Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known after his stage name Coolio, was retained by a routine patrol from the Los Angeles police this morning for driving with his license suspended. The 44-year-old rap singer was stopped by the police in Hollywood, near Sunset Boulevard and Sweetzer Avenue, around 1 a.m. At the beginning, the officers halted him for the expired tags of his gray 1996 Hummer. It was afterwards that the authorities realized he also had an outstanding traffic warrant on his name.

According to the Los Angeles police officer April Harding, the artist was booked on an “outstanding misdemeanor traffic warrant for driving with a suspended license.” The bond that set him free from jail at 6:40 a.m. raised up to $10,000. According to TMZ, Coolio was not the only member of his family to be caught driving on suspended time. His father was also convicted with the same charge in 2006.

Ivey became famous after he had released his 1995 song “Gangsta’s Paradise,” which reached the 1^st position in three charts: US Hot 100, US Rap, UK Singles Chart. The same album went four times Platinum.

At the moment, Ivey is the host of an online cooking show, broadcasted by My Damn Channel. In “Cookin’ with Coolio,” he surnames himself as “the ghetto witchdoctor superstar chef," whose goal is “to make you forget about every cooking show you've ever heard."