Review
On his fourth record, rapper/actor/ game-show contestant Coolio rhymes about street life rather than backstage life. And that’s a shame, because at this point, another track about Glocks on the block is far less original than the real dirt on his Celebrity Fear Factor and Weakest Link appearances. Coolio’s great hits — “Gangster’s Paradise,” “Fantastic Voyage” — mixed hot samples with tales of his reformation from thug life. Now he’s 39, and his music recycles familiar ideas. The brassy, Latin-tinged “Shake It Up” is Ludacris’s “Roll Out” with all the catchiness but none of the quirk, and “Sunshine” is hip-hop talkin’ blues à la Everlast. The result of such calculated chart-jacking: an album that’s never less than competent, and never quite inspired.
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