"There's a new rapper every day, and a lot of people have judged me who have never heard me." "If I listened to what people said about me, man, I'd be crying all the time," Coolio said. DeVille and a few "Deal or No Deal" models. Recently, he booked Coolio for his own birthday party with Poison guitarist C.C.
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"He gets 20k for performances plus the expenses, on many cases, but that rate is not set in stone."Įsterman has a reputation of hooking up "D-list" stars with highly paid gigs at pool parties, political fundraisers and other private affairs.
"They vary from offer to offer," Esterman told. Mike Esterman, Coolio's booking agent, confirmed that the rapper performs for top dollar "more overseas than in the States." Like Hollywood actors whose stars fade - from David Hasselhoff of "Baywatch" to Tara Reid of "American Pie" - their stars still glimmer in other countries. Hating makes me strong and gives me the power to write better."Ĭoolio isn't the only rapper finding a second act abroad: Vanilla Ice and Cisqo are now on tour in Australia. All the haters out there, the critics, I don't give a. "I can go song for song, show for show against anyone on the planet. "I'm still here, I am not going anywhere," Coolio told. "He was worried they were going to miss their connection."Ĭoolio, 44, corrected the newspaper's version of events, claiming he was actually headed for a fashion show performance, and the suggestion that he was rude was "hateful." "He came back from first class to harangue his entourage," the newspaper reported. Just last week, the New York Post's spotted Coolio during a three-hour delay on a Delta airlines flight from LaGuardia Airport en route to Russia for what the paper reported was a billionaire's party. And even with a 50 to 1 ratio of sheep to humans in this one-time Danish colony, the audience was overwhelmingly human.Ĭoolio, a one-hit wonder when "Gangsta's Paradise" made a splash in 1995, launched his career more than a quarter century ago in 1979, but he and other D-list rappers are finding lucrative opportunities in the most unlikely venues overseas. "But I hope they'll enjoy their stay, and that a lot of people will go and listen to them."Īpparently, they did. "The arrival of these two names doesn't make my fingers tingle," someone wrote on.