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Michelle Pfeiffer is sharing her memories of the late Coolio.
After quality of the rapper's passing broke, the histrion recalled moving alongside the beloved star. "Heartbroken to perceive of the passing of the talented artist @coolio," she wrote successful a Sept. 28 Instagram post. "A beingness chopped wholly excessively short."
As Pfeiffer reminded fans, she "was fortunate enough" to enactment with Coolio for her 1995 film Dangerous Minds. The creator recorded the way "Gangsta's Paradise" for the movie's soundtrack—with the opus spending 3 weeks successful the no. 1 spot connected the Billboard Hot 100 chart—and helium and Pfeiffer some appeared successful the euphony video.
"He won a Grammy for his superb opus connected the soundtrack—which I deliberation was the crushed our movie saw truthful overmuch success," she continued, citing Coolio's 1996 Best Rap Solo Performance grant (one of six Grammy nominations helium received successful his career). "I retrieve him being thing but gracious. 30 years aboriginal I inactive get chills erstwhile I perceive the song."
At the extremity of her message, the three-time Oscar nominee sent "love and light" to Coolio's family. Referring to him by his commencement name, Pfeiffer concluded, "Rest successful Power, Artis Leon Ivey Jr."
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Coolio died astatine the property of 59 connected Sept. 28. While an authoritative origin of decease has yet to beryllium revealed, his manager, Jarez Posey, told NBC News, "As acold arsenic what I cognize present is that helium was astatine a friend's location and was successful his bath and had a bosom attack."
The Los Angeles Police Department told E! News they received a telephone for a decease probe of a antheral perchance 60 years of property astatine around 4 p.m. section clip that day. Although, the LAPD did not corroborate the individual's identity.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said they arrived to the country with paramedics astir 4 minutes aft being dispatched and recovered a antheral unresponsive. Resuscitation efforts were performed for astir 45 minutes, the LAFD continued, and the idiosyncratic was determined dormant conscionable earlier 5 p.m.
Additionally, the LAPD noted the decease probe appears to beryllium of earthy cause, explaining that it's not suspicious and doesn't look similar there's grounds of foul play astatine this time.
Pfeiffer is 1 of galore stars to pay tribute to Coolio aft his death. "Gangstas paradise. R. I. P. . @coolio," Snoop Dogg wrote connected Instagram. Tweeted Ice Cube, "This is bittersweet news. I witnesser archetypal manus this man's grind to the apical of the industry. Rest In Peace @Coolio."
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