Bill Cosby releases "hip-hop" album
hogginthefogg
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HERE TO SAVE YOU ALL. Apparently, it will be free of all filth-flarn and/or flarn-filth:
Beloved TV star Bill Cosby is set to release a hip-hop album -- but he refused to rap on any of the tracks because of the genre's "negativity."The "Cosby Show" actor, 70, is behind the new CD "Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency," which blends the comedian's stories with a hip-hop, pop and jazz soundtrack.But Cosby insists he didn't want to integrate rap into his sound because rapping is "profane for no reason."He tells the Associated Press, "I do not rap on any of these things. I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words.[/b]"(The album is) the opposite of what I think is the profanity for no particular reason, the misogyny for no particular reason. It really looks at the frustration and the anger that a young man may have."His producer, Bill "Spaceman" Patterson, says, "He's (Cosby) 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."And Cosby doesn't want this rap record to be his last: "We can do even better. The next one will be even more cheerleading.""Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency" is slated for release next month.
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Seriously dude needs to stop shittin on "Rapp Music".
"Jammin On The One!!!"
Or at least be do it quietly.
I recently re-watched "himself."
doesn't hold up.
RUUUUDY!
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Theo has a signed Jacob Lawrence on the wall.
That's a framed print edition. Even Mr.Huxtable would know not to hang a Lawrence painting in a teenagers room.
Actually lookin at it again its not a Jacob Lawrence, but its an artist whos name skips me but was prominantly featured on the show. He/she'w work was also in the auction episode. They also had a print in the living room for a minute.
Varnette Honeywood - Double Dare
Ellis Wilson
kids, this is your Grandpa Murphy.
but we've got three grandpas already!
yeah but this one's the famous jaaaaazz musician.
ohh, they all are!
oh oh! ya see...the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. with the hippin and the hoppin and the bippin and the boppin...they don't know what the jazz, is all about! ya see jazz is like jello pudding...no, that's not it. jazz is like kodak film...no, that's not right neither. i've got it! jazz is like the new coke - it'll be around forever!
Cosby sounds........white!
I still listen to, To Russel The Brother Whom I Slept With. It's amazing how closely my sister, and I and our friends saw our white suburban childhood in Cosby's childhood remembrances. Sometimes its hard to remember if something happened to me and my friends or I got it off a Cosby record.
Signed Ellis Wilson print is a nice way to start decorating his NJ apartment.
I thought they were studying for an english test or something, and made some shakepseare play rap in order to help remember things from the play...perhaps that was a different episode...
I hung with the show for the first three seasons it was on, then quickly lost interest after that. I can still watch the Cosby spinoff A Different World, however. Lord knows it was just as preachy, but something about it holds up better than the show it spun off from.
total cosign.
and I think I know why a Different World holds up better.
no Bill Cosby.
you could be right, but i do distinctly recall an segment, somewhere, where cos did not like the rap that theo & cockroack came up with
Seemed like those kids were talented. Have any of them proved they can act as adults. In High Fidelity Lisa kept changing her accent, was she supposed to be British? Carribean? or just pretentious?
V.Honeywood
So what is the print on the wall? Varnette Honeywood? Jacob Lawerence? or Ellis Wilson?
By the way ^ that one is super nice.