Chef Coolio?!?!?!

[Phatlee]

http://www.theguardian.com/music/20...logue-rights-career-chef?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

As a chef Im kinda annoyed that Coolio (based on his shitty name recognition) will make more from his "best-selling" cookbooks than I will busting my ass in kitchens.

 

[JRace]

Coolio is selling off the rights to his entire music catalogue, including Gangsta's Paradise, in an attempt to fund his new career as a chef. On 28 August, 123 songs will go up on the auction block at the Royalty Exchange, with an estimated sale price of between $134,000 (£85,500) and $225,000 (£143,500). Coolio's catalogue incorporates eight albums spanning 19 years. Although the rapper hasn't cracked the US or UK album charts in a decade and a half, his handful of smash singles, such as 1996's 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New) and 1997's C U When U Get There, are said to generate $23,227 (£14,816) per year in royalties.

Take solace in the fact that his entire 20 yr rap career may only be worth $200,000.

 

[Phatlee]

Thats just the selling of the rights. Gangstas Paradise went quadruple platinum..... If 1,2,3,4 and C U When U Get There can generate $23227 per song per year, that dude can easily pull in $70k a year in just royalties.

 

[944s2]

at least coolio dont masquarade as "mean street gangsta" like rich upper middle class fakes like kanye west etc,,,rapping bout "street stuff" and coming from his background [i believe one of his parents is a harvard professor] seems so hypocritical and fact he seems to act like a spoilt little bitch most of the time adds to it and please dont get me started about the "beastie boys",,both of the above dont have a fucking clue imho,,,sorry for ranting off thread,,,peace and regards s2

 

[yortbogey]

retried Exec... right hear, MOST every Culinarian I know would laugh this guy off the stage....the craft takes years to perfect.... the fool has NO formal skills in this....
any good line-cook could and would blow him away.... let alone a real chef, or a James Beard winner....like my self......

 

[Phatlee]

Yortbogey, one of these days we'll need to talk food. Ive worked with James Beard chefs and its always a privilege and inspiration to bounce ideas off someone with bona fides....

 

[Incognegro]

?? how do you know? have you tried any of his recipe or watched his show? lol

I plan to watch his show soon when i get a chance...

 

[Stoner4Life]

well I plan to not watch his show & will continue to ignore that crap he calls his music.......

but hey that's just me.

 

[Incognegro]

after looking over the site with more info on him...his recipes are valid, and look accurate...his appeals to "the other side of the fence" nothing wrong with that...

I've gonna try some of his recipes..

 

[yortbogey]

if U think for one moment Coolio wrote those recipes... U are HIGHLY mistaken....
thats where all the cost come from.... HE's hired real food writers and food stylist to pull the data and put the project in place .... he's just using he's previous fame and face to make another buck.... since he can NO longer survive in the rap game.....He is trying sum-thing new..... only problem is he doesn't have the background....

wait tell Anthony Bourdain gets a hold of him, and he's book..... that will be a show worth watching....

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

wait tell Anthony Bourdain gets a hold of him, and he's book..... that will be a show worth watching....

HA! I can see Bourdain, getting in one of his goofy moods, and delivering his Coolio critique in a rap...maybe sampled from one of Coolio's "hits."

 

[Incognegro]

wait... ok so even if he didn't personally create the recipes... what's your problem with him? Sound like you guys are bitter because he stole your lunch money lol... from a 3rd party perspective, ya'll sound like a bunch of hating crybabies...

#nuff said

 

[yortbogey]

it has nothing to do w/ him.... HE's just NOT a Chef by the true meaning of the word...
especially amongst Chefs......

 

[Incognegro]

still...there seems to be misplaced anger lol..

I'm a vet of the kitchen myself, and agree with his perspective of the tv chefs for the most part as well.... it's boring lol.

Oh how I miss "Yan can cook!"

 

[Stoner4Life]

still...there seems to be misplaced anger lol..

I'm a vet of the kitchen myself, and agree with his perspective of the tv chefs for the most part as well.... it's boring lol.

Oh how I miss "Yan can cook!"

I don't know enough about his music to fill a sentence but unrelated crossover careers don't intrigue me. a johnny come lately trying to cash in on what's already quite popular.

it's popular because it's interesting, that would be an antonym to boring, but that's just a lifelong cooks perspective, mine.

I've worked in professional kitchens for decades, since the 70s when I considered 5 days of work in my cousins kitchen being worth the 2 days of play on his toys in the Adirondacks. It was up @ 4:30am, get washed & dressed and then drive 50 miles from his home on Great Lk Sacandaga to his restaurant in Schenectady NY 6am-6pm; that's how I willingly spent every vacation I could, I worked.

During the time I was 13/14/15 I used to ride a Greyhound Bus to Schenectady to get up there as I lived in the NYC area. I've done a lot of other things over the years but it always comes back to cooking.

He'll have some built in demographics in his fan base to launch his popularity but I don't think he'll ever give it the attention or time to be considered a chef, having someone train you & issue phony creds don't count for shit. Chefs rise in rank by working in restaurants.

I hope to open my own restaurant next year & I still wouldn't have the marbles to call myself a chef.

 

[Incognegro]

....ok.

being considered a chef is moreorless a term of standardization from others... others consider me a chef... i personally don't really considered myself as one, and I even have schooling and training... but to each his own... i'm really interested in seeing what he does... nice to have a breath of fresh air

 

[Stoner4Life]

I love to tell this story though, 1970 & I'm 13 years old going to work in Hank's kitchen for the first time. Hank turns to me and says "I'm gonna teach you how to make my Italian sausage!" and Hank's Italian sausage was well known even in the Bronx where I was compelled to drag a cooler full of it to friends/family.

Anyway Hank tells me he's gonna teach me to make sausage and then literally shoves a broom into my hand and barks "Now get busy and massage that fucking floor!!!"

yeah I learned how to make the sausage (pronounced sauce-eeetge, 2 syllables) but not on that trip, family or not I started right @ the bottom.


thinking about & writing that story has made me cry a bit, I miss Hank terribly having passed back in '85. I was so fucked up on freebasing that I was forced to either miss his funeral or lose my job for cutting out to attend it. Hank was my moms cousin & so my cousin as well, he treated me like a son as he never married & had no kids.

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

thinking about & writing that story has made me cry a bit, I miss Hank terribly having passed back in '85. I was so fucked up on freebasing that I was forced to either miss his funeral or lose my job for cutting out to attend it. Hank was my moms cousin & so my cousin as well, he treated me like a son as he never married & had no kids.

That's a bummer S4L....such is life, though. I'll bet that in Hank's final days, as he reviewed his life and those in it, that he recalled his interactions with you and smiled.