Late American rapper, record producer, and actor Artis Leon Ivey Jr. known professionally as Coolio was preparing for a show in Germany when he died of a heart attack, his manager Jarez Posey has revealed.
According to Mail Online, Coolio had come to LA from Las Vegas to correct an issue he was having with his passport. The rapper had shows scheduled in Germany this weekend and so was in need of proper documentation.
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Coolio’s manager, Jarez, said he was preparing to join the rapper when he received a call about the collapse in the bathroom. The manager subsequently said he was told Coolio died of a heart attack, though that has not yet been confirmed.
The 59-year-old rapper who won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta’s Paradise, which led the soundtrack for Dangerous Minds was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a friend’s LA house, Jarez told US media.
