Photo: Kevork Djansezian/AP/ShutterstockWeird Al Yankovicis paying tribute to late rapper Coolio following his sudden death at age 59.On Wednesday night, Yankovic, 62, posted a simple message in honor of Coolio on bothTwitterandInstagram: a photo of the pair embracing one another at an event.“RIP Coolio,” Yankovic added about the rapper, whose 1995 Grammy-Award-winning single “Gangsta’s Paradise” inspired his hit satire “Amish Paradise.“The 1996 parody stands as one of Yankovic’s most popular songs, with over 126 million lifetime views onYouTubeand 30.9 million streams onSpotify.As Yankovic and otherspaid tribute to Coolioin the hours after his death Wednesday, music fans remembered the feud that emerged between the two over “Amish Paradise,” which initially rubbed Coolio the wrong way.“I ain’t with that…I think that my song was too serious…I really…don’t appreciate him desecrating the song like that,” Coolio told a reporter at the 1996Grammy Awards, according toVulture. “His record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway…“By 2005, though, Coolio appeared to have reconsidered his stance on Yankovic’s parody.For more on Coolio, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.“There’s a parody law that says you can make a parody of anything you want. The person who owns the original can’t do anything,” the rapper told PEOPLE in 2005. “I let it go. I’m not gonna fight Al. I’m not gonna get into street s— with Weird Al Yankovic.““I sat down, and I really thought it out,” Coolio told students at the Institute of Production & Recording in a 2011 interview, according toYahoo! News. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I was like, ‘Coolio, who the f— do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn’t get mad.’ “After Coolio’s death Wednesday, journalistDan Ozzishared an excerpt of an interview he once did with Coolio onTwitter, during which he asked the late rapper about any lingering resentment toward Yankovic.In the excerpt, which does not specify when the interview happened, Coolio told Ozzi he “let that go so long ago.““Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong. Y’all remember that, everybody out there who reads this s—. Real men and real people should be able to admit when they’re wrong and I was wrong, bro,” Coolio said at the time.“Come on, who the f— am I, bro? He did parodies of Michael Jackson, he did parodies of all kinds of people and I took offense to it because I was being cocky and s— and being stupid and I was wrong and I should’ve embraced that s— and went with it,” he continued.Coolio.Kris Connor/GettyCoolio said in that interview that when he finally listened to “Amish Paradise,” he thought it was “actually funny as s—.““It’s one of those things where I made a wrong call and nobody stopped me. That’s one thing I’m still upset about — my management at the time,” Coolio told Ozzi. “Somebody should’ve stopped me from making that statement because it was dumb. And I think it hurt me a little bit. It made me seem stupid.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Coolio’s longtime manager, Jarez Posey, told PEOPLE that Coolio — born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. — died Wednesday in Los Angeles.According toTMZ, which was first to report the news, Posey said the late musician went to the bathroom at a friend’s house. When he didn’t come out, the friend called his name but he didn’t answer. They then found Coolio on the floor.The friend called for help, per the outlet, and once responders arrived, Coolio was pronounced dead.
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Weird Al Yankovicis paying tribute to late rapper Coolio following his sudden death at age 59.On Wednesday night, Yankovic, 62, posted a simple message in honor of Coolio on bothTwitterandInstagram: a photo of the pair embracing one another at an event.“RIP Coolio,” Yankovic added about the rapper, whose 1995 Grammy-Award-winning single “Gangsta’s Paradise” inspired his hit satire “Amish Paradise.“The 1996 parody stands as one of Yankovic’s most popular songs, with over 126 million lifetime views onYouTubeand 30.9 million streams onSpotify.As Yankovic and otherspaid tribute to Coolioin the hours after his death Wednesday, music fans remembered the feud that emerged between the two over “Amish Paradise,” which initially rubbed Coolio the wrong way.“I ain’t with that…I think that my song was too serious…I really…don’t appreciate him desecrating the song like that,” Coolio told a reporter at the 1996Grammy Awards, according toVulture. “His record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway…“By 2005, though, Coolio appeared to have reconsidered his stance on Yankovic’s parody.For more on Coolio, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.“There’s a parody law that says you can make a parody of anything you want. The person who owns the original can’t do anything,” the rapper told PEOPLE in 2005. “I let it go. I’m not gonna fight Al. I’m not gonna get into street s— with Weird Al Yankovic.““I sat down, and I really thought it out,” Coolio told students at the Institute of Production & Recording in a 2011 interview, according toYahoo! News. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I was like, ‘Coolio, who the f— do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn’t get mad.’ “After Coolio’s death Wednesday, journalistDan Ozzishared an excerpt of an interview he once did with Coolio onTwitter, during which he asked the late rapper about any lingering resentment toward Yankovic.In the excerpt, which does not specify when the interview happened, Coolio told Ozzi he “let that go so long ago.““Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong. Y’all remember that, everybody out there who reads this s—. Real men and real people should be able to admit when they’re wrong and I was wrong, bro,” Coolio said at the time.“Come on, who the f— am I, bro? He did parodies of Michael Jackson, he did parodies of all kinds of people and I took offense to it because I was being cocky and s— and being stupid and I was wrong and I should’ve embraced that s— and went with it,” he continued.Coolio.Kris Connor/GettyCoolio said in that interview that when he finally listened to “Amish Paradise,” he thought it was “actually funny as s—.““It’s one of those things where I made a wrong call and nobody stopped me. That’s one thing I’m still upset about — my management at the time,” Coolio told Ozzi. “Somebody should’ve stopped me from making that statement because it was dumb. And I think it hurt me a little bit. It made me seem stupid.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Coolio’s longtime manager, Jarez Posey, told PEOPLE that Coolio — born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. — died Wednesday in Los Angeles.According toTMZ, which was first to report the news, Posey said the late musician went to the bathroom at a friend’s house. When he didn’t come out, the friend called his name but he didn’t answer. They then found Coolio on the floor.The friend called for help, per the outlet, and once responders arrived, Coolio was pronounced dead.
Weird Al Yankovicis paying tribute to late rapper Coolio following his sudden death at age 59.
On Wednesday night, Yankovic, 62, posted a simple message in honor of Coolio on bothTwitterandInstagram: a photo of the pair embracing one another at an event.
“RIP Coolio,” Yankovic added about the rapper, whose 1995 Grammy-Award-winning single “Gangsta’s Paradise” inspired his hit satire “Amish Paradise.”
The 1996 parody stands as one of Yankovic’s most popular songs, with over 126 million lifetime views onYouTubeand 30.9 million streams onSpotify.
As Yankovic and otherspaid tribute to Coolioin the hours after his death Wednesday, music fans remembered the feud that emerged between the two over “Amish Paradise,” which initially rubbed Coolio the wrong way.
“I ain’t with that…I think that my song was too serious…I really…don’t appreciate him desecrating the song like that,” Coolio told a reporter at the 1996Grammy Awards, according toVulture. “His record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway…”
By 2005, though, Coolio appeared to have reconsidered his stance on Yankovic’s parody.
For more on Coolio, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.
“There’s a parody law that says you can make a parody of anything you want. The person who owns the original can’t do anything,” the rapper told PEOPLE in 2005. “I let it go. I’m not gonna fight Al. I’m not gonna get into street s— with Weird Al Yankovic.”
“I sat down, and I really thought it out,” Coolio told students at the Institute of Production & Recording in a 2011 interview, according toYahoo! News. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I was like, ‘Coolio, who the f— do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn’t get mad.’ "
After Coolio’s death Wednesday, journalistDan Ozzishared an excerpt of an interview he once did with Coolio onTwitter, during which he asked the late rapper about any lingering resentment toward Yankovic.
In the excerpt, which does not specify when the interview happened, Coolio told Ozzi he “let that go so long ago.”
“Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong. Y’all remember that, everybody out there who reads this s—. Real men and real people should be able to admit when they’re wrong and I was wrong, bro,” Coolio said at the time.
“Come on, who the f— am I, bro? He did parodies of Michael Jackson, he did parodies of all kinds of people and I took offense to it because I was being cocky and s— and being stupid and I was wrong and I should’ve embraced that s— and went with it,” he continued.
Coolio.Kris Connor/Getty
Coolio said in that interview that when he finally listened to “Amish Paradise,” he thought it was “actually funny as s—.”
“It’s one of those things where I made a wrong call and nobody stopped me. That’s one thing I’m still upset about — my management at the time,” Coolio told Ozzi. “Somebody should’ve stopped me from making that statement because it was dumb. And I think it hurt me a little bit. It made me seem stupid.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Coolio’s longtime manager, Jarez Posey, told PEOPLE that Coolio — born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. — died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
According toTMZ, which was first to report the news, Posey said the late musician went to the bathroom at a friend’s house. When he didn’t come out, the friend called his name but he didn’t answer. They then found Coolio on the floor.
The friend called for help, per the outlet, and once responders arrived, Coolio was pronounced dead.
source: people.com
