Top 30 Coolio Quotes

I’m never doing a new album. I’ll probably do nothing but singles. I’m as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don’t know how much longer I’ll be doing it. It’s not really fun anymore.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

We take pride in what we do.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It’s what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it’s pretty much nigh-on impossible.

‘Gangsta rap’ is a derogatory label.

I’ve basically got an album full of singles.

I’m still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that’s gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that’s going to cost you a little more. The sky’s the limit after that.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

Because I’m a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I’m rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I’m innocent. I’ve done nothing. I’m a nice guy.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas – because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I’d only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.

I’m a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I’m a terrible loser.

‘Shaka’ is my catchphrase. Emeril got ‘bam,’ I got ‘Shaka.’

I’m actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I’ve got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I know I’m just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I’m very humble.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn’t enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn’t think I could follow her.

If it wasn’t for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

I just think it’s my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

People treat me nice ‘cos I treat them nice.

I’ve been rapping since 1979.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

I wasn’t driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.