Coolio died without a will, 7 kids to inherit $300K estate

[Stick Up Kid]

I dont know bout this. Most tour really well that I see. Royalties? You may have a point.

Touring wasn’t a big thing in the 1990s

Until he the Hard Knock Life & Up In Smoke Tour in the late 1990s

 

[banner34]

Let’s this be lesson to all the celebrities having so many kids by different women.

 

[FaTaL]

Breh this don't make sense.....all his albums went Gold or multi Platinum.....It takes a Theif went Plat.....Gangsta's paradise went 5x Plat worldwide.....My Soul went Gold, plus Gangsta's Paradise was arguably the biggest song of 95' and won a Grammy.

Coolio shoulda been eatin' off those royalties from those albums alone plus the Gangsta's paradise single, nevermind all his movie credits.

It makes perfect sense if he signed a 360

 

[O.G.B]

Not after taxes and in today's economy. That can get spent up in a year easily.

After taxes

Estates this small don’t get taxed. This money is free and clear

Estate taxes vary from state to state. California has no state estate or inheritance tax regardless of how small/large the estate is.

 

[concise]

Breh this don't make sense.....all his albums went Gold or multi Platinum.....It takes a Theif went Plat.....Gangsta's paradise went 5x Plat worldwide.....My Soul went Gold, plus Gangsta's Paradise was arguably the biggest song of 95' and won a Grammy.

Coolio shoulda been eatin' off those royalties from those albums alone plus the Gangsta's paradise single, nevermind all his movie credits.

It does make sense.
His biggest hits were carried by the samples, even using most of the chorus structures from the original songs.

The Oral History of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'

Coolio, singer L.V., producer Doug Rasheed, music video director Antoine Fuqua and "Weird Al" Yankovic tell the untold story of "Gangsta's Paradise."

www.rollingstone.com

Coolio: But the thing was, we still had to get Stevie to sign off on it. When Stevie heard it, he was like, “No, no way. I’m not letting my song be used in some gangster song.” So that was a problem. And it just so happened that my wife, she knew Stevie’s brother — I guess he had been trying to tap that for years [laughs]. She made a call to him, got a meeting with Stevie and talked him into it. His only stipulation was that I had to take the curse words out. I had two places where I had the N-word in it, and two places where it was, like, “fukked in the ass,” or something like that. And Stevie said that if I’d take that out, he would sign off on it. Unbeknownst to me, the other condition was that he wanted 95 percent of the publishing! Had I known that, I’m not sure I would have went ahead with that — but I don’t know, maybe I would have [laughs]. So that’s how we ended up clearing it. Disney put “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the movie, they started testing it again, and the test scores went from like 40 to 45 percent to 75 percent — 75 percent of the people all of a sudden liked this movie. That’s when Disney started the marketing; they said, “We’ve gotta shoot a video!”

Stevie took 95 percent for Gangsta's Paradise.

 

[get these nets]

It does make sense.
His biggest hits were carried by the samples, even using most of the chorus structures from the original songs.

The Oral History of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'

Coolio, singer L.V., producer Doug Rasheed, music video director Antoine Fuqua and "Weird Al" Yankovic tell the untold story of "Gangsta's Paradise."

www.rollingstone.com

Stevie took 95 percent for Gangsta's Paradise.

Thanks, didn't know the particulars, but the truth is consistent with what I heard before.

He did a great performance with LV and Stevie Wonder one award ceremony. They did a medley of Past time Paradise / Gangsta's Paradise.

Stevie allowing you to sample his music is a big deal, because he turned down SEVERAL acts who wanted his music for songs promoting negativity.

Had this recorded and saved. Glad that somebody uploaded it



Ain't no racists living in Paradise, Ain't no gangsters living in Paradise