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Bill Cosby’s Hip Hop Album Due Next Month

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
By: Mike Ivey Jr.


Bill CosbyFilm/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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He gon sell a million records... Lol
Posted by Jot3
I think that is soooo cute of him..i jus wish the world was in love with each other and sayin friendly things to one another like "hi how u doin today","can i carry your groceries","please dont litter so we can protect our environment"..just be happy people!!
Posted by it's JIMMY (sing a long!!!)
I hope no one stands next to him. I'm quite sure god doesn't like hypocrisy.
Posted by GameizLAME
Man i dont know what to think of this. We just gon have to see what it sounds like. Imagine rolling down the street bumping bill cosby. Lmao!!!!!!!!
Posted by Christopher Williams
I would like to see the project do well for the simple fact we need more of a balance between negative and positive content within hip-hop.
Posted by Mac
J-e-l-l-o will be his first single, and he's leaning towards pudding for his follow up single. Album gonna crazy... Can't wait. Lol, sike naw but i do wanna hear wut he gotta say though... Should be good and positive.
Posted by Jot3
To bill cosby and oprah winfrey, many members of generation x and generation y are disgusted, bitter, and angry. Some express their bitterness via hip-hop. I'm sure they don't understand the source of their bitterness, and baby-boomers aren't teaching them anything of substance, real value; just more lies. The explanation provided by prominent baby-boomers and their minions for the disgust, bitterness and anger exhibited by many members of generation x and y is rather glib. Some say with a straight face, “it’s because black families don’t have fathers in the household”. Now i'm a baby-boomer and a man of faith. But given such a deceitful and disgusting explanation, gangsta rap seems to be an acceptable outlet for their added frustration. Here is some straight talk my friends. Generation x and y are disgusted, bitter, and angry because prominent baby-boomers have misled them. For the love of money, they have willfully allowed two black generations to be born into the world without a pot to piss in collectively. African american children have no institutions capable of meeting their basic needs, food, clothing, shelter, employment, education, etc. They are hopelessly dependent on and subject to the will of other groups of people that have institutions for their spiritual/ physical survival on earth. By default, many are forced to “taxi to the dark side” if they are to live a life with basic necessities. As for me, i can't be hypocritical and criticize hip-hopers without having first castigated bab
Posted by Charles T.
I applaud mr.cosby for being proactive and taking a stand. It’s said that those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. Although hip-hop is flawed as with many things in life it requires deeper observation than just simply to be seen as the cause for violence and misogyny. Music is an expression of life. Therefore the fact that the music is sick (cancerous) this is a barometer for the current state of our society. Bill should take the time consider the widening disparity of rich & poor. Attack the sickness at its roots and speak out against poverty and the political immorality that has invaded this nation. This nation is spending billions of taxpayer dollars on war while people in this country can't afford health care, housing, food or get jobs. These are some of the basic necessities of life; no one should be denied these basic needs. It’s a sign of a sick nation when we walk around and over homeless people & refuse to feed the hungry, yet spend billions to kill men, women & children. Cosby is well respected by the establishment, but maybe he’s too is afraid of the repercussions, loosing his celebrity & money if he were to stand up and address the true cancers that have invaded this society.
Posted by Franks & Beans
Bill is doing what is right. Since kids only respect the views of jaded rappers more than their parents, this is where the fight begins. But sadly, an album that has none of the misogyny and vulgarity probably wont sell because the cancerous state of hip hop is not a barometer (like franks said), but in fact its a growing plant seeded by the corporate influence of the labels and producers and other controlling forces of music to depict hip hop in the way that they want us (hip hop fans) to be seen. It draws in more and more suckers every new song about getting glamorous money, getting laid, getting high on drugs, and getting dead. Where 12 years ago the same famous people disparaging hip hop were supporting it because everything was about getting educated and being prosperous and peaceful. As a gen x'er who benefited from songs like "love's gunna get ya" and "fight the power' and "self destruction", i gotta say. A lot of hip hop fans nowadays are stupid. Franks and charles t excluded. You are the smartest people ive seen comment in months.
Posted by OmniScion
^^what u talkin 'bout..im as smart as they come cause i can chew gum and type at the same time and i been commentin on issues like this for eons
Posted by it's JIMMY (sing a long!!!)
Cosby just wants a piece of that hip hop money, he should stick to doing educational childrens shows like little bill
Posted by bigphil
Dag... Charles t., franks & beans, and omniscion writin novels up dere...lma0... But all three of ya'll make valid points.
Posted by Jot3
So when is this fool going to get a stroke?
Posted by Stop It.
Congratulation!!!he is a great man,support him. Many fans on a tall dating site:" tallmingle.c o m " will be happy now,especially those models.
Posted by dana
Aw i love cosby
Posted by you dont no me so dont judge me
Haha ! cosby is the man ! but i still like fiddy the best man ! cause he does so much for his fans, i mean like look at this backstage channel here: .kyte.tv/ch/18531-thisis50com he posts loads of sh*t and it`s the bomb !!
Posted by dexter
Get off 50 cent d!ck. He riding high cuz he is a part of the system. He only attacks other rappers. The only thing political he said was " barak would get shot". Step ya game up 50...sh!ts getting real hard out here for a brother..white or black!
Posted by Be A Man
Enough is enough....first souldier boi then this .... My n*gga nas was rite hip-hop is dead
Posted by iLL
God damn...phillys murder rate was 400?!...them n*ggaz is wylin
Posted by Da Hood Fella 718
Ppl r so incredibly ignorant 6 braindeadments like"i wanna c myself bumping bil cosby in ride lmao"bill is just an ordinary respect&dignified african adult, who knows how rappers feel aboiut they enviroments.so he's puttin himself back in the ghetto pictzure, in order 2 reveal the lovely side of spoken language dammit.these new cats should rather listen to common,kweli&the roots not jim jones&wayne its wrong hiphop.
Posted by me
Your right ^but these young people are lost and do not wish to be found! ive eccepted the fact that its over for us as black people. This sh!t aint never gonna change, for every conscious positive person with good sense such as yourself theres 1000 ignorant,bloodthirsty,pegans that dont give a f^ck about change for the better and they've became confortable with the state of our conditions.alot of the members of this generation trully do not give a fucc and ive accepted it..kool g rap said it on his 456 album back in 1995.. "sh!t aint never gonna change! fuk it!!!!" and g rap was right so i just sadate myself with drugs & alcohol,fornicate,and stack my bread. I just finalized my will too.. So fuk it. N!gga its over
Posted by C NORTH E Community Center
Jello pudding! lookin ass
Posted by tre
Sometimes i just want to shoot at every car that passes by my house playing that loud ass music, that i can only call trunk or licsence plate music oops i meant noise why is it that my people had to be the one that loves stupid sh*t? everybody and their momma now wants to rap lets have some of these so called artists try singing or playing some type of instrument. This is so sad black people, "or we going to blame this on the white man also"i have a dream i'm tired of fighting for some of you fools... I'll let jesus handle this mess
Posted by no hiphop today######
Omg .50 had to blow up on steroids to make himself look like a big man huh? hey fiddy rap about $6.00 a gallon gas...let these fools ride around all day not working listening to you rap tell'em fiddy how much you're worth, and how poor they are for buying your sounds and sh*t,, tell'em what you got fiddy show them those borrowed cars that you aint got
Posted by no hiphop today######
We need a new tupac, who will destroy these old dudes and louzy rappers.
Posted by hydro
Bill cosby is agreat man
Posted by jarome jancans

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