41 year old housewife from England and proud to say that I just rapped the whole thing to my very embarrassed and confused 14 year old son! 💥😂

The fact that you've lived this long without hearing Gangsta's Paradise is shocking.

A historical masterpiece with 0% auto-tone snd 100% pure talent.

This song transcended all races and classes of people… it captivated literally EVERYONE in the world when it came out. It was EASILY one of the most popular songs of the 90s. I was a 10-year-old white boy from rural Ohio jamming this on my boom box CONSTANTLY when it dropped 😂.

I was teaching in New Orleans when this came out. It broke my heart because so many kids missed Coolio's message...that the "gangster's paradise" was a trap...that they are killing each other....and themselves.

L.V. was from a group called South Central Cartel, Coolio was in a group called W.C. and The Mad Circle, this song was from the soundtrack for the movie Dangerous Minds and stayed in the #1 spot for 14 weeks, one of the biggest music singles ever released, you couldn’t go ANYWHERE in 1995 without hearing this

Y’all heard he passed away today🙏🏾 Rest In Peace Coolio. This song is forever my fav. I always get chills listening to it.

RIP Coolio ( thank you for your historic contribution to Hip Hop Culture )

I'm 37 and I can't believe we reached the point in life when we are watching other kids reacting to our songs for the first time lol

Congratulations, I’m 39 but your channel has successfully made me feel at least 70. 😂

This song gives me chills every time. I've never lived this kind of life but he's able to transport the listener to right where he's at.

Twins, This song, "Gangsta's Paradise" performed by Coolio in 1995 Won and was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, 2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video and Best Video from a Film, and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album in 1996. Please watch the great movie, "Dangerous Minds". The woman in the video is Michelle Phifer, the lead actress in the movie. Very profound film. I've seen it many times and I love this song. Coolio sampled the opening of Stevie Wonder's track "Pastime Paradise".

This song is hard af and there are ZERO cuss words. Crazy.

You know you’re old when they don’t recognise Michelle Pfeifer and how dope this movie was

Did anyone tell say that this song is a great sample of Stevie Wonder's song "Pastime Paradise" from the album Songs in The Key of Life!?!? RIP Coolio! 🌹🌹🌹

I am 41 and I have worked with and been around folks around yalls age.. they had no clue who Prince was.. and they were not willing to even try music from generations before them. I respect you guys for being open to all music from different times and styles. Plus your reactions are great! Keep up the great work! Maybe more from your Generation will be open to learning like you two.

"I feel like I've heard it before..." Because it's A CLASSIC.

The 90s were the golden age of hip-hop: Tupac, Biggie, Coolio, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Foxxy, Missy, Salt n Pepa, Lil Kim...The list goes on and on! 💕

I'm so sorry to hear of Coolio's passing today. He was a King. RIP Coolio.

RIP he shook a lot of peoples mind w this song. If you watched the movie you need to, it’s worth it. Coolio was an icon. I’m 39 old but this is the music that raised us lol

All the joking comments aside, it strikes me how they both react to the lyrics even 20+ years after they were written. It says a lot about the depth of the lyrics of this amazing song.

This song is the theme song to a movie called "Dangerous Minds ". Coolio actually has a masters degree.

His sudden passing is deeply shocking and an absolute tragedy to the world of music where success and fame so often seems to lead to hugely talented artists being taken way before their time

RIP Coolio!! age 59, this was cool to watch you both see this first time too! I remember this song, it was in the movie "Dangerous MInds" so very popular, it won a Grammy in 1996!! good music, good lyrics

Coolio recorded this song for the movie “Dangerous Minds” about a teacher played by Michelle Pfeiffer (the blonde lady in the video) who gets a job teaching teens in a gang and drug infested school! I can’t watch this video without thinking about Weird Al’s parody called Amish Paradise! 😂😂😂😂

Coolio was trying to reach as many as he could trying to wake people up to life in the hood. Speaking from rhe gangstas perspective. Definitely still one of my favorites

I just know this song made a big impact during the 90’s because that’s how people were living during that time. He was speaking on people gang banging and losing their lives over it. How they had no choice because that’s what they were born into. If you watch the movie Dangerous Minds it explains most of it.

