Music
Coolio says racist cops tried to shut down his PornHub music video
by Tyler Munro
September 8, 2014
Coolio’s career has gotten increasingly weird post “Gangster’s Paradise.” But while we took his misspelled Juggalo tattoo and desire to sell back catalogue off to fund a bizarre-but-successful cooking career as the breaking point of his sanity, the barely-haired rapper’s reinvention as a prolific porn-peddling poon-hound is his weirdest move yet.
Earlier this summer, the rapper was rumoured to have signed a record deal with PornHub, and while that was quickly debunked, he still collaborated with the popular porn proliferators on “Take It to the Hub,” a song seemingly written exclusively about jacking off. That’s not the weird part.
In an interview with Vice, Coolio says the video was nearly shut down by a police force that “didn’t take kindly to black people being in their city.”
“We told them what we were doing and that it was private, and they were like, ‘We don’t care,'” said Coolio. “There’s nothing going on that should be a problem with anybody, so why are you even here?’ [The cops said], ‘If you guys don’t leave, somebody’s going to jail.'”
Yikes.
Not that it stopped the bizarre video from being made. Coolio says the crew branched off to a grocery store to eat popsicles before delving into his sexual preferences. Among them: Not doing it in the butt, women putting vodka bottles in their “cha-chas” and, uh… Let’s just leave it at that.
The video is below, but it’s obviously very NSFW—unless you work at PornHub, I guess.
