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On Gangsta’s Paradise, his second album, this former delinquent and crack head has made a monumental effort to deepen the success of his rose-colored 1994 hits “Fantastic Voyage” and “I Remember” without selling out. Time Warner dumped the crew’s label, Death Row/Interscope, after the outcry over an album that does indeed embody Bob Dole’s “nightmares of depravity.” Coolio (Artis Ivey) couldn’t be more different. Tha Dogg Pound–Dat Nigga Daz and Kurupt the Kingpin (Delmar Arnaud and Ricardo Brown)–demonstrate their “cultural impact” by earning all the official condemnation any self-respecting outlaw could want. When put together they offer a de facto morality play between the Bad Rap Duo and the Good Rap Hero, staged in a media theater as big as the nation. Like no other contenders, they are at least trying to demonstrate hip-hop’s continued significance. In the United States, the single spent twelve weeks in the top two of the Billboard Hot 100, of which three were spent at #1 and nine at #2, putting “”Gangsta’s Paradise”” in joint fourth place for the most weeks spent at #2 by a single in the chart’s history.Two of the biggest rap albums of ’95 put this critique to the test–Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise and Tha Dogg Pound’s Dogg Food.
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Following Coolio’s appearance in the UK TV show Celebrity Big Brother 2009 Gangsta’s Paradise re-entered the UK singles chart peaking at #31. The single reached number one in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand, making it Coolio’s most successful single. When Coolio won the Best Rap Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1996, he said in a press conference that Bone Thugs-n-Harmony deserved the award for “”Tha Crossroads””. The music video for the song was directed by Antoine Fuqua of Propaganda Films, and featured Michelle Pfeiffer reprising her earlier role in Dangerous Minds. This song is one of the few Coolio tracks which does not feature profanity. The choral lines (sung by L.V.) Tell me why are we so blind to see / That the ones we hurt are you and me offer an especially plaintive self-criticism. Many of the lyrics are very dark and tragic and are meant to be a criticism of the violence and tragedy of the “”gangsta”” life. Adding to some of the religious overtones are choral vocals in the background. The song begins with a line from Psalm 23:4 from the Bible: As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, but then diverges with: I take a look at my life / And realize there’s nothin’ left. Coolio changed the lyrics to be more relevant to life on the streets. “”Gangsta’s Paradise”” uses the same tune, and a different orchestration of the same backing music. The music is a reworking of Stevie Wonder’s “”Pastime Paradise””, a song from his album Songs in the Key of Life. The single did not repeat the popularity of the original with Coolio. This version did not feature Coolio, and featured additional lyrics written by L.V. released a solo version of the single in 1996 on his debut album, I Am L.V. The song was also featured in the films, “”The Green Hornet (2011 film)”” and “”Bad Teacher””
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In November 1995, the song was featured prominently in the opening montage of “”Internal Affairs””, a second season episode of the FOX police drama television series New York Undercover. In 2008, it was ranked number 38 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The song was also listed at number 69 on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of All-Time and number one biggest selling single of 1995 on U.S. Wonder performed the song with Coolio and L.V. It sampled the chorus and music of the song “”Pastime Paradise”” by Stevie Wonder (1976). The song was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. Coolio was awarded a Grammy for the song/album.
The song was released on the Coolio album Gangsta’s Paradise, as well as the Dangerous Minds soundtrack in 1995. “”Gangsta’s Paradise”” is a rap song by Coolio featuring L.V.
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Notes Taken from the movie soundtrack for “Dangerous Minds”.
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