Heathcliff Huxtable the Rapper
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Bill Cosby is coming out with a Hip Hop album called State of Emergency. The album will cover issues such as teen pregnancy, crime, drug abuse in parenting. Here is an excerpt on parenting from one of Bill’s books that was published last year:
“All black parents can do right by their children, and all black children can succeed. There is no reason why not.”
“Use standard English when you have your kids together, not Black English. They’ll hear enough of that in the streets…Watch the movie My Fair Lady. All cultures discriminate against people who have not mastered the standard language, and when race is involved, it is all that much harder for a nonstandard speaker to feel competent or even at home in the culture.”
We’re interested to hear what Bill has to say on this album, and even more who he has producing these tracks. Click here and here for more quotes from MC Cosby.
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take your geritol daily
lol Hip Hop is dead…Cosby can go ahead and make those lame instructional videos too on how to hip hop dance…SMH…Bill we know, we get you, we love you, but a CD with slop-jaw speech on it, is not needed
wow
i really wanted to read dat
CHILL-LAX
um, okay. lets see if will help matters.
“Not Black English”…lol dude is losing it…He’s like that old black man in NEW JACK CITY…roflmao..and i’m wesley snipes..
Wow – Bill need to stay away from those Jello pudding pops, cuz he sho is getting big…
BTW: I like how Bossip put up some old quotes of his just to see if they can garner some responses…
I guess their plan didn’t work with the Fat Joe thread, so they figured they’d try again. LMAO!
hmmm… can’t quite put my finger on it, lol, but let’s hope we can remain focused on the positive aspects of this movement… I just hope it won’ be him doing the rapping…
lol @ SBM
parenting book- rap album..i don’t see the correlation..stop reaching
i bet his album will be hot as hellweather…he can afford all the best in the biz..and he already got that famous dance…he can get some real actors for the video and that shit will have every old buzzard from 52-82 coppin that joint! no cursing so wal-mart will have it early! oh and the label name “THE COSBY’S CORP” (we treat you like family no matter if none of the kids look like us and some are white lookin)
what’s wrong w/Bill’s eye in that picture?! But yeah, bring it on Bill.
joey bang
i bet his album will be hot as hellweather…he can afford all the best in the biz..and he already got that famous dance…he can get some real actors for the video and that shit will have every old buzzard from 52-82 coppin that joint! no cursing so wal-mart will have it early! oh and the label name “THE COSBY’S CORP” (we treat you like family no matter if none of the kids look like us and some are white lookin)
^^^^LMAO.. I am dyin’ laughin’ at this shiz..OMG he can not be serious.. Lawd have mercy..
WELL! (sung like the old lady in the front of the church with that big hat on)
Church! You might not like his tactics, but he makes a valid point.
ytac
what’s wrong w/Bill’s eye in that picture?! But yeah, bring it on Bill.
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HE’S GOING BLIND FOR TRYN’ TO STRAIN LOOKIN FOR SOMEONE TO POINT HIS FINGER AT……
LIKE HIS ASS WASNT A HOT MESS
Why are we so offended when he addresses how we communicate or a lack thereof? We as a minority DO act in a way that is very degrading to OURSELVES!!! He is trying to open our eyes to how WE set our ownselfs out of the race. No life if not a competitition but, there is a distinct line drawn in the sand when WE are in the line of anglosaxons, middleeasterns etc. Let’s talk sterotypes; answer them for yourself…What are the asians known for? What are the indians known for? What are the hispanics known for? What are the anglosaxons known for? Now, is there a limit on what what the anglosaxons are known for? Come on people — as “Dap” said/yelled at the end of Spike Lee’s School Daze in 1988….”WAKE UP”!!!!!
Luv
@ytac
that’s a cataract…
He’s only doing it for the groupie love. lol
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he’s not rapping. he has a group that is going to rap. he’s the executive producer.
BILL COSBY SPEAKS THE TRUTH THAT MOST OF YOU IGNORANT BLACKS DON’T WANT TO HEAR. FOR INSTANCE WHEN HE MADE THE STATEMENT THAT YOU ALL SHOULD STOP BLAMING WHITES FOR YOUR PROBLEMS! LISTEN TO HIM HE’S TELLING YOU THE TRUTH! YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR YOUR OWN MIS-HAPS, DON’T BELIEVE ME JUST GO TO THE FAT JOE POST! DUMMIES!
u think he’s fuckin’ for tracks?
