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The Meaning Behind Coolio’s Funkadelic ‘Fantastic Voyage’

Alli Patton

If you’re only here for the infectious slide, slide, slippity-slide in the chorus, the “Fantastic Voyage” is leaving without you. A journey through the harsh realities of life on the streets and an escape from them in search of some semblance of an “American Dream,” Coolio’s 1994 hit is a poetic mission statement, a dream of hope for the future dressed up in elastic grooves and funk-fueled rhythms.

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The Meaning and Origin

Part Lakeside’s 1981 tune of the same name, part The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There,” “Fantastic Voyage” borrows the funk of the former and the hopeful escapism of the latter to create something wholly Coolio.

Lakeside’s thumping groove carried Coolio’s tune, giving it a cruising laid-back vibe that offered a bright buoyancy to the grim realities painted by the lyrics. When the artist first cut the track, he said in a 1994 interview with The Baltimore Sun “It was cool. I had some catchy phrases in there, and it was funny, too.” His label also thought the single was good, however, with some lyrical tweaking they believed it could be great.

Not knowing where to go from there, the artist explained “One day, we were listening to some oldies, and this Staple Singers song came on … Right away, soon as I heard it, I said, ‘That’s what I can write it like.’ And I wrote it in about two hours.”

I know a place / Ain’t nobody cryin’ / Ain’t nobody worried / Ain’t no smilin’ faces / Lyin’ to the races , opens the gospel-tinged tune. The 1972 soul serenade “I’ll Take You There” is often interpreted as a reference to civil rights. The songstresses describe a world after the movement has succeeded, a world in which there are no more tears or no more need for worry or fear.

“I’ll Take You There” helped take Coolio’s “Fantastic Voyage” to new depths, giving the song the push toward the multi-dimensional musical journey we know it as today.

When “Fantastic Voyage” arrived, it was a welcome change from the commercialized rap that dominated the mainstream during that time. “I been tired for a long time of superficial, fake, made-up rap that ain’t coming from the heart,” Coolio told the Sun . “It’s all for money and shock value. I ain’t with that, man. When I wrote my album, I wasn’t really aiming for anything but making the kind of album I wanted to make. That was what was most important to me, being able to do exactly what I wanted to do.”

His release of the 1994 album, It Takes a Thief , was far more personal than anything else being brought to the genre. “Most rappers, they only talk about one side of their personality,” he explained. “If they’re a gangsta rapper, then that’s all they talk about. Or if they’re a lover, that’s all they talk about … I just tried to show all sides of my personality, that’s all. Just so it could be more real. I just wanted to make it well-rounded.”

“Fantastic Voyage” offered the perfect deep dive into Coolio’s personal side. The song championed coming together. Like The Staples Singers classic from which it took inspiration, the song ventured to a place where differences like race and class weren’t obstacles. Opening with:

Come on y’all let’s take a ride don’t you say shit just get inside It’s time to take your ass on another kind of trip coz you can’t have the hop if you don’t have the hip grab your gat with the extra clip and, close your eyes and hit the switch We’re going to a place where everybody kick it kick it, kick it, yeah… that’s the ticket

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage, he sings in the chorus, flanked by the catchy slide slide slippity-slide . The song continues with the same dream, imagining a place where Coolio and his family can live without fear, a place where there ain’t no bloodin’, ain’t no crippin’, and where it really don’t matter if you’re white or black .

I’m tryin’ to find a place where I can live my life and maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice, a place where my kids can play outside without livin’ in fear of a drive-by

Coolio raps Life is a bitch and then you die / still tryin’ to get a peace of the apple pie , chronicling a hard life that asks a lot in order to overcome it. He continues:

you gotta have heart son, if you wanna go, watch this sweet chariot swing low ain’t nobody cryin` ain’t nobody dyin ain’t nobody worryin’, everybody’s tryin nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’ if you wanna have something, you better start frontin’ what ya gonna do when the 5 roll by you better be ready, so you can ride

When you’re living in a city it’s do or die , Coolio explains as the song comes to a close with its bouncing chorus.

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage

The Music Video

The song’s accompanying music video opens with Coolio napping in a recliner on his front porch. A phone call from his friend Spoon wakes him. Asking about a trip to the beach, Spoon is quickly cut off by the rapper who responds annoyed, saying “We ain’t got no car,” looking out at the bicycle in disrepair in his driveway.

