What do you mean you don't know who Coolio is?!? I'm a farmer from a very small town in Brazil and even I know who Coolio is!! I literally thought every american knew about Coolio.
I'm from the Netherlands and they played this on the radio all the time here. I notice many reactors are just too young to have heard all the old skool stuff. There is so much good music out there from the 70s 80s and 90s it is a lot to go through. The most shocked i ever was though was when somebody didn't know who Jimi Hendrix was..i was like come on now....
@@eshnic I grew up in the 90s and I didn't know who Jimi Hendrix was until I was 23ish. I think it was because 1) my parents didn't like that kind of music, they were more into Tom Jones, ABBA, Neil Diamond, UB40 etc, and 2) people I hung out with at school all liked contemporary pop music. So I can see how this guy's never heard of coolio before.
He kinda does, actually, but they weren’t allowed to without editing it back then. He says all my ni’s in the night sayin prayers in the streetlight. Sorry to burst your bubble 😂
I'm a white Jew born in the 80's and i grew up on old school rap like 2pac, Snoop, Coolio, Biggie etc. I can't believe the amount of first time reactions to masterpieces like this by young black dudes, it really makes me sad. I hope that the youth will bring old school rap back.
Haze, I'm a melanin deficient grandfather knocking near 70 and I sang this song at my daughters wedding. That's how mainstream this was. You need to look at the old school for some history.
Total respect to Coolio This one is a Hyms of Hip hop old school, everyone know this masterpiece from 90s 💯 and the Movie Dangerous Minds is a great movie
In 1995, Coolio has won a Grammy & Billboard music awards for this song. This song came from his 2nd album(Gangsta's Paradise). He also got famous for his hairstyle. This song is sampled from Stevie Wonder's 1976 song called "Pastime Paradise".
@@mtsula I know it should have but it was late, I was tired and being lazy. I do appreciate the correction so thank you. I was a Radiology Transcriptionist for almost 30 years and the dictations I transcribed had to be accurate so when I see other people online making these types of mistakes as well as using the wrong spelling of words in a sentence like to, too, your and you're, it drives me crazy, for instance the correct spelling should have been movie not move but I know you are aware of that and it was just an oversight. I'm not being sarcastic and I was sincere when I said thank you for the correction.
Coolio was awesome enough that he got me to listen to rap. I am normally a heavy metal and punk rock fan but Coolio had an impact. His song fantastic voyage is awesome too.
"Gangsta's Paradise" samples the chorus and instrumentation of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Pastime Paradise" The artists co-wrote the song with its producer Doug Rasheed, with Stevie Wonder receiving writing credits for the sampling of his song "Pastime Paradise" from his album Songs in the Key of Life. Due to the sampling of Stevie Wonder's music, "Gangsta's Paradise" is one of the few Coolio tracks that does not contain any profanity, as Wonder himself would not allow it. Coolio said, "I had a few vulgarities...and he wasn't with that. So I changed it. Once he heard it, he thought it was incredible." Released in 1995.
The film is called 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 debuted 1995. 𝙂𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚 is the soundtrack to this astounding film. I was only 14 at the time. And my entire block be cruising down the street to either this track... or to 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙨 𝙉 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮'𝙨 - 1𝙨𝙩. 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝.
I remember that time well. I was only 15 and as soon as I hit 16 and got my license I was out cruising to Bone too lol I was a big fan of the Art of War duel album WWI and WWII.
@@mordavi best double disc album of all time 💯 even better than All Eyez On Me & Life After Death & that's saying a awful lot but literally every track is a banger on The Art Of War even the lesser songs u might not like as much on that album will still rub off on you when u play the album all the way through several times & the beat selection is all very unique to other albums but they're all tied together perfectly like they all have similar instruments to make that entire double album seem more like a movie score than just a album of just random songs!!!!! Masterpiece of Masterpieces!!!!! & It ages even better over time just like this song "Gangstas Paradise" does💯 this is probably the greatest most iconic rap song of all time even ppl who hate rap music love this song & know this song & it's got a billion views alone just on the official reuploaded version that was only reuploaded like 4 years ago so that's saying alot💯
LV died many years ago, but only those of us that were loc'ed out and did bang in the late 80's and 90's and survived will understand why Coolio made this song when he did. We were in a time when brothers were dying over territory, apartments, colors, streets and merch. (drugs, girls, cars, clothes, guns...) We could be killed simply going to initiations, meets, or even 501's. And by our own crews, or, "friends of family". In my realm it was Krtel, Aces High, certain (unnamed) factions of crip, blood and folk. You lost friends, brothers and cousins daily in those dayz. Like I said though... many of us survived and went on. Be thankful for what you guys have and didn't have to accept and deal with, every time you walked out the door. Not knowing if you'd even see your own bed again. This was life. @/damulife @/krtl @/cr32
"but only those of us that were loc'ed out and did bang in the late 80's and 90's and survived will understand". Nah, even if you weren't part of that set just living in it was enough to understand. Hell drivebys pretty much kicked off ever news broadcast. People getting lost and ending up shot because they drove down the wrong street. Chalk outlines on the sidewalks or in the streets. Sketchy times.
