Celebrity Grammy Award-Winner Best Selling Author Hip Hop Legend Coolio 1SimplyG

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Hip Hop Legend Coolio. Coolio will discuss how he came up with Gangster Paradise, his book, and his latest music.

Coolio, the multi-talented Grammy Award winning and multi-platinum selling artists, composer and actor, is one of the most popular and successful
Rappers worldwide. To date, Coolio has sold over 30 million records globally and has performed in concerts to adoring fans in Africa, Israel, Russia, Japan, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, and Turkey and throughout Europe. In the diversified hip hop industry, Coolio is one of the few rap artists who has been able to garner mainstream success and critical acclaim. The last Lp entitled “The Return of the Gangsta” was released in August 2006 and Coolio teamed up with long time friend Snoop Dogg for the undeniable hit “Gangsta Walk”. “Return of the Gangsta” sold over 525,000 copies.

Coolio won a Grammy Award in 1996 for Best Rap Performance, Solo for his international hit single, “Gangsta’s Paradise” which was also featured on the “Dangerous Minds” soundtrack and movie. The single “Gangsta’s Paradise” was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Song of the Year and it sold over 4 million copies and was Billboard Magazine’s number one single in 1995. Coolio has won an American Music Award, 3 MTV Awards, 2 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and a World Music Award. He has received 6 Grammy Award nominations (1994,1995,1996), 2 Billboard Music Awards(1994,1996), 2 ASCAP Awards(1996, 1997), 3 MTV Video Awards(1996, 1997), 4 American Online Awards(1996) and was the Playboy Music Poll Winner in 1997.

He will forever be held as one of the West Coast Greatest and He is truly a Hip Hop Legend!