Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise' turns 25 today. Read our oral history of 1995’s pop-rap smash
I think “Gangsta’s Paradise” resonated because of the song’s video, which featured Coolio in a series of face-offs and stare-downs with Michelle Pfeiffer, the star of. This was a time when rappers weren’t commingling with Hollywood A-listers — especially white female ones — so to see Coolio do it was striking., but the test-screenings of the movie were not going well. They were afraid that the movie was going to flop; they were terrified.
“I don’t think that Michelle Pfeiffer had ever been around that many black people in her life.” —CoolioMichelle was kind of nervous, because I don’t think that, up to that point, she’d ever been around that many black people in her life [! But we had a good time. She came out and did her thing, and she killed it; it took her two takes to do her parts, and she was outta there.
Our whole crew, Paul, Coolio and all of us, everybody just kind of went kind of crazy with the success of “Gangsta’s Paradise.” We all split apart; I worked with L.V. on his record, and recorded his version of “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but me and Coolio never did another record. Paul wanted to sign me to some contract that my lawyer told me was ridiculous, so I went out on my own. I won’t get into any dirt, but I will say that things got a little bit nasty.
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