Coolio News

A chart-topping, platinum-selling hip-hopartist who had one of the most successful rap songs of all time is coming to Allentown's Crocodile Rock Cafe, the venue just announced.

Michael Bay's Pain & Gain , based very loosely on a true story as told in a series of article in Miami New Times by Pete Collins, comes to its too-long delayed ending as the closing credits are played out to the tune of Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" of 1995 - the same year in which the events dramatized in the film took place.

The best of '90s hip-hop and rap return to Budweiser Events Center on Friday for Retro Jam.

Coolio is accused of getting really nasty. The "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper and recent Wife Swap ?participant ?is facing a misdemeanor charge of battery constituting... Pennsylvania Facts - PA is the Keystone State.

Coolio was arrested April 1 after allegedly pushing his girlfriend, Anabella Chatman, to the ground and punching her in the face, Coolio got in a heated and bloody brawl with the mother of his young son and now is facing a misdemeanor battery charge, Las Vegas prosecutors confirmed Tuesday.