I don’t know how much truth there is to it, but my favourite Coolio story is when James Brown was doing a big gig, the promoter asked him who he would like as support.
“I want Coolio” quoth the Godfather of Soul.
The promoter hadn’t heard of Coolio
but he had heard of Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias
and thus was born one of the stranger double bills of the 90s 
Godspeed Coolio - 59 - 