The American artist has also been active in recent years.
This summer he played at the festival "We who love the 90s" which toured around Sweden.
As recently as a couple of weeks ago, he was on stage at Riot Fest in Chicago.
Among his other famous songs can be mentioned the breakthrough "Fantastic voyage" from 1994 and 1996's "1, 2, 3, 4 (sumpin' new)".
There were eight albums in total, but it was mainly the first three, "It takes a thief", "Gangsta's paradise" and "My soul" that made it onto the sales charts.
He has also appeared in a number of American and British reality shows, and was sentenced in 2016 to probation for illegal gun possession after he was caught with a loaded gun in his backpack at a Los Angeles airport
Coolio, or Artis Leon Ivey Jr, as he was actually called, died in a residence in Los Angeles.
According to his manager Jarez, an ambulance was called when he was found lifeless in a friend's bathroom.
Jarez tells TMZ that paramedics believe it was a heart attack.
Coolio lived to be 59 years old.