Last summer, the Faroe Islands — a remote archipelago populated by puffin and sheep in the middle of the Norwegian Sea — was a “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

Coolio’s looking abroad to salvage his career.

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There, 1990s rapper Coolio appeared alongside pop singer Crystal Waters of “Gypsy Woman” fame in a local auditorium that could hold no more than 1,000 fans. The event was scheduled right after the national holiday commemorating the death of Saint Olaf.

“The arrival of these two names doesn’t make my fingers tingle,” someone wrote on faroe-island.blogspot.com. “But I hope they’ll enjoy their stay, and that a lot of people will go and listen to them.”

Apparently, they did. And even with a 50 to 1 ratio of sheep to humans in this one-time Danish colony, the audience was overwhelmingly human.