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Yes, it's true: Bill Cosby's long-awaited hip-hop album, which drops next month and is supposedly going to serve as a corrective to the scorched-earth landscape that Cosby sees as the current commercial hip-hop world, will feature rhymes written, but not performed, by the Fat Albert creator/patterned sweater aficionado. Why? Because, he told the AP, "I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words." Can't he just channel Jeffrey? OK, that was 25 years ago, but still. More »

Yes, 2008 may see the first Cosby-related rap since Theo Huxtable and Walter "Cockroach" Bradley taught a nation of youngsters about the time when a certain Julius C. got bodied by his bros. Rumors abound in the hip-hop world this morning that Bill Cosby, rap-hater and friend of talking magic markers, is recording his first rap album, State Of Emergency, for release later this year. Naturally given Bill's take on the current state of hip-hop (moral sewer blah blah), SOE will be light on songs conducive to YouTube dance-offs and heavy on edutainment. To wit: More »

Teenaged Ohio rapper Fat Al, who counts LeBron James among his fans, has incurred the wrath of Bill Cosby because of his nom de guerre. The 19-year-old, whose real name is Aljaray Gaston, has been renamed "Al Fatz" by his record label, a move that he isn't too happy about: More »