Coolio Was Set to Headline First Vegas Residency Present Earlier than Dying

Coolio had quite a lot of issues within the works earlier than his sudden passing final week — together with the actual fact he was about to headline his first ever Vegas residency this month … TMZ has discovered.

Shortly earlier than he died, Coolio was really in talks with a manufacturing firm known as Fan Rebel — which produces an ongoing Vegas residency present known as Boombox!, held on the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & On line casino … this in line with FB’s Chief Inventive Officer, Jimmy Maynes.

Boombox! tends to specialise in old-school hip hop acts from the ’80s and ’90s — and have booked massive names like CeeLo Inexperienced, Tone Loc, and others — so it is proper up Coolio’s alley .. and precisely why Maynes and co. had been negotiating to get him onstage.

Maynes tells us the plan was to have Coolio are available in and head the present beginning on the finish of October and operating by way of the second week of November … for a complete of 10 days, with one efficiency per day at 5 days every week. In different phrases, ten live shows.

We’re advised Coolio would’ve been one in all a handful of MCs — he’d be the headliner — and Maynes says he would’ve solely completed 3 songs when he was up. The tracks that had been being thought of … “Gangsta’s Paradise,” ‘1, 2, 3, 4,’ and “C U When U Get There.”

As for the specifics of what Coolio had in thoughts … it is fairly fascinating. Maynes tells us Coolio made some requests for the stage for his set — together with a wide range of props, upwards of 10 dancers, a 2-story background display for visuals and two to a few outfit modifications.

We’re advised Coolio wished his headlining set to be a glance again on his story, and was excited for this subsequent chapter of his profession.

In fact, his dying put an abrupt halt to issues — with Maynes telling us they’re now scrapping that late October window and hoping to select it again up in December with a complete new lineup. Certainly, Coolio passing away threw ’em for a loop.