Coolio - Gangsta_s Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video](MP3_160K)

[00:25.38] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.58] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.50] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

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

[00:37.40] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.58] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:43.50] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:46.69] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.88] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:52.27] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:55.45] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:58.92] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.37] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:04.77] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:08.22] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:10.87] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:14.61] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:17.00] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:20.19] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:22.57] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:25.77] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:28.42] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:31.88] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:34.53] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:37.72] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.64] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.56] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

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

[01:49.67] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:52.86] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.79] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:58.45] The way things is going I don't know

[02:01.64] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:06.95] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:13.87] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:16.54] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:20.26] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:25.85] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:28.77] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:34.61] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:38.59] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:38.86] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:39.12] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:41.78] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.17] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:47.09] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:50.29] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.94] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:56.65] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:59.04] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[03:02.23] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:04.89] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:08.34] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:10.73] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:14.45] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:16.85] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:20.57] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:22.99] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:25.91] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:30.95] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:34.67] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.19] That the ones we hurt are you and me?