Posthumous Coolio Single Do You Want It Featuring Katija Released
Friday, 28 October 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Rose Media
A posthumous Coolio track has been shared.
An infectious mix of horns and beats, the bold, brash Do You Want It features 26-year-old Australian artist Katija, and arrives exactly one month after the rapper, producer and actor died aged 59. Katija said:
"It was one of those times in life where the stars just aligned. I had just started working on my first few singles at Cosmic Bounce Records Studio’s in Brunswick with my talented producer, KB. Coolio was here in Melbourne for the Made In The 90s Tour and he was introduced to the studio by Scorpion Media who had met him behind the scenes at the Bliss N Esso concert where he performed Gangsta’s Paradise in February this year.
"Coolio had a creative itch to start writing music again, you could see it and feel it in his energy. Coolio said he had been to other studios around Melbourne, yet had never finished a song and said it wasn’t until he walked into CBR that he finally felt at home. It was the night of my video clip shoot for my single Lullaby, and here was Coolio just chilling on the couch hanging out after he’d finished a recording session with KB. Coolio stayed the entire night to hang out with us and even started writing his own verses to my song. Two weeks later Coolio was in another session with KB working on one of the few songs they had started together and he decided Do You Want It needed a female feature artist. As we had already started to develop a relationship, I came by the studio, sat in on the session and then began to put pen to paper and write the female version of his verses as my reply. Before I knew it, I was in the recording booth with Coolio mentoring me on how to execute the lyrics on his track."
KB added: "Coolio saw something special in Katija before she even stepped into the booth, he’d tried to finish songs with feature artists, but had trouble finding artists who could match his energy, but Katija did just that."
Coolio, well known for his 1995 hit Gangsta's Paradise, was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a friend's house in Los Angeles on September 28. The cause of his death has not yet been revealed, however, it was reported that medics believed he may have suffered a heart attack.
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