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Coolio’s rise in the world of hip hop came through years of persistence that eventually led to a global breakthrough few artists ever experience. His early work began to take shape through involvement with the Los Angeles music community, where he contributed to local projects before stepping into the national spotlight. The turning point arrived when he signed with Tommy Boy Records and released his debut album, It Takes a Thief, in 1994. The album introduced listeners to his style through the hit single “Fantastic Voyage,” which became a major success and helped establish Coolio as an artist with instant appeal. The The post Complete List Of Coolio Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler dig into the danger of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants racing tractor-trailers down our nation’s highways, and millions of illegal aliens flooding our health care system. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Victor Davis Hanson: And I think [Rep. Ilhan Omar’s] currency’s up. I really do. And when you add this billion [in fraud], and it’s going to get bigger than a billion dollars from what you read. When you add it all up, and you collate the 17,000 driver’s license that we gave mostly to Indian Americans that were here illegally and did not know English and were not living in California, and other states did the same thing, there may be 60,000 of them. I see them driving all the time. I don’t want to stereotype anybody, but it’s “Road Warrior” now in California. There are trucks in the middle lane that are over the white line. Just this morning at 6:30, I walked outside. Five trucks full of gravel and dirt going to the high-speed rail ramp project were going 65 to 70, it seemed, a foot from my mailbox, 20 tons. Drivers just “bang,” just floorboarding it on a country road where the speed limit’s 55. There’s a lot of people, houses they can pull in and out. And there’s not a highway patrolman to be seen. If one highway patrolman just sat behind an almond tree, he could give 100 tickets a day to those drivers. They’re all going 65 or 70 with 20 tons of dirt, and it’s really scary.  I don’t want to stereotype, but I look very carefully because I’m about one foot from them when I’m outside on the road, and almost all of them are from India. I say that because they’re wearing turbans or ethnic beards. I really like the Sikh community, but there’s something wrong when people come here illegally, and they get driver’s licenses, and they’re not fully able to read. Jack Fowler: Yeah. Can you imagine going to China and trying to get a driver’s license and drive when you can’t read the road signs at all?  I’m not doing it. I’m not putting my life at risk, nor other people’s lives at risk. Hanson: I can’t imagine that going on anywhere. And then you add the students, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, from the Middle East, they come over here and they play victim as if they’re part of the DEI binary on the victim side, even though they’re very wealthy kids from the Middle East. They get their Middle East Studies professors funded by Qatar. And then they get “From the River to the Sea.” And then suddenly it’s Jews. And then suddenly they’re chasing them in the library, or they’re roughing them up, or they’re telling them to go on one side of the room. It degenerates into pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah stuff.  And then when you say to Mr. [Mahmoud] Khalil, I think we’re going to give you your wish. You are so happy about Hamas and the Middle East. Go back there and be happy. Don’t come over here and be unhappy. Racist, racist, xenophobe.  And then when you add the people coming across the southern border and Laken Riley, all those people who were killed from DUI. I can’t even pick up the Fresno Bee anymore. Almost every single day, there’s two things that happen. A body is found in an orchard. There was one today that no one knows who she is. They just found her there, and they’re asking people who she is. Or there is a hit and run, a wreck, and the driver left the scene of the accident.  And nobody says a word. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just took 500 million of the budget—that’s 17 billion in the red—and applied it to illegal alien health care. And now he’s panicking because Medi-Cal, which has 40 % of all people in the state on it, is broke and he needed $2 billion from the federal government, and he promulgates a lie. “There’s not an illegal alien on it.” I would say there’s not one illegal alien who’s not on it. And I have had a lot of experience with the California medical system the last nine months.  MRIs, don’t know what you call it, CAT scans, PET scans, doctor’s visits, specialist visits. It’s not the same health care system of 15 years ago, I can guarantee you that. When you used to say you needed to see a specialist, it was a week, five days. Today they say three or four months. Fowler: Yeah, people die in the meanwhile.   Hanson: If you want to get a scan, if you want to get a PET scan, you better call every day, every single day. It’s just a different country. And then to hear these people who let in 12, 15, 20 million people who had no health care, were not audited, from the poorest places, very ill. And then to be told you’re a racist because nobody voted for this, and all of a sudden when a person becomes ill they can’t get proper care, and you’re supposed to feel guilty for thinking it might have something to do at least in the southern United States with an open border.  These people are really nefarious—these left wingers—because they’re all elites and they always do things to other people that never apply to themselves. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. 