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It’s also featured in the movie Pain & Gain (2013). Coolio won the “Best Rap Solo Performance” Grammy for the song. “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.
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They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me. It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'. Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'. Coolio Power and the money, money and the power. They’ve been spending most their lives/living in a pastime paradise Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise. The hook borrows its melody and most of its lyrics from Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise”: That the ones we hurt Are you and me? Tell me why are we So blind to see.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 #38 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop Coolio - Gangstas Paradise (feat L.V.) Lyrics. We keep spending most our lives Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We've been spending most our lives Living in a gangsta's paradise. If they can't understand it, how can they reach me? I guess they can't, I guess they won't, I guess they front, That's why I know my life is out of luck, foo! We've been spending most our lives Living in a gangsta's paradise. They say I gotta learn But nobody's here to teach me. Power in the money, money in the power, Minute after minute, hour after hour, Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking It's going on in the kitchen But I don't know what's cooking. But I aint never crossed a man that didnt deserve it. That even my momma thinks that my mind has gone. That the ones we hurt Are you and me? We've been spending most our lives Living in a gangsta's paradise. from album: Gangstas Paradise (1995) As I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I take a look at my life, And realize theres nothing left, Cause Ive been blasting and laughing so long. Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away, I'm living life do or die, what can I say? I'm twenty-three now, will I ever live to see twenty-four, The way things is going I don't know. I'm a locked out gangsta, set tripping banger And my homies are down so don't arouse my anger. I'm an educated fool with money on my mind Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye. So I gotta be down with the 'hood team, Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams. (x2) Look at the situation, they got me facing, I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state.