Bill Cosby To Present Hip-Hop Album
Posted by Michael Melchor on 10.20.2009
Trading in pudding pops for microphones?
Bill Cosby has enlisted guest artists and community activists such as Jace the Great, Brother Hahz and Supa Nova Slom for Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency, a socially conscious hip-hop CD that focuses on the critical issues affecting young people. Frustration, incarceration and respect for females are among the tracks' themes.
The project launched in the form of a "virtual town hall" hosted by Cosby (which can be seen on his Facebook page) on October 19. Sevedral songs are available at digital retailers starting today (October 20); the album's physical and digital release is November 24.
Emergency is the aural companion to "Come On People," the 2007 book co-authored by Cosby and Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint. The album, which Cosby himself does not perform or rap on, is produced by Cosby's longtime musical colleague William "Spaceman" Patterson.
