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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 26, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" was nominated* at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance?*
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Acting career

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article doesn't make any mention of his film and TV career, despite displaying a rather lengthy filmography. The intro should probably say "rapper and actor." For example his small role in Batman & Robin was later confirmed as being the supervillain The Scarecrow who reportedly was supposed to return had there been a fifth Batman film in that series, etc. 2604:3D09:1F74:1C00:1176:D667:F804:28BC (talk) 13:47, 7 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

What determines which of his television appearances are relevant enough for note in the subsection of Music Career?

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Given it's a subsection of "Music Career," I would assume that most of the mentioned appearances would be ones in which he raps or performs musically, but it doesn't seem to have any throughline. Personally, I'd reduce this down to only reference works in which he performed musical material originating in that work.

There is also a filmography section, but I agree that mention should be made in the introduction of his prolific film/television appearances, since he appeared consistently in media from 1996-2021. Aos Sidhe (talk) 17:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Someone vandalized Coolio cause of death

He did not die due to gun violence but was actually a fentanyl overdose among other

03:53, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

coolio's youtube channel got hacked

Latest comment: 13 days ago2 comments1 person in discussion

I don't know how to say this, but I feel like Coolio's youtube channel has been hacked by some guy.

My suspicions began to arise when I saw Coolio's official channel posting AI content, so I looked a bit deeper into it, and I saw reuploads of his songs with the original videos deleted, nonexistent songs, random videos of possibly falsified interviews, and social media links with posts that don't seem to belong to him. Some of the links in the descriptions of the videos and posts have other links related to a guy named Jarez, who is a saxophonist and also somehow a deodorant seller?? I also found posts from 5 years ago that also have ties with Jarez, so I think Coolio wasn't hacked recently, but I doubt it. Maya OM (talk) 15:29, 15 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

so I checked the coolio yt channel again and then I discovered that the posts with social links from 5 years ago aren't actually connected to Jarez, so maybe coolio did get hacked recently Maya OM (talk) 03:37, 16 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Acting career

What determines which of his television appearances are relevant enough for note in the subsection of Music Career?

Someone vandalized Coolio cause of death

coolio's youtube channel got hacked