Coolio

Coolio, whose birth name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., won the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance in 1996 for “Gangsta's Paradise.” “ ...

[The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/golfa-s-paradise-interview-coolio-1247021.html) in 1997 that as a child, he would play board games with his mother, to whom he later dedicated his success. Coolio’s other hits included “Fantastic Voyage” — the opening song on his debut album — and “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New),” which were both nominated for Grammys. [his official online biography](https://coolioworld.com/me/). She wrote that the late addition “turned a preachy Michelle Pfeiffer film about an inner-city teacher into a hit that sounded fresher than it really was.” Posey, who worked with the rapper for more than 20 years, said he was told that Coolio died at about 5 p.m. [He said in 2018](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDdX7k3nASE) that after years of lamenting over his struggles in the music industry, he had realized that “people would kill to take my place.” It was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. At a 2016 performance in Brooklyn, N.Y., [Page Six reported](https://pagesix.com/2016/02/25/coolio-has-asthma-attack-on-stage-gets-inhaler-from-crowd/), he had an asthma attack and was saved by a fan who had an inhaler. [PopkillerTV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDdX7k3nASE) in 2018 that the song had taken him on “a great ride.” Its popularity has endured for decades, with the music video garnering [a rare billion-plus views on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO76Jlnz6c). [wrote in a review](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/19/arts/pop-briefs-048089.html) in The New York Times, noting that “Gangsta’s Paradise” uses “the somber minor chords” of “Pastime Paradise,” by Stevie Wonder. [wrote for The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/26/movies/critic-s-notebook-singing-dancing-and-sinning.html) in 1996. Other hits by Coolio, who won a Grammy for “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the mid-1990s, included “Fantastic Voyage” and “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New).”

Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend, longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press. The cause ...

He worked as a volunteer firefighter and in airport security before devoting himself full-time to the hip-hop scene. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The cause was not immediately clear.

The artist, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., may have died of a heart attack, although an official cause of death has not yet been released, the ...

The celebrity gossip website TMZ reported that the rapper died in Los Angeles.– Rappler.com The artist, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., may have died of a heart attack, although an official cause of death has not yet been released, the television station reported, citing Posey. Coolio's manager Jarez Posey confirms the news

LOS ANGELES: Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died on ...

"I witness first hand this man's grind to the top of the industry. He was sentenced to six months probation and fined $30,000. "I'd like to claim this Grammy on behalf of the whole hip-hop nation — West Coast, East Coast and worldwide. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. And with his distinctive persona he would become a cultural staple, acting occasionally, starring in a reality show about parenting called "Coolio's Rules," providing a voice for an episode of the animated show "Gravity Falls" and providing the theme music for the Nickelodeon sitcom "Kenan & Kel." The cause was not immediately clear.

The Grammy-winning musician passed away in Los Angeles. No cause of death was immediately provided. Coolio's friend and long-standing manager Jarez Posey ...

“I didn’t write Gangsta’s Paradise — it wrote me,” he said. An endearing star of gangsta rap, Coolio’s high-spirited music videos brought him an increased following. “It was its own entity, out there in the spirit world, trying to find its way to the world, and it chose me as the vessel to come through.”

Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta's Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died.

He was sentenced to six months probation and fined $30,000. Rest In Peace, @Coolio.” [“Weird Al” Yankovic tweeted](https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/1575312521497452546) “RIP Coolio” along with a picture of the two men hugging. And with his distinctive persona he would become a cultural staple, acting occasionally, starring in a reality show about parenting called “Coolio’s Rules,” providing a voice for an episode of the animated show “Gravity Falls” and providing the theme music for the Nickelodeon sitcom “Kenan & Kel.” [said on Twitter](https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1575295135516020737). 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Coolio had said in an interview at the time it was released that he wasn’t cool with Yankovic’s 1996 “Gangsta’s Paradise” parody, “Amish Paradise.” But the two later made peace.

