Coolio
Coolio
Artis Leon Ivey Jr., known professionally as Coolio, is an American musician, rapper, chef, actor, and record producer. Coolio achieved mainstream success in the mid to late 1990s with his albums It Takes a Thief, Gangsta's Paradise, and My Soul. He is best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single "Gangsta's Paradise", as well as other singles "Fantastic Voyage", "C U When U Get There"and "1, 2, 3, 4". He was also known for rapping the theme song for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth1 August 1963
CityCompton, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.
Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.
Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve...
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop
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.
Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die
I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.
Put a condom in their hand and hope it don't bust.
I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
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.