Cookin' with Coolio

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Cookin' with Coolio is a web-based cooking instruction program which starred West Coast rapper Coolio. The show is an offshoot of his reality show Coolio's Rules. It appears on the web video network My Damn Channel{{cite web | last=My Damn Channel | title=Cookin' With Coolio | url=http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel/cookin__with_coolio_674.aspx | accessdate=23 April 2012 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129135757/http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel/cookin__with_coolio_674.aspx | archive-date=29 January 2013 | url-status=dead }} and is produced by Dead Crow Pictures.{{cite web | last=EveryJoe.com | title=Cookin' With Coolio On Internet TV | url=http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/cooking-with-coolio-on-internet-tv/ | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122235129/http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/cooking-with-coolio-on-internet-tv/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 January 2013 | accessdate=23 April 2012 }} The show is also a promotion for a cookbook by Coolio of the same name.{{cite news | last=Boston.com | title=Straight outta Coolio | url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/18/coolio_on_his_love_of_cooking_and_cooking_for_love/ | accessdate = 13 May 2012 | work=The Boston Globe | date=18 November 2009}}

About the host

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Cookin with Coolio was hosted by Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (August 1, 1963 – September 28, 2022), better known by the stage name Coolio. Coolio was an American Grammy Award-winning musician, rapper, actor, and record producer. He was best known for the Grammy Award-winning song "Gangsta's Paradise", and the theme song for Kenan & Kel, a Nickelodeon show from 1996 to 2000.

Coolio often referred to himself as the "ghetto Martha Stewart" and the "black Rachael Ray." He started cooking when he was young, and learned with simple ingredients as he lacked basic necessities to prepare elaborate dishes.

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