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Rapper Coolio’s estate will release a studio album later this year that the Grammy-winning hitmaker was working on before his passing.
‘Long Live Coolio’ is the first posthumous album release from the ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ star, with the first single ‘TAG You It’ featuring Too $hort and DJ Wino coming out Friday.
The video for this raunchy single, which begins with Coolio and Too Short spinning various women in a boxing ring, was the last time Coolio appeared before he died of cardiac arrest on September 28, 2022 at the age of 59. video content.
Coolio performs the best solo of the 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” from the soundtrack to Michelle Pfeiffer’s movie “Dangerous Minds,” which samples Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Passtime Paradise.” Grammy award winning rap performance and was played constantly on MTV.
The rapper never again had a song as big as ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ but 1994’s ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ 1996’s ‘1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New),’ 1997’s ‘C.U. When” was a hit. you get there
According to Luminate, his career album sales totaled 4.8 million, and the on-demand streams of his songs have reached 978 million. He is nominated for six Grammy Awards overall.
He starred in a parenting reality show called ‘Coolio’s Rules,’ provided the voices for an episode of the animated show ‘Gravity Falls,’ and performed the theme music for Nickelodeon’s sitcom ‘Kenan & Kel.’
