Coolio—“Gangsta’s Paradise”
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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I Love Clueless, Everyone Loves.
In 1995 in a Rolling Stone profile, Coolio talked about how after a fantastic voyage blew up, he worried that he'd alienated his core audience. So for the album's next and last single, he picked the much grittier and funkier mama in love with a gangster. In which Coolio plays a guy in prison, and she plays his possibly unfaithful girlfriend on the outside,. It's a gritty lovers quarrel, it's played for laughs but he also slaps you in the face super hard in the first 30 seconds.
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