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Coolio in Concert
For more than three decades, Compton-born MC Coolio has been a standard-bearer of West Coast hip-hop — and he's shown that versatility is the name of the game as well. Coolio's 1994 single "Fantastic Voyage" blended sinewy G-funk with frank, wordplay-rich lyrics about poverty's toll on urban America, and its wild success (reaching No. 3 on the Hot 100) made him one of hip-hop's leading mid-'90s voices. A year later, Coolio flew even higher after releasing the Stevie Wonder-sampling, world-weary "Gangsta's Paradise"; as part of the soundtrack to the inner-city high school drama ‘Dangerous Minds,' it topped the Hot 100 and led Billboard's year-end singles chart for 1995, won the 1995 Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, and scored the Best Rap Video award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. The 1995 album of that name contained two other Top 40 hits, the groove-heavy party jam "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" (which reached No. 5 on the Hot 100) and the Kool & the Gang-sampling ode to safe sex "Too Hot." A year later, he recorded a theme song for Nickelodeon's sketch-comedy series ‘Kenan & Kel,' and in 1997 his mournful single "C U When U Get There" captured the elegiac spirit that had overtaken hip-hop in the wake of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.'s deaths.
In the years that followed, Coolio released music independently, touring constantly with the likes of Insane Clown Posse and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He also built off the notoriety he'd achieved as a mid-'90s MTV staple and went Hollywood, regularly guesting on the game show ‘Hollywood Squares,' playing a demon on the witchy teen drama ‘Charmed,' and cameoing as himself in a variety of films and TV series ranging from the surrealistic cartoon ‘Squidbillies' to the horror comedy ‘Leprechaun in the Hood.' He also headlined his own reality series, ‘Coolio's Rules,' in 2008, and that show led to his other career as a celebrity chef: He's the star of ‘Cookin' With Coolio,' an online ‘Coolio's Rules' spinoff that focuses on his skills making "Spinach Even Kids Will Eat," "Swashbucklin' Shrimp," and other stick-to-your-ribs dishes. (It also spawned a cookbook of the same name.) Coolio's still cooking on the road, playing his hits and new tracks for audiences all over the globe.
Concert was ok way too much time between acts (longer than actual sets), and a lot of hits missed especially montell Jordan who’s a priest now so plays nothin Now apparently but kid n play was 🔥 house party battle majority of hot records. C
Event was very fun. Bio was a must, it was so packed we upgraded to have a better space
Wonderful concert! Fun, clean venue,great performances! Would definitely go again
Awesome show, would go and see the show again had a great time. Need more food trucks though
Coolio did his thing performance was super, we enjoyed ourselves, he took us back to the 90's then took us to the future, excellent time!!!
Rob Base was the star of the night. Coolio has always been my favorite but was a disappointment this time. Getting through ticket line and security was a big mess
It was horrible getting in they needed more help,also the performer's set was 2 short they should have sang longer But fir 20.00 whatever
Great concert. Montel Jordan stole the show. Collio made me smile but should not have closed the show.
The show was excellent and coolio is cool as hell. And his band was wonderful.
It has its flaws but over all it was okay. Had a good time with friends.
Great time overall, even though there was light rain. There were problems with some of the microphones going out , and it was hard to hear what was going on. Otherwise, the acts we're good and we had a great time!
Love the way Coolio, Tone Loc, and Young MC interacted with the audience. Overall the show was great. Loved it!!
It was a really good concert. I liked the combination of artists. It worked. All 3 performed well. I time between sets was minimal. The artists were personable.
Young MC opened, but really did not have much stage time. Despite this, he was awesome. They need to limit the dj time in between and allow him to perform more songs. Next was Kool Moe Dee. He should have headlined. He blew the rest of the show away. If you love old school hip-hop, he will take you back to how it use to be performance wise. He was solid. Had fantastic dancers and everything, just like back in the day. If nothing else, I would highly recommend going for his performance. After that, well, Tone Loc did his two hits and a Snoop Dogg song. But most of his show was bringing fans on the stage and I'm not really sure what happened with Coolio. Mic issues or what. A lot of his songs he only did parts of them and a lot of people seemed disappointed. Also, there was enough DJ intermissions in between to have another performer added. No show needs three intermissions.
Kool Moe Dee was great!! Tone Loc was fun.. Young MC was amazing.
I saw Coolio on the I Love the 90s Tour and even though the concert was terrible he was the best act by far.
The opening acts were by far better than Coolio's performance. There were two other people backing Coolio up, but they were by far the stars of the show. One of them rapped more than Coolio did, and the other played sax. Actually, the sax player was the highlight of the show. To be honest, Coolio hasn't been popular since the '90's. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to get that memo and played a lot of songs that nobody knew. We had to wait about 20 minutes before he played one of his old hits. The backup tracks were played from a Mac Book on the stage, and Coolio would cut songs in the middle, leading to choppy transitions. Overall, forgettable and a waste of time.
