Originally published at: Coolio dead at 59 | Boing Boing
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Everyone knows him from his big hit, but he could really spit mad freestyle.
Rest In Power
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Dang bro, you had some years to go.
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So ends this ‘Fantastic Voyage.’
RIP.
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So young. What a waste.
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Sad, yes. But I wouldn’t call it “a waste” because the man made the most of his limited time on earth, unlike many people.
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Maybe 20 years ago my band was playing its weekly gig at a college bar and this little dude with a couple huge dudes next to him get out of a limo and come in. Coolio was playing that weekend and this is the bar he chose. At some point he asked if he could come up and rap a bit and of course we obliged, what for it being a shitty college bar. Dude was great and I still have that fond memory.
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Cool.
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I’m sure that’s not what she was referring to with the word “waste.”
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I was listening to “Songs in the Key of Life” for the first time in years the other day – I had totally blanked on the existence of Pastime Paradise, Gangster’s Paradise (and then Amish Paradise) looming so large in the cultural landscape. Coolio really paid a lovely tribute to the original.
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Man, RIP.
Fantastic Voyage would have been a song that was out the summer I graduated and was on MTV a lot in the dorm at JUCO. Good times.
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I really, really need to get my '67 Cutlass back out on the road.
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This album was released on September 28, 1976. Coolio died exactly 46 years to the day the song he sampled from was released. Coincidence?
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