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Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was best
known for his 1995 single "Gangsta's Paradise," from an album of
the same name.
That song, a massive hit featured in the film Dangerous Minds,
won a Grammy Award for best rap solo performance the following
year.
The rapper died at about 5 p.m. pacific time (8 p.m. EDT) at a
local hospital, his manager Jarez Posey told the Times. Posey
told the paper that Ivey had earlier been found unresponsive in
the bathroom of a friend's home.
There were no immediate reports on the cause of death.
Ivey, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1963, began performing as
part of the West Coast hip-hop scene after moving to Compton,
California.
He released his debut album, "It Takes a Thief", in 1994,
scoring a Top Ten hit with the single "Lakeside."
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by
Christian Schmollinger and Christopher Cushing)
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