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All songs written or co-written by A. Ivey. Samples include "Hit & Run" (as performed by the Bar-Kays), "The Message" (as performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five), "Coolin Me Out" (as performed by the Isley Brothers) and "Mister Magic" (as performed by Grover Washington, Jr.).
It Takes a Thief
Another superstar ganked by the industry
This album absolutely kicks the snot out of 95%+ of the music to come since. Picking highlights for this album is difficult but here's a couple:
Ghetto Cartoon: Coolio gives you a rather twisted urban fairy tale featuring all the WB and Disney characters, hilarious and deft.
Gangsta's Paradise: The title track to a major movie, and one of they very few rap songs that goes for 'haunting' and achieves it.
Mama, I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta: Told half in telephone conversation and all in style.
Just buy the album already.
Title: It Takes A Thief
Artist: Coolio
Format: CD
Release Date: //1994
List Price: $16.98
Bol prijs: EUR 20,99
Track Listing 1. Fantastic Voyage 2. County Line 3. Mama, I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta 4. Hand On My Nutsac 5. Ghetto Cartoon 6. Smokin' Stix 7. Can-O-Corn 8. U Know Hoo! 9. It Takes A Thief 10. Bring Back Somethin Fo Da Hood 11. N Da Closet 12. On My Way To Harlem 13. Sticky Fingers 14. Thought You Knew 15. Ugly Bitches 16. I Remember
Details
Distributor:
Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:
Studio
Recording Mode:
Stereo
SPAR Code:
n/a
Album Notes Personnel: Coolio, Billy Boy, LeShaun, Junior P, PS, J-Ro (vocals); CS Coleman (various instruments, vocals); Doug Rasheed (various instruments); Stan "The Guitar Man" Jones (guitar, bass); Joe Blow (horns); Clinton Sands (bass); Dobbs The Wino, Crazy Toones (scratches); Gat, The Homies, Spoon (background vocals). Producers include: Dobbs The Wino, Rashad Coles, Billy Boy, Crazy Toones, CS Coleman. All songs written or co-written by A. Ivey. Samples include "Hit & Run" (as performed by the Bar-Kays), "The Message" (as performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five), "Coolin Me Out" (as performed by the Isley Brothers) and "Mister Magic" (as performed by Grover Washington, Jr.). "Fantastic Voyage" was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. "Fantastic Voyage," the lead single off Coolio's debut IT TAKES A THIEF, became one of those rare musical commodities in the summer of 1994: a commercial hip-hop smash that also carried a street/club credibility. Driven by a sample of a Lakeside song of the same name, "Voyage" showed what could come of a marriage of West Coast rap productions--a slinky, bass-heavy dance groove ala Dr. Dre--and a post-gangsta lyrical mentality. The emerging single was eaten up by the radio, critics and jeep-hounds, and Coolio's aggresively pensive stance on the hood--that of a reformed crack-addict turned concerned parent--became one to emulate within the community. There are other tracks on IT TAKES A THIEF that offer a notably different outlook than what we've come to expect from South Central LA's lyrical outlaws. "County Line," for instance, takes a swipe at rappers who wax poetic about "getting paid" but can be spotted doing so on the welfare line; and "I Remember," which features guest rappers J-Ro and Billy Boy, is a decidedly good-natured reminiscence about a pre-driveby life in the hood. And while Coolio is by-no-means above scattering spiteful disses, IT TAKES A THIEF demonstrates that his venemous reactions aren't nearly as knee-jerk as those of his peers.