Coolio, the award-winning rapper, has died. He was 59. The “Gangsta's Paradise” rapper — whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr. — was found dead on ...

Rest In Peace!" it’s on and it’s on and it’s on.” P." Rest In Peace @Coolio," Ice Cube "Gangstas paradise. The track earned him a Grammy award for Best Rap Solo Performance. “I want to thank everybody for all the years of love and being there for me. Born in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Coolio moved to Compton, California, where he started his rapping career. It would become his biggest hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks. to the 2900 block of Chesapeake Avenue, officials said. The case will then be handed over to the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office which will ultimately issue an autopsy report. The “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper — whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr.

Grammy-winning rapper Coolio died on Wednesday after being found unresponsive at a friend's Los Angeles home, the New York Times reported. He was 59.

Posey told the paper that Ivey had earlier been found unresponsive in the bathroom of a friend's home. EDT) at a local hospital, his manager Jarez Posey told the Times. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

The rapper, best known for the hit single 'Gangsta's Paradise,' died in LA on Wednesday.

An official cause of [death](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/death) has yet to be announced. Coolio also appeared as an actor throughout his career, appearing on TV shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Nanny, and Gravity Falls. Now, He's Giving Back in a Big Way. They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. The album went platinum on the success of the hit single "Fantastic Voyage." The rap earned him a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. The song has been downloaded over a billion times on YouTube. He grew up in Compton, California, getting involved in the 80s and 90s west coast rap scene. I witness first hand this man's grind to the top of the industry. In 1994, Coolio dropped his debut solo album, This is sad news. [hip-hop](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/hip-hop) world is mourning the loss of [Coolio](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/coolio) tonight.

Artist won a Grammy for best solo rap performance in 1995.

3 on the Billboard Hot 100. He worked as a volunteer firefighter and in airport security before devoting himself full-time to the hip-hop scene. The cause was not immediately clear.

Coolio, the '90s rapper who lit up the music charts with hits like 'Gangsta's Paradise' and 'Fantastic Voyage,' has died, his friend and manager Jarez Posey ...

Coolio has died. The rapper, born Artis Leon Ivey, Jr., first broke into the music mainstream in 1994 with his debut album It Takes A Thief—and then became ...

(Calling him a one-hit wonder criminally undervalues any number of excellent, successful songs.) He didn’t stop making music—releasing 5 more albums from 2001 through 2007—but he also broadened his profile considerably, often by leaning into the comedic side that had appeared on even his earliest records. And then, well: “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Sampling in abundance from both Stevie Wonder and the Book Of Psalms, the song was originally attached to the Michelle Pfeiffer teaching drama Dangerous Minds. (The Pfeiffer-starring music video was an endlessly repeated MTV favorite, considerably raising the profile of director Antoine Fuqua in the process.) Taking the strings and chorus from Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise,” Coolio and co-writers L.V. and the U.K.; it won Coolio a Grammy. Led off by hit single “Fantastic Voyage”—which took both its name, and its funk groove, from the 1981 Lakeside song of the same name—Thief checked many of the boxes that would define Coolio’s career: Heavy use of samples and interpolation of ’70s and ’80s music, and a lyrical style that was both more thoughtful, and less self-serious, than the prototypical West Coast rap of the era. Coolio was 59.

The rapper, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at a friend's Los Angeles home, his manager confirmed. The cause of death was not immediately clear.

His big break would come that year with “Fantastic Voyage,” followed by “Gangsta’s Paradise” — a No. “I remember him being nothing but gracious. I wasn’t drinking or smoking or doing the stuff I usually did,” Coolio told the newspaper. [grew up in Compton, Calif.](https://coolioworld.com/me/), and served as a volunteer firefighter before pivoting to a full-time music career. “In firefighting training was discipline I needed. He was 59.

The entertainment website added that no drugs or drug paraphernalia were found on the scene and that an autopsy and toxicology test will be done to determine ...

