Followers will get a style of the ultimate music recorded by Coolio on Friday (March 17) when the primary single from the “Gangsta’s Paradise” star’s posthumous album hits streaming. The track “TAG ‘You It’,” options legendary West Coast MC Too $hort, and it’ll preview the full-length, LONG LIVE COOLIO, whose launch date has not but been introduced.
Coolio died at 59 in September 2022 of suspected cardiac arrest. To this point, no official reason for dying has been introduced.
In keeping with an announcement asserting the mission, the primary single from rapper’s follow-up to 2009’s From the Backside 2 the Prime was produced by and likewise options the rapper’s longtime buddy DJ Wino. The assertion concerning the assortment and the video for “TAG” — which may even drop on Friday — says it was initially supposed for launch whereas Coolio was nonetheless alive, and that they pay “homage to ’90s hip-hop … the track is catchy, raunchy, and uncooked in the entire proper methods. Paired with an extravagant video, this track is for certain to create controversy and buzz.”
Certainly, the boxing-themed visible that includes a bevy of video vixens twerking finds $hort and Coolio dropping R-rated rhymes over a bouncy West Coast beat and the refrain, “Freeze tag, you it/ Freeze tag, she’s it/ Freeze tag, you it by no means gone be yours cuz it’s all concerning the bag.”
After $hort’s predictably bawdy first verse, Coolio pulls up for his personal NSFW run, together with the strains, “Nonetheless livin’ with yo mama no plan to maneuver although/ Widespread hoe, common hoe, Obama hoe/ She stuffed with drama bro/ Discover you an actual one funky really feel one/ One you may belief not should kill one.”
Following Coolio’s dying, his longtime supervisor, Jarez Posey, confirmed that the rapper (born Artis Leon Ivey Jr.) was discovered on the ground a WC at his buddy’s home and pronounced deceased on the scene.
Coolio positioned six hits on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart, together with the No. 1 smash “Gangsta’s Paradise,” that includes L.V, from the movie Harmful Minds. The one spent three weeks atop the record in 1995 and completed because the year-end No. 1 track on the Scorching 100. It additionally dominated the Scorching Rap Songs record for 11 consecutive weeks. The monitor would go on to win the Billboard Music Award for single of the yr, and a Grammy Award for greatest rap solo efficiency. In 2021, “Gangsta’s Paradise” ranked among the many 100 Biggest of All Time Scorching 100 Songs.
