Rapper Coolio's death last year was caused by fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller, his former manager has confirmed.
The star, who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including Gangsta’s Paradise and Fantastic Voyage, also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in his system. He was 59 when he was found dead at a friend's house in Los Angeles on September 28, 2002.
The cause of his death was revealed by his former longtime manager Jarez Posey in a statement to The Associated Press. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office listed his death as accidental and cited cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle, as a “significant condition”.
