19. "It's a trip to think that he didn't really blow up until he was 30+" In response to In response to 0
His solo career took off in the summer of 1994.
And he was older than almost all of his contemporaries and peers. Older than everyone in Run-DMC. Older than all three Fat Boys. In fact, of the rappers who really first blew up in the mid to latee '80s, I think the only ones he was younger than were Chuck D, Ice-T, Kool Moe Dee, and Schoolly-D. And even those guys got "big" hen they were still in their 20s.
They only say rap is a young man's game, but it's kind of amazing that Coolio didn't blow up until he reached what was then considered hip-hop middle age.
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