Bethan Cole, i-D, January 1996
Once the grim fictions of gangsta rap were Coolio's reality: gangs, guns, crack addiction, jail. Now he's swapped sin for salvation and notoriety for celebrity. So why has he left his heart in the mean streets of the ghetto?
Total word count of piece: 1796
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