Coolio in 1995. Paul Bergen/Redferns, via Getty Images. Coolio died, as I’m sure you’ve all heard by now. I mentioned to a friend who’s also stuck in the ’90s that it seems like it’s been a bad run of rappers from our high school days passing away, mostly last…

Coolio during the 1999 Toyota Grand Prix Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach, Calif. Photo: SGranitz/WireImage. Coolio will always be best known for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but the Compton rapper was a staple of ’90s hip-hop before becoming a reality TV regular in the next decade. The 59-year-old artist, who died…

Redman at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Aug. 26, 2019. Getty Images. For the last few weeks I’ve written some pretty decent columns. Uncharacteristically good, in fact. Usually I just dig up a bunch of ’90s songs I like or…