Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.
I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
I perform for soldiers because they are important,'
I think that all the athletes are representing their countries, and I'm sure they have a lot of pride in what they do.
I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
I've basically got an album full of singles.
I've been rapping since 1979.
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
It was an overzealous police officer and a way-trumped up situation - a situation blown out of proportion.
Most of the real problems I had - I created for myself.
People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.
We take pride in what we do.
Coolio was not aware that his then producers, Tommy Boy Records, had authorized Weird Al Yankovich to record a parody of his hit single "Gangsta's Paradise". So, when "Amish Paradise" was released, he was angry, the parody and accompanying album Bad Hair Day became Weird Al's best selling record.
Coolio and seven members of his entourage were arrested for allegedly shoplifting from a German clothing store and assaulting the owner. After that incident, German Police threatened to charge him with inciting criminal behavior, after he suggested at his concert to steal his new album, if listeners couldn't afford to buy it.
Coolio sang a duet with country legend Kenny Rogers in 1998. The duo teamed up to record an updated version of "The Gambler". The track wasn't released on an album until 2002, on El Cool Magnifico.
Coolio's producers at Tommy Boy records felt that the track "Gangsta's Paradise" wouldn't sell, so they placed it on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack. The song was a Grammy-winning #1 hit in the United States and was the 1st rap song to sell over a million copies in the United Kingdom.
Coolio released his debut single "Whatcha Gonna Do" in 1991, but an addiction to crack cocaine halted his success.
Coolio appeared in a television commercial for Verizon Wireless phone services and for "The Best Rap Album in The World...Ever!" in 2003.
Coolio's rap name started out as a joke amongst friends, when they compared him to Julio Iglesias. The friends mixed the two names, and merged his rap name, coolio.
Coolio was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of posessing marijuana and carrying a concealed weapon in Lawndale, California.
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