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 ...

SPIN: Do you recognize this? Coolio: The “Tootsee Roll,” man. That’s easy. [Stands up and demos the dance for the duration of three knee-pumps, then sits.] I’ve got knee-monia! I move my leg a certain ...

I was at my manager’s house. I was over there to pick up some paperwork — I had to sign a check. As I was getting ready to leave and I walked passed the studio and I heard the beat playing so I walked ...

Coolio once reflected on the fragility of life in a wide-ranging interview with PEOPLE, 17 years before his untimely death at age 59. The "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper talked to PEOPLE in 2005 about the ...

Who have you met through cooking that you otherwise wouldn’t have? Check this out–guess who I met last night? I met a pimp. Hah! I met a pimp! And he’s saying, “Man, I can get down too.” He was ...

Coolio’s oldest son, Artis Ivey III, spoke publicly this week for the first about the rapper since his death at age 59 last month, revealing the health struggles the artist was going through and how ...

Ever since ’90s rap icon Coolio discovered he had a refined palate, he’s been busy in the kitchen, demonstrating fresh techniques on his YouTube show “Cookin’ with Coolio” and wowing friends with his ...

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 ...

Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died on Sept. 28, 2022, at the age of 59. As of this writing, his cause of death has not been confirmed. The rapper, who revealed an addiction to drugs, said he beat ...

The hip-hop artist Coolio, who first earned fame more than two decades ago plying a West Coast style of rap that he expressed in chart-topping albums like 1995's "Gangsta's Paradise," is playing a ...