''Cookin' with Coolio'' is a web-based cooking instruction program which starred West Coast rapper

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. The show is an offshoot of the now cancelled ''

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''. It appears on the web video network

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and is produced by Dead Crow Pictures. The show is also a promotion for a cookbook by Coolio of the same name.

About the host

''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 "

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", and the theme song for ''

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'', a

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show from 1996 to 2000. Coolio often referred to himself as the "ghetto

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" and the "black

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." 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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