Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds") - Hollywood Session Group

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life and realize there’s nuthin' left

'Cuz I’ve been blasting and laughing 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 talking, and where you’re walking

Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip but I gotta loc.

As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool

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

on my knees in the night, saying 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 ghetto situation, they got me facin'

I can’t live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes

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 23 now, but will I live to see 24

The way things are 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

Spending most our lives, living in the gangsta’s paradise

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 looking

What’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

Spending most our lives, living in the gangsta’s paradise

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