RIP - Coolio
 

59yo - cardiac arrest

something something, gangsta's paradise. . . .

Dang man.

Oh well.

He now on a fantastic voyage. RIP

Not cool- RIP!

I found his CD on my paper route. Laying in the snow. It skipped on one song only despite being super scratched up. Damn Im getting old

Oh God, I hate seeing CP's passing away. Never met you but RIP.

Gettin cool, coolio

Most rappers don’t make it to his age.

Respect

Actually know this figure

I went to a Coolio concert in front of a largely Hispanic crowd in the 1990s.

Between songs, Coolio tries to convince the Latinos that they're brothers because both of them have brown skin. I thought that was funny.

brb gonna watch Keenan and Kel

I wonder if he ever forgave Weird Al for making Amish Paradise.

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riperroni

Not to hijack the thread, but Weird Al actually gets permission from all the artists for his parodies although he doesn’t legally need to.

oh shit.

young

RIP

RIP Old Person I've never heard of.

Amish Paradise was a bit different though. There was some miscommunication in a game of telephone, and Coolio was a bit cranky about it for a while. He eventually got over it though.

Crazy any time I see someone die I immediately wonder if it was fentanyl related

RIP Coolio

They said no drugs were found. I'd imagine years of cocaine usage probably contributed to his ending sadly

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Man. <a href="https://twitter.com/Coolio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Coolio</a> my brother. We hit it all across the land man. I’m broken about this. Here is some blonde beggin us both for some Meatsauce. RIP my bro. <a href="https://t.co/8DqczqeQAT">pic.twitter.com/8DqczqeQAT</a></p>&mdash; Virgil (@TheRealVirgil) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealVirgil/status/1575291603299753984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I’m starting to outlive guys who don’t die tragically and unexpectedly young. Go me.

Nice call.

He was like 127 in Rapper years.

:eek:

:evil:

Honestly Weird Al is more popular than a lot of artists he made songs from. I say this because he's been around a long time and even had a TV show.

Glad he got past it, Amish paradise is my favorite Weird Al song.

RIP Coolio, he was pretty prolific in the 90’s. His songs were everywhere.

Rip guy I've never heard of

And a Movie! Seriously.... with as long as he's been around doing his thing, why isn't he getting discussion to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

I'm still not sure why he got so pissed off about Weird Al ripping off his song when he stole it from Stevie Wonder in the first place.
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Dang, I was just on the verge of getting over the loss of Nipsey Hussle

Huge difference between parody of a song and sampling

That was one of the very first albums I ever owned. It was in my first order of records from Columbia House, 13 records for .01 :thumb:

Interestingly, parody without permission is legal. Sampling is not. I've always thought that was odd.

Can't spell CRAP w/o RAP, amirite? HA HA HA

/high five

And this is why I don’t go to rap concerts.

Snoop gonna outlive them all.

He's gonna be the Betty White of Rap.

Lol he just turned 50. Young.

LMAO @ Ted DiBiases sidekick

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Coolio&#39;s cause of death has been revealed, and it&#39;s one that continues to plague not only the entertainment industry, but the country as a whole ... fentanyl. <a href="https://t.co/vzW0ke1UlJ">https://t.co/vzW0ke1UlJ</a></p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1644057102996983822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Would never have happened if he had spent most of his life living in an Amish paradise.

:hmmm:

****ing fentanyl killed more people than covid

Just had a homie OD on Fentanyl. Attended his funeral two weeks ago. Laced his blunt with it. Died halfway through the blunt.

He'd always been a dude who liked rolling up Primos. I'm not sure if the Fentanyl was placed on purpose or not though. But Fentanyl is often used as a drug enhancer. So im leaning towards he put there himself, as with most of these people.

Most people don't even know they are taking fentanyl. It is put into everything. Between fentanyl and tranq it is going to get even worse.

Meh. That's what they say in the media at least.

I don't know that i really believe that.

He probably crushed up what he thought was a legit pill to put in there.

Too bad for him that the weed wasn't enough though. Hope he didn't have any kids.

But ****, that don't even matter anymore. Mother****ers even have put it in weed. Growing your own is the only way to go.

Nah, I know a guy just back from rehab from opioids. We discussed that very thing. They don't know, and they don't really care. Guy pretty much killed his father with it and still almost killed himself down the road on it.

Yeah idk. Primos have been common place in the gang since long before i ever started kickin' it with them. I don't smoke that shit. Too hardcore for me.

I didn't kick it with him TOO often. Homie was ROUGH. His whole family, really. The type of people who's idea of a good time is to get drunk and fight each other. Laugh about it and then fight again.

It's possible the coke was laced. But, it's also just as possible he knowingly laced it with fentanyl himself.

This is why I don't go to fentanyl concerts.

Damn I loved Coolio!

Underrated post

This is why I don't have hair that looks like squid ink pasta

Lol ok!

I've always heard of primo but I didn't think it was possible to actually smoke coke. If you are doing that why wouldn't you just smoke crack?

Coolio - Dead
Cornholio - Alive

Coolio was the shit back in the day.

For those who don't know.
This is a lethal dose of fentanyl. Now you tell me how any street drug maker/mixer is going to be sure (or even care) that a non-lethal dose will be mixed with the cut powder and actual cocaine that a user receives.
plus, most of the street fentanyl is made in a sketchy lab so it's even more unpredictable than Pharma grade.

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Yep.

People are cutting everything from heroin to cocaine with fentanyl and it's just evil. People anymore have no idea what they are getting on the street. It's sad.

Freebasing cocaine and smoking crack are two different things. Yes, you can smoke cocaine, although I never thought it was particularly fun.

He's right. It's true.

Lots of people are lacing with fentanyl and not telling anybody they did it. I have no idea why - it's really not good business to kill your repeat customers.