Coolio—“Gangsta’s Paradise”
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Coolio - Is He Rap?
"I think Stevie might be the last genius before the MTV era started in earnest," he says. "He pulled it from the depths of the collective memory in a fantastic way" Coolio's struggle with is he rap? Is he pop? Where are you on this? He had incredibly hard songs, but also could do Keaton and Gelsang.
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