“Just because you might not see me doing them when you first hear about me or when you realise that I’m still around. “I don’t vary away from my beliefs very much and the things that I feel passionate about,” he says. The first single, Kill Again discusses gang violence with the intention of forcing the nation to talk about change. With his holistic view on his music and career, Coolio proves he hasn’t given up on music, continuing to perform and tour worldwide with this year’s release of a five song EP Long Live The Thief. But it’s equally as strong, it didn’t need them. “In the original, we did have a few curse words in there but in order for me to get Stevie Wonder to sign off on it, there was a list of words that after he listened to it, these were the words that he changed and that’s what I had to do. However, the 53-year-old explains a few swear words were removed as a “conscious choice”. With Coolio’s thoughtful lyrics, distinct verbal flow and the hook lifted from Stevie Wonder’s 1976 track Pastime Paradise, Gangsta’s Paradise is powerful and impossible to ignore. It was written and recorded within four hours of me hearing it. With the hit gaining worldwide attention, it comes as a surprise that it was written so quickly. I wrote the song so quickly, it was almost as if I always knew it.” “I believe that the song gave me some type of divine intervention because it just came, and it wasn’t something that I really had to think about. Then I found out that I couldn’t really do that anymore because it meant so many different things to so many different people, that I let it develop on its own and let it create its own space,” he says. “It was a long time ago, I had one view of what it was a hood song. This ultimate throwback is a reflection on the life of a gangsta, combining rap, popular culture and inspiring lyrics.Ĭoolio made his mark in hip hop forever, with this song receiving an unprecedented response from the public which still resonates today. Created by rap artist Coolio (formally known as Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), the 1995 track is, in simple terms, a global phenomenon.
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