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Bill Cosby’s Hip Hop Album Due Next Month
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 By: Mike Ivey Jr.
Film/TV pioneer and hip hop critic Bill Cosby next month releases ‘Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency,’ a blend of Cosby comedy and stories over hip hop, jazz and pop music.
"People started speculating, is he going to rap about Jell-O Pudding Pops or what?" says producer and long time Cosby collaborator Bill "Spaceman" Patterson (Miles Davis, Mariah Carey). "But he's always been involved in music and he was there for the first generation of spoken word. He has always understood rap's potential, but he was appalled by the foul language and the misogyny — the way people used a medium that could be used to elevate people, to open their eyes and provoke thought."
"I do not rap on any of these things," Cosby said in a recent interview. "I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words." Education, respect, for self and others, and raising low-self esteem among young people are topics of exploration in ‘Cosby Narratives Vol. 1…’ The album supplements Cosby’s 2007 best-selling book "Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors." Co-founder of Ultramagnetic-MCs Ced-Gee serves as co-producer and rap neos SupaNova Slom, Jace the Great and Brother Hahz lend bars to the project. No distributor has been named at press time but a company will be named in the coming weeks.
Cosby last winter marched through turbulent Philadelphia streets with Def Jam artist and fellow Philly native Beanie Sigel during Peace Week 2007, organized by Men United for a Better Philadelphia, in an effort to keep this year’s city murder rate under 400.
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