A guy like Beanie Sigel is the type Bill Cosby's usually complaining about in his speeches and books, but yesterday the two teamed up for an anti-violence march in Philadelphia. And the Cos had nice things to say about Sigel, who released an album last week.

“Here is a young man from the streets who came back to the streets as a man,” Cosby said of the rapper. “This is what we want from our young boys, to go from boys to men.” Beans, who shot an anti-violence public service announcement with Philly’s Fox 29 last week, believes that, as an artist who hails from the same mean streets that are now under siege, he is uniquely suited to reach at-risk youth. “I come from these things, the streets,” Beans told the crowd outside of M. Hall Stanton School. “I’m at a time in my life where I’m trying to make the transition from something negative to something positive.”

And despite the occasional passive theft of rental cars, Beans is making that transition quite nicely.