Today on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ with rapper, Coolio, where he addressed everything from his recent arrest to what he gave up to be a better role model for his son.
Filmed in New York and airing weekdays exclusively on FOX owned and operated stations, ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ will be televised in New York on WNYW FOX 5 at 10:00 a.m. (ET) and air in Los Angeles/KTTV FOX 11 at 1:00 p.m. (PT); Dallas/KDFW FOX 4 at 11:00 a.m. (CT); and Detroit/WJBK FOX 2 at 12:00 p.m. (ET).
Here are a few soundbites from today’s show!
Coolio (who stars in an Internet Cooking series called “Cooking With Coolio” on My Damn Channel) on how he became interested in cooking:
Coolio: The reason I started cooking so much…my mother passed away quite some time ago and for a while, I didn’t enjoy food. My mother cooked so well that other people’s food didn’t excite me, so I was eating to live. So I wasn’t really enjoying my food, know what I mean…so I had to go out of my way to really recreate most of my mother’s recipes and I just took out all the cholesterol and vegetable oil.
Coolio on his favorite hip-hop today:
WW: What do you have to say about these new rappers today? Who bumps in your ride?
C: I’m gonna be honest with you, I’m not listening to a whole bunch of hip hop and it’s not because cats can’t rap, it’s because cats can’t rap. (laughs) I like Rick Ross…I love Nas…I like T.I.
WW: Are you close with anybody old school or new school?
C: I like Snoop Dogg, because he’s always the same. I like Treach from Naughty By Nature…we do a lot of shows together…to be honest with you, I don’t have any celebrity friends really.
On why he quit using marijuana a year ago:
C: My son started knowing “the chief” too well, so you know…you got to lead by example. So, I had to let the chief go.
Coolio on his June 2008 arrest:
WW: You were arrested last month.
C: Yeah.
WW: How did that all work out because they said you owe child support? I was shocked. You’re too old to not take care of your kids.
C: Hold on, hold on. My youngest child is 12. I’ve never been behind in my child support. What it was is, you know the D.A. in L.A….they do everything by computer. So, they made some kind of mistake. From 2006…and they never took it out of the computer.
WW: Oh my gosh, so are you suing them for not take care of paperwork?
C: Yeah well, I mean I could sue the D.A. but that’s a whole other can of worms right there. So under advisement of my lawyer, they just told me to let it go.
