The author of the tube “Gangsta’s Paradise” had been able to place itself above the rivalry which opposed in the 1990s rappers from the west coast of the United States to those of the East coast. He died on September 28 at the age of 59.
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The American rapper Coolio, author of the 1995 tube, Gangsta’s Paradise, died Wednesday September 28 in Los Angeles (California) at the age of 59 for reasons still unknown. The artist was found unconscious in the bathroom of a friend to whom he had visited. The emergency services could not revive him and the police have so far dismissed the criminal track. The autopsy is in progress.
Coolio, of his real name, Artis Leon Evy Jr, had known glory with a dark title, evoking the life of gangsters and sampling the song by Stevie Wonder Patter Paradise (1976) but most of his best known Raps , Fantastic Voyage, 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’New), Too Hot, C you when you get there were festive and solar.
While Gangsta Paradise was found in 1995 on the soundtrack of the film Rebel Spirits by John N. Smith where actress Michelle Pfeiffer plays a teacher with gang members, American rap is then in the middle of war Intestine and sees rappers of the West Coast of the United States and those on the East Coast. What was initially an artistic rivalry will end with the assassinations of its two best known and most virulent representatives, Tupac and Biggie.
Coolio, then star of the west coast, but signed on the pioneer and New York label Tommy Boy, will be able to place himself above the melee. So when a Grammy Award for the best Solo rap performance is given to him in 1996, he will declare: “I would like to receive this award in the name of the entire hip-hop nation: West Coast, East Coast, Le Monde. , we will stay, divided we will fall. “Coolio was not a rapper gangster even if like all the young blacks who grew up in Compton, the cradle of the Gangsta Rap, he had attended one of the gangs of the time, the Crips . Born on the 1 August 1963, in Monesen in Pennsylvania, Artis Leon Evy Jr had moved to this town south of the Los Angeles agglomeration to follow his parents, carpenter for the father and worker in Factory for the mother.
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In the 1970s, California was still perceived as a state where work abounds. Compton that welcomes African-American families from the South and East of the United States unfortunately, with the arrival of the gangs and the Crack epidemic-a cocaine residue obtained by a simple operation in the kitchen. To impress his new friends, Artis brings weapons to school, is convicted of theft and his mother sends him very quickly to continue his education in the north of the Golden State, quieter and still spared by the gangs. The young man will return to Compton to register for local university, the Compton Community College. This time, it is rap that diverts him from his studies.
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