Oxygen has commissioned a documentary following the day-to-day life of rapper Coolio.

The channel ordered six half-hour episodes of Coolio & the Gang which it plans to air in the second quarter of next year.

They will follow him in his work and as a single parent of six teenagers.

Oxygen will produce with RDF USA (Wife Swap, How to Look Good Naked) with the rapper, RDF's Greg Goldman and Chris Coelen, and Susan Haber from Haber Entertainment executive producing. RDF's Mike Duffy will co-executive produce.

Oxygen president of programming and marketing Debby Beece said: "Oxygen likes to rewrite the rulebook for women and women's programming, and this show has a lot of inherent female appeal.

"Coolio is a single dad raising kids, and it's got a lot of unconventional parenting aspects to it. He wants his kids to do as he says, not as he does."

RDF USA chief executive Coelen added: "Coolio's unconventional methods of discipline are guaranteed to entertain."

Goldman, the company's executive vice president of development, noted: "In Coolio, we have a fascinating reality character - an unfiltered opinion, a unique point of view and a personality that explodes off the screen. We can't wait to get the cameras rolling."