Coolio has Passed

as he walks through the valley of the shadow of death

Very sad 😢

What happened?

Wholio?

Sad news. RIP 🙏🏽

Rest in Power

Well, damn 😢

Fuck!

RIP Coolio

Found dead in friend’s bathroom

Another dumbass. Coolio is DEAD to me, OP. Sheesh.

Awww R.I.P.

At 59. So sad

Very sad, ugh. This one hurts.

I liked Coolio. Here he is presenting with Bjork at the MTV Awards nearly 30 years ago.

Overdose?

He always seemed thuggish to me

Not a drive-by shooting?

I read it was possible cardiac arrest.

Now on his final fantastic voyage

In bath room floor he was found

I loved him when he played a wrapper on The Nanny.

Is this real?! Why is it greyed out? Man, this makes me sad.

Found on the floor of the toilet. At least he died as he lived.

[quote] he played a wrapper on The Nanny.

And Tu-Pac played a package on The Nanny.

He was 59. He was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor, with the paramedics suspecting he suffered cardiac arrest.

Who?

Loved the song "Wild Thing" back in the day! Red Onion played it all the time!

Gansta’s Paradise is a fucking GREAT song. The Stevie Wonder, the beat, and the chilling Biblical lyrics - I haven’t heard this in over a decade, and listening now, I still remember a lot of it word for word. I’m not sure why Coolio could never really come close to this again.

Not cool yo

Gangster's Paradise was on the soundtrack to Dangerous Minds, right? Good times!

Spike proteins?

Why the Coolie hate? OP is gray.

Yes, it was from Dangerous Minds - and also spawned one of Weird Al’s biggest hits, Amish Paradise.

[quote] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death: I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left: 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long, that: Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

MINUTE AFTER MINUTE, HOUR AFTER HOUR

We don’t have lyrics like that today, we don’t have lyrics period today.

[quote] Why the Coolie hate? OP is gray.

Grumpy dataloungers gray out the OP because they have frustrated lives.

On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[quote] we don’t have lyrics period today.

We don’t have lyrics since Cole Porter's day.

His agent really didn’t need to tell everyone Coolio died in the bathroom.

Aww I liked him. Snoop Dogg stole his thunder though; they had similar images. He’s only a couple of years older than me.

"Gangsta's Paradise" was the #1 song of 1995, beating out classic hits from mega-artists TLC, Mariah, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, and Madonna.

[quote] Why the Coolie hate? OP is gray.

Dataloungers hate black people.

Got a $10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye…

I loved Gangster’s Paradise, the song and movie. Saw the movie many times.

RIP. Gangsta’s Paradise is a bonafide classic.

[quote] His agent really didn’t need to tell everyone Coolio died in the bathroom

Was he… um… on the pedestal?

He used to own a home not far from where I live.

What did he pass, your house, 8th grade, gas? The correct format is " Coolio is Dead to me.

Sad. I always liked Coolio. RIP, Coolio.🌹🙏

R49 There is no correct format and "Dead to me" is not clever or funny anymore.

How long until the antivaxers claim Coolio as a vaccine death?

I had a weird feeling earlier that there was an upcoming celebrity death. I know that won't sound like much of a coincidence, because celebrities die all the time. But the only other time I've had that feeling was when I woke up on the day Robin Williams died.

I remember he played a demon in charmed back in the early 2000s.

Has Michelle Pfeiffer made a comment?

He is now in Gangsta Paradise.

R13 "This one hurts."

Oh, please, you idiot.

Weird, I've had "Fantastic Voyage" in my head all day.

He had a sense of humor about himself and I enjoyed his cooking show

At least 2 of his hits were written and performed by other people first: Stevie Wonder and Lakeside.

I wish him a Fantastic Voyage to the afterlife. This news saddens me, he was too young. Peace, OG.

RIP

Passed what?

The bar exam?

A kidney stone?

I eat piles of shit!

He was great as the Lazarus Demon on the original Charmed.

Was he vaxxed?

I was RIGHT NOW years old when I learnt that Coolio is not a nickname for LL Cool J, and that they are in fact two different people. Rest in Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio. Keep on living, LL Cool J.

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is going, I don't know

I bet he was double-jabbed and double-boosted. Those double-boosted are dropping dead like fruit flies to DDT now.

RIP

The most amazing thing about this thread is how many apparent OCD sufferers this has freaked out because OP did not use the "correct" format to announce Coolio's death (even though no one in charge has ever decreed we indeed have to use that format).

It's safe to say: no one loves an OCD sufferer.

[quote]I read it was possible cardiac arrest.

That means dead, dear.

[quote]Why the Coolie hate? OP is gray.

Probably because of the dumbasses, a couple of whom have posted in this thread, pitching hissy fits because OP didn't use the oh-so-clever "Coolio is dead to me."

It's an unwritten law r71, like gangsta speak. Get used to it.

He's 59 now

But will he live to see 60?

The way things is going -

No, he won't

Finally, we're together again!

R62 a slow-moving Winnebago, Rose.

R24 I think you're being sarcastic, but R21 is correct: Coolio played a nerdy gift wrapper who Fran turned into a gangsta rapper to star in Maxwell's hip-hop musical.

Here is the full episode:

Snoop even had a cooking show…he totally stole Coolio’s schtick.

is this true?

Maybe he had an underlying issue…

Gangsta’s Paradise was a bop.

The same vaccine rumor was spread about DMX after his untimely death R78.

It’s sad it sounds like even though his music career kind of died he was still able to lead a fulfilling life and didn’t just become like Aaron Carter. Rip

Paul Fussell would have something to say about OP

The anti-vaxxers are fucking morons.

R78 How the fuck would we know, dumbass

I am really surprised this isn’t bigger news. He was HUGE in the 90s.

[quote]His agent really didn’t need to tell everyone Coolio died in the bathroom.

Some people do die on the toilet. That's why doctors stress not to try and force taking a dump. You can literally get a heart attack trying to take a shit!

R87 "literally"

Oh, dear.

[quote]literally

Oh, dear.

[quote]The same vaccine rumor was spread about DMX after his untimely death

It's been spread after every celebrity death since the vaccine was introduced. It's been true exactly zero times.

Well, at least his name makes sense now.

Fuck the "oh dear" troll.

This is shocking

R92 Very witty

[quote] It's an unwritten law [R71], like gangsta speak.

No, dear.

No one ever put you in charge of anything.

[quote]Fuck the "oh dear" troll.

That person is just a troll, not the “oh dear” troll. They don’t follow our community, hence the incorrect quoting, they don’t care to learn, they just care to troll.

R96 Lol bless your heart

He coasted on one hit song for 30 years.

[quote]He coasted on one hit song for 30 years.

That's all it takes baby.

He had more than one hit

He was really talented. It's amazing his career didn't go further.

R98 He had more than one hit song; but he only have one “lasting” song.

R98 is two hundred years old.

Yeah

I liked Fantastic Voyage but though Amish Paradise was much better than Gangstas paradise

Awww, nice words from Ms. Pfeiffer

Love this performance with Stevie Wonder.

He died from the effects of fentanyl. Small traces of heroin and methamphetamines in his system too.