Suddenly, a mysterious man straight out of the ’70s appears, draped in a leisure suit and wielding a cane. With the flick of his cane, the man turns the bike into a blue 1965 Chevrolet Impala convertible car with hydraulics. Now with transportation, Coolio picks up his friends on the way to the beach and a “Fantastic Voyage” ensues.

The car is transformed back into the bicycle in the driveway as the video ends. The events of the day were merely a dream as Coolio is again woken up by Spoon calling to ask why he hung up on him, still trying to sell him on a beach trip. Coolio reminds him that they have no car, hanging up once again.

The rapper looks out at the bike to see something surprising hanging from the bike’s front wheel hub.

Coolio is no stranger to being parodied , but this time he joined in. In 2018, Chrysler used “Fantastic Voyage” to promote the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, releasing an ad disguised as a music video. Cringingly called “Vantastic Voyage” and featuring the rapper himself, the video spoofs the original, nearly frame-by-frame.

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Goodbye to the late great Coolio , one of the Nineties’ top hitmakers, and one of the best-loved voices in West Coast hip-hop or anywhere in Nineties music. The Compton-raised MC died way too young on Wednesday night , at the age of 59. Coolio blew up in the summer of 1994 with his epochal hit “ Fantastic Voyage ,” a total game changer, making him an icon for his deadpan humor, wild braids, and playful beats. It was a blast of West Coast G-funk, but it was a dance-floor call to the party people, who weren’t getting much radio love in the doom and gloom of 1994. Coolio invited everyone to slide-slide-slippity-slide away to a more positive state of mind. Hits like “Fantastic Voyage” and “ 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New) ” made a lot of the negative creeps on the radio sound like they were faking it.

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Coolio never stopped hustling, never stopped grinding. In recent years, he stretched out with projects like his family reality show Coolio’s Rules and his web series Cookin’ With Coolio , which was also the title of his cookbook, full of recipes for his “Ghetto Gourmet” cuisine. The self-proclaimed “King of the Kitchen Pimps” introduced recipes like “Bro-Ghetti” and “Chicken Lettuce Blunts.” As he told me in 2017 , “I can cook, man. I think that’s the one thing I can do as good as I can rap — I cook just as good.”

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His Gangsta’s Paradise album had hits like “Too Hot,” a “Waterfalls”-like warning about safer sex (“What started off as a plan ended up in a plot”), with a disco beat from Kool & the Gang. “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” was a call to the dance floor — believe it or not, that was a more commercially risky move at the time than “Gangsta’s Paradise.” It was a tricky balancing act, but Coolio was good enough to pull it off — he could score party-hearty pop jams without sweating his rap cred. He put his keep-ya-head-up tribute to Black women (“For My Sistas”) right next to a song called “Kinda High Kinda Drunk.” He ended Gangsta’s Paradise with the one-two punch of “The Revolution” and “Get Up, Get Down.” Nobody did a better job of getting away with combining those mindstates like Coolio. He could show up on kid-friendly TV shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and contributed the theme song for the Nickelodeon comedy series  Kenan & Kel , “Aw Here It Goes.”

Coolio kept scoring hits, like his 1997 dead-homies tribute “ C U When U Get There, ” rapping over a loop of Pachelbel’s Canon. And let the record show that he teamed up with country legend Kenny Rogers for their duet video “The Hustler,” a damn fine update of “The Gambler,” on an album with the most 2001 title of all time, Coolio.Com . He also dueted with Snoop Dogg on the 2006 comeback “Gangsta Walk,” from his 2006 album The Return of the Gangsta .

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After he fixed his microphone case, he held it up proudly like Excalibur. “Mic-calibur,” he says. Coolio waved the mic around, striking poses like a rock star. His sax player Jarez said, “We call him the black Van Halen, a.k.a. the ghetto Peter Pan.”

“Call me Bang Halen,” Coolio said. “Gang Bang Halen.” R.I.P. Bang Halen, and farewell Coolio — here’s to one of the greats. Slide-slide-slippity-slide forever.

