Coolio has performed this song live at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards with L. Gangsta's Paradise features the band and Coolio, who wears sunglasses, performing the song interspersed with vocalist frontman Ronnie Radke sitting in a chair in a dark room in a face-to-face confessional with a female counterpart. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate. The song has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany alone, and at least 6 million worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. Gangsters Paradise by The Film Score Dance Band is a cover of Coolio feat.
The song was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. Dangerous Minds movie soundtrack: Name: Dangerous Minds Release year. Coolio was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video and Best Video from a Film and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album. In 2008, it was ranked number 38 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The song was listed at number 85 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time and number one biggest selling single of 1995 on U. It samples the chorus and instrumentation of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Pastime Paradise". Sista appears courtesy of Swing Mob/Elektra Entertainment, A Division of Warner Communications, Inc. Written by MisDemeanor, Craig Mac, Evil Dee. Una de las canciones de la banda sonora de Sonic The Hedgehog Lyrics:Verse 1: CoolioAs I walk through the valley of the shadow of deathI take a look at my. By Arrangement with Warner Special Products. The album produced three singles, which became hits: the title track (which was first used in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds. It is Coolio's best-selling album, with over three million copies sold in the United States. Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation. Gangsta's Paradise is the second studio album by rapper Coolio, released on November 7, 1995. The song was released on Coolio's album of the same name, as well as the soundtrack for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds. Performed by Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns. The song was later released on the albums. It’s also featured in the movie Pain & Gain (2013)."Gangsta's Paradise" is a song by American rapper Coolio, featuring singer L. Gangstas Paradise is a rap song by Coolio from the movie Dangerous Minds (1995) (starring Michelle Pfeiffer). Coolio won the “Best Rap Solo Performance” Grammy for the song. “Gangsta’s Paradise” was on the soundtrack of the 1995 movie, “Dangerous Minds,” which starred Michelle Pfeiffer as an idealistic teacher in a ghetto high school – a modern iteration of such genre films as To Sir, With Love or Stand and Deliver. They’ve been spending most their lives/living in a pastime paradise The hook borrows its melody and most of its lyrics from Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise”: The song has also been consistently ranked as one of the best Hip-Hop songs of all-time in numerous articles such as being listed at #69 on Billboard’s Greatest Song’s of All-Time, and being ranked #38 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop The song which released on Coolios which was famously featured on the soundtrack for the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds, the biggest selling single that year.