{"id":93186,"date":"2022-09-29T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/rapper-coolio-famous-for-gangstas-paradise-dies-at-59\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:49:11","slug":"rapper-coolio-famous-for-gangstas-paradise-dies-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/rapper-coolio-famous-for-gangstas-paradise-dies-at-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Coolio, famous for &#8220;Gangsta&#8217;s Paradise,&#8221; dies at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"article-image\">\n\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCoolie.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPhoto: Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>On Wednesday the 28th, rapper Coolio died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 59.<\/strong> So far, the reports suggest that the cause of his death was a heart attack, after he was found dead on the bathroom floor of a friend&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 <strong>coolie<\/strong> -whose real name was <strong>Artis Leon Ivey<\/strong>\u2013 gained fame with the song <strong>\u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d<\/strong>;  however, it was the following year that he achieved the greatest success of his career, <strong>\u201cGangsta&#8217;s paradise\u201d<\/strong>which he performed together with the singer <strong>MF<\/strong> and what was the theme of the tape <strong>\u201cDangerous minds\u201d<\/strong>starring <strong>michelle pfeiffer<\/strong>.  The song occupied the first place of the <strong>Hot 100<\/strong> of <strong>Billboard<\/strong> and was considered the number 1 of 1995.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>In the following years the fame of <strong>coolie<\/strong> It dwindled, but his reputation as a rap star made him highly respected among rap artists.  He acted in several television programs and distinguished himself by incorporating into his themes <em>samples<\/em> or fragments of other songs whose melodies made them accessible and danceable.  He never stopped working, and until a few weeks ago he had presentations both in the United States and in some European countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may also like:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center\/><\/p>\n<p>-Britney Spears declares again that she will not return to the world of entertainment<\/p>\n<p>-Harry Styles breaks another record on the charts thanks to his song \u201cAs it was\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolie. Photo: Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images On Wednesday the 28th, rapper Coolio died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 59. So far, the reports suggest that the cause of his death was a heart attack, after he was found dead on the bathroom floor of a friend&#8217;s house. In 1994 coolie -whose real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[11184,26703,26696,12508,20422,18928],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/laopinion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/coolio-getty.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}