin.

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The song is best known by the Generation Y music audience for being sampled by M.C. Hammer on his 1988 smash hit "U Can't Touch This".