Paramedics attempted to resuscitate Coolio for nearly 45 minutes before pronouncing the rapper dead. He was 59.
in 2015 in an oral history of the song. “My very first album I ever bought was the one with ‘Superwoman’ on it. [1972’s by the Isley Brothers. , my mother had that album at the house, so it was kind of weird that I didn’t know the song…. I went back inside my manager’s house to use the toilet before I rolled out, and that’s when I heard the track. I walked into the studio, and asked Doug, ‘Wow, whose track is that?’ Doug said, ‘Oh, it’s something I’m working on.
He added: “I sat down and I started writing. Hearing the bass line, the chorus line and the hook, it just opened up my mind. ‘As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/I take a look at my life and I see there’s nothing left’ — I freestyled that; that came off the top of the dome and I wrote that down. I thought about it for a minute, and then I wrote the whole rest of the song without stopping, from the first verse to the third verse.
Tommy Boy reportedly did not think the song would fit for his next album and added it instead to the film’s soundtrack. . “Gangsta’s Paradise” hit Number One and became 1995’s biggest single. Its success guaranteed its inclusion on his next album titled after the track, and it won a Grammy for Best Solo Rap Performance.
The song was so popular that “Weird Al” Yankovic parodied it with 1996’s “Amish Paradise,” which Tommy Boy approved of, but Coolio did not.
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