Coolio_-_Gangsta's_Paradise_(feat._L.V.)_[Official_Music_Video](256k)

[00:26.04] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.69] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.87] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long, that

[00:34.81] 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

[00:40.65] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:43.58] You better watch how you're talkin', and where you're walkin'

[00:47.03] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.95] I really hate to trip but I gotta loc

[00:53.14] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool

[00:56.06] I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:58.98] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.43] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:08.28] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:14.66] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:20.23] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:26.34] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:29.02] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:31.94] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:34.59] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

[01:37.80] I'm an educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.72] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.91] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:46.83] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool

[01:50.02] Death ain't nothin' but a heartbeat away

[01:52.67] I'm livin' life, do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.87] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

[01:59.07] The way things is going, I don't know

[02:01.99] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:07.56] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:14.20] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:20.31] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:26.96] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:32.26] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:38.64] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:41.30] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.22] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:47.41] It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:50.06] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.98] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me

[02:56.18] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:59.10] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[03:02.28] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:08.39] Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:14.51] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:20.34] We keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:26.19] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:31.23] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:37.61] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.45] That the ones we hurt are you and me?