@LARRY BOOKER I never lived through what it sounds like you did, but I saw it on TV, and read about it in the papers, every day. I always felt bad for the people that had to live in that stuff every day. My words probably sound pathetic, but, for what it’s worth, I’m glad you made it through those times. I hope things are good now.
Growin up in the WestCoast and in the midst of most of loved ones getting caught slippin, This song always hits me in the chest. REST IN LOVE HOMIES YOU ARE MISSED...
Coolio...West Coast rapper...back in mid to late 1990s..this song and movie came out. It was the main song in the movie Dangerous Minds...about a troubled inter city school...and the teacher who had to find a way to reach the kids...who were mostly gangsters.
Coolio sampled the Stevie Wonder song Pastime Paradise for this song. Then Weird Al made a parody- and Coolio was pissed off because Al asked permission and Coolio said yes but then changed his mind. This was used in the movie Dangerous Minds.
Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise turned 25 last this year, and its place in music history is assured. It was believed to be the biggest-selling single of 1995 worldwide, and went to number 1 in at least 19 countries.5 Dec 2020
Coolio is also a Chef. I dont know if its ongoing or not but he had a webseries regarding his cooking. He also has a cookbook out called "Cookin with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price".
@@mikefisher4834 no weird al just contacted Coolios pr department or something abs they said sure Coolio had no idea and he was pissed weird al didn't ask him
I'm from Australia and I grew up listening to Coolio in high school and many other Rappers from the US who were popular in the 90's. You should check out Domino from Long Beach listen Long Beach Thang gfunk.
I used to work for a computer software company. One day I had his album in at work and was playing it on my headphones when one of my colleagues walked by and thinking it was computer software, asked what “Cool I/O” was, I/O being short for input/output.
Wow beautiful song l love it and it's was a good movie for real RIP 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹"Coolio " he was a good singer. From Edinburg Texas
Movie is Dangerous Minds and i can't believe u have never heard of Coolio. U should check his first song "Fantastic Voyage" he came out with b4 Gangstas Paradise.
Oh your watching something so from my teenage years in the 90s lol Iconic track. It’ll never die. “I’ve never heard of any Coolio.” Me: “🫤😳🤔The 90s me is judging you…I apologize.”
The song is from the movie Dangerous Minds. Listen to weird als version of this called Amish paradise. Rap and hip hop from the 80s was great no matter what color you were you liked it. From the mid 90s to today, it hasn’t been no where near as good.
I am a 61 year old Aussie mum and was 34 when this song came out. I was never into rap, loved heavier rock music, but went out and bought this as soon as I heard it and still love it. Brilliant song!!
Many RU-vidrs recently react to old songs. and that's how i found this channel. i found this song in 2005 first time. when i was playing NFS: MW on PS2 and friend played songs on pc. funny enough thanks to this song i won first time race against my friend who was fanatic of NFS games. i asked him about song so we went to check it on pc what it was and i was shocked that this song in 2005 had 10 freaking years. the movie is called "Dangerous Minds".
Fun fact I just learned: this song samples Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. At first, Stevie didn't want his song sampled in a rap song because of the cursing. Coolio promised to write the song without any foul language. Goes to show that you can write a hard-edged, gangster song that gets your point across without any cursing.
The name of the movie is "Dangerous Minds" And yes sir this entire songs bangs and it's put together perfect!!! You have Coolio with the vs, and then old buddy LV murdering the hook, and then comes the bang!!!! This shit is 🔥
Coolio is also in the soundtrack of "Space jam" called "Hit them high (the monstar anthem) ft Busta Rhymes, Method Man, LL Cool J and B Real from Cypress Hill
Also a pale senior citizen, these reaction videos and seeing kids discover classics give me life :) Now do Public Enemy- Fight the Power, and Kid Frost- La Raza, please.
I'm 65 year old white guy and I know who Coolio is. I didn't like rap at all when this song came out but it's a masterpiece. To be honest, it is probably one of my favorite songs, The lyrics are crazy good.
coolio wrote this song based on his life living in East Side San Jose. The area is notoriously known for being the ghetto area of the city of San Jose in the bay area. I went to the same high school as him and can confirm that it is very ghetto. Part of the school dress code for was that no one was allowed to wear red (bloods) or blue (crips).
This is the music I grew up on. This one was pivotal in the rap/hip-hop genre of the 90s. The movie (Dangerous Minds) is well worth seeing. The song was on the movie soundtrack. Coolio was and is one of my favorite artists ever.
How the hell do you not know coolio is???? My god man you just made me feel like im 100 years old...Thanks man Btw man this is from Dangerous Minds movie