Industry Reviews 3.5 Stars - Good - ...THIEF establishes him as a rapper who's got the skills to be taken seriously, even though he is as comical as Biz Markie... Rolling Stone Magazine (08/25/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Coolio is a rude but charismatic, eccentrically coiffured rapper with a mellow sound, Snoop-influenced, dysfunctional charm and a rhythmic line in expletives... Q Magazine (10/01/1994)
Ranked as NME's Album Of The Month - ...these are true funk grooves....Snap a piece off and chew it over, and bet your boots it'll satisfy your funky urges... New Musical Express (11/12/1994)
...in a genre sorely missing a sense of humor, he's a welcome presence... - Rating: B+
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ROLLING STONE BIO
Coolio Biography
Coolio was one of the first rappers to balance pop accessibility with gritty, street-level subject matter and language. Yet despite his nods to hardcore, his music was clearly more happy-go-lucky at heart; he shared the West Coast scene's of laid-back '70s funk, and that attitude translated to his music far more often than Dr. Dre's Death Row/G-funk axis. Most of Coolio's hits were exuberant, good-time party anthems (save for his moody signature song "Gangsta's Paradise"), and he created a goofy, ingratiating persona in the videos that supported them. He was also popular with younger audiences and became a favorite on Nickelodeon comedy shows thanks to the thin, spidery dreadlocks that stuck straight out of his head in all directions. In the process, Coolio took the sound of West Coast hip-hop to wider audiences than ever before, including those put off by -- or too young for -- the rougher aspects of G-funk. A combination of inactivity, legal troubles, and newly emerging rap stars stole Coolio's thunder in the late '90s, but by that point he'd helped lay the groundwork for an explosion of hardcore-themed pop-rap (most notably Puff Daddy's Bad Boy empire), and played an underappreciated role in making hip-hop the mainstream pop music of choice for a new generation.
Coolio was born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. on August 1, 1963, in the South Central L.A. area of Compton. As a young boy, he was small, asthmatic, highly intelligent, and a bookworm, which often made life outside the home difficult. His parents divorced when he was 11, and searching for a way to fit in at school, he started running with the Baby Crips and getting into trouble. Even so, he still wasn't really accepted and was never formally inducted into the gang; he tried to make up for it by creating a menacing, unstable persona and carrying weapons to school, and his once-promising scholastic career wound up falling victim to his violent, poverty-stricken environment. At 17, he spent several months in jail for larceny (apparently after trying to cash a money order that had actually been stolen by one of his friends). After high school, he studied at Compton Community College; he also began taking his high school interest in rap to the stage and took his performing name from a dozen contests in which someone called him "Coolio Iglesias." He became a regular on Los Angeles rap radio station KDAY and cut one of the earlier SoCal rap singles, "Watcha Gonna Do." Unfortunately, he also fell prey to crack cocaine addiction, which derailed his music career. Coolio entered rehab and straightened himself out by taking a job as a firefighter in the forests of northern California. Upon returning to L.A. a year later, he worked various odd jobs -- including security at Los Angeles International Airport -- while getting his rap career back on track.
Coolio cut another single, "You're Gonna Miss Me," that went nowhere. However, he began making connections in the L.A. hip-hop scene, meeting up with WC and the Maad Circle and guesting on their 1991 debut album Ain't a Damn Thang Changed. He then joined a collective dubbed the 40 Thevz and wound up landing a deal with Tommy Boy. Accompanied by DJ Brian "Wino" Dobbs, Coolio recorded his debut album, It Takes a Thief, which was released in 1994. The lead single, "County Line," was a humorous recounting of the indignities of welfare, but the record really took off when "Fantastic Voyage," a rap remake of the funk classic by Lakeside, was released as a single. Accompanied by a typically playful video, "Fantastic Voyage" rocketed to number three on the pop charts, pushing It Takes a Thief into the Top Ten and past the platinum sales mark. Many critics and listeners welcomed his friendlier, gentler approach to the gangsta-dominated West Coast sound, in spite of the fact that some of his album cuts tackled hardcore themes in a similarly profane manner.
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Just when it looked like rap would completely succumb to the violent hyperbole and mean-spirited "realness" of gangsta rap, new blood entered the scene in 1994 to nudge the genre back toward friendlier turf. That new blood included Nas, Craig Mack, and Coolio, whose It Takes a Thief starts with the easy-rolling funk of Lakeside's "Fantastic Voyage" and goes from there, infusing rap with a much-needed sense of humor and the promise of good times. While Coolio is no simp -- "County Line" playfully explores the hassles of welfare, while some tracks dip into gangsta territory -- he manages to make rap a cool, inclusive journey.
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1. Fantastic Voyage 2. County Line 3. Mama, I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta 4. Hand On My Nutsac 5. Ghetto Cartoon 6. Smokin' Stix 7. Can-O-Corn 8. U Know Hoo! 9. It Takes A Thief 10. Bring Back Somethin Fo Da Hood 11. N Da Closet 12. On My Way To Harlem 13. Sticky Fingers 14. Thought You Knew 15. Ugly Bitches 16. I Remember
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