Coolio appeared happy and healthy in photos taken just DAYS before his sudden death at age 59 as he posed with a female fan in a Texas airport
Coolio has been seen in new images taken on September 23, which was just days before he died at the age of 59.
On Friday photos of the Gangsta’s Paradise rapper showed him happy and healthy in a cap and sunglasses with a black-and-beige zip-up jacket while in an airport in Houston, Texas.
He was smiling as he stood next to a woman named Mika Janday.
The image was taken only hours before his final performance in Cypress, Texas.
Fan photo: Coolio appeared happy, healthy, and engaging just days before his unexpected death at age 59
She took to Instagram to share about her experience with the entertainer, describing him as ‘cool and humble.’
Janday said he was kind enough to invite her and a friend to his show in Cypress, Texas, and offered to put them on his VIP list.
That show last Friday, in which he performed alongside Vanilla Ice, would turn out to be his last.
The musician, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr, was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor of a friend’s house in Los Angeles at around 4pm on Wednesday.
Excited fan: One person, a woman named Mika Janday, interacted with the 59-year-old star at the Houston airport hours before his final performance
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Tributes: Questlove posted a throwback image in tribute to the late star
In the wake of the unexpected loss, 90s rapper Vanilla Ice spoke out about his friend.
Ice – real name Robert Matthew Van Winkle – told TMZ he lost sleep Wednesday night over the news and was ‘still in shock and freaking out’ by Thursday morning.
‘My heart goes out to all the family. I’m truly devastated. He was a great friend,’ he told the publication.
Grieving: In the wake of rapper Coolio’s sudden death, 90s rapper Vanilla Ice has spoken out about his friend
The two music artists had spent the last six years touring their I Love The 90s show for audiences around the world, performing as recently as last week in Cyprus, Texas.
Robert, known for his 1990 hit Ice Ice Baby, said during the Friday night concert Coolio came onstage and freestyled.
After the show they spent time in his dressing room with Coolio showing no signs of bad health. ‘See you tomorrow, homie,’ was the last thing Coolio said to him.
Close friends: The two music artists hit the stage together in London back in 2017
EMTs pronounced Coolio dead on the scene and an autopsy is now underway to establish the official cause of death – though law enforcement sources shared that ‘no drugs or drug paraphernalia were found at the scene’ and they do not suspect foul play.
Paramedics suspected he suffered a cardiac arrest, according to the star’s longtime manager, Jarez.
Another collaborator of the hip hop star, actress Michelle Pfeiffer, paid tribute to him on Instagram on Thursday.
Pfeiffer, 64, shared the music video for Gangsta’s Paradise after working with the musician on the video, with the song being the cornerstone of the soundtrack for her 1995 film Dangerous Minds.
The track topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and won Coolio the Grammy award for best rap solo performance in 1996.
Heartbroken: Michelle Pfeiffer has led tributes to the rapper Coolio, best known for his chart-topping song Gangsta’s Paradise, after he died on Wednesday
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