90's High School. This was the jam. Listen to his lyrics

Yall have no idea how much people love this song man! Straight 🔥🔥🔥

This is from the movie Dangerous Minds. The woman who sits down in the beginning is the teacher at an underpriveleged school and the story involves the changes she makes to her students' lives by showing them they matter. I highly recommend it!

It's so refreshing watching the genuine appreciation that you guys have for music from a different generation. And you guys are able to understand the lyrics. ❤

This song was the soundtrack to Dangerous Minds and those are the clips you see throughout the video at that high school. Great movie you should check out.

The 90's were legendary. You had to be there to understand.

Michelle Pfeifer plays a marine, retrained as a teacher in the worst area possible. But she finds something more in the kids she teaches, something even they could not see themselves. A very tragic story with a very emotional ending. One of the best films i have ever seen and YOU TWO NEED TO WATCH IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

I've had this tape for years about 25 years since I was 8. This song is about society. Listen to it. Still holds true to today's ways

The late 80s and 99s was the rap you could really enjoy! The story telling was the truth! No need to use profanity or sexual content just truth and facts!! Rest In Heaven Coolio!

I'm 40 now, Asian housewife, still can rap to these lyrics, and the whole thing still makes chills run through my body!

Coolio was 32yrs old when this cut was released, and though he had other moderately successful songs, this was by far his biggest hit. He won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance and this was the highest selling single of '95.

When rap and hip-hop have become such a 'big thing', especially in the African American population, welcome to one of THE greats who, back in 1995, was kicking the whole thing off. The song was cowritten by the sensational Stevie Wonder, who also produced it, and has writing credits for it, and whose own song, Pastime Paradise, is sampled in it.

Coolio said he downloaded this song from an entity in the ether in an interview. He was gifted the song. He didn’t write it. The song wrote him, he was the vessel, as he put. Love coolio and this song, RIP. My favorite version is the one he did live with Howard stern and lv. I was listening to that on repeat the day before his passing.

62 yr old white woman here & I think think this is one of the best songs/poetry ever written & should be taught in public schools !!!

This one of the songs you can’t unlearn the lyrics because it’s truth and poetry intertwined with music.

This was epic back in the 90's when it was released and it was all over MTV and the radio. Hearing this takes me back to where I was the first time I heard it. I'm surprised y'all never heard this, great reactions!

My goodness I’m a chill white great grandma and my grand babies have grown up listening to Coolio✌🏻 He is so missed,breaks my heart

Im a 43 year Scottish pealy waly white mum whose teenagers cringe when I sing and rap to this. I hate the rap of today but way back in the 90s or 00s I loved this and still do. ❣❣

One of the greatest songs of all time. Goosebumps every time.

L.V.'s voice with the harmonizing vocals in the background gives me chills. its like. fr emotional

im an old goth and this just gave me chills.A classic a stone cold classic

I’m a 61 year old grandma. I loved the movie, loved the song. Still a relevant message, but the song still makes me get up and move!

Nothing will compare to the 80's and 90's music!!!! So glad I grew up during this time!!! No cellphones and social media etc!!

It's so satisfying seeing these first-time reactions to Gangsta's Paradise. My deceased older brother had the Dangerous Mind CD album, and he loved this song in the 1990s. Ah, that was a great decade to grow up in.

I heard this song for the first time when I saw the film dangerous minds in the cinema. that was in 1996 when i was 14 years old. i love the film and the song and i'm glad that it's kept alive by young people who open themselves to "new things". thank you for that! greetings from Germany :)

So, everyone else gonna tell you about the song and the movie, let me tell you about Coolio. This dude is so cool and funny, man. My best friend from high school was this wild punk rock chick and she was in Vegas partying and ran into him, he was so drunk he tripped off the curb in front of a bus and she snatched his drunk ass back onto the sidewalk before he got hit. So, she’s laughing at him and he’s kinda dazed and when he realizes what just happened he was like, “you’re partying with Coolio tonight, girl” they had a wild ass night, vip everything. She said they still talk once in a while

My mum made me play this song at her 60th a few years ago. She is a white australian lady. ... i was like ohh mum RESPECT!!!!

