Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video]

[00:26.23] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.88] I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left

[00:32.34] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long

[00:34.99] That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:38.18] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.84] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:44.30] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:47.21] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.87] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:52.79] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:55.71] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:58.90] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.09] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:08.46] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:14.31] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:20.15] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:26.52] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:28.66] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:32.92] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:35.32] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

[01:37.73] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.65] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.57] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:46.78] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger

[01:49.70] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:53.17] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.83] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

[01:59.29] The way things is goin', I don't know

[02:01.95] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:07.26] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:14.43] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:20.55] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:26.67] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:32.51] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:38.89] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:41.80] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.20] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:47.12] It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:50.57] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:53.23] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:56.15] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:59.87] I guess they frontin', that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

[03:03.05] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:08.37] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:14.49] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:20.61] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:26.18] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:32.03] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:38.15] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.73] That the ones we hurt are you and me?