Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise

Price: P2800
LABEL: Tommy Boy Music
NUMBER OF DISCS: 2
UPC: 016998513217
RELEASE DATE: 9/26/2020

“Gangsta’s Paradise” is a song by American rapper Coolio, featuring singer L.V. The song was released on Coolio’s album of the same name, as well as the soundtrack for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds. It samples the chorus and instrumentation, and includes some of the lyric, with altered meaning, of Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise”. Stevie Wonder apparently used ‘past-time paradise’ in an ironic reference to squandering of the present on nostalgically ‘living in the past’. Coolio apparently deplores an ostensibly paradisiacal but factually dangerous and time-wasting ‘gangsta’ lifestyle.

Tracks:
Side 1
1 That’s How It Is
2 Geto Highlites
3 Gangsta’s Paradise
4 Too Hot
5 Cruisin’
Side 2
1 Exercise Yo’ Game
2 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)
3 Smilin’
4 Fucc Coolio
5 Kinda High Kinda Drunk
Side 3
1 For My Sistas
2 Is This Me?
3 A Thing Goin’ on
4 Bright As the Sun
5 Recoup This
Side 4
1 The Revolution
2 Get Up Get Down
3 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New) [Timber Mix]
4 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New) [Timber Mix Instrumental]