Now Posey stated, that the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office informed Coolio’s family that he died of an overdose. According to the AP agency, the artist also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in his body. The medical examiner described his death as an unfortunate accident, in which the musician’s health condition played a role – he suffered from cardiomyopathy, asthma and smoked cigarettes.
Fentanyl is a drug from the group of synthetic opioids. Every year, 70,000 people in the United States die from an overdose of this substance. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), it is the deadliest drug threat in the US, where it is trafficked mostly from Mexico.
Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey junior, was born in 1963 and became one of the biggest personalities of the hip-hop scene in the 90s. He released his first solo album in 1994. The most famous single, Gangsta’s Paradise, which was heard in the film Dangerous Thoughts, is from 1995. In 1996, he visited the Czech Republic.
