The star’s eldest son, Artise III told the US Sun, “We’re going to have a personal memorial for family and close friends.
“He wanted a party and for everybody to celebrate his life, play music, just fill up the room and smile, have a good time.”
It comes after the beloved rapper’s last partner, Mimi Ivey told Daily Mail Coolio didn’t not want a funeral or memorial service. However it seems the family found a middle ground and did in fact hold a funeral on October 15 with the afterparty taking place straight after.
Friends and family posted photos of the afterparty online with some seen holding a service booklet that had a photo of Coolio – who was born Artis Leon Ivey Jr - looking up to “paradise”
Coolio, who overcame battles with poverty and drug addiction during his rise to fame, was discovered in September on a friend’s bathroom floor and pronounced dead of a suspected cardiac arrest.
Meanwhile, his final resting spot was revealed by TMZ last month, reporting the star’s ashes would be going somewhere close to his family’s hearts.
The outlet said a representative told them his kids will get a pendant to hold the ashes, along with a necklace.
They added: “A few other close family members will get them as well.” TMZ also reported earlier this week that each of the rapper’s sons and daughters will “get to pick customised inscriptions for their jewellery” and “the rest of Coolio’s ashes will go into an urn once all the necklaces are distributed”.
Coolio shared four of his children, Artisha, Brandi, Jackie, and Artis, with ex-wife Josefa Salinas whom he divorced in 2000.
He had a further six children named Grtis, Milan, Darius, Zhaneand and twins Kate and Shayne from different relationships.
