Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including Gangsta’s Paradise and Fantastic Voyage, died last year because of fentanyl, his manager said.
Coolio’s former longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press on Thursday that Coolio’s cause of death was fentanyl and that he also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in his system.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office listed his death as accidental and cited cardiomyopathy as a “significant condition.” Posey also confirmed that investigators determined Coolio’s severe asthma and cigarette smoking played a role in his death.
Coolio — born Artis Leon Ivey Jr.,
