Coolio is Back... Not A Joke

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Unless your 10 years old, you remember Coolio. The scary black dude with the weird hair, even for the 90's. He goes on record for being one of the only people to get pissed when Weird Al made a parody of one of his songs. His big hit was Gangsta's Paradise. He had a bunch of other hits and then in midst of his success disappeared. What killed him was making that song with Willie Nelson... What song ? Exactly.

Anyway, last year he came back with a reality show called Coolio's Rules on a network that no one has. It's about him raising his family and having a new career as a chef. if you've ever seen the show it's kinda sad because you can tell Coolio wasn't around a lot when they were growing up. One of his sons seems to really hate him. Considering the show hasn't been cancelled, I guess it's a success but the coolio train doesn't stop there.... you see he has another show, An internet cooking show. The show is hillarious because he goes out of his way to "blacken" every thing. No pun intended. Example. Emerald says BAM! Coolio says .....Shaka-Zulu!

Here's an interview excerpt from boston.com
Q. Describe your style of cooking.

A. I do fusion. Ghetto fusion. I don’t use the proper names for things when I talk about cooking. It’s not that I can’t speak properly, it’s because I want to do that. So there we go. I am the Ghetto Gourmet, and my style of cooking is ghetto fusion. Instead of saying African-American and Asian, I say Blasian. Instead of saying urban and Italian, I say Ghettalian.

He gives his food unappealing names (Chicken Lettuce Blunts ?) and then nick names himself the ghetto gormet. Right. He does make good points in saying things like" being poor doesn't mean you have to eat fat food every night" but those points are drowned out because you can tell he's doing this for the money not the love. Now that his music career is dead and all his money's been spent this is all he has left to do. It's his last hustle and while he might shoot me for writing this, his lack of genuine intenet makes it difficult to take him seriously. He's not trying to be a real chef from the hood. He's trying to be a gimmick.



Now let's all help him out by watching, learning and laughing at episodes of his horrible interent cooking show. Glad to have you back Coolio. One Question, What helps you cook better, the bedazzled head peice or the sunglasses?

To Coolio,
1-2-3-4 Pick yo career off the floor gotta cook the meet till it's brown....gotta cook the meat till it's brown..

Further Viewing: Cookin with Coolio on "My Damn Channel"