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The rapper Coolio has died at the age of 59

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The rapper Coolio has died at the age of 59

CTN NEWS –  Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including Gangsta’s Paradise and Fantastic Voyage, died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said.

Coolio died at the Los Angeles home of a friend, his longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press. The cause was not immediately clear.

Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap

Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for Gangsta’s Paradise, the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film Dangerous Minds that sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song Pastime Paradise.

He was nominated for five other Grammys during a career that began in the late-1980s. Born in Monessen, Pennsylvania south of Pittsburgh, Coolio moved to Compton, California, where he went to community college.

He worked as a volunteer firefighter and in airport security before devoting himself full-time to the hip-hop scene. His career took off with the 1994 release of his debut album on Tommy Boy Records, It Takes a Thief.

It’s the opening track, Fantastic Voyage, that would reach No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. A year later, Gangsta’s Paradise would become a No. 1 single, with its dark opening lyrics:

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s not much left, ’cause I’ve been blastin and laughing so long, that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone.

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