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Coolio, the rapper best known for his 1995 hit "Gangsta's Paradise", has died, his manager confirmed to CBS News. He was 59.
Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died on Wednesday in Los Angeles, his manager said. A cause of death was not immediately given.
The Los Angeles-based rapper was best known for his Grammy Award-winning single "Gangsta's Paradise," which was featured on the soundtrack for 1995's "Dangerous Minds" starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The song is considered one of the most successful rap songs of all time after it spent 3 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1996 he recorded the opening "Aw, Here It Goes!" for the Nickelodeon television series "Kenan & Kel" starring Kenan Thompson.
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Remember when Coolio got assblasted over the success of Amish Paradise, even though he shamelessly ripped off the entirety of Pastime Paradise to make "his" song?
Remember when Coolio got assblasted over the success of Amish Paradise, even though he shamelessly ripped off the entirety of Pastime Paradise to make "his" song?
Remember when Coolio got assblasted over the success of Amish Paradise, even though he shamelessly ripped off the entirety of Pastime Paradise to make "his" song?
Well I thought he was kind of cool until he had an autistic meltdown over a Weird Al song. he was being a hypocrite about anyway because he ripped it off himself.
Well I thought he was kind of cool until he had an autistic meltdown over a Weird Al song. he was being a hypocrite about anyway because he ripped it off himself.
60 ain't too bad of an age to buy the farm and dude looked like fresh death for the past 20 years already, i bet money on the cardiac arrest being coke/crack related.
60 ain't too bad of an age to buy the farm and dude looked like fresh death for the past 20 years already, i bet money on the cardiac arrest being coke/crack related.
Most of the time O'D's are reported by the media because of how common they are. All news outlets are saying is that he was found unresponsive and could not be resuscitated. My money is that he pulled a David Carradine and his friends don't want to tell people how he really died.
