Grammy award-winning rapper Coolio is dead at the age of 59

Grammy award-winning rapper Coolio is dead at the age of 59. While no official cause of death has been announced, EMT’s suspect he might have suffered a heart attack. Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., achieved major stardom in the mid ’90s, with his iconic song “Gangsta’s Paradise” hitting Number One on the Billboard Hot 100.