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Coolio didn't say yes to Amish paradise but the record label that had the rights agreed to the deal without him (which certainly shows who's in charge in that industry eh?). Many years later, Coolio admitted that he was wrong about the whole thing though.

>>morkal+(OP)
Oh my. That’s disappointing, in the sense that I believe I’ve heard Al say that he always checks with the artist.

>>justin+47
If you take Weird Al's word for it, he was told Coolio had approved and only later found out it was the other way around:

"…two separate people from my label told me that they had personally talked to Coolio… and that he told them that he was okay with the whole parody idea…Halfway into production, my record label told me that Coolio’s management had a problem with the parody, even though Coolio personally was okay with it. My label told me… they would iron things out — so I proceeded with the recording and finished the album."

https://www.vulture.com/2011/12/gangstas-parodist-revisiting...

>>zamada+3b
Thanks. Yeah, I don't think Weird Al would lie about something like that.