Coolio performs at Groovin The Moo in 2019 in Australia.

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Coolio performs at Groovin The Moo in 2019 in Australia.

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The rapper Coolio died of an unintended fentanyl overdose, paperwork from the Los Angeles County coroner’s workplace present.

Coolio died on Sept. 28, 2022, at a good friend’s house in Los Angeles. The coroner’s report listed the first reason behind the 59-year-old’s loss of life because the “effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine” and dominated his loss of life “accidental.”

Coolio, whose authorized title was Artis Ivey Jr., grew up in Compton, Calif. He began rapping at 15 and have become one in every of hip-hop’s largest names within the Nineteen Nineties, with hits just like the Grammy-winning, chart-topping “Gangsta’s Paradise” capturing him to the peak of his recognition.

Coolio’s 1994 debut album It Takes a Thief kicked off his meteoric rise. “Fantastic Voyage,” the album’s opening observe, reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The coroner’s report additionally listed “other specific conditions” together with bronchial asthma, cardiomyopathy and phencyclidine use.

Cardiomyopathy refers to a spread of issues with the guts muscle that make it harder to pump blood, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. It may cause coronary heart failure and coronary heart assaults.

Phencyclidine, initially developed as an anesthetic for supply by an IV, is healthier often known as PCP. It was later discontinued as a result of sufferers skilled “postoperative delirium with hallucinations,” however is used at this time as a leisure drug for its mind-altering results, according to the Department of Justice.