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Started by districtweekly · 11 months ago

Paradise maintained with Coolio

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Coolio’s been on a comeback from the get-go. Even his major-label breakthrough It Takes A Thief (which won the rap Grammy in 1994) was a rebound from late ‘80s radio play on long-lamented KDAY and early ‘ ... Continue reading »

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  • Freestyle Explosion!?! It should be called the Wackest MCs that ever went Platinum!
  • What's your beef with Coolio? That he was/is actually an entertainer, rather than some scowling recalcitrant who invented a hard-ass personna and then pretended to live up to it? The guy brought both comedy and consciousness to his best work--and both are in increasingly short supply today. His personal life was very "real." His art was to use his reality as a springboard to rise above, not wallow in it to supply cheap, vicarious thrills and whore it out to get record sales.

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