He’s the rapper who shot to fame with iconic hit Gangsta’s Paradise in the early 1990s.
And now Australian fans are set to enjoy the sounds of rapper Coolio once again as he has announced a slew of tour dates.
The 54-year-old Grammy Award winner rapper will hit a number of locations, including Surfer’s Paradise, Annerley, Mooloolaba, from late February into early March.
‘Gangsta’s Paradise’: ’90s rapper Coolio will has announced he is set to play a number of Australian tour dates from late February into early March
The rapper has toured smaller venues throughout the United States over the past year, playing a number of hits from his back catalogue.
It comes after a number of 1990s hit-makers have toured the country recently, including TLC and Boyz II Men.
Although the rapper’s star has been on the wane for the past few years, the hip-hop artist had a meteoric rise throughout the 1990s.
Hit-maker! The rapper had a string of hits in the 1990s, including Gangsta’s Paradise, which was reached number one throughout the US, UK and Europe
With his signature look, the outlandish singer released Gangster’s Paradise in 1995, with the song topping the chart in the US, UK, France, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
The single itself sold over six million copies worldwide off his four time Platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated 17-track album of the same name.
The rapper, however, was unable to duplicate that level of success, gaining a small amount of recognition with the song ‘I’ll C U When U Get There.’
Career highs! The rapper was successful with a follow-up hit ‘I’ll C U When U Get There’ but later turned to becoming a chef. The rapper later appeared on an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap
He later became a chef and even released a cookbook titled, Cookin’ with Coolio, then later appeared on an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap in 2013.
Last year, after the shock election of Donald Trump, the rapper told Noise11 that he was interested in setting his sights on a political career.
‘Somebody gotta do something man, somebody gotta try (sic),’ the rapper said.
‘We need normal people. We need normal, regular, everyday people in office.
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The rapper was huge in the 1990s, even making a number of cameos. Here he appears on the hit show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which starred a young Melissa Joan Hart
‘Somebody gotta do something man’: After the election of Donald Trump, the rapper showed an interest in politics, adding her might run for elected office