There were no signs of foul play. When he didn’t come out for a while, the friend kept calling for him, eventually breaking open the door. Paramedics were called to the house and the rapper was pronounced dead.

Stars pay tribute to Gangsta's Paradise rapper, who has died at 59 after being found unresponsive.

[He told the Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-24-ca-19374-story.html) in a 1994 interview he did so as "a way to clean up". I witness first hand this man's grind to the top of the industry," while [Vanilla Ice tweeted: ](https://twitter.com/vanillaice/status/1575290453905350656)"I'm freaking out I just heard my good friend Coolio passed away". Musician Al Yankovic posted a picture of himself with the late rapper. He loved telling everyone that." "We ran every day. "Good people. "A life cut entirely too short," she continued. [Flavor Flav said](https://twitter.com/FlavorFlav/status/1575298109638205440) he and Coolio had been due to "perform together this Tuesday", saying his friend was "the West Coast Flavor Flav... [MC Hammer described](https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/1575300984883974144) Coolio as "one of the nicest dudes I've known". RIP Coolio," he wrote, sharing a black and white picture of the rapper, and later posting a second picture of the pair together, along with Tupac and Snoop Dogg. Coolio's manager at Trinity Artists International, Sheila Finegan, said they were "saddened... [grossed nearly £85m](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl709658113/weekend/) (£78m) worldwide and the track became the biggest-selling record of the year in the US, and Coolio was awarded the Grammy for best rap solo performance.

Michelle Pfeiffer, who starred in 1995 film that featured hit single Gangsta's Paradise, among those to pay respects.

[to fund his career as a chef](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/21/coolio-music-catalogue-rights-career-chef). I witness first hand this man’s grind to the top of the industry. Writing on Twitter, the rapper and actor said: “This is sad news. Its opening track, Fantastic Voyage, would reach No 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. American rapper Snoop Dogg also paid tribute, writing “Gangstas paradise. Please have Coolio’s loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.”

Uhagarariye inyungu ze yavuze ko basanze Coolio atagihumeka ari hasi mu bwongero bw'inzu y'inshuti ye i Los Angeles.

Naho umuhanzi MC Hammer yavuze ko Coolio yari “umwe mu bantu beza cyane namenye”. Snoop Dogg we yasobanuye ko Coolio mu ndirimbo ye yamamaye, arandika ati: "Gangstas paradise. Coolio yatangiye gukora muzika mu myaka ya za 1980, ariko yashimangiye izina rye mu mateka ya hip hop ubwo yakoraga indirimbo Gangsta's Paradise mu 1995.

Grammy-winning, rapper, producer and actor Coolio has died. He was best-known for hits "Fantastic Voyage" and "Gangsta's Paradise."

Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., had a music career that spanned more than three decades. “As far as what I know now is that he was at a ...

He was a contestant in "Fear Factor" in 2001. "This is sad news. Overall, he has sold more than 17 million records, according to his website. No foul play is suspected, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said. for a death investigation, the department said. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the home around 4 p.m.

Coolio, who grew up in Compton and died Wednesday afternoon, won a Grammy for 'Gangsta's Paradise,' which was featured in the movie 'Dangerous Minds.'

He was best known for the 1995 song “Gangsta’s Paradise,” off the album of the same name. No official cause of death has been determined, but cardiac arrest was suspected, Posey told the website. Coolio, the Grammy-winning rapper best known for the 1995 single “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died, his longtime manager confirmed Wednesday to The Times.

That song, a massive hit featured in the film Dangerous Minds, won a Grammy Award for best rap solo performance the following year. The rapper died at about 5 ...

Posey told the paper that Mr. EDT) at a local hospital, his manager Jarez Posey told the Times. The rapper died at about 5 p.m.

Everybody knows “Gangsta's Paradise.” Your parents, Stevie Wonder, Weird Al, Michelle Pfeiffer, misguided wedding DJs, the most-soused White person at karaoke, ...

