Gangsta‘s Paradise - Hip Hop Nation

[00:0.0]Gangsta's Paradise - Hip Hop Nation
[00:12.43]As I walk through the valley
[00:13.86]Of the shadow of death
[00:15.09]I take a look at my life
[00:16.7]And realize there's nothing left
[00:18.62]Cause I've been blasting
[00:19.92]And laughing so long that
[00:21.67]Even my mama thinks that
[00:22.93]My mind is gone
[00:24.06]But I ain't never crossed a man
[00:25.88]That didn't deserve it
[00:27.09]Me be treated like a punk
[00:28.79]You know that's unheard of
[00:30.51]You better watch how ya talking
[00:32.41]And where ya walking
[00:33.33]Or you and your homies
[00:34.73]Might be lined in chalk
[00:36.6]I really hate to trip but I gotta loc
[00:39.12]As they croak
[00:40.06]I see myself in the pistol smoke fool
[00:42.13]I'm the kind of G
[00:43.8]That little homies wanna be like
[00:45.47]On my knees in the night
[00:46.92]Saying prayers in the street light
[00:49.01]Been spending most our lives
[00:51.19]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[00:54.95]Keep spending most our lives
[00:57.38]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[01:01.48]Been spending most our lives
[01:05.72]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[01:11.37]Keep spending most our lives
[01:15.7]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[01:20.55]Look at the situation
[01:23.23]They got me facing
[01:25.2]I can't live a normal life
[01:27.88]I was raised by the street
[01:30.5]So I gotta be down with the hood team
[01:35.62]Too much television watching
[01:37.67]Got me chasing dreams
[01:40.23]I'm an educated fool
[01:42.47]With money on my mind
[01:45.08]Got my ten in my hand
[01:47.97]And a gleam in my eye
[01:50.45]I'm a locd out gangsta
[01:53.08]Set tripping banger
[01:55.3]And my homies is down
[01:57.6]So don't arouse my anger fool
[01:61.]Death ain't nothing
[01:62.88]But a heartbeat away
[01:64.98]I'm living my life do or die
[01:68.12]What can I say
[01:70.67]I'm twenty three now
[01:72.8]But will I live to see twenty four
[01:76.02]The way things is going
[01:78.27]I don't know
[01:79.33]Tell me why are we so blind to see
[01:90.03]That the ones we hurt are you and me
[02:01.77]Been spending most our lives
[02:05.48]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[02:11.22]Keep spending most our lives
[02:15.4]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[02:21.38]Been spending most our lives
[02:25.42]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[02:31.42]Keep spending most our lives
[02:35.38]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[02:41.03]Power and the money money and the power
[02:45.68]Minute after minute hour after hour
[02:50.83]Everybody's running
[02:53.08]But half of them ain't looking
[02:55.55]What's going on in the kitchen
[02:58.38]But I don't know what's cooking
[02:60.72]They say I gotta learn
[02:62.68]But nobody's here to teach me
[02:65.75]If they can't understand it
[02:68.2]How can they reach me
[02:70.92]I guess they can't
[02:73.22]I guess they won't
[02:75.05]I guess they front
[02:76.75]That's why I know my life is out of luck fool
[02:81.68]Been spending most our lives
[02:85.25]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[02:91.]Keep spending most our lives
[02:95.45]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[03:01.2]Been spending most our lives
[03:05.53]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[03:11.3]Keep spending most our lives
[03:15.5]Living in a gangsta's paradise
[03:19.23]Tell me why are we so blind to see
[03:29.77]That the ones we hurt are you and me
[03:39.53]Tell me why are we so blind to see
[03:49.55]That the ones we hurt are you and me