Jay's reference to Bill Cosby's son on the Dynasty intro

[Buckeye Fever]

Do my feathers like my favorite chips, Nas & Fabolous get to the root of the shyt. Plant you in the ground, beef wit me, get smashed into a patty, I fukked twins in durham

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I'm bravin temperatures below zero
no hero, no father figure
you gotta pardon a nikka
but I'm starvin my nikkaz
and the weight loss in my figure
startin to darken my heart
bout to get to my liver



Hova the gawd

Nas better tho

 

[DaveyDave]

Jay is simple enough and now he has to spell shyt out for you guys? if you knew anything about Bill Cosby in the slightest you would have picked up the references by yourself

 

[deeznuts]

 

[Wacky D]

i always thought it was more to ennis' death.

must have him mixed up with another celebrity son.

 

[DaveyDave]

i always thought it was more to ennis' death.

must have him mixed up with another celebrity son.

Ennis William Cosby (April 15, 1969 – January 16, 1997) is the deceased son of American comedian-actor Bill Cosby. Cosby, a graduate student and aspiring teacher, was fatally shot by the perpetrator of an attempted robbery in Los Angeles in 1997.

looks like it, this is off Wiki

 

[Wacky D]

Ennis William Cosby (April 15, 1969 – January 16, 1997) is the deceased son of American comedian-actor Bill Cosby. Cosby, a graduate student and aspiring teacher, was fatally shot by the perpetrator of an attempted robbery in Los Angeles in 1997.

looks like it, this is off Wiki

i dont know why i thought he had a drug problem. i thought that shooting was a hit. i must have him confused with somebody else.

this is why i always gave bill the when he goes on his rants. now i feel guilty. thats messed up.

 

[OG Talk]

Nothing is more hilarious to me than Jay-Z fans needing blatantly obvious things to be "decoded" and "looked deeper into"

Dumbest fan base in rap..

 

[Frida Giezman]

Well shyt im slow because I ain't know that was about ennis cosby

Who the fukk remembers ennis cosbys death like that

I used to always be like who the fukk is ennis lol

Doesn't Jay mention him in another song too?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Been saying it. Jay is probably top 5 lyricist I ever heard when he cares to get in depth.

Prob is he doesnt care. Wasted the last decade going corporate. It's depressing

 

[NV-ME]

 

[Blackking]

How the fukk would you not know this was an Ennis Cosby reference?

"Knowing I can go, just switching a spare
On the highway of life, nikka it's sharp in my sight"

Those words gave away the reference right away.

Jay z spits the most obvious shyt and stans act like it's profound.

I mean I got the line back then...


but let's not act like this and other lines and other verses on multiple albums aren't str8 up.......

fukking amazing.

and this is coming from a nas stan. .. who spent years hating on da camel

 

[The_Hillsta]

Ennis William Cosby (April 15, 1969 – January 16, 1997) is the deceased son of American comedian-actor Bill Cosby. Cosby, a graduate student and aspiring teacher, was fatally shot by the perpetrator of an attempted robbery in Los Angeles in 1997.

looks like it, this is off Wiki

That Jay verse was dope but, this shyt was all over the news in Cali....Everybody n they mama was talkin about it. They even interviewed Bill Cosby right after they caught the muthafukka. So I guess if cats too young or don't know about Bill Cosby fools might have not even knew what Jay was talkin bout.

First cat I heard mention Ennis death was Khujo from the Goodie Mob on Just About Over...98'

"Its sad how you killed my son on the 405, changing his flat tire, suspect's a whit male, lead, possible robbery....."

And to the cats reading naw, I ain't comparing muthafukkin Khujo to Jay-Z in terms of lyrical superiority just speakin on the Ennis reference.

 

[Danie84]

Forgive me fellow Nas stans, every once in a blue Lord Camel double entendres gets me

 

[mobbinfms]

So are we acting like "Ennis" not "Ennis Cosby" or "Bill Cosby's son" - but just "Ennis" was a household name 3 years after he was killed?