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Posthumous album set from 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper Coolio

FILE - Coolio appears at the 2015 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 25, 2015. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the Grammy-winning hitmaker had been working on in the days before he died.

"Long Live Coolio" will be the first posthumous album release from the "Gangsta's Paradise" star and the first single, "TAG 'You It,'" dropped Friday featuring Too $hort and DJ Wino.

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