OT: RIP Coolio
Yes, THAT Coolio.
I didn't realize he was 59 already.
https://variety.com/2022/music/news/coolio-dead-dies-gangstas-paradise-rapper-1235387456/
I know it's No-OT season. I get it. Roast me if you must.
September 28th, 2022 at 9:46 PM ^
Damn, too soon. RIP Gangsta.
September 28th, 2022 at 11:03 PM ^
“I’m 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is going, I don’t know.”
September 29th, 2022 at 11:54 AM ^
Life is outta luck, fool
September 28th, 2022 at 9:47 PM ^
Maybe not OT?
RIP either way. Thanks for the Fantastic Voyage.
September 28th, 2022 at 10:24 PM ^
Damn, he was repping UM back in his day. I've never seen that photo before, coolio. I've always liked his hits, never heard much of the rest. RIP
September 28th, 2022 at 10:46 PM ^
Its a screenshot from his music video for "1,2,3,4"
September 29th, 2022 at 1:52 PM ^
Gotta, gotta. gotta get up to get down. Gotta get up to get down...
September 29th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
Is that a Desmond jersey behind him? I've noticed the #18 before, but the #21 is new to me.
September 29th, 2022 at 11:24 AM ^
Yep. He also had a Michigan skull cap on too. Michigan gear was real popular on the west coast during the 90's. Unfortunately to this day you have to tread carefully because a notorious Crip set also rocks Michigan gear too. A good friend of almost found out the hard way.
September 29th, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
Oh shit, you were on the original post about Coolio wearing Michigan gear!
September 28th, 2022 at 9:56 PM ^
RIP, Coolio.
September 28th, 2022 at 9:57 PM ^
Damn, RIP. I really enjoyed his cover of the Weird Al song.
September 28th, 2022 at 10:01 PM ^
"...I churn butter once or twice livin' in an Amish Paradise."
September 29th, 2022 at 5:19 AM ^
Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter.
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another!
September 29th, 2022 at 8:58 AM ^
Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
September 29th, 2022 at 10:53 AM ^
"Don't be vain and don't by whiny / or else, brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie"
September 28th, 2022 at 10:06 PM ^
So underrated:
September 29th, 2022 at 8:12 AM ^
That was 1995, My Name Is didn't come out until 1999.
That was a silly, bright, fun, video right when Big and Pac were at their height and before the late 90s were EVERYTHING turned into a video that looks like that or a song that sounded like that.
I never liked the song, but I respect the hell out of it being ahead of its time.
Even Missy, a pioneer...she didn't release Sock It 2 Me until 1997.
September 28th, 2022 at 10:06 PM ^
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize theres not much left
Cuz I've been laughing and crying for so long that( Edit: it's blasting and laughing for so long. Apologies to the deceased)
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
RIP
September 28th, 2022 at 10:07 PM ^
I still throw on fantastic voyage once every couple of months when I need a pick em up. This is a shame, RIP
September 29th, 2022 at 12:14 PM ^
Thanks for mentioning that song, I watched the "Fantastic Voyage" several times last night upon reading of Coolio's death, one of my favorite videos from those days.
September 28th, 2022 at 10:09 PM ^
Taking that final fantastic voyage. Rip, Coolio.
September 28th, 2022 at 10:19 PM ^
1, 2, 3, 4...
September 28th, 2022 at 10:21 PM ^
Here is a throwback thread about Coolio and the Toomer jersey. Which was also my first UM football jersey.
Coolio = Amani Toomer | mgoblog
September 29th, 2022 at 11:28 AM ^
Are any of those posters still on MGOBLOG? Jethro34 & UMfan21 look familiar.
September 29th, 2022 at 12:24 PM ^
Yes, besides the two of them, 'jmblue' and 'Louie C,' both frequently post and 'Yostal' has made a few posts in 2022. But all the others in that thread have been absent for anywhere from 4 to 10 years.
Some long-forgotten usernames/userpics there for sure!
September 28th, 2022 at 10:34 PM ^
Enjoy Paradise,Gangsta
Best hair in rap
September 28th, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^
Wow. I didn't realize he was that old either. Definitely one of the faces of 90s pop rap music.
Hopefully he's just in paradise now sans the gangster (unless he wants to be)
September 28th, 2022 at 11:35 PM ^
Damn, RIP indeed. I guess he never recovered from Hot Ones.
September 29th, 2022 at 12:00 AM ^
Rip Leon
September 29th, 2022 at 12:20 AM ^
Hope you finally got a piece of that apple pie. Thanks for those middle school memories!
September 29th, 2022 at 12:20 AM ^
He's also an expert on light rail, at least according to the Canberra Times:
“It's a very inexpensive form of transportation and very easy to get around, so yes, it's dope.”
But Coolio, a man with diverse credits including the creation of the Ghetto Gourmet cuisine, didn't stop there.
The dreadlocked rapper had some advice for Yarralumla residents worried their leafy suburb will be transformed into a “ghetto of crime and god knows what else” by the residential development of the former Canberra Brickworks.
“Don't worry about that because if you are it's probably already a ghetto,” he said.
“If you growing and coming up in the hood find a way to make it better or find a way to get out Shaka Zulu!!”
Read the rest: here
September 29th, 2022 at 4:24 AM ^
Him getting DQ’d on Chopped for a time violation was BS.
September 29th, 2022 at 7:04 AM ^
“All I had for dinner was a can of corn”
Deep track
September 29th, 2022 at 8:01 AM ^
Awww Here it Goes….
RIP
September 29th, 2022 at 8:08 AM ^
Did well considering he didn't know if he'd live to see twenty four. The way things is goin I dunno.
RIP
September 29th, 2022 at 8:18 AM ^
Got to see him perform (among many others) NYE in Miami after Michigan lost to FSU in 2016. The show lifted my spirits. He wore a hat with 2 of his signature braids coming out of the top. When he took off the hat he was Jordan-level bald except for those two braids.
September 29th, 2022 at 8:20 AM ^
My fondest memory of Coolio is his cameo (and the rap that proceeds it) in Leprechaun in the Hood. RIP
September 29th, 2022 at 9:01 AM ^
Man, way too soon. Dude was really reppin' M in that video. Sweet! RIP.
September 29th, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
R.I.P. My brother...
September 29th, 2022 at 5:08 PM ^
In the “greatest rap album of all time” thread from about two months ago, Coolio was rather well represented. We’ll miss him.