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An estimated 80% of people hate their jobs. They fantasize about quitting in a blaze of glory, hurling their lanyards across the office like a frisbee, and riding off into the sunset to raise goats, bake sourdough, or at least remember what eight hours of sleep feels like.Sean Carlton was one of them.'Nobody wakes up one morning ready to raise animals and turn them into food.' Change begins with one thing you can actually change. Lower one bill. Learn one skill.The difference is that he didn’t stay. Two years ago, he and his wife, Alexys, walked away from their corporate careers and bought an acre of land in West Virginia. The experience also prompted Carlton to write "Exit Farming: Starving the Systems That Farm You" — a book that reads like both a confession and a call to arms.The Carltons didn’t step into a new job, but into a new way of being. They rolled the dice with no promise of a soft landing, and in doing so they exposed something uncomfortable: Many of us aren’t trapped by circumstance so much as by the stories we tell ourselves about what we are allowed to want. Sean CarltonQuestioning 'normal'Carlton is no professional commentator or pundit. "Exit Farming" is a cri de coeur from the American cubicle.So when asked what exactly he means by “systems that farm you," he doesn’t reach for theory. He answers with the simplicity of a man who finally recognized the shape of his own confinement.“Systems farm people by taking more from you than they give back while convincing you this arrangement is normal,” he says.Work dictates your hours. Debt dictates your decisions. Health care dictates your fears. Even your phone becomes, in his words, “the delivery system for apps that track you, profile you, and sell what they learn.”It might sound melodramatic. It isn’t. It’s simply Monday morning in America, with millions waking up already weary of the hours ahead.Slow and steadyBut Carlton insists the way out is rarely a dramatic jailbreak. It’s the slow, steady act of starving the system’s influence. You “bring one thing at a time back under your control.” Lower an expense. Learn a skill. Build a sliver of income that doesn’t depend on a single institution. These small shifts break the spell. Every small act of independence starves a machine that has grown used to feeding on your time, your attention, your identity, even your sanity.Of course, independence comes with a price, and Carlton tallies it honestly and without self-pity. One of the most striking sections in the book addresses the loss of family once he stepped off the expected path. Not through screaming matches or slammed doors, but through slow erosion: “Phone calls got shorter. Conversations turned tense.”Disapproval had less to do with the specifics of his life than the simple fact that he no longer fit the template.When asked how Americans can balance honoring their families with refusing to, as he puts it, “participate in systems that drain your energy and compromise your values,” his answer is as clean as it is compelling: “If a relationship survives you making choices that improve your health, your time, or your stability, then it survives. If it falls apart the moment you stop living the way they prefer, then it was already conditional.”It’s a hard truth, but Carlton refuses to dress it up. Long before any institution closes a door on us, we’ve already built the cell ourselves. The ancients understood this well: People cling to the comfort of captivity, obeying expectations set by those who would rather see them worn down than transformed.RELATED: An artist and farmer cultivates creativity Stacy TabbWork with consequencesThere’s also a spiritual undercurrent to his critique of modern work culture. Carlton never lapses into sermonizing, but his diagnosis reads like a measured moral warning. Modern work “follows you home,” he notes. It takes evenings, weekends, and whatever fragments of peace remain. It erodes sleep, attention, and the mental steadiness that previous generations recognized as the bedrock of a healthy life.Americans worship productivity with almost religious devotion, even though the devotion always seems to cost them more than they can spare. Two-thirds of the workforce is burned out, but the cult of busyness marches on. Another day, another dollar … but also another headache, another email chain, and another reminder that coffee can only do so much.When asked whether “exit farming” is a return to older ideas of work and stewardship, he rejects romantic myth-making. “Exit farming isn’t about finding something spiritual,” he says. “It’s about doing work where the consequences are real.” If you don’t feed the animals, “they suffer and then they die.” If you don’t tend the crops exactly as needed, the season is lost before it begins. Nothing waits for permission. Nothing reschedules itself for your convenience. This realism is its own kind of grounding. And you don’t need a farm to reclaim it, but only work that doesn’t demand the erosion of dignity as its hidden price of admission.Grow one thingThe final question in the book’s conversation is the one most Americans are actively wrestling with: What about those who feel trapped? Trapped between institutions they no longer trust and a life of greater self-reliance that feels too big, too frightening, too foreign?Carlton’s reply is the opposite of theatrical bravado. “Nobody wakes up one morning ready to raise animals and turn them into food.” Change begins with one thing you can actually change. Lower one bill. Learn one skill. Grow one thing you eat often. Build one dependable relationship. Reduce one vulnerability. These are small, almost humble acts. But they mark the beginning of a life that no longer runs on someone else’s terms.Over time, he says, these small adjustments stop being adjustments. They become a different kind of life, one that is sturdy enough to withstand the failures of the systems around it.That’s the heart of "Exit Farming." It isn’t about rejecting society or romanticizing hardship, but about reclaiming stability in a country where stability has become a cruel joke. It’s not about storming out in some "Office Space" fantasia with a baseball bat.It’s about one couple choosing a different path and showing that others could do it too. Not through dramatic destruction, but through the refusal to be drained of the very things that make a life worth living — time, purpose, and peace.

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