We kinda helped each other out I might help him get on a show I was working or vice versa. I did a lot of bartending gigs for different concerts all over the place-shows he was on in Vegas, Phoenix. Tell me how that friendship looked over the years. He kept coming back… man, we were friends for like 12 years at this point, it’s kinda crazy. He was so appreciative of it, because a lot of the people at the show didn’t really know or care who he was. I was just geeking out that it was Coolio, and I had to tell him that.
In 2010, I started bartending at the Cabooze, and he came there for a show with KottonMouth Kings and Insane Clown Posse. Tell me when Coolio became more than a character, more than an entertainer, when you got to know him. A lot of people, including myself, you forget that people like that are human, and they’re not just characters in your nostalgic memories. Yeah, I was born in 1987, and all our childhoods, that was like imprinted in your brains growing up. Or "Gangsta’s Paradise," I can’t even remember how young I was when I first heard that song. Tell me about the first time you even became aware of Coolio as a musician, like on the radio or whatever. I’m really sorry for the loss of your friend. We connected late Thursday with Braswell to hear about the personal side of Coolio, including his propensity to crash pedal pub bachelorette parties in downtown Minneapolis. Sadly, she missed his calls in the hours before he was found unresponsive in a friend's L.A. Braswell even Facetimed with Coolio as recently as Monday. They'd stay in close contact over the years, never going more than a month or two without catching up.
But he was also a good friend, one the Minneapolis bartender met 12 years ago at the Cabooze during, of all things, an Insane Clown Posse show. RIP to a wildly popular but still unsung great."įor Marianne Braswell, Coolio was all of that. possessed "an undeniable star quality, humor, charisma, and a gift for making street tales mainstream without sanitizing them," wrote music critic Jeff Weiss, adding: "He was one of the few crossover artists who could transcend the compromises that most seem destined to make.
Coolio, who died Wednesday at 59, has been honored in death like the hip-hop heavyweight he was in the '90s― in the New York Times, on NPR, by his celebrity pals.
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