Coolio feat. L.V. – Gangsta’s Paradise

Gangsta’s Paradise lyrics

As I walk

Through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life

And realize there’s nothin’ left

’Cause I’ve been blastin’

And laughin’ so long, that

Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

But I ain’t never crossed a man

That didn’t deserve it

Me be treated like a punk

You know that’s unheard of

You better watch how you’re talkin’

And where you’re walkin’

Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip but I gotta loc

As they croak I see myself

In the pistol smoke, fool

I’m that kinda G the little homies wanna be like

On my knees in the night

Sayin’ prayers in the streetlight

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

The getto situation

They got me facin’

I can’t live a normal life

I was raised by the street

So I gotta be down with the hood team

Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

I’m an educated fool

With money on my mind

Got my tin in my hand and a gleam in my eye

I’m a loc’d out gangsta set trippin’ banger

And my homies is down

So don’t arouse my anger, fool

Death ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away

I’m living life, do or die

What can I say

I’m twenty three now

But will I live to see twenty four

The way things is going I don’t know

Tell me why are we so blind to see

That the one’s we hurt are you and me

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Power and the money

Money and the power

Minute after minute

Hour after hour

Everybody’s running

But half of them ain’t lookin’

It’s going on in the kitchen

But I don’t know what’s cookin’

They say I gotta learn

But nobody’s here to teach me

If they can’t understand it

How can they reach me

I guess they can’t, I guess they won’t

I guess they front

That’s why I know my life is out of luck, fool

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most their lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Keep spending most our lives

Living in the gangsta’s paradise

Tell me why are we

So blind to see

That the one’s we hurt

Are you and me

Tell me why are we

So blind to see

That the one’s we hurt

Are you and me