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Compton-born Artis Ivey Jr was well into his 30s by the time he made it big. Having served his time in old-skool rap acts like WC and The MAAD Circle since 1979, his breakthrough finally arrived in 1993 with the jubilant party anthem "Fantastic Voyage", but it was the Stevie Wonder-sampling "Gangsta's Paradise" which made Coolio a worldwide name, selling 4 million copies (the biggest-selling rap record in history) and earning him a Grammy.
The fact that success came so late to Coolio was audible in every groove. The mello yello melodies and rubbery basslines had more in common with the phat-bottomed P-funk he grew up on than the G-funk that was in vogue. And his been-there, done-that maturity showed too, especially on this, his third album, with cautionary tales about crack and guns. My Soul is littered with the obligatory guest spots from the likes of G-funk crooner Montell Jordan, rapper Ras Krass, Coolio protegés 40 Thevz and legendary soul harmonists The Dramatics, and sometimes bizarre samples. "Ooh La La"--which lifts from Grace Jones' "Pull Up To The Bumper" to superb effect--makes perfect sense, but the biggest hit here is an unfortunate relic from the rap/classical crossover fad which gripped the world in late 1997: "C U When U Get There", based on Pachelbel's "Canon In D", might be a little too saccharine for some tastes. -- Simon Price
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By the late '90s, Coolio began looking like one of the onlyrap artists that mattered. With Public Enemy out of the picture, the deaths of Tupac and B.I.G., KRS-One doing Sprite commercials and every body else too busy dodging bullets to make music, Coolio found himself the default king of Hip-Hop at the close of the millennium. For his part, it seems Coolio would prefer the role of good-humored Court Jester.
Coolio's stream-of-consciousness lyrics often follow disparate tangents to their logical (or illogical) conclusion, with rhyming the only prerequisite. Even so, he manages to get a couple of messages across, such as his comments on the duplicitous nature of the drug smuggler on "Nature of the Business"and his ode to true friends; "Homeboy". The serious nature of these topics is undercut by left-field touches like '70s R&B vocal group The Dramatics crooning "The Devil Is Dope". It's on the all-out party tunes "One Mo", "Throwdown 2000" and "Can I Get Down 1x" that Coolio's soul shines brightest. Rap, after all, began as party music, and King Coolio seems bent on returning it to those glory days.
Coolio's stream-of-consciousness lyrics often follow disparate tangents to their logical (or illogical) conclusion, with rhyming the only prerequisite. Even so, he manages to get a couple of messages across, such as his comments on the duplicitous nature of the drug smuggler on "Nature of the Business"and his ode to true friends; "Homeboy". The serious nature of these topics is undercut by left-field touches like '70s R&B vocal group The Dramatics crooning "The Devil Is Dope". It's on the all-out party tunes "One Mo", "Throwdown 2000" and "Can I Get Down 1x" that Coolio's soul shines brightest. Rap, after all, began as party music, and King Coolio seems bent on returning it to those glory days.
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