Coolie rapper one of the most representative musicians of the Los Angeles urban scene and author of 1990s hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise”died this Wednesday at the age of 59, confirmed his representative.
The musician died in the afternoon at the house of a friend, who after verifying that he did not go out or answer his calls went to look for him in the bathroom and found him dead from a heart attack, according to his representative Jarez Posey.
“What I know is that He was at a friend’s house, he went to the bathroom and he died of a heart attack,” Posey explained.
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Coolio, whose original name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr. rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the names best known of Californian rap.