Gangsta paradise

[00:25.50] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.50] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.75] 'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,

[00:34.75] That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

[00:38.00] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.75] Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of

[00:44.25] You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking

[00:46.99] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.75] I really hate to trip but I gotta loc

[00:52.75] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool

[00:55.75] I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:59.25] On my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.25] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:08.50] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:14.50] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:20.50] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:26.25] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:28.75] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:31.75] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:34.49] Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

[01:37.99] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.75] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:44.00] I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger

[01:46.75] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger,

[01:49.75] Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away,

[01:52.75] I'm living life, do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.49] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24

[01:59.25] The way things is going I don't know

[02:02.00] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:07.25] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:14.50] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:20.49] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:26.50] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:32.50] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:38.24] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:41.00] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.00] Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking

[02:47.00] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:49.25] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.25] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me

[02:56.24] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:58.75] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[03:02.50] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:08.75] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:14.75] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:20.50] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:26.00] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:31.49] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:37.50] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.25] That the ones we hurt are you and me?