Weird Al Pays Tribute to Coolio After Resolving Feud With Late Rapper

Weird Al Yankovic paid tribute to chap instrumentalist Coolio following the rapper’s death earlier this week astatine the property of 59. Taking to his Twitter precocious Wednesday nighttime (September 28), Weird Al shared an adorable photograph of himself hugging Coolio with the caption “RIP Coolio.” The benignant motion was noticed by fans, arsenic the brace erstwhile had a celebrated feud implicit Al’s parody of 1 of Coolio’s songs.

Back successful 1995, Coolio rapidly gained worldwide designation with his immense deed “Gangsta Paradise.” At the time, the opus was everywhere, including the soundtrack for the Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds. (And it’s inactive fashionable today: the opus has been streamed much than 1 cardinal times connected some Spotify and YouTube). “I thought it was going to beryllium a hood record,” Coolio told The Voice successful 2017, per BBCNews. “I ne'er thought it would crossover the mode that it did – to each ages, races, genres, countries and generations.”

It besides spawned a hilarious imitation successful Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise,” which caused the feud, arsenic Coolio’s manager said helium had approved of the parody earlier it was released, portion Coolio claimed helium was ne'er made alert of it, according to the outlet. Obviously, with the touching tribute, Weird Al was capable to determination past the feud. And, according to euphony writer Dan Ozzi, truthful was Coolio, arsenic Dan shared a tweet astir a past interrogation with the precocious star, who said helium was successful a bully spot with Weird Al astatine the time.

The precocious rapper Coolio and Weird Al Yankovic settled their years-long feud implicit a parody song. (Kevork Djansezian/AP/Shutterstock)

“I fto that spell truthful agelong ago,” Coolio said, per Dan’s tweet. “Let maine accidental this: I apologized to Weird Al a agelong clip agone and I was wrong. Y’all retrieve that, everybody retired determination who reads this s***.”

The Grammy victor went connected to accidental “real people” should beryllium capable to admit erstwhile they are wrong. “I was wrong, bro. Come on, who the f*** americium I, bro?” Coolio continued. “He did parodies of Michael Jackson, helium did parodies of each kinds of radical and I took discourtesy to it due to the fact that I was being cocky and s*** and being anserine and I was incorrect and I should’ve embraced that s*** and went with it.”

“I listened to it a mates years aft that and it’s really comic arsenic s***,” Coolio added. “It’s 1 of those things wherever I made a incorrect telephone and cipher stopped me. That’s 1 happening I’m inactive upset about—my absorption astatine the time. Somebody should’ve stopped maine from making that connection due to the fact that it was dumb. And I deliberation it wounded maine a small bit. It made maine look stupid.”