Considered one of Coolio‘s final recognized interviews befell on a lark in an airport departure gate when the host of a crypto podcast occurred to identify the rapper chilling out whereas ready for a flight. Within the new episode of PJ Vogt’s Crypto Island pod, the host describes his shock at seeing somebody who had the “incandescent shine” of a possible well-known particular person casually sitting at a gate in New York’s JFK airport.
Carrying a inexperienced monitor swimsuit and matching baseball hat with two slots lower within the high to make room for his signature at-attention braids, Coolio was pleasant when Vogt requested him to introduce himself and a younger fellow passenger named Grant whom the MC had befriended.
Ready to board a flight to Copenhagen, Coolio defined to Vogt that he’d performed his crypto analysis. “I’m really closely invested into the metaverse,” mentioned the “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper who died on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles at age 59 of suspected cardiac arrest. “I’ve a pleasant swath of land within the metaverse and barring the web crashing or any individual dropping an EMP (electomagnetic pulse) on the entire world and there being no energy, this might be a great deal.”
Given the large quantity of vitality wanted to energy crypto within the midst of what local weather scientists have warned is a make-or-break second for the quickly warming Earth, Vogt requested Coolio to share his ideas on the local weather disaster. “I’m not a lot frightened about it,” Coolio mentioned in a hoarse voice. “By the point it will get to be a significant issue I’ll be lengthy lifeless.”
Although Vogt mentioned Coolio understood the risks of sea degree rise and world warming, the rapper mentioned he had “so many different issues” to fret about proper now that impending local weather apocalypse was not on the record. Amongst them, Grant chimed in, was how they had been going to get to Denmark. “Precisely, as a result of I received a present tomorrow,” Coolio mentioned. Although he’s extra more likely to undergo the ravages of local weather disaster due to his age (20), Grant agreed about fretting in the fitting now versus worrying about our hothouse future.
After which Coolio dropped a severe bombshell. “I’m gonna inform y’all one other factor that no person won’t ever inform you,” he mentioned. “There’s one other continent that they’re hiding from us.” Vogt, confused however intrigued, requested Coolio to elaborate. And so the rapper born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. defined that for those who journey 50 miles out into the Antarctic Ocean — whether or not on a ship, airplane or helicopter — you can be advised by the army to show again or face annihilation.
Grant mentioned he’d additionally heard this conspiracy concept, after which doubled down with one other one about hidden pyramids in Antarctica. “There are pyramids within the Grand Canyon,” Coolio famous. Vogt mentioned he would save the remainder of the chat for a later episode, however summarized a dialogue with Coolio and Grant that concerned them getting enthusiastic about what they described as an historic race of aliens who had been defending a part of the planet from marauding, fossil-fuel addicted people.
The trio then boarded a airplane — a sleepy Coolio in firstclass, Vogt in coach — with the host musing that as far-out as Coolio and Grant’s notions had been, in a world the place the whole lot feels prefer it’s falling aside on a regular basis, “it factors to the attract of actually any distraction… any downside shinier than the massive one: that we’ve by chance created a world the place our consumption is regularly killing us.”
Take heed to the episode beneath (Coolio seems round 4:10 mark).
