In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The term ...

The rapper tallied three top 10s on the Hot 100 and two on the Billboard 200, and sparked a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody hit. Coolio infused Billboard‘s charts with multiple hits in the 1990s, with his ...

If a rapper were only to be known for one song, it’s hard to beat “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Coolio’s signature No. 1 smash in 1995 was voted the best single of the year in the Village Voice’s “Pazz & Jop” ...

On this day in 1995, Coolio was joined onstage by Stevie Wonder at the Billboard Music Awards to perform “Gangsta’s Paradise,” which also won Single Of The Year. The song famously reworks Wonder’s ...

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary.With the unfortunate death of beloved rapper Coolio, hip-hop lovers have been mourning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coolio, November 1995. (Credit: Paul Bergen/Redferns) Before he was Coolio, Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was just a kid growing up in ...

US West Coast rapper Coolio died on September 28, 2022. He was 59. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) One summer afternoon in the mid-1990s, the rapper Coolio – who passed away earlier this week – ...

Jeopardy contestant Nick receives the news that he has just lost $3,200 for incorrectly saying "Gangster's Paradise" as his answer on the hit TV show. The official name of the song is 'Gangsta's ...