Coolio is one of the world’s best-known rappers, his most famous songs doing as much to popularise hip hop as any single tracks before or since. His skill has been to make gritty, grimy rap accessible to an audience that might other- wise have recoiled from such authentic street-level music, and he has proven himself a rap artist with staying power and a bountiful catalogue to his name, as well as an actor, producer and all-round ghetto ambassador.
This Essential Collection contains all Coolio’s UK Top 20 hits: the Worldwide smash and UK No.1 Gangsta’s Paradise, as well as Too Hot, Fantastic Voyage, 1–2–3–4 (Sumpin’ New), Hit Em, C U When U Get There and Ooh La La.