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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
I'm 99.9% on the eff Coolio train as well. But I gotta reserve a little sympathy. Dude had one big hit, and it rested partially on creating an image of a hard 'street' existence, and this 'dork' comes along and utterly deflates his spot.
Kind of like if some computer dorks remade a Slayer or Megadeth hit on toy ukuleles and toured playing it in tutus and pigtails or something.
Hip hop is a game that eats its young. Today's MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, is tomorrow's, . . . MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. It's not unreasonable to be touchy about having your 'legacy' parodied.
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Huh? That's like saying Tupac wasn't gangster rap or Nirvana wasn't grunge because someone totally unrelated to them did a comedic take on their song.
For the record, Coolio had more than one hit, but if he got a burr up his butt about this, then he's taking himself way too seriously.
Of course, these days he has no problem with "selling" his artistic integrity for a paycheck so he can just "move along!"
I wonder if Styx has recovered yet still after Cartman covered Come Sail Away?