I don’t know about the My Fair Lady part, but speaking correct English, which means you can communicate with other people & it will show a sign of intelligence regardless of how much education you have. We as Black people need to help ourselves, Bush can’t do it, the Government can’t do it. Hurricane Katrina should have been a wake up call for all Blacks that are doing self destructed & foolish stuff. But, unfortunately, New Orleans black on black murder rate has sky rocketed. Something is wrong somewhere. Black uneducated, unmarried girls should NOT have children. This is the deterioation of the black family & unless we stop this the murder, uneducated, criminal mentality will continue & we will be a doom race in society. You need to have a life before you make a life. I am Black, not Bill Cosby, but I understand his frustration with our people. We as a people have too much hate & disrespect for each other….and we complain about the treatment we get from other races. PLEASE
I HAVE to listen to this album. Please, somebody leak this album…
I can’t believe you all are dissing Bill for wanting to feed the community with something positive. Shame on him for wanting more for, and from the kids, and people in general, today.
Bill just needs to reiterate what he means when he says that black people need to speak proper english. He is directing it to the ignorant, non-educated black people. Many of you have confirmed that he does have a point through this blog alone. Only people that are not well educated or well traveled will label one race as the same. I am an educated black woman that is saddened by “hoodrats” and “thugs”….It’s 2008, are you going to remain a stereo-type for the rest of your lives?
Word on the streets is that Mortimer, the self writing pen from Picture pages, ghost wrote the whole album and Cosby didnt pay him one cent. He has a dis video on youtube explaining the whole thing. He even alleges that he was used by Cosby in a manner that pens should not be used, Chris Stokes style.
What the hell Bossip? What are y’all doing to my comments? First it doesnt show up, then its waiting for moderation, now I posted the same shit twice. Y’all fuckin up!
don’t he got some fags at morehouse to talk with. shut up, damn. all that cake to spelman and what them niggaz already got bread help that project by the school so atl don’t have to be breaking in to students/faculty cars. hell with a record, hello
deez cats pitiful
There are too many of us reinforcing old and tired stereotypes. What’s wrong with being able to speak standard English in the right situation (interviews, etc)and “Black english” when it’s the right thing?
If it’s going to help some people, go ahead Mr. Cosby.
Look, I’m all for constructive criticism, but pretending as if the ‘plight of black people’ is self-inflicted is what I won’t stand for.
Sure, we have to fix our own communities, but that also includes fighting to make the system work in our favor as well.
Bill Cosby and his white brothers and sisters will do anything and everything in their power to convince black people that racism is a figment of the negro imagination.
So, are blacks to blame for the racist justic system too?
How ’bout the fact that black people are prosecuted under the so-called drug laws a hundred times worst than whites?
Are blacks to blame for the death of his son as well?
Bill Cosby has some valid points. It is a shame when the dominant black culture choses to value being cool and ignorant over higher standards and higher education.
How many of you all know someone under the age of 30 with at least 3 kids, 3 baby daddies or 3 baby mamas with no college degree! Bet those 3 kids can sing every song that comes on BET and do every dance but can not read, add, divide or multiple! How many of you all have seen the little girls with perms or weaved in hair and the little boys with earrings in their ears and jordans on their feet? But the kid can’t spell their own first names or know their telephone numbers!
JUST LISTEN TO ALL OF YOU DUMB BLACK PEOPLE! STILL DON’T GET THE POINT! YOU WON’T EVER LEARN BECAUSE YOU ARE TO IGNORANT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT! BLACK PEOPLE FACE IT OBAMA IS NOT WINNING NONE OF YOU EVER WILL! DUMB CUNTS!
@Nah Nah
Bill is saying the black Community needs to stop expecting the white community for help and address our issues within our own community.
So all the blacks who know the justice system is crooked can stop being persecuted by:
staying legal and becoming lawyers, then judges to work within that sytem to change things!!!!!!!
Black people know welfare is designed as a trap but so many young people go out and have babies they can not afford!
Black people know that rappers get rich and move out the hood but they still keep buying the cd’s of folks who call them B’s and N’s!
Black people know that obesity is a killer but they are still eating at Popeyes and claiming Thick Missus are the best!
everyone all ready knows Bill Cosby’s stance on the issue I take a quote from Kanye Bill Cosby “does not like Black People”
he likes astute African American’s
I DON’T LIKE YOU DUMB FUCKERS EITHER! YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL! NOW LOL THAT!
Is that a cataract in his right eye
“JUST LISTEN TO ALL OF YOU DUMB BLACK PEOPLE! STILL DON’T GET THE POINT! YOU WON’T EVER LEARN BECAUSE YOU ARE TO IGNORANT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT! BLACK PEOPLE FACE IT OBAMA IS NOT WINNING NONE OF YOU EVER WILL! DUMB CUNTS!”
LOL….IT’S TOO IGNORANT!…..LEARN HOW TO SPELL…YOU HAVE JUST BEEN CORRECTED BY A BLACK WOMAN!
