By Mark Kennedy, AP Leisure Author
The property of rapper Coolio plans to launch a studio album that the Grammy-winning hitmaker had been engaged on within the days earlier than he died later this yr.
“Lengthy Reside Coolio” would be the first posthumous album launch from the “Gangsta’s Paradise” star and the primary single, “TAG ‘You It,’” dropped March 17 that includes Too $hort and DJ Wino.
The raunchy single’s video — that begins with Coolio and Too $hort in a boxing ring as varied ladies gyrate — marks the final piece of visible content material Coolio appeared in earlier than his demise from cardiac arrest on Sept. 28, 2022, at age 59.
Coolio gained a Grammy for greatest solo rap efficiency for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer movie “Harmful Minds” that sampled Stevie Surprise’s 1976 tune “Pastime Paradise” and was performed continually on MTV.
The rapper would by no means once more have a tune almost as huge as “Gangsta’s Paradise,” however had subsequent hits with “Implausible Voyage” in 1994, “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” in 1996 and 1997’s “C U When U Get There.”
His profession album gross sales totaled 4.8 million, with 978 million on-demand streams of his songs, in keeping with Luminate. He can be nominated for six Grammys total.
He starred in a actuality present about parenting known as “Coolio’s Guidelines,” supplied a voice for an episode of the animated present “Gravity Falls” and carried out the theme music for the Nickelodeon sitcom “Kenan & Kel.”
