Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coolio, November 1995. (Credit: Paul Bergen/Redferns) Before he was Coolio, Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was just a kid growing up in ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names in the 1990s with hit songs such as "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died in Los Angeles Wednesday at the age ...

At age 62, Doug Rasheed has enough self-awareness to know how his accomplishments in the music industry might be perceived by consumers of today’s most popular artists and songs. So when younger ...

So that day, I pulled out that Stevie Wonder “Pastime Paradise” sample. This was in mid-1994. Stevie’s Songs in the Key of Life is one of my favorite albums. I grew up on that music. I knew that if I ...