What Was Coolio's Net Worth When He Died?

Coolio's rise to the top wasn't easy. His parents were working-class people, and at a young age Coolio got involved with a gang, the Baby Crips, as The Famous People says. Even though Coolio was by nature goofy, kind, intelligent, and studious, he adopted a thug persona in school, and wound up having run-ins with the law for larceny by age 17. His interest in rap grew while attending Compton Community College, but so did his self-destructive drug habits, particular crack, as All Music describes. Coolio checked himself into rehab around the time that his first single, "Watcha Gonna Do," aired on Los Angeles rap radio station KDAY in 1987.

All this is to say: Financial literacy probably wasn't chief on Coolio's mind. After getting out of rehab, Coolio found his way to the limelight by transforming his younger, playful self into his rapping persona. The chief single from 1994's "It Takes a Thief," "Fantastic Voyage," epitomized Coolio's light-hearted, yet still West Coast, approach. It worked, and Coolio broke into super-stardom overnight. The Tough Tackle reports that he earned $8 million from touring alone. However, he also got sued for $1 million in 2000 for a breach of contract (via ABC News), got embroiled in a domestic abuse lawsuit in 2013 (via the Las Vegas Sun), and had run-in after run-in with the law, from a 2012 traffic violation arrest to carrying a loaded gun into airport security in 2016 (via The Sun).

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