Coolio Opened the Doors of Pop Success to Modern Hip Hop
But many of them owe a good part of their the Doors success to the door that Coolio opene when he releas ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ in 1995. The song, which was originally part of the soundtrack of the film ‘Dangerous Minds’, broke with the idea that only the sillier side of hip-hop was the one that could make it to the radio and al an entire generation to tell their experiences with violence and poverty to the masses. When ‘Gangta’s Paradise’…
