The "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 59 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...

Rapper Coolio, who reached the height of his fame in the 90s with tracks like “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “C U When U Get There,” died in Los Angeles at the age of 59. He died at the home of a friend, ...

Coolio’s long-term partner claims the rapper was “seeing other women” before he died — but says the two had an “understanding.” “He was who he was. If he was seeing other women, I knew about it,” Mimi ...

Rapper Coolio at the launch party of the book Dating, Mating, and Manhandling: The Ornithological Guide to Men in Los Angeles. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/S_bukley ...

"We haven't even started writing any lyrics. The track is being built as we speak," the late rapper said of his collaboration with Aslan lead singer Christy Dignam during an interview in July Shafiq ...

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