The track is one of the best-selling singles of all time, and is ranked #69 on Billboard’s “Greatest Songs of All-Time”, and #28 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop”. The track was the soundtrack for the 1995 film “Dangerous Minds”, and samples the chorus and instrumentation of Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song, “Pastime Paradise”, altering the original lyrics of “they’ve been spending most of their lives / living in a pastime paradise”, to “been spendin’ most their lives / livin’ in a gangsta’s paradise”. Coolio (real name Artis Leon Ivey) released “Gangsta’s Paradise” in 1995, on his same titled album.
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