I graduated from high school one year BEFORE this hit the airwaves and it still speaks to my soul. Good to hear young folk keeping this one alive.

The Gangsta made it to paradise. Rest easy Coolio.

How could anyone not have heard this song? My 11 year old grandson had it on his Spotify and wanted me to listen to this “crazy cool song” which near broke me🤣🤣! The fact that I knew every word broke him😁

This song is built on Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise," if you like this one, don't miss the original, it's so beautiful.

thanks you 2! i enjoy the music and sharing your experience of it!!!

This song was golden and still is masterpiece! LV has such a rich and passionate voice. The chorus is amazing! Lyrics are so good! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻 RIP Coolio 🕊🎼

I had this as my ring tone on my phone. I'm 65 and worked in a Medicaid Pregnancy clinic. My phone would ring and the girl I was ultrasounding would laugh. I'd say, I know, I'm an old white woman, but I love this! 😂

I’m showing my age with this comment, but oh well. LOL. This song was originally only available on the soundtrack for the movie “Dangerous Minds,” which premiered in Aug. 1995. I had just started driving when this song dropped. I loved it so much that I had to buy the movie soundtrack on CD in order to listen to the song. I remember blasting this song in my ‘95 Pontiac Grand Am GT & cruising the strip with this song bumping. LOL. I still love the song & still have it memorized. I actually have it in my iTunes library. I didn’t know until several years ago that the song was a reworking of Stevie Wonder’s song “Pastime Paradise,” & that Stevie wouldn’t allow Coolio to release the song until he agreed to take curse words out of the song. You guys need to watch the movie “Dangerous Minds.” It’s really good! Even though Coolio & LV can certainly relate to the lyrics, the lyrics really aren’t about Coolio or Larry Sanders (aka LV, which stands for Large Variety). The song is about the lives of the kids portrayed in the movie “Dangerous Minds.” I’m proud of you guys for listening to older music & learning about the deeper meanings in the lyrics of the songs. Love you guys! Keep listening to older music, & never stop learning! ✌🏽❤️

Thank you for all your reactions..keep doing what you guys do!!!❤❤

Boys I'm a twin as well. My twin sister and I grew up across from Detroit Michigan. We are 60 years old. Friends of ours grew up with the" Blood's" and the "Crips" mentality. The most ruthless gangs runnin. Red and blue ban danna' s. Death around every corner. 8 mile and beyond. This movie and song said it before you were born. Canadian Grandma Lori. C.

For many kids/teens of the 90s, this song was like the "gateway drug" to gangsta rap or rap in general. It was for me. I'm not a big fan of rap, but there are a handful of rap songs I enjoy, and this is one of them. The first lyric, "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left," is taken from Psalm 23:4. "Yea, tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me." In the Bible verse, King David mentions how God is with him as protection just like a shepherd protects the flock, but Coolio's version indicates he's all alone. This was the main track from the 1995 film "Dangerous Minds", starring Michelle Pfeiffer (the woman talking to Coolio), about an ex-Marine who takes a job teaching a group of gangsta teens at an inner-city school. The part sung by L.V. is to the tune of Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise". Larry Sanders aka L.V. ("Large Variety") did the demo chorus first, and sent it to Coolio, who liked it and wrote the main verses around it. Coolio and L.V. were familiar with the "gangsta" lifestyle, the former having grown up in Compton, and the latter having survived a shooting, but Coolio had said the song was not about him personally. Rather, it was about the kids in the movie, who felt like they had no control over their lives. In the movie "Dangerous Minds", Pfeiffer's character intends to turns the kids' lives around, convincing them that they are, in fact, in control of their lives. Various scenarios throughout the movie prove otherwise.

Yes young men, tell your homies how REAL rap music sounds like, none of these mumblings you hear these days.

You guys make the reaction vids fun to watch!!!

Mid 30’s and is so funny seeing you guys discovering the classics. KEEP IT GOING!

The chorus is a sample of “Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder

I’m a 61 year old woman and watching young people appreciate my music is awesome!

Ooh Coolio RIP 😢was in high school when this came out🙌it was tha JAM and still is 🕊

I always get chills when I hear this song... reminds me of my difficult childhood upbringing.

