Bill Cosby defents criticism of Hip Hop...music industry "glorifies the wrong things..."

I'm amazed that a comedian who understood the value of irony and timing as well as anyone in his generation is this tone-deaf about how music and lyrics work.

Bullshit. The "irony" argument may have been passable with "Cop Killer" 15 years ago -- it isn't now.

plz explain how cop killer is ironic but kanye sampling daft punk & lil wayne rapping about man-purses is hurting the community

who the fuck thought cop killer was ironic

doh xp

we simply must not allow young black men to continue to crank dat soulja boy - lets take it back to the carefree, ironic days of 'aint no fun' and 'black korea'

we simply must not allow young black men to continue to crank dat soulja boy - lets take it back to the carefree, ironic days of 'aint no fun' and 'black korea'

lol

yeah like no one complained about those songs.

(I mean come on Ice Cube took a LOT of shit in the press for Black Korea, Doggystyle was specifically brought up for criticism in the House of Reps, etc.)

also Cop Killer is excusable not because its ironic but because its good storytelling and hey, you know, fuck cops.

jokes, bruv?

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I like the part where he complains about giggling on buses. Bill Cosby hates the laughter of children! times done changed.

I have a friend. Her name is Jessica Pope, and she spoke at a—or two or three of the callouts. She’s a graduate of Swathmore. She’s African-American. She’s from Memphis, Tennessee. And she spoke to the people and she said, “I want you to think of your children like you think of, of a genie in the lamp.” In that we all know the story of the genie in the lamp. There’s a genie, and she also equates genie with genius, genie/genius. So in order to have the genie come out of the lamp and grant you your three wishes, you rub the lamp. You rub it, the genie comes out and grants you three wishes. She then says, “Think of your child that way. Rub your child. Stroke you child like this magical lamp. The genie/genius will come out.” And then I add to it, and the other two wishes you can put in your hip pocket and save for a rainy day.

It’s cursing and it’s calling each other niggers as they walk up and down the street. They think they’re hip. They can’t read; they can’t write. Fifty percent of them. They, they, they take it into the candy store. They, they put it—they put themselves on the train and on the buses, and they don’t even care what color or what age somebody else is. It’s about them and their cursing and grabbing each other and laughing and giggling and going nowhere.

I thought there was a bungled 50 Cent reference in this but then I realized it's a quote from 2004.

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ya see Theo, YA SEE

haha every time I read one of these quotes I imagine it in the voice of Bathtub Cosby.

lol @ "they take it into the candy store"

Shakey Mo did you get a sarcasm immunity shot or something?

http://www.internerd.com/frinky/images/screenshots/sarcasmdet.jpg

I just don't get how pointing out that hip-hop's basically always had violent/mysognistic elements in it somehow invalidates Cosby's critique.

http://www.heffadesign.com/COVERS/Single_Promo/images/50Cent%20-%20Candy%20Shop.jpg

I mean we all know what musical era Cosby would like to dial back to (civil rights era/bebop)

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Kinda with Shakey here: I don't really understand the LOLs/shocka aspect of Cosby being among millions of older Civil Rights-era black Americans who are annoyed by how what's considered "black culture" looks these days -- he's not even that batty in how he talks about it. (Batty, sure, but not that batty.)

What do you expect, nabisco? This is ILM we're talking about; pretty much any time Bill Cosby gets brought up, it's in the context of young white guys getting defensive about listening to black people call each other "nigger".

who's getting defensive?

Up until just now, not you.

Whatever. I just think one can find rappers lacking as role models and still find Cosby's rants incredibly batty, crotchety, what have you.

I'm kinda curious about this loaded statement: They, they put it—they put themselves on the train and on the buses, and they don’t even care what color or what age somebody else is. Why does the race of your fellow bus patron matter?

who the fuck thought cop killer was ironic

The writers for Law & Order: SVU?

Two strands here. I think Ethan was responding to this:

Bullshit. The "irony" argument may have been passable with "Cop Killer" 15 years ago -- it isn't now.

...and he was right: what "'irony' argument"? There isn't & wasn't one, as far as I know; there was and remains a personified narrator trope, in which I believe, that can be advanced to explain a song like "Cop Killer," I think persuasively.

The other strand is white men on ilm explaining each other how neither "nigger" nor "bitch" are at all degrading when the musicians they like use them, and that strand I won't be touching with a ten-foot pole.

can we name names on this latter strand?

bebop is pretty rad

^^^this

haha Dan you wanna field that one?

I just don't get how pointing out that hip-hop's basically always had violent/mysognistic elements in it somehow invalidates Cosby's critique.

Also, he's old.

The other strand is white men on ilm explaining each other how neither "nigger" nor "bitch" are at all degrading when the musicians they like use them

Prof. Isiah Thomas of NYU says that the word "bitch" is Negro for something much less offensive than the white man thinks.

What do you expect, nabisco? This is ILM we're talking about; pretty much any time Bill Cosby gets brought up, it's in the context of young white guys getting defensive about listening to black people call each other "nigger".

-- HI DERE, Monday, October 15, 2007 8:07 PM

i'm just gonna let that sit there.

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i don't get it what you mean hoos.

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why does black people never want to goth?

haah while looking for thanksbighoos.jpg i found this:

I think black people would either be more or perhaps less likely to kick a drunk woman out of a hotel for calling a gay coworker a fag. Does ILX have an opinion on this?

-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:05 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

It's the question that needs to be answered.

"Y'see Theo, when you call my gay co-worker a fag, y'see..." etc etc etc etc

I think I'm going to sit this one out.

should bill cosby kick jay blanchard out of a hotel for calling ronaldinho a fag?

Depends how much he tipped.

"The most important reason for the decline of musical miscegenation, however, is social progress. Black musicians are now as visible and as influential as white ones."
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/10/22/071022crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=1
dear cos, everything is fine. yours, sfj