After serving a prison during the 1980s, Brown released the album Love Overdue, with the new single "Move On". Brown also released the box 1991 four-CD set Star Time, which covers music covers a career of four decades in time. Almost all previous records were reissued on CD, often with additional tracks and commentary by experts on Brown's music. In 1991, Brown appeared in a video of MC Hammer "Too Legit Stop" (or "2 Legit 2 Quit"), someone Hammer idolized. In 1993, James Brown released the album Universal James, which spawned the single "Can not Get Any Harder," "How Long" and "Georgia-Lina". In 1995, the live album Live at the Apollo 1995 was released with a new studio track "Respect Me", released as a single the same year. Brown due to this unique Megamix "Hooked on Brown" that was released as a single in 1996. Brown later during the 1998 LP album includes studio, I'm back with "Funk on Ah Roll" single and the next step 2002 album with the single "Killing is Out, School Inside," in both produced and co-written by Derrick Monk. Brown has participated in the American Masters PBS television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by Jeremy Marre.
Although Brown had various problems with the law, he continued to perform and record regularly, and has also made appearances on television shows and movies such as Blues Brothers 2000, and sporting events, such as appearance at the 2000 world event Wrestlingpay-per-view SuperBrawl X Championships Brown apparently the X-ray emission SuperBrawl, he danced with the wrestler Ernest "The Cat" Miller, a character based on Brown, during the skit ring with the Maestro [37]. Brown was featured on the 2001 short film by Tony Scott, Beat the Devil, starring Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson [38] Brown, too. make an appearance in the film The Tuxedo 2002Jackie Chan, where Chan is required to finish Brown's act after Brown accidentally by Chan [39] 2002., Brown appeared in Undercover Brother, played a role himself.
