The eponymous song’s album is in fact quite similar to its predecessor, featuring a well-rounded tracklist of realistic yet goodnatured hood portraits, party jams, and sunny g-funk production.
It was also the number one single of 1995, the height of the g-funk wave and West Coast hip hop’s commercial popularity. Featuring an unforgettable guest from L.V., a Los Angeles crooner then best known for his work with the decidedly un-PG outfit South Central Cartel, it was a clean track still managing to capture the desperation of the gangster’s existence. It managed to be an even bigger single than those tracks by lacking the perceived misogyny of “G Thang,” the heavy editing of “Gin and Juice”‘s radio cut, and “Regulate”‘s mass-murder-in-the-first-verse. A sample-driven g-funk number in the tradition of “Nuthin’ But a G Thang,” “Gin and Juice,” and “Regulate,” it features an inescapable hook, slow-burning groove, and general, broad-world philosophy from the perspective of an urban Californian. Originally recorded for the “Dangerous Minds” soundtrack and not intended for an album, “Gangsta’s Paradise” was an unlikely if engineered hit. Although his 1994 Tommy Boy debut “It Takes a Thief” was a chart success given the popularity of the single “Fantastic Voyage,” it still would have been hard to forecast the multiplatinum smash that was “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Coolio’s balance could probably best be labeled a product of his reaching a hip hop audience before a pop one, unlike, say, Skee-Lo and Paperboy. The dichotomy between street credibility and commercial success is tenuous, well-explored, and hard to formulate. With his contribution to Ras Kass’ 1995 debut “Soul on Ice,” he became his coast’s Method Man - the sole guest rapper on his coast’s most lyrically conceptual masterpiece. As fans will be quick to point out, though, he was far from a corporate creation, first gaining fame as a member of WC and the Maad Circle, an acclaimed Los Angeles outfit prior to WC’s success as a member of Westside Connection. Coolio recorded the theme song for Nickelodeon’s “Kenan and Kel,” rapped with Kermit on “Muppets Tonight,” and guested on “All That,” “The Nanny,” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” during his superstardom, cementing his status as a family-friendly MC with gravity-defying braids and a rather loud wardrobe. The pop culture lexicon is likely to recall him as somewhat of a West Coast Fresh Prince - a squeaky-clean rapper with mega-hits and a massive television presence.
Watch the trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog below.Coolio managed to straddle the line between pop success and rap legitimacy as well as anyone who preceded or succeeded him. “ C U When U Get There” would have probably been a better song choice. Me: The first thing he says is gOtTa gO fAsT Me: The first trailer is set to Gangsta’s Paradise
Me: We get a live action movie in 20 years Why does the space hedgehog listen to Gangsta’s Paradise When the team behind the Sonic trailer decided to use Gangsta’s Paradise /31m2Ch9iw0 For some reason, Coolio’s mid-’90s smash hit “ Gangsta Paradise” - which was on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack - was featured throughout the trailer: The most baffling things about the trailer, however, is the song choice used for the trailer. READ: Jax’s Divisive ‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Ending Shows That The Gaming Community Still Has A Racism Problem
Not sure which character looks worse Sonic or Tails ??? /aQOgMB5QMK