RIP Coolio

[OrangeDW]

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Geez.

 

[Fireball Jr.]

Too young for gangsta’s paradise.

 

[OrangeDW]

He had a hell of a run. One might say…a Fantastic Voyage. One of my favorite videos ever.

 

[OrangeDW]

 

[SUFaninNJ]

This was the first thing that I thought of when I saw his name.

 

[MSOrange]

 

[MSOrange]

 

[OttoMets]

Seems like everybody had good things to say about him.

And for those of us who were in middle school in the mid-'90s, he was just a huge deal.

 

[Eric15]

Former WWF wrestler Virgil with a touching and heartfelt tribute to his friend.

 

[SUforme]

As a kid who grew up in the 90's this hurts. May he rest in peace on his eternal fantastic voyage. RIP Coolio.

 

[orangefog]

Former WWF wrestler Virgil with a touching and heartfelt tribute to his friend.

I hope she got her meatsauce.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

So grab your partner do see do if you don't know who it is it's Coolio.

 

[MSOrange]

 

[HOFCeluck]

Former WWF wrestler Virgil with a touching and heartfelt tribute to his friend.

I was this close to posting this on the OT board but thought it might be a little too uh, risqué.

So, glad someone else did it!

 

[HOFCeluck]

Everyone’s gonna bring up Fantasitc Voyage or Gangstas Paradise so I just want to give love for the theme song to “Kenan n Kel.”

Ain’t no Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mystery,
It’s just Kenan and Kel in your vicinity.

 

[Eric15]

I was this close to posting this on the OT board but thought it might be a little too uh, risqué.

So, glad someone else did it!

Yeah I was kind of hoping none of the ladies on the OT board would see this.

 

[OrangeDW]

]Everyone’s gonna bring up Fantasitc Voyage or Gangstas Paradise so I just want to give love for the theme song to “Kenan n Kel.”

Ain’t no Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew mystery,
It’s just Kenan and Kel in your vicinity.

He was even part of making a good song for Space Jam with “Hit Em High.”

*that was on our warm up CD in JV hoops. Couldn’t have songs with swearing and edited versions were hard to come by(these kids have it so easy now), so finding a song we liked by legit rappers with no swearing was a big deal for us, lol.

 

[OrangeDW]

It’s interesting that Coolio’s first album came out when he was already over 30. He was older than the members of Run DMC and the Fat Boys and people from a way earlier era, and was about a decade older than most of his peers who were big in the mid 90s.

 

[PoppyHart]

It’s interesting that Coolio’s first album came out when he was already over 30. He was older than the members of Run DMC and the Fat Boys and people from a way earlier era, and was about a decade older than most of his peers who were big in the mid 90s.

I thought he was much younger than 59.

'I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?' - Gangsta's Paradise ('95)

 

[OrangeDW]

I thought he was much younger than 59.

'I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?' - Gangsta's Paradise ('95)

Right! I remember back in the day learning that he was much older and being shocked - because of that line!

He was actually like 32 when that song came out. Not sure if he wrote it years earlier, or was just writing from someone else’s perspective. Or maybe he just wanted an at the time youth obsessed industry that decided Rakim and Big Daddy Kane were “old” when they were like 25 years old, to think he was still young?

I wonder if he was ever asked about that?

 

[obliterata]

RIP

 

[OrangeDW]

RIP

Yes! That song was a monster! Huge hit and it’s probably like Coolio’s 3rd or 4th biggest?

I’ve seen some on social media who weren’t there or don’t know try to act like “Gangsta’s Paradise” was it. While 99.999999999% of musicians will never have a hit that big, he had a bunch of other ones too - and that’s just on a pop level.

And on a hip hop level, he had many others stil. This is one of his best IMO. Maybe not Ice Cube or Slick Rick level, but he was a really good storyteller IMO.

 

[OrangeDW]

Freestyling on MTV with 2Pac going nuts, lol.

 

[Toga]

Fentanyl