Coolio Lifeless at 59 – Billboard

Coolio died on Wednesday (Sept. 28) in Los Angeles, California. He was 59 years previous.

In keeping with TMZ, who first reported the information, the rapper, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was discovered useless on the toilet ground at his buddy’s home, and paramedics initially suspect that he suffered cardiac arrest. Nonetheless, an official reason behind dying has but to be decided. Billboard has reached out to his reps for extra data.

Coolio positioned six hits on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart, together with the No. 1 smash “Gangsta’s Paradise,” that includes L.V, from the movie Harmful Minds. The only spent three weeks atop the listing in 1995 and completed because the year-end No. 1 music on the Scorching 100. It additionally dominated the Scorching Rap Songs listing for 11 consecutive weeks. The monitor would go on to win the Billboard Music Award for single of the 12 months, and a Grammy Award for greatest rap solo efficiency. In 2021, “Gangsta’s Paradise” ranked among the many 100 Best of All Time Scorching 100 Songs.

All 5 of Coolio’s different Scorching 100 hits all reached the highest 40, together with his breakthrough single, “Implausible Voyage,” which peaked at No. 3 in 1994. He additionally scored a high 10 hit with “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” in 1996, which climbed to No. 5. 

On the Billboard 200 albums chart, he notched a trio of entries, together with two high 10s: It Takes a Thief (No. 8 in 1994) and Gangsta’s Paradise (No. 9, 1996).

Coolio additionally had a tv profession, and sometimes made visitor appearances in exhibits together with Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Black Jesus, All That, The Nanny and Futurama. He additionally took half in quite a lot of competitors exhibits resembling Concern Issue and Rachael vs Man: Superstar Prepare dinner-Off.

Following the information of his dying, quite a lot of stars took to social media to mourn the lack of the hip-hop nice. “Peaceable Journey Brother,” Questlove wrote, whereas Scorching Ones host Sean Evans shared, “First CD I ever purchased in my life and probably the most legendary Wing 10 Final Dab these eyes have ever seen.”

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