Precious little in Coolio’s career had suggested he would even entertain something so bleak as “Gangsta’s Paradise”. “Do I have to use a gat to show you where I’m at?” he rapped on 1991’s Ain’t a Damn ...

Everything changes, however, when a few of Jod's friends fall victim to internal power struggles. He swears revenge, unleashing a wave of violence in which not only the perpetrators suffer badly, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coolio, November 1995. (Credit: Paul Bergen/Redferns) Before he was Coolio, Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was just a kid growing up in ...

The gangster movie genre is as old as cinema itself, with silent era masterpieces like Intolerance and early efforts like Scarface setting the template for future crime dramas. With such a rich ...