Rapper Coolio’s estate plans to release a studio album later this year, which the Grammy-winning hitmaker was working on before his death.
“Long Live Coolio” will be the first posthumous album release from the “Gangsta Paradise” star and the first single, “Tag ‘U It,” featuring Too $hort and DJ Vino, was out on Friday.
The raucous single’s video — which begins with Coolio and moves around as To $hort in a boxing ring as various women — marks the final piece of visual material, Coolio turns 59 on September 28, 2022 age appeared before his death from cardiac arrest.
Coolio won a Grammy for Best Solo Rap Performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise”, a 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds”, which sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise”, and was featured on MTV. But it was played continuously.
The rapper would never again have a song as big as “Gangsta’s Paradise”, but later followed with “Fantastic Voyage” in 1994, “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” in 1996 and “C’U When” in 1997. Got hit. You get there.”
According to Luminet, her career album sales totaled 4.8 million, with 978 million on-demand streams of her songs. He would go on to be nominated for six Grammy Awards in total.
She starred in a reality show about parenting called “Coolio’s Rules”, provided the voice for an episode of the animated show “Gravity Falls”, and performed the theme music for the Nickelodeon sitcom “Kenan & Kel”.
