Before His Passing, Coolio Was Collaborating With An Irish Singer Christy Dignam On New Music

The late rapper, who handed away on Wednesday on the age of 59, had talked about collaborating with Christy Dignam of the Irish rock band Aslan in an interview with The Irish Examiner revealed in July.

We’re solely simply getting began. We have now a monitor within the works. Lyrics are one thing we have now but to start engaged on. The development of the monitor is now underway. This summer season, he predicted that we’d have one thing concrete to work with inside the subsequent 4 to 6 weeks.

You possibly can rely on it being a smashing success, I reckon. After that, it is laborious to say whether or not we’ll take a somber, reflective strategy or go for a extra lighthearted, celebratory tone. He added that darkish and deep can nonetheless be a banger; that is the course I prefer to lean.

Coolio, whose actual identify is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., mentioned his profession and the success of his tune “Gangsta’s Paradise,” launched in 1995 and featured the vocals of L.V. in an interview. On the 1996 Grammys, the tune acquired Greatest Rap Solo Efficiency award and stayed on the prime of the Billboard Scorching 100 for 3 weeks.

He as soon as remarked, “You make music, and also you by no means take into account what it will do and what it isn’t going to do.” That’s the best achievement of “Gangsta’s Paradise,” and I’m happy with it. It wasn’t till 4 years in the past that it was posted on Tommy Boy, YouTube’s hip hop channel. In simply 4 years, it gathered a billion views.

The identical week I hit a billion, 50 Cent’s ‘In Da Membership’ offered a billion copies. Seventeen years handed till ‘In Da Membership’ offered a billion copies. Then, 4, he chimed in.

Longtime supervisor Jarez Posey advised PEOPLE that the rapper Coolio handed away on Wednesday in Los Angeles.