Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including ``Gangsta's Paradise'' and ``Fantastic Voyage,'' has died.
Manager Jarez Posey tells The Associated Press that Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend on Wednesday.
The cause was not immediately clear. Coolio was 59.
He won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for ``Gangsta's Paradise,'' the 1995 No. 1 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film ``Dangerous Minds'' that sampled Stevie Wonder's 1976 song ``Pastime Paradise.''