American rapper, producer and actor cooliomainly recognized for its 90s success Gangsters paradise and who was found dead in a Los Angeles home at the age of 59 last September, died of a fentanyl overdoseadded to other factors, as revealed by his manager to the international press.
The forensic report determined that the rapper died of a fentanyl overdose. Also, as detailed by Jarel Posey, who was the artist’s manager and current family spokesman, in the body they found traces of heroin and methamphetamines.
According to Posey, they were informed that Coolio’s asthma problems and his history as a cigarette smoker were additional factors in his death.
a successful career
Born in Monenssen, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1963, he was in California from where marked the style of American West Coast rapin an era of cultural battles – the 90s – in which there was rivalry between the margins of the country, in a phenomenon of fanaticism which also led to the violent deaths of artists in the field, in the east and west of the States United.
Coolio was in fact part of the farewell album dedicated to Tupac Shakur, controversial megastar of the genre murdered in 1996 and who shocked the American music industry, which experienced an escalation of crimes that continued with that of the Notorious BIG a year later. .
Coolio had formally started his music career with Californian hip-hop group WC and Maad Circle, but decided to continue as a solo artist in 1994 after the release of his first album It Takes a Thief.
Despite the fact that the debut album reached number eight on the music chart, with hits like Fantastic tripit was the following year that it topped the charts and achieved worldwide recognition with the film’s title song Dangerous mindsplayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in 1995.
The song Gangsters paradisea composition that performed a reading of the Stevie Wonder classic Pastime paradise, won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance in 1996 and was also nominated for Record of the Year.
That hit is considered one of the most successful rap songs of all time.after spending three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. That song even allowed him to become the first rap artist to lead the UK charts.
Over the next few years, Coolio continued to reap successes, including creating Aw, there it is! which was used for the opening of the series kenan & kelof Nickelodeon.
He also became a television celebrity with appearances on the celebrity edition of Big Brother and in cooking reality shows, another of his great passions, so much so that he published a book with his own recipes.
In addition, Coolio has had several participations as an actor in films for cinema and television, such as the case of Sabrina the teenage witch, the nanny AND batman and robin from 1997, among many others; and put the voice in animated series such as Gravity falls AND futurema.
Source: Clarin