@CHERON SEE HOW MUCH OF A DUMB NIGGER YOU REALLY ARE YOU RESPONDED TO ME! FUCKING LOOSER
Golden Shoes:
Are you saying that black people should just not fight the racist criminal system, and just solve the issue by not committing crimes?
Anyway, I have listened to Bill Cosby, and he is indeed dismissing the power of racism – which is a direct cause of the “black plight”…
Now, my thing we have a lot of problems in our communities, so we need to do something about it. True, we can’t expect others to fix our problems, because we have the power to fix them ourselves…
But how do we work on the better if we refuse to acknowledge our enemies?
The fact is, no matter where you go in the world, regardless who the occupants are, every poverty stricken environment will be plagued with people who suffer from from a lack of education, broken familial structure, self-hatred, crime, and a bunch of other social ills. So, that’s the nature of the best…
Yes, some of our issues are self-inflicted, but hose have their root causes as well…In other words, until we will continue to suffer until we dare tackle the root cause of it all…
* So, that’s the nature of the beast
Ahh, a bunch of mispeleld wors and typos…
Have to go back to work!
I just finished reading his latest book and it just blew me away. I think that he discusses a lot of things that we as a people are just not ready to hear but need to hear. The reason he is coming down hard on us is that he wants to see us do better because he knows we can. I think he realizes that hip-hop is a big part of our community and a lot of kids today are being raised on hip-hop. He is not a stupid man. He’s doing this so that the young people will listen. I think instead of criticizing and jumping to conclusions we need to take a minute and hear what he has to say. I have never been offended by anything he has said because it doesn’t pertain to me. Everyone should ask himself or herself why am I getting upset?
what is the name of his latest book?
I think a lot of criticism is misguided. What does language have to do with discrimination. Discrimination is wrong period. He somewhat justifies racism in most of his critique of white America.
However he is correct in putting up a mirror to black America I’m afraid he may be too removed from the culture to produce a reflection that doesn’t have a strong glare.
Bill is a self righteous, adulterous, illegimate child fathering, gum flapping, out of touch, old ass fool.
Rich Pryor: Do people laugh at your jokes when you tell ‘em?
Eddie Murphy: Yeah.
Rich Pryor: Do they mind you cussing?
Eddie Murphy: No
Rich Pryor: Then tell Bill to have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.
Looks like like Glaucoma to me
At least someone is doing something positive…
ain’t nothing positive about a brotha that’s lost a son and nobodies been prosecuted especially with all the bread he gives. he’s got a def ear from my city neva seen a cosby sho that brought the hood into the brooklyn brown stone, he lost his way
Rich Pryor, the best. martin, redfox, paul mooney, dave chapplle, cris rock yall can stand up, the rest sit the f down. start another career
Bill is a KOON word up man
much love for mr.cosby and for everything he is doing and trying to do for our people. we need more brothers like him. he has real love for us. unlike many of our people who only degrade our there on kind. he has a video he made back in the day called “lost, stolen or strayed”.
how is bill cosby a koon? what has he done negative for his people. i bet your one of those brothers boasting that bill “master” clinton is the first black president. I bet you also listen to hip hop artist that sounds like they were produced by the klan. your lost bro!
Who gets to rule on what’s authentically black, anyway? Jesse Jackson? Bill Cosby? Skip Gates? Sean Combs? Middle-class professionals or pugnacious street punks? We’ve been fretting about deracination for a very long time. It’s a curious thing that being a black American obliges you to show your racial bona fides with every step forward. Why? Why does a Barack Obama have to respond to our anxieties about authentic negritude? What exactly is our claim on him? He has no bloodline to black America, neither on his mother’s nor his father’s side. How did he get to be “ours” to fret with our nervous itch about blackness? I’m starting to think only the anxiety is authentic. Everything else about negritude is a social fiction thrown together in a hurry, meant to forgive character failings that would embarrass us if blackness itself hadn’t been made embarrassing.
sit down I am so tired of this man. RETIRE for real and be quiet! I am so sick of him and why he thinks Black Folks are awful!
I am not going to let the Chinese get away with this sh*t after we have been supporting the various Take-outs in every Hood
******Boycott the Bejing Olympics********
They can’t get away with supplying the Sudans with money to continue the genocide in Dafaur
As for the Topic…he is right hate to say it cause he is always dissing us in MIXED COMPANY. Do you hear some of our youth speak these days…O my what a tragedy…Ladies we judge our men by the things they say its the same thing, everybody does it. And not being able to communicate properly means that more than likely whatever you needed or were reffering to will be dismissed.
