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Gangsta's Paradise is the second studio album by American rapper Coolio, released on November 7, 1995. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is Coolio's best-selling album, with over two million copies sold in the United States.
"Gangsta's Paradise" Released: August 1, 1995 "Feel the Funk" ... Music from the Motion Picture is the official soundtrack to John N. Smith's 1995 film Dangerous ...
"Gangsta's Paradise" is a single by American rapper Coolio, released on August 1, 1995 [3] by Tommy Boy, Warner Bros. and MCA. Interpolating Stevie Wonder's song "Pastime Paradise" (1976), "Gangsta's Paradise" features vocals from American singer L.V. who served as a co-composer and co-lyricist with Coolio and Doug Rasheed, with Wonder also being credited for the composition and lyrics.
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Originally "Gangsta's Paradise" was not meant to be included in one of Coolio's studio albums, but due to its success, Coolio included it on the album, making it the title track. It interpolates the chorus and music of the song "Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder, which was recorded nearly 20 years earlier on Wonder's album Songs in the Key of ...
Dangerous Minds is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith, written by Ronald Bass, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.It is based on the 1992 autobiography My Posse Don't Do Homework by retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where most of her students were African-American and ...
It was the third single released from his second studio album, Gangsta's Paradise (1995), in February 1996. Initially entitled "Sumpin' New", the song uses a sample from " Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move) ", recorded in 1981 by American jazz trumpeter Tom Browne , and also includes a vocal sample from "Wikka Wrap" by the Evasions , from 1981.
Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits is a compilation album by rapper Coolio, released in 2001. [4] It includes the track "Aw Here it Goes," the main theme to TV series Kenan & Kel.