A posthumous Coolio album is on the best way.
‘Lengthy Dwell Coolio’ is about to be launched later this 12 months, and the lead single ‘TAG ‘You It’’, that includes Too $hort and DJ Wino, is out now.
A music video for the observe sees the ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ hitmaker and Too $hort – actual title Todd Anthony Shaw – in a boxing ring with twerking feminine boxers.
The upcoming assortment options songs that the late rap legend was engaged on earlier than his passing on the age of 59 in September 2022.
The rapper’s longtime supervisor, Jarez Posey, confirmed his consumer was discovered collapsed within the lavatory at a good friend’s residence in Los Angeles on September 28 after struggling a cardiac arrest.
Paramedics have been referred to as to the scene at round 4pm and he was pronounced useless a short time after they arrived.
No medicine or drug paraphernalia have been discovered by police.
Coolio was cremated after his demise and his ashes have been reportedly positioned into pendants which have been then given to his youngsters.
A supply instructed TMZ: “Just a few different shut relations will get them as effectively.” TMZ additionally reported every of the rapper’s little children will “get to choose customised inscriptions for his or her jewelry” and “the remainder of Coolio’s ashes will go into an urn as soon as all of the necklaces are distributed”.
Coolio shared 4 of his youngsters, Artisha, Brandi, Jackie, and Artis, with ex-wife Josefa Salinas, whom he divorced in 2000. He had an extra six youngsters named Grtis, Milan, Darius, Zhaneand, and twins Kate and Shayne from completely different relationships.
The hip-hop legend – whose actual title was Artis Leon Ivey Jr – launched his debut single ‘Whatcha Gonna Do?’ in 1987.
Coolio bought his first break within the rap group WC and the Maad Circle alongside WC and his brother, Loopy Toones, the latter of whom died of a coronary heart assault in 2017 aged 45.
His world breakthrough got here within the mid-90s when the star landed a Grammy for 1995 basic ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’.
Coolio gained Finest Solo Rap Efficiency with the pioneering anthem, which interpolates Stevie Surprise’s 1976 track ‘Pastime Paradise’.
It stayed on the prime of the US Billboard charts for 3 weeks.
He additionally had a prime 5 hit with ‘Incredible Voyage’.
The rapper launched eight solo albums, his remaining being 2009’s ‘From the Backside 2 the Prime’.
Coolio additionally wrote the intro to Nickelodeon’s iconic TV present ‘Kenan and Kel’, ‘Aw, Right here It Goes!’, within the 90s.
He additionally grew to become a chef, together with his personal net collection ‘Cookin’ with Coolio’.
Coolio additionally starred in lots of movies and tv exhibits.
And he got here third within the sixth collection of ‘Celeb Large Brother’ in 2009.