Talkin' Trash, Telling Truth: Richard Pryor's Mudbone

Posted by Aldo Pusey on Monday, September 23, 2024

Over the next six months, the NPR-wide series In Character is taking a long look at fictional characters and their significance in our lives. Today commentator William Jelani Cobb talks about "Mudbone," a character created by the late Richard Pryor.

Cobb, a professor at Spelman College, is the author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic.

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