Fun fact: A lot of people don’t realize that pastime Paradise was this song written by Stevie Wonder, and he gave permission to Coolio to remix it as long as he did not use really bad swearing.
@@MrTravisHD dude why r u wasting ur time goin into that inception shit i mