Coolio jams with students after meeting them on night out

Chicken and caprese salad followed by a bit of Gangsta's Paradise: Lancashire students treated to surreal night in
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10 October 2013
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Undergraduates in Preston had the student night of their lives when Nineties rap star Coolio joined them for an impromptu cook-off and jam session.

The apparently unsuspecting University of Central Lancashire students attended the multi-platinum selling artist's gig in the town before going to the after party, where they met the star.

He then treated them to what one of the group has referred to as the "most surreal night of our lives".

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The group reportedly went to Tesco with the rapper, who then cooked them chicken with caprese salad and peach crumble for dessert.

Then the acoustic guitar came out, and Coolio invited his new-found friends to join him in a rendition of Gangsta's Paradise.

To the delight of hundreds of thousands of internet users, the six-minute performance was captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube.

The video description read: "Met Coolio on a student night out in Preston and he said he wanted to cook for me and my house mates the following night and that’s exactly what happened. We decided to take a break from the cooking and have a jam session. Most surreal night of our lives! 4.15 is rapping at its best!"

In the traditional way of a heady student night out with academic young folk, things turned somewhat philosophical in the early hours.

A Reddit user who claimed to be one of the group said: "It was fascinating. He shared a lot of thoughts about his time with Tupac, including how he spoke with him the day he died. A lot of insight in to his upbringing and life on the streets."

The user added: "He is pretty switched on. I not only learned how to sharpen a knife last night, but a lot of deep life lessons from Coolio. All whilst sipping from a bottle of Patron."

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