CNN — 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, told CNN. He was 59.
Posey said Coolio died Wednesday afternoon.
Details on the circumstances were not immediately available.
When contacted by CNN, Capt. Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed that firefighters and paramedics responded to a call on the 2900 block of South Chesapeake Ave. at 4 p.m. local time for reports of a medical emergency. When they arrived, they found an unresponsive male and performed “resuscitation efforts for approximately 45 minutes.”
The patient “was determined dead just before 5:00 p.m.,” Scott said.
As a member of the League of Themselves, Coolio qualified for membership in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame....
From Wikipedia:
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (August 1, 1963 – September 28, 2022), known professionally as Coolio, was an American rapper. First rising to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle, Coolio achieved mainstream success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1990s with his albums It Takes a Thief (1994), Gangsta's Paradise (1995), and My Soul (1997).
He is best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single "Gangsta's Paradise", as well as other singles "Fantastic Voyage" (1994), "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" (1996), and "C U When U Get There" (1997).
From 1996 on, Coolio released albums independently, and provided the opening track "Aw, Here It Goes!" for the 1996 Nickelodeon television series Kenan & Kel. He created the web series Cookin' with Coolio and released a cookbook.
While at a friend's house in Los Angeles on September 28, 2022, Coolio was discovered unresponsive on a bathroom floor. He was pronounced dead by first responders. He was 59 years old at the time of his death. Police have opened an investigation into his death, though foul play is not suspected, and Coolio's manager stated he appeared to have suffered cardiac arrest.
Coolio was cremated in a private ceremony with no funeral service. His ashes were then encased in jewelry for his family, with the rest of his ashes going into an urn.
There are the appearances which qualified Coolio for membership in the TVXOHOF as themselves:
Martin
Martin hosts a '70s contest. ANTONIO FARGAS, ISAAC HAYES, RUDY RAY MOORE, OUTKAST, COOLIO, PAM GRIER and others guests star as themselves.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
After Salem stows away in her backpack and gets her thrown out of the local pizzeria, Sabrina washes her hands of the cat, feigning unconcern when the feline fails to return for Christmas dinner with visiting cousin Monty. When she discovers that Salem has in fact been catnapped by a stubborn little boy named Rex, Sabrina launches a desperate plan to rescue him by imp.
Hotel Babylon
- Episode #1.2 (1996)
Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behavior no longer seem to apply.
Hitz
As the "A&R guys" at HiTower Records, Robert and Busby are compelled to deal with their obnoxious boss, unruly artists, and confused romantic lives, all while the threat of losing their jobs always hangs ominously over their heads. Can they hit upon a good balance?
Muppets Tonight
V.I.P.
Rapper Coolio hires VIP, being threatened by a stalker with a bomb on her chest.
The Nanny
Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on Hollywood Squares.
Maxwell learns that he's been approached to be a celebrity panelist on 'Hollywood Squares' (1998) (they couldn't get Andrew Lloyd Webber), so he, Fran, Sylvia, Yetta and Val traipse off to California. Regardless of Maxwell having a good time on the show or not (he isn't), Fran drags him off the set during the middle of the show for more important matters: she's ovulating.
Hollywood Squares
O'Bservation:
Technically, in the world of the Toob, Coolio appeared in 41 episodes as a "Square". This includes the televersion, that fictional episode seen in the aforementioned episode of 'The Nanny'.
Der Clown
- Stirb langsam (2001)
A truck speeds through the streets of Cologne and drives into the sold-out Kölnarena. Shortly after the crash, an anonymous caller contacts the police chief and demands the release of imprisoned war criminal Mirco Drusic.
Joey
Alex teaches Joey fake poker rules to keep him away from a girl. Joey then plays along those rules at "Celebrity Poker Showdown", and gets into trouble.
Coolio's Rules
6 episodes as host
5 episodes
O'Bservation:
This was the closest interaction Coolio had with star David Faustino in this episode. (A picture from the opening of this particular episode is featured above as his intro picture.)
Black Jesus
With the garden in danger, our heroes decide to have an online benefit concert with Coolio to raise the money.
THE TOONIVERSE
The televersion of Coolio was a multidimensional, existing not only on Earth Prime-Time, but also in the animated world of The Tooniverse.
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
When Duckman makes an expensive bet hinging on Ajax performing well during an athletic competition, he finds that he has no athletic skills, and ends up adopting a fellow student in better physical shape -- popular rapper Coolio.
Gravity Falls
[as Wax Coolio]
The kids discover Stan's collection of wax sculptures, and Mabel decides to create her own. But when someone sabotages it, it's up to her and Dipper to solve the case.
Squidbillies
Follows the adventures of the Cuylers, an impoverished and dysfunctional family of anthropomorphic, air-breathing, redneck squids who live in a rural Appalachian community in the state of Georgia.
O'Bservation:
I did NOT write this entry from the show's wiki:
Coolio is a real-life person who only appeared in "The Guzzle Bumpkin", he & Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, woke up Russell "Rusty" Cuyler on New Years Eve, who was involved in The Guzzles, Rusty told who are they ghosts, Coolio say's "Listen to this lil' punk, frontin' like he don't know who we are, Coolio! "Gangsta's Paradise", in the flesh, cuz!"
All synopses were from either the IMDb or the wikis for the respective series.
I'm sorry it was under these circumstances, but welcome to the Television Crossover Hall of Fame, Coolio....
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