Coolio ft. L.V - Gangsta's Paradise (Official Music Video)

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of

But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

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

I'm an educated fool with money on my mind

They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four

Power and the money, money and the power

So I gotta be down with the hood team

I'm livin' life, do or die, what can I say

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

Minute after minute, hour after hour

The way things are going I don't know

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

Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

Been spendin' most their lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

I guess they can't, I guess they won't

Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye

Keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise

Tell me why are we, so blind to see

That the one's we hurt, are you and me