“Gangsta’s Paradise” dropped in August 1995, quickly went multiplatinum in half a dozen countries and eventually became one of the most recognizable rap songs on the planet. And if rap was still on its way to becoming America’s dominant pop idiom in the summer of ’94, “Fantastic Voyage” definitely helped speed everything along. But “Fantastic Voyage,” a breakout single that smothered MTV the summer prior, is the Coolio cut that deserves to bask in its own magic-hour sunshine for perpetuity.

Coolio, who won a Grammy in" 1996 for his hit No. 1 song "Gangsta's Paradise, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 59.

[cast in a recurring role](https://deadline.com/2020/02/coolio-hbo-max-drama-pilot-vegas-high-1202867716/) on 2020 HBO Max pilot Vegas High. The pilot was [not picked up to series.](https://deadline.com/2021/02/vegas-high-drama-pilot-dead-not-going-forward-hbo-max-1234691837/) He appeared as a housemate on Big Brother in 2009, and a year later appeared on Ultimate Big Brother, ultimately leaving the house after numerous conflicts with others in the house. His other credits include Gravity Falls, The Nanny and the Adult Swim show Black Jesus in an episodes titled “Gangsta’s Paradise.” His 1996 single “It’s All the Way Live (Now)” — which sampled another Lakeside hit — dented the top 30, and the following year’s “C U When U Get There” with 40 Thevz peaked at No. [Coolio](https://deadline.com/tag/coolio/), the Compton-raised rapper with the trademark braids who won a Grammy in 1996 for his No. It also won the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, scored a pair of MTV Video Music Awards and was parodied by “Weird” Al Yankovic as “Amish Paradise,” which peaked at No, 53 in 1996. Coolio released a few non-charting singles in the early 1990s before hitting it big in 1994 with “Fantastic Voyage,” a rap remake of the 1979 Lakeside song. In the Disney pic, Pfeiffer played an ex-Marine teaching at an inner-city school. 1 smash “Gangsta’s Paradise” from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer-starring film [Dangerous Minds](https://deadline.com/tag/dangerous-minds/), died Wednesday in Los Angeles, his manager Jarez Posey told Deadline. “Gangsta’s Paradise” was featured in the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds, whose soundtrack spent a month at No. [Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery](https://deadline.com/feature/hollywood-deaths-2022-celebrity-media-obituaries-photo-gallery-1235082565/)

Coolio, who died on September 28, worked with everyone: Fran Drescher, Kenan, Kel, and Kermit. He is remembered and honored by Ice Cube, the Comics ...

Kenan Thompson expressed his condolences on Instagram Stories, writing, “Wait, now Coolio!!” In a subsequent story, he added, “Damn, homie!!! From the inclusion of “Rollin’ With My Homies” in Clueless, to his roles in Futurama and Dracula 3000, Coolio was omnipresent for much of the ’90s. Coolio, the rapper and actor behind “Gangsta’s Paradise” and the Kenan & Kel theme song,

His signature song owned the airwaves and proved that an emcee could be gangster and gregarious.

In his later years he had become a creature of reality TV, with appearances on Big Brother UK and Marriage Boot Camp – all while remaining a robust concert draw. When he wasn’t topping the charts, he was walking on to awards shows, celebrity basketball games, sitcoms, films and even kids’ shows – providing the theme song for the Nickelodeon variety show Kenan & Kel. It didn’t help that Dangerous Minds, with its heavy-handed white savior themes, would go on to be regarded as something of a joke, too. It topped the charts in 14 countries and locked out the top two spots on Billboard’s US Hot 100 list on the way to going triple platinum. And yet for all of Coolio’s obvious skill, which really shows up in his early work (he recorded his first single in 1987), he’s easily summed up in one song: Gangsta’s Paradise. On Wednesday, the rapper – real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr – died at a friend’s house in Los Angeles, his manager said.

