Gangsta's Paradice

[00:11.86] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:15.13] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:18.13] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long

[00:21.13] That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:24.13] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:27.11] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:30.11] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:33.38] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:36.63] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:39.63] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:42.40] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:45.88] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:49.15] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[00:55.15] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:00.88] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:07.13] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:12.28] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:15.01] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:18.77] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:21.79] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

[01:24.52] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:27.54] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:30.54] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:33.78] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger

[01:36.54] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:39.79] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:42.80] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

[01:45.79] The way things is goin', I don't know

[01:48.28] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:54.04] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:00.03] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:07.03] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:13.02] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:19.01] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:24.27] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:27.78] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:31.05] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:33.80] It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:36.79] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:39.55] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:43.04] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:45.07] I guess they frontin', that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

[02:48.56] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:55.03] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:00.53] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:06.79] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:12.53] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:18.29] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:24.04] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:30.31] That the ones we hurt are you and me?