Coolio Trivia
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Birth name: Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
Date of birth: 1 August 1963
Place of birth: Compton, California, USA
Nickname: El Cool Magnifico
Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
Spouse: Josefa Salinas (27 September 1997 – present)
- Arrested in Lawndale, California, on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon and possessing marijuana. [15 September 1998]
- Collects snow globes.
- Older brother of actor/rapper Malieek Straughter
- Before finding stardom as a Rap artist he was a firefighter in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains.
- Was featured in a subplot of Daredevil (2003), but his scenes were eventually deleted. However, he still appears in the film’s trailers. His scenes were restored in the 2004 Director’s Cut DVD.
- Coolio is a playable character in the 1995 video game, Toughman Contest.
- His song “Gangsta’s Paradise” uses sampling from Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” and was parodied by “Weird Al” Yankovic as “Amish Paradise” during 1996.
- In the Twisted Metal 2 video game for the PlayStation gaming console, he appeared in a billboard.
- In the television series 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan states that the Black crusaders wanted him to disappear “just like Coolio” to which Liz Lemon responds “Coolio’s still around”.
- Commenting on the criminal record of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Chris Rock asserts in his 1999 spoken word song, “No Sex (In the Champagne Room)”, that “ODB couldn’t have possibly committed all those crimes. Coolio did some of that shit.”
- Ska punk band Patent Pending mentions Coolio several times in their song “The Website Is Under Construction,” singing “Where the hell is Coolio tonight?”
- The band Andrew Vincent and the Pirates mentions Coolio in its song ‘Girlfriend’s Dog’, singing “She calls him Frank, but I’ve been calling him Coolio.”
- In the song “Go To Church” from Ice Cube’s “Laugh Now, Cry Later” album, rapper Snoop Dogg mentions Coolio, he also appears briefly in the video.
- Snoop Dogg also mentions Coolio in his song “Doggy Dogg World” in the lines “It’s like everywhere I look, and everywhere I go, I’m hearin’ motherrfuckers tryin’ to steal my flow, but it ain’t no thang ’cause see my nigga Coolio, put me up on the game when I step through the do’.”
- In the children’s computer game DinoPark Tycoon, Coolio appears in the crowd of guests at the player’s Dino Park.
- In the UK TV series Benidorm, the character Chantelle names her baby Coolio after it looked exactly like Coolio.
- In his song “Sean Falyon is Everywhere”, Sean Falyon gives Coolio a shout-out, saying “I’m cool like a beer milkshake, Coolio made the world shake”
- In Irish television soap opera Fair City, the character Sarah Malloy often refers to her childhood crush on Coolio, and what would have happened if she had realized her idea of relocating to California in order to meet him.
- RTÉ 2fm’s The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show regularly claim that Coolio is dead. (He isn’t.)
- In the 1995 film Clueless (film), Coolio’s song “Rollin’ With the Homies” is mentioned in several scenes.
- Post-Hardcore group In Fear and Faith covered “Gangsta’s Paradise” during 2009.
- In the movie “Phat Beach”, Benny doesn’t think he is going to get a room because the guy beside him is Coolio and his best friend doesn’t know who he is.
- During a performance in May 2010 at Sewanee: The University of the South, Coolio became a victim of the viral drinking game known as Icing (drinking game) after performing the track “Gangsta’s Paradise.”
