bigted Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Bill Cosby Won't Let Rapper Call Himself Fat Al Tuesday November 14, 2006 @ 07:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Al Fatz Bill Cosby reached an out of court settlement with a Canadian woman last week over a lawsuit where she alleged that the entertainer drugged and sexually assaulted her, but there was no settling with teenage rapper Fat Al. Cosby's legal team claimed that the artist's name was too close to Fat Albert, the cartoon character created by the man who played Cliff Huxtable on one of the most popular television shows of the '80s, and wouldn't let him use it. "I guess he doesn't like rappers," the young man born Aljaray Gaston told Reuters. "I'm just trying to come up and Bill Cosby was hating. I know one thing, I won't be buying any more Jell-O pudding." Gaston and Atlantic Records have decided to go with the performing name Al Fatz for his label debut that he's currently working on. Akon and Lil Wayne are contributing to the project. The 19-year-old hip-hopper from Cleveland, Ohio also has a song on the Madden 2007 video game soundtrack and is recording the theme for Electronic Arts' NBA Street Homecourt game. He's also recording a song for a Sprite advertising campaign featuring basketball star LeBron James. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerkot Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Silly old man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparrott Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 I know one thing, I won't be buying any more Jell-O pudding." Yea, BC doesn't want anything to do with rappers today. Except maybe Will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 So many rappers have these stupid uncreative names these days. On top of that, they all suck. So why would u want something u created being jacked by some fool. I side with Bill Cosby on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted November 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Well Bill Cosby is strong black man with a lot of integrity, I don't blame him for not wanting a rapper that raps about degrading things to have that name, I like his comment recently criticising BET, that channel's garbage most of the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakalicous Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Off course you do AJ.. JumpinJack is very a creative name by the way.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Brakes Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Off course you do AJ.. JumpinJack is very a creative name by the way.. Touché :switch: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipa Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 (edited) Bill Cosby didn't "Create" The name BIG AL...HE had Fat Albert, Yea, but he doesn't own the name "BIG AL" Because of that....I mean, that's like the guys who made Good Times suing Jay Z because his name sounds too much like JJ's....lol Edited November 22, 2006 by Vipa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparrott Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Bill Cosby didn't "Create" The name BIG AL...HE had Fat Albert, Yea, but he doesn't own the name "BIG AL" Because of that....I mean, that's like the guys who made Good Times suing Jay Z because his name sounds too much like JJ's....lol It's not Big Al, it's Fat Al. Big Al is from South Park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turntable Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Now that looks like one pissed dude.. Al Fatz huh? Sometimes tell's me that we wont hear much from him,lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipa Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 My mistake...But still, his name is Aljaray, everyone probably called him Al...Sounds to me like a play off names like "Fat Joe"...and stuff...But whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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