Kind of dumb, but I bought the single....

not to be rude but i really havent listen to a lot of coolio's stuff but this is one song i know

not really my style but pretty cool tune

This was my favorite song when it cam out.I love Dangerous Minds

buenísima

hahahaha.. i liked this one

lol

I really love this song

nice beat, coolio tryin to be hard lololol

Weird Al's was cooler

I prefer Weird Al's version!

Ummm....I prefer Amish Paradise, but that's just me!

YEA DIS SONG WENT HARD..

Bryan didnt like this song

What happened to coolio- I thought he was a real gangster!!

Ok..for a rap song.

Again, liked the Weird Al version better

CLASSIC

Great and the wierd al version also great. The movie was good when i was a kid but it kinda sucks now

lol

i dont really like rap but this is a good song

I don't like much rap or hip hop... but i always kinda liked this song.

This song just kills me - it brings back SO many memories! LOL

I remember that movie.

xD

ROFLMAO. My cousin loves this song. This song was awesome back in the dayz. Lol.

yea well because of my ghetto booty i love this type of music at times but hasve to be in the mood for it.

Okay, this was great back in the day. Just rating the songs from when they were big!

Still love this song and movie.

amish paradise lol

This song was big back in the day and so was Coolio. This movie really worked with Dangerous Minds and it had a great beat.

ok u know u know all the words to this!
" As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left Cause I've been blastin and laughing so long that Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone"... lol

lmao!!

Used to be obsessed but overkill knocks it down a star.

I agree....when I look back Coolio sucked.  I just didnt like him.  Alot of his songs that were popular got SO played out and became over-rated.

Horribly overrated. It's just another bad rap song.

loved the movie

He killed it..

Played out and clichéd.

GOOD SONG

better came out that year

SO MUCH BETTER THAN AMISH PARADISE.
I have the grammy's CD with this song on it. Love it. Used to sing it in the shower.

Da bomb G!

great song

Not a big fan of rap, but I still tend to like a lot of Coolio's stuff.  It's a pretty good song, but everytime I hear it now I automatically think of the "Amish Paradise" spoof by Weird Al.

Gangsta's Paradise was one of the biggest rap hits to crossover into the pop charts in the 90's. The background singing had great emotion, and the lyrics were clean and meant something, unlike some other raps from this decade.

Rarely does a rap song rise to near epic proportions, and Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" does indeed reach for this goal. Coolio isn't the world's greatest vocalist by any stretch of the imagination, but with the able assistance of L.V. ("Large Variety") that facet is largely overcome. The song simply sounds big on a full symphonic scale as it rolls along carrying the listener with it. However, as is usual with the best crossover rap singles, the song relies on someone else's work, namely Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" as its base, which results in a loss of a star. "Gangsta's Paradise" charted in the U.S. for 36 weeks in 1995-6 (#1), and, as another comment noted, was parodied by Weird Al Yankovic as "Amish Paradise".

I agree with kingguiness that Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is one of the best rap songs to scale the top of the charts. It made effective use of a refrain from a Stevie Wonder song and transformed it into a powerfully catchy yet credible street anthem that worked on many levels.

"Gangsta's Paradise" is also credited for making the Michelle Pfeiffer movie "Dangerous Minds" a big box office hit. The music video featured clips of her as an inner city school teacher alternated with Pfeiffer facing down Coolio the rapper.

Shockingly overrated crossover song that claims to expose life-in-the-inner-city as if we don't know what it's like. . .the song presents the illusion of a 'lack of choice' when choice and personal responsibility play a role at some level. . .it's very simple- city dangerous(?)=leave the city to raise kids and teach them to go to college. . .stay in dangerous city and refuse education?=might get shot/killed/suffer lower quality of life. . .there are your choices, deal with it. . .the song was a philosophical cop-out. . .

Good song with great lyrics.

Good parody of this song by Weird Al also. Too bad Coolio didn't have a sense of humor about it.