Gangsta's Paradise faced several hurdles ... who declined. Then Coolio overheard it. Mesmerised, he started writing lyrics straight away. The opening lyric, which riffs on Psalm 23, came to ...
He was 59. Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr, won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta's Paradise. The hit - later chosen as the soundtrack to the film Dangerous Minds - went on to ...
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