re: 'The Cosby Show' Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dead At 54

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Correct me if I’m wrong. But aren’t black people’s bodies naturally more dense thus making them less buoyant? I’ve always heard this is why swimming and treading water is more difficult for them.

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And like the Cosby's, the Banks' were upper middle-class

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It was the damnedest thing I ever saw.

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Lotsa folks have jumped off ships at sea to effect this end.

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Jammin on the one”

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In his book Mo’ Meta Blues, Questlove declares Season 2, Episode 18 of The Cosby Show “the single most influential moment in the history of hip-hop.” The premise of the episode, “A Touch of Wonder,” is as improbable as its outsize influence. Denise and Theo get into a fender-bender with another car that just happens to be Stevie Wonder’s limo, and instead of going through the usual formalities of exchanging insurance information, Wonder decides to smooth things over by inviting them into the studio.

Questlove explains:

It was the first time that 99 percent of us who went on to be hip-hop producers saw what a sampler was. Go look at the episode, you can find it on YouTube or Netflix. At one point Theo says “jammin’ on the one,” and before you knew it, Stevie Wonder had sampled it and inserted it into a song. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this episode was the incident that truly sucked me into hip-hop production. It was the first time I saw anything like that, and I’ve surveyed the rest. It was the first time J Dilla saw a sampler. It was the first time Just Blaze saw a sampler. There wasn’t a sense yet that it was truly revolutionary, in the critical sense, that it would explode old ideas of structure, sign, and play. At that point, it was just something cool on a sitcom, and in response to it, in awe of it, an entire generation of talented, ambitious black kids leaned forward in their chairs to the point of falling out..

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