Months after the singer of the monster hit “Gangsta’s Paradise” – Coolio was found unresponsive in a friend’s bathroom, his family has been told he died from a drug overdose.
The rapper, who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Fantastic Voyage,” died Wednesday, 28 September 2022, in Los Angeles.
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Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey, Jr., died at 59. At the time, authorities suspected a cardiac arrest.
However, on Friday it emerged that Coolio died of fentanyl, according to his official cause of death.
A report into his cause of death showed that fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamines were found in his system.
