Coolio, one of the biggest names in the 1990s hip-hop industry who achieved enormous success with hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died on Wednesday, his manager confirmed. He was 59.
The Grammy Award-winning musician, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles, California, home of a friend, longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press.
Details on the circumstances around the rapper’s sudden death were not immediately clear.
Police sources told tabloid TMZ that no drugs or drug paraphernalia were located at the scene of Coolio’s death. The final cause will be determined by a coroner’s office at a later time following an autopsy and toxicology tests….