Artis Leon Ivey Jr. the late great Coolio, sadly passed on September 28, 2022.
Coolio first rose to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle, Coolio achieved mainstream success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1990s with his albums It Takes a Thief (1994), Gangsta's Paradise (1995), and My Soul (1997).
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single Gangsta's Paradise, as well as other singles Fantastic Voyage (1994), 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New) (1996), and C U When U Get There (1997).
From 1996 on, Coolio released albums independently, and provided the opening track Aw, Here It Goes! for the 1996 Nickelodeon television series Kenan & Kel. He created the web series Cookin' with Coolio and released a cookbook.
Coolio was a star of the big and small screen too. RIP Coolio. Here are some of his biggest hits as we remember a star fallen to soon.
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