How Could It Be is the debut musical studio album by comedian/actor Eddie Murphy, released in September 1985[1] on Columbia Records.

This studio album was recorded as part of fulfilling a $100,000 bet that Richard Pryor had made with Eddie Murphy that he could not sing.

[citation needed] In the album's liner notes, Eddie Murphy wrote the following "To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have a $100,000 bet.

The record has two Stevie Wonder produced and written tracks, "Do I" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses".

[2] Murphy wrote three tracks on the album in which he also gets sole writing credit for: "C-O-N Confused", a disco track, "I, Me, Us, We", a Parliament homage, and "My God Is Color Blind", an anti-racism song.