Coolio executes on phase throughout Riot Fest 2022 at Douglass Park on September 18, 2022 in Chicago. Daniel Boczarski/GI
Coolio‘s posthumous album includes guest appearances from Naughty By Nature‘s Treach, Da Lench Mob’s J-Dee, and also Ras Kass on a job that was not meant to be the rap artist’s last.
Titled Long Live Coolio, the upcoming LP is an event of the Grammy prize-winning MC, best understood for his ’90s standards “Gangsta’s Paradise” and also “Fantastic Voyage.” His agents on Friday (July 7) specifically shown to The Associated Press the 11-song track listing and also that will certainly be listened to on the cd when it is launched later on this year.
“A Star Is Born”, the most up to date track from the launch — a cooperation in between Naughty By Nature’s Treach, MC Shan, and also Coolio’s very long time producer/collaborator DJ Wino — premiered on Friday, a track that functions as a background lesson in Coolio’s course to superstardom. The video clip was recorded in Las Vegas.
“When I heard Coolio’s verse, I’m like, ‘Yo, it feels like the homie is still here,” Treach claimed, displaying a huge picture tattoo of his labelmate Coolio on his breast. “How do we want people to think of him? We just want them to always think of him. That’s what it’s about — keeping your homies’ names in the streets. Tupac just got a star in Hollywood. We don’t just say it when our brothers are here. We say it until we meet up with them again.”
“Went from Old Man to Boo Daddy to Coolio,” Coolio raps in “A Star is Born.” “At the age of 18 I hit the studio KDAY I’m on radio.”
“Coolio told his story in the second verse,” claimed DJ Wino. “This song was not meant to be posthumous.”
Coolio died in September 2022 from the results of fentanyl, heroin, and also methamphetamine, the Los Angeles County coroner’s workplace figured out, ruling it an unintentional fatality. In March 2023, Coolio’s estate revealed that the hip-hop tale had actually been dealing with a cd in the days leading up to his fatality.
DJ Wino states regarding 75% of the cd was finished before Coolio’s fatality. “He laid it out there for us,” he claimed of completing Long Live Coolio. “It was up to us to come through, and like good little foot soldiers we followed up.”
Coolio won a Grammy for ideal solo rap efficiency for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds that tested Stevie Wonder’s 1976 tune “Pastime Paradise” and also was played continuously on MTV. The tune struck one billion sights on YouTube in 2022.
The rap artist had succeeding hits with “Fantastic Voyage” in 1994, “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” in 1996 and also 1997’s “C U When U Get There.” His profession cd sales amounted to 4.8 million, with 978 million on-demand streams of his tracks, according to Luminate. He was chosen for 6 Grammys on the whole.
Here’s the tracklist to Coolio’s Long Live Coolio:
“Shine On Me”
“Got That”
“Notice Me” (accomplishment. Ras Kass)
“Fast Pace” (accomplishment. Kid Frost)
“I’m Wit That BS” (accomplishment. J-Dee from Da Lench Mob)
“TAG You It” (accomplishment. Too $hort)
“A Star Is Born” (accomplishment. Treach from Naughty By Nature)
“Belly of the Beast” (accomplishment. Cejaz Negraz)
“Snitch’N”
“Stand Up Beat It Hit It” (accomplishment. Jay Chris)
“R Thentic” (accomplishment. Kurupt & Chill)
