The song spent 12 weeks in the top 2 spots of. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Gangstas Paradise was a 1995 single from Coolios second studio album by the same name, Gangstas Paradise. The song was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice. Coolio was awarded a Grammy for the song/album. The song was later released on the albums Gangstas Paradise and Dangerous Minds soundtrack in 1995.
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from the movie Dangerous Minds (1995) (starring Michelle Pfeiffer). (Admittedly, I may watch too many mob films.)Īnd while the vernacular may have changed from 1925 to 1995 – I can’t imagine Capone using the word “homie” – the message is the same: “Been spending most their lives, living in the gangster’s paradise.”Ĭheck out more from Postmodern Jukebox at their website. Gangstas Paradise is a rap song by Coolio featuring L.V. With the lyrics in the hands – or vocal chords – of PMJ regular Robyn Adele Anderson, one can almost imagine a smoke-filled jazz club in the 1920s, packed with “Original Gangsters” in pinstripes and fedoras, swigging illegal alcohol, bragging about their latest hit.
It’s now been 20 years and Scott Bradlee and his group, Postmodern Jukebox, bring us a whole new take on “Gangsta’s Paradise”. Heck, it was even parodied by Weird Al Yankovic. (It possibly would have won an Oscar, as well – for Dangerous Minds – had it not been disqualified due to it’s sampling of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise”.) It received MTV Video Music Awards, Billboard Awards and a Grammy. “Gangsta’s Paradise” went on to become the best-selling song of the year. (The other one was for “anything by Boyz II Men”.) I know this because I was working at a Top 40 radio station at the time and nine out of every ten phone calls I answered were a request for this song. In 1995, it seemed like you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”.
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