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The precocious Coolio, who died connected Sept. 28, volition inactive look connected a aboriginal occurrence of Hulu's upcoming Futurama reboot. Get each of the details astir his posthumous quality here.
Futurama is keeping Coolio's bequest alive.
The precocious rapper, who died connected Sept. 28, volition inactive dependable the quality of KwanzaaBot connected an episode of Hulu's upcoming Futurama reboot, producer David X. Cohen told Entertainment Weekly.
Coolio besides recorded immoderate Futurama-themed rapping, which volition aerial implicit the extremity credits of the occurrence erstwhile the reboot hits the streamer successful 2023.
"All of america astatine Futurama nonstop our sincere condolences to Coolio's family, friends, and fans. He was 1 of our favourite guests, ever upbeat and enthusiastic," Cohen wrote to EW successful a statement. "This quality was particularly shocking since helium looked and sounded large erstwhile we saw him successful the workplace conscionable a fewer weeks ago, for what was an particularly amusive session. I thanked him for returning to bash the portion erstwhile again, and helium said, 'Everybody loves KwanzaaBot.' It was an grant to person gotten the accidental to enactment with him."
Coolio archetypal voiced KwanzaaBot, who traveled the satellite handing retired Kwanzaa literature, successful a December 2001 occurrence of Futurama titled "A Tale of Two Santas." KwanzaaBot besides appeared successful the 2007 movie Bender's Big Score and 2010's The Futurama Holiday Spectacular.
Futurama primitively ran connected Fox for 7 seasons from 1999 to 2013.
After his tragic passing was announced, tributes to the rapper—best known for his 1995 Grammy-winning opus "Gangsta's Paradise"—started to rotation in.
"This is bittersweet news," Ice Cube tweeted. "I witnesser archetypal manus this man's grind to the apical of the industry. Rest In Peace @Coolio."
Martin Lawrence tweeted, "My deepest condolences and prayers spell retired to the household of @Coolio #rip."
Michelle Pfeiffer remembered Coolio, whose opus "Gangsta's Paradise" was connected the soundtrack to her 1995 movie Dangerous Minds, saying successful part, "He won a Grammy for his superb opus connected the soundtrack—which I deliberation was the crushed our movie saw truthful overmuch success. I retrieve him being thing but gracious. 30 years aboriginal I inactive get chills erstwhile I perceive the song."
Coolio was 59 years old.
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The 20-episode Futurama reboot—featuring archetypal dependable actors John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman—will deed Hulu sometime successful 2023.
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