At the time, a cause of death was not announced, but in an interview with The US Sun earlier this week, the Grammy winner’s oldest son, Artis Ivey III, spoke about his father’s passing, which tragically occurred on Ivey’s 33rd birthday. While his son says the rapper was known to use drugs on occasion, they did not play a part in his death. “My dad was having a couple of health complications. He was taking care of those things. A lot was going on with asthma, real bad asthma,” Ivey told the publication. “He was for the most part drug free, but my dad lived for the day, everyone in life has their vices, but those vices never really affected him as a father or a man. He died of natural causes. He just had a heart attack,” he continued. Of course his death was quite shocking to his family, but Ivey says that Coolio had prepared them for the unexpected. “…our father always prepared us for things that might happen,” he said, explaining that Coolio was a “very spiritual person” who wasn’t afraid of death. Ivey told The Sun that he knows the rapper had no regrets when he died. “You know, he had a smile on his face when it was checkout time. And that’s all that matters…He’s one of those people that got to really fulfil [sic] his life’s destiny.” To celebrate that destiny, Coolio’s family is looking to host a live event in his memory, possibly at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre—one big party for his friends and fans, just as he would have wanted it. More News:
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