{"id":1663306,"date":"2022-09-28T22:51:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663306"},"modified":"2022-09-28T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:52:10","slug":"grammy-winning-rapper-coolio-dies-in-los-angeles-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grammy-winning-rapper-coolio-dies-in-los-angeles-at-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning rapper Coolio dies in Los Angeles at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrammy-winning-rapper-coolio-dies-in-los-angeles-at-59%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Grammy-winning rapper Coolio died on Wednesday after being found unresponsive at a friend\u2019s Los Angeles home, the New York Times reported. He was 59. <\/p>\n<p>Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was best known for his 1995 single \u201cGangsta\u2019s Paradise,\u201d from an album of the same name. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>That song, a massive hit featured in the film Dangerous Minds, won a Grammy Award for best rap solo performance the following year. <\/p>\n<p>The rapper died at about 5 p.m. pacific time (8 p.m. EDT) at a local hospital, his manager Jarez Posey told the Times. Posey told the paper that Ivey had earlier been found unresponsive in the bathroom of a friend\u2019s home. <\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports on the cause of death. <\/p>\n<p>Ivey, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1963, began performing as part of the West Coast hip-hop scene after moving to Compton, California.<\/p>\n<p>He released his debut album, \u201cIt Takes a Thief\u201d, in 1994, scoring a Top Ten hit with the single \u201cLakeside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sharon Bernstein and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Christopher Cushing)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/grammy-winning-rapper-coolio-dies\/attachment\/singer-coolio-performs-at-the-nbc-universal-summer-2008-press\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S021-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S021-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Grammy-winning rapper Coolio died on Wednesday after being found unresponsive at a friend\u2019s Los Angeles home, the New York Times reported. He was 59. 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