LOS ANGELES — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died last year because of fentanyl, his manager said.
Coolio’s former longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press on Thursday that Coolio’s cause of death was fentanyl and that he also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in his system.