In 2019, the Grammy Award winning rapper Coolio, who has died at the age of 59, played an intimate gig to about 100 people in Castlederg, County Tyrone. Even ...

"The time that he took to spend with my son, to talk music and to talk to everybody, there was no ego or anything from him, he was just really down to earth for somebody that's a Grammy Award winner landing in Castlederg." "He was a really nice guy and a really nice human being," Mr Doherty reflected when asked for his own tribute to the music star. "A lot of people thought it was a tribute act and a hoax and a PR stunt."

In 1995, Coolio combined street-tough lyrics with a pop sensibility - and rap would never be the same.

"She brought her son down to the shoot with her and she was cool. His only stipulation was that I had to take the curse words out." "For people that really like Gangsta's Paradise, that's all they really want to hear." And the rapper bristled when his song was lumped in with the so-called "gangster rap" scene. "In many ways, Gangsta's Paradise signalled the end of gangsta, or 'reality' rap as a cult. "I thought it was going to be a hood record," he told The Voice in 2017. "Then I can take them to a deeper level. "She was real nice," Coolio told Kiss FM's Rap show at the time. He was "raised by the street", immersed a life of crime and retribution. That whole choir that you hear was actually me - I did all the parts from soprano down to tenor to the bass." Coolio was 30 at the time the song was written, but the narrator is 23 and he doesn't know if he'll live to see 24. He earned the unwelcome nickname "Un-Coolio".

It started in 1995 in a home in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills, where two roommates — a music producer and a D.J. — used to compete over who could find the ...

remembered Coolio and his crew touring the world — Japan, France, Australia — and feeling like they were drawing “Michael Jackson-level” crowds that recited the lyrics along with them. “That was the one little moment in my whole history where there was a problem,” he noted, saying it was “very sweet” of Coolio to have told Vice he had made amends. “He put some magic on that track,” Rasheed said. “I’m not the kind of guy that has beef with people, because I go out of my way to make sure that people are fine with what I do,” he said. The rapper had a handful of hits before and after “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but nothing in his career would top the popularity and cultural influence of that track, which was featured in the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds” and went on both to win a Grammy and inspire a Weird Al Yankovic [parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg). While “Amish Paradise” gave Coolio’s song a boost, the track was a smash on its own. Coolio recalled writing his verses in one session, rapping about chasing his dreams and the uncertainty of whether he would live to 24 years old. “Gangsta’s Paradise” spent three weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and was named the chart’s No. The song that it inspired, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” would change both of their lives and catapult an up-and-coming West Coast rapper named Coolio to global stardom. “I walked into the studio, and asked Doug, ‘Wow, whose track is that?’” Coolio told Rolling Stone. (born Larry Sanders), who features on the song, had already started collaborating with Rasheed on the track, he said in an interview, when Coolio wrote those lyrics. “It made him a household name worldwide.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta's Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” ...

He was sentenced to six months probation and fined $30,000. Rest In Peace, @Coolio.” [“Weird Al” Yankovic tweeted](https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/1575312521497452546) “RIP Coolio” along with a picture of the two men hugging. [said on Twitter](https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1575295135516020737). And with his distinctive persona he would become a cultural staple, acting occasionally, starring in a reality show about parenting called “Coolio’s Rules,” providing a voice for an episode of the animated show “Gravity Falls” and providing the theme music for the Nickelodeon sitcom “Kenan & Kel.” 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The cause was not immediately clear.

Coolio performing for US military Task Force Eagle. This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official ...

(Sadly, the music video is forever marred by the puzzling presence of Michelle Pfeiffer.) The song ends with a plea, as Coolio’s collaborator L.V. Tambourine Man,” was rightly maligned even in 1995 for trafficking in racist stereotypes. Coolio is subverting Psalm 23, a psalm of David expressing trust in God as shepherd. Something else needs to break the cycle. Among his many achievements was providing a new tune to a familiar staple of Jewish life.