Coolio has died at age 59 The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away. Coolio’s longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend’s house, but when he didn’t come after a while … the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found him laying on the floor. We’re told the friend called EMTs, who arrived and pronounced him dead on the scene — and Jarez tells us the paramedics suspect he suffered cardiac arrest.