Coolio Was An Avid Collector Of Something You Wouldn't Expect

According to Castbox, Coolio collected snow globes. Apparently, Coolio turned his home into something of a gangsta's snowy paradise by gathering a vast array of snow globes throughout his time in the spotlight. IMDb reports that the rapper, who made a living as a firefighter in Southern California prior to his music career, had an unsuspecting proclivity for the sumptuous little specimens and admittedly owned at least 250 of them at one point in time.

Coolio even appeared on a 1999 segment of "The Donny & Marie Osmond Talk Show" to discuss his hobby in detail and to get an official appraisal for some of them (on YouTube). Naturally, hauling 250 snow globes into a TV station isn't really a feasible option, so instead, Coolio brought along a stack of Polaroid photos that displayed his precious collection and held a few of them up before his hosts and the audience.