Six months after his death, which occurred at a friend’s home in Los Angeles, the California city’s coroner stated that the rapper Coolio died of a fentanyl overdose.
The musician, who has won multiple Grammy Awards throughout his career, died at the age of 59 at a friend’s home in Los Angeles in September 2022. The forensic report states that the artist suffered from asthma and heart problems and had recently used phencyclidine, a psychedelic drug.
Jarez Posey, a rep for the Pennsylvania-born artist, said the Los Angeles coroner’s office contacted the family inform about the causes that led to the death of the singer.
Coolio, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., began his career as a rapper in California in the late 1980s. The musician rose to international prominence in 1995 with the release of Gangsta’s Paradise, which is part of the soundtrack to the film Dangerous Minds.
The artist received a Grammy Award best solo rap performance at the celebration the following year.
On April 5, a drug dealer claimed he sold heroin adulterated with fentanyl to actor Michael K. Williams, who also died of an overdose at his home in Brooklyn, New York.
With information from AFP and Portal
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