“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 ...

This tune is the capital song of 90s Hip Hop era. Its also from my the Dangerous Minds movie soundtrack. 👊🏾

You two young fellas weren't even born when this song came out, I was 12 and now 39 and its still an amazing banger , glad to see kids today excited and enjoying songs I grew up on, Rest In Peace Coolio

I LOOVE watching y’all’s reactions to the music I have loved my whole life!

"Gangsta's Paradise" is classic and holds up. It's so cool watching y'all hear it for the first time! As a former teacher, what Coolio says about "if you can't understand me, how you gonna reach me?" is absolutely true. My experience was so different from a lot of my students that it was hard to reach them, & I didn't always succeed.

Throws me back to my youth. Still know all the lyrics. Still gives me chills. 🔥

R.I.P Coolio ! 🕊️

Love the strings on this song

“Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder. That’s where the hook came from.

I grew up listening to this, I am 50 and now my 18 year old son LOVES this song and artist. I was born in 71 and was raised in the best era for music 70s 80s and 90s

Awe! I have twins! You guys are great!😁 Yeah, y’all listen to one of the best back in the day lol😎

Rappers like Jay-Z, Nas might be considered best rappers but they will never have a huge hit like this. So that kind of makes Coolio one of the greatest ever. RIP COOLIO One Underrated Brother!

I'll never forget watching him and Stevie performing this live with a full choir behind them. Many people actually took this song at face value because the name. But it is actually a very articulate warning against it

Wonderful. Now you MUST do your further homework and check out the root of this song: Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise. Bonus assignment is the live performance of Coolio and Stevie singing both songs interchangeably!

Love watching you guys and your reactions. You're the best ones I've found and the only ones I subscribed to 👍💖

One of best rap songs EVER and you never heard of it??? I'm a metal head but i know this song for decades 🤯

Growing up in the late 80’s and early/mid 90’s was a blast. I know every generation talks about how music was better back then, but when it comes to rap/hip-hop, you can’t beat the 90’s man. It really was the golden age.

57 year old disabled white lady & this is my phone ring tone 😁 Loved it then still loving it now 💜 This song unfortunately is still relevant today:( Like Elvis song In the Ghetto still is. So sad but true🥀

90’s was a magical time for music Music was real and about real things across genres. The talent in late 80’s to mid 90’s was unlike anything before or after. Rap /Hip Hop, metal.. hell even Pop was epic and meangful then This song in particular hit a chord with so many ppl. I mean.. my HS legit did a Pep Rally to Gangsters’ Paradise. Coolio was one of the Real Ones And the movie, Dangerous Minds is absolutely spot on about how “Behavior Ed” is used to warehouse “problem kids” instead of educating them. I was in”behavior Ed” And it told the truth.

44 year old from the South West of England, Gangsters Paradise one of my old time fave back in the 90s and still is..Just rapped with Coolio surprised that I still knows the lyrics..😂😂❤❤❤❤Much love lads..

Its actually a rule that you have to react to Amish Paradise now.

This song needs to be rereleased. Pertinent to today's youth.

Hey Yo! This has always been one of me favorite songs but I gotta say ya'll are the first to say and the first time I realized that that is a heartbeat at the beginning!!! Dude I NEVER KNEW!!!

This is from a movie and based on a true story.The Movie is called Dangerous Minds check it out guys I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. All her (the teacher) students ended up graduating many being the first in their families ever to do so. Like I said…based on a true story and well worth watching.

He got his stage name from a (drunk)friend who decided to call him "Coolio Iglesias", because he sang well.

Am a 59 yr old Mex-Amer from Los Angeles, CA and I STILL LOVE this song great beat, great lyrics .

I'll never forget the first time I heard song. It was this music video. I grew up in a household that listed to rock n roll strictly. This song grabbed ahold of my soul and took me someplace deep. For 4 minutes I couldn't move or hear anything else around me. Also, Dangerous Minds was a great movie. Based on a true story.

He’s talking about a gangsters paradise, and how gangsters are so blind to see that they are only hurting each other , and how coolio has to live his life day to day