Anyone criticizing Bill is a moron who seeks and embraces negativity.
whats wrong with his eye? eww
If this was entitled ‘Ho Sit Down’, would this thread have garned over 1000 posts?
I have no opinion on Bill Cosby. He’s right about many things. He’s wrong to lay it primarily at the feet of black women alone. He’s absolutely right on the current state of the black church.
Dayummm…this also should be under the “HO SIT UR AZZ DOWN, WERE ARE TIRED OF YOUR TIRED AZZ, SIT DOWN FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL” Subtitles….I am so tired of his ol’ crust brown Jello Do-do azz! STFU BILL!
after watching soulja boys video ‘yaaah bitch yaaah’ i must say that we need heathcliff to make this album ASAP
The name of his most resent book is Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors. That’s for who ever asked for the title. I think that those who are dissing him and referring to him in a derogatory manner are just ignorant; I’m sorry but for real. How is he a Koon? Do you even know the meaning of a Koon? Hmm I guess you’re one of those mentioned in his book. His show the Cosby show was to show that black people could be powerful. He wanted our generation to aspire to be doctors, lawyers, teachers etc. It was a slap in the faces of those who only saw us as thugs or whores on the street. He didn’t want us to settle and not aspire for greatness. So many of our people make crazy excuses for why they don’t have nothing, I’m not working for MacDonald’s, the white man hates me, those immigrants are stealing our jobs. I’m not saying that those things don’t happen and he’s not saying that either. He’s trying to get us to fight. Get our foot in the door so that we cannot be denied. If you work at MacDonald’s, work hard and aspire for manager. No one expects it to be permanent, but at least you will have money in your pocket.Work at Micky D’s during the day and go to school at night and get your degree, save that money and buy a house. Immigrants take the jobs because they are hungry. They will shine your floor with a toothbrush if it means they can take care of their kids. We are born in America and don’t take advantage of the opportunities. I am an African American woman, so I know about racism but I also know how to get the job done, I don’t let other people’s prejudices affect how I live. I refuse to fit into people’s stereotypes of my race .All those who are so disrespectful of Bill need to take a good look in the mirror and really see who the sellouts are. It’s ok not to agree with him but some of the things you guys have said are just so wrong and disrespectful. As a people we have come along way and not in a good way. We are the sellouts because we refuse to rise and we have the nerve to spit in the faces of those who want to see us do better.
Ya’ll know Bill mis right. Blacks need to do better if we are to hope that are kids are to do better. Remember, the article before this speaks about some chick who went to africa and left 5 kids alone with no formula or food for the several babies she had at her house. In fact, two of them were there from some brother who was trying to get his work on! And the police arrested her when she returned from the motherland. So is Bill wrong with his critique of blacks? I think not.
Niggas is illing and think it’s OK. SMH
Bill is so confused and out of touch. He wants to talk about ebonics when that was a key part of Fat Albert.
F*ck that ni**a
We also forget that Bill is a rapist.
HE should go back to selling Jell-O-Pudding…
Bill is right.
“Niggaism” is at an all time high. Blacks fuck over Blacks more than any other group of people could ever dream of fucking over in the present day.
Hell.. here in Atlanta every day Black people are having their homes invaded, doors kicked straight the fuck in, tied up and shit. “Niggas” have gotten bold as fuck down here. They don’t give a damn! Within the city.. outside, they’ll get your ass. They don’t give a shit about their fellow Black people.
So I say FUCK EM! I’m tired if trying to pull their asses up! My compassion has all dried up. Stop makin’ excuses NIGGAS and get with the program!! We “Black” people have progress to make!!!!
I’M GLAD TO SEE HE IS AT LEAST DOING SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS THAT WE ALL FACE.
Bill oh Bill…
Bill makes some very good points……….
SCREW BILL THINGING HE IS THE FATHER OF THE YEAR. THAT WHY HIS DAUGHTER WAS OUT IN THE STREETS SELLING HER ASS FOR COCAINE
Ignorance is bliss.
This man is a JOKE!!
All of a sudden he is the moral compass for Black America?!? Fuck up outta here. How about he stops cheating on his wife and having children out of wedlock before he points his damn finger at someone!!
What exactly does he mean by BLACK ENGLISH?
LMAO@BKCHICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill Cosby is right. Change starts at home. He may be an imperfect role model, but he is absolutley right.
He’s not doing this for ratings. He’s become less popular but has said he will keep keeping on anyway.
At least he will leave behind some food for thought and change. Which is more than I can say for most elders these days.
@SAME OL SHIT:
No bitch we dont give a damn what he says.. thats the point you lame ass loser. CHERON corrected your grammar why you were calling us dumb.. whos the dummy now??