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Come on, y'all, let's take a ride Don't you say shit, just get inside It's time to take your ass on another kind of trip 'Cause you can't have the hop if you don't have the hip Grab your gat with the extra clip And close your eyes and hit the switch We're going to a place where everybody kick it Kick it, kick it, yeah, that's the ticket Ain't no bloodin', ain't no crippin' Ain't no punk ass nigga's set trippin' Everybody's got a stack and it ain't no crack And it really don't matter if you're white or black I wanna take you there like the Staple Singers Put something in the tank and I know that I can bring ya If you can't take the heat, get yo' ass out the kitchen We on a mission Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, slippity slide With switches on the block in a '65 Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, who ride? No valley low enough or mountain high I'm tryin' to find a place where I can live my life And maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice A place where my kids can play outside Without livin' in fear of a drive-by And even if I get away from them drive-by killers I still got to worry about those snitch ass niggas I keep on searching and I keep on looking But niggas are the same from Watts to Brooklyn I try to keep my faith in my people But sometimes my people be acting like they evil You don't understand about runnin' with a gang 'Cause you don't gang bang And you don't have to stand on the corner and slang 'Cause you got your own thang You can't help me if you can't help yourself You better make a left Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, slippity, slide I do what I do just to survive Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, who ride? That's why I pack my 45 Life is a bitch and then you die Still tryin' to get a peace of the apple pie Every game ain't the same 'cause the game still remains Don't it seem kinda strange? Ain't a damn thing change If you don't work, then you don't eat And only down ass niggas can ride with me Hop, hop, hop your five quickly down the block Stay suckafree and keep the busters off your jock You gotta have heart, son, if you wanna go Watch this sweet chariot swing low Ain't nobody cryin', ain't nobody dyin' Ain't nobody worried, everybody's tryin' Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' If you wanna have something, you better start frontin' What ya gonna do when the 5 roll by? You better be ready, so you can ride Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, slippity, slide When you're living in a city it's do or die Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage Slide, slide, who ride? You better be ready when the 5 roll by Just roll along, that's what you do Just roll along, that's right Just roll along, that's what you do Just roll along, that's right Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me?

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"Fantastic Voyage" is a song by American rapper Coolio. It was released in March 1994 as the third single from his debut album, It Takes a Thief. The song later featured on the album Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits. It heavily samples the 1981 song, "Fantastic Voyage" by Lakeside. In 2018, Chrysler released a music video featuring Coolio called "Vantastic Voyage" to promote the Chrysler Pacifica minivan.

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1, 1963), better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American Grammy Award-winning musician, rapper, actor, and record producer. He is best known for the song "Gangsta's Paradise", and the theme song for Kenan & Kel, a Nickelodeon show from 1996 to 2000. more »

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Coolio: más allá de Gangsta´s Paradise

Cuando «Gangsta’s Paradise» fue incluido en la banda sonora de «Mentes Peligrosas», nadie imaginaba que se convertiría en un fenómeno mundial.

Artis Leon Ivey Jr., más conocido como Coolio, nació en Compton, California, el 1 de agosto de 1963. Su infancia fue marcada por dificultades, pero encontró en la música una vía de escape. Tras superar una adicción a la cocaína y trabajar como bombero, se adentró en el mundo del rap, colaborando con grupos como Low Profile y The Maad Circle.

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El salto a la fama.

Su carrera despegó en 1994 con el lanzamiento de su primer álbum, It Takes a Thief . Sin embargo, fue el sencillo Fantastic Voyage el que lo catapultó a la fama. Pero el verdadero hito llegó con Gangsta’s Paradise , una reinterpretación del clásico de Stevie Wonder, Pastime Paradise . Esta canción, incluida en la banda sonora de la película Mentes Peligrosas , se convirtió en un fenómeno global, encabezando las listas de éxitos en Estados Unidos y Reino Unido, donde se convirtió en el primer single de rap en vender un millón de copias.

Coolio: Una leyenda del rap

Coolio se destacó por su estilo único y su habilidad para crear himnos que trascendieron generaciones. A lo largo de su carrera, colaboró con grandes artistas como Blondie, Busta Rhymes y Snoop Dogg. Su legado musical perdurará por siempre, gracias a canciones como Gangsta’s Paradise que se convirtieron en parte de la cultura popular.

Un final inesperado

El 28 de septiembre de 2022, el mundo del hip-hop se conmocionó con la noticia del fallecimiento del legendario rapero Coolio, a la edad de 59 años. Fue encontrado inconsciente en el baño de la casa de un amigo en Los Ángeles, y a pesar de los esfuerzos de los paramédicos, no pudo ser reanimado. La causa de su muerte fue una sobredosis de fentanilo.

Coolio demostró ser mucho más que un simple rapero. Su versatilidad lo llevó a colaborar con artistas de diversos géneros musicales y a explorar nuevos sonidos. Coolio fue un pionero que ayudó a definir el sonido de una generación.

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Autor: Daniela - culturizando.com

Actualizado el: 28-09-2024 Publicado el: 01-08-2012

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