Gangsta's Paradise (From "Dangerous Minds") - Fresh Beat MCs

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin' left

Cause I’ve been blasting and laughing so long

That everyone thinks my mind is gone

But I ain’t never crossed a man (that didn’t deserve it)

To be treated like a punk (you know that’s unheard of)

You better watch how you’re talking and where you’re walking

Cause this life’ll leave you lined in chalk

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Forget the situation they got me facin'

I can’t live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes

So I gotta be down with the hood team

cuz' television watching got me chasing dreams

Death ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away

I’m living life, do or die, what can I say

I’m here right now, will I save tomorrow?

The way things are going I don’t know

Tell me why are we so blind to see

That the ones we hurt are you and me

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Power and the money, money and the power

Minute after minute, hour after hour

Everybody’s running, but half of them ain’t looking

What’s going on in the kitchen, but I don’t know what’s cookin'

They say I gotta learn, but nobody’s here to teach me

If they can’t understand it, how can they reach me

I guess they can’t, I guess they won’t

Tell me why

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life, living in the gangsta’s paradise

Been spending most of my life living in the gangsta’s paradise

Why are we so blind to see

That the one’s we hurt are you and me