Coolio - Gangsta_s Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video](MP3_70K)

[00:25.86] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.25] I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.18] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long

[00:34.91] That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:37.55] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.21] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:43.66] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:46.60] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.52] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:52.45] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:55.63] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:58.29] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.00] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:08.12] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:13.96] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:20.33] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:25.65] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:28.57] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:33.08] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:33.88] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

[01:37.60] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.25] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.44] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:46.37] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger

[01:49.55] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:52.48] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.13] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

[01:58.32] The way things is goin', I don't know

[02:01.77] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:06.02] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:14.00] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:19.83] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:25.95] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:32.32] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:37.63] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:40.82] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.01] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:46.40] It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:49.86] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.51] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:55.44] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:58.64] I guess they frontin', that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

[03:01.58] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:07.68] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:13.53] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:19.38] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:25.21] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:30.79] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:37.43] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.00] That the ones we hurt are you and me?