Coolio – Gangsta's Paradise Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
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About “Gangsta's Paradise”
“Gangsta’s Paradise” was a 1995 single from Coolio’s second studio album by the same name, Gangsta’s paradise. The song spent 12 weeks in the top 2 spots of the Billboard Hot 100, making it Coolio’s most successful single to date.
The song has also been consistently ranked as one of the best Hip-Hop songs of all-time in numerous articles; such as being listed at #69 on Billboard’s Greatest Song’s of All-Time, and being ranked #28 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop
The hook borrows its melody and most of its lyrics from Stevie Wonder ’s “Pastime Paradise”:
They’ve been spending most their lives/living in a pastime paradise
“Gangsta’s Paradise” was on the soundtrack of the 1995 movie, “Dangerous Minds,” which starred Michelle Pfeiffer as an idealistic teacher in a ghetto high school – a modern iteration of such genre films as To Sir, With Love or Stand and Deliver. Coolio won the “Best Rap Solo Performance” Grammy for the song.
It’s also featured in the movie Pain & Gain (2013).
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