(From Los Angeles Extreme - Force Groove Vol. 1 compilation EP; 1988)
A post title for the Britz there. Pour out a little orange soda for Coolio who me and the lads celebrated and considered earlier this year. Coolio was a charismatic personality when he first appeared at the arse-end of L.A's Electro era on tracks like Nu Skool's I Wanna Know What Makes You Dance, and he lived long enough to see Fantastic Voyage used in a British TV advert for Air BNBs. That's the thing about Coolio - he was a true multimedia star in Britain who was embraced by everyone from the streetz to the studentz. Someone get Elton John on the phone and get him to redo Candle In The Wind for Mr. Too Hot himself.
(From It Takes A Thief album; 1994)
Top 10 California Livin' single of all time no IMHO necessary.
Her outliving Coolio is a cruel twist of fate.
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The G.O.A.T Yank contestant on Celebrity Big Brother 4 real.
ReplyDeleteDid not know he went back further than Maad Circle. R.I.P.
ReplyDeleteThe time Coolio turnt Celtic Park into Gangsta's Paradise:
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(Why won't my own damned comment section let me hyperlink a video?)
Memories of a bunch of 10 year olds rapping 'gangstas paradise' word for word at primary school
ReplyDeleteAnd his guest spot on 'Soul on Ice' was a favourite of me and the homiez back in secondary school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPmKWvvdP8
Seems like he was a great bloke too
R.I.P
His Kenan & Kel theme has gotta be the 2nd greatest American TV theme song of all time after The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
ReplyDeleteI feel like a piece of my child hood is gone Fantastic Voyage is one of the first rap songs I ever liked. He also had a pretty impressive resume of posse cuts he was featured on where he held his own with some of the best of the best.
DeleteDidn't know where else to put this - came up on my YouTube recs this morning. Promo video for everyone's favourite alleged cannibal Texas MC doing a smooth sweetboy track with Roger Lynch Troutman Jr II, of all things. New to me!
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Don't have much too add that I didn't say in the other post, but as a West Coast rapper, if your first album has the majority of guitar licks and bass lines played by either Stan "The Guitar Man" Jones and Clint "Payback" Sands, then you're a certified G.
ReplyDeleteThe unadulterated emotional outpouring for Coolio has been beautiful. It seems that Fantastic Voyage, Gangsta's Paradise and the Kenan & Kel theme were very formative for a lot of people falling in love with Rap music.
ReplyDeleteN Brown, that song is new to me too and very, very funny. Can we get Lurch's lawyer to play that in court to prove that he's really a tender soul?
I met Coolio for the first time literally 10 days ago. He was playing at Riot Fest in Chicago (funny enough, Ice Cube and WC would play on the same stage a few hours later.) I caught him walking out of his trailer to leave and I had to run up like a groupie and give him his props and ask him for a pic. He seemed sad, I dunno.
ReplyDeleteGlad I at least got to show him some love IRL.
As I always say, most people who now claim they were listening to Reasonable Doubt were actually listening to Coolio.
RIP to a legend who brought a lot of joy to a lot of people.
He really did 🖤
ReplyDeleteWhen Marty Whelan thought they booked Julio rather than Coolio https://www.instagram.com/tv/CjK1aEUgXOE/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
ReplyDelete😂 RTÉ got an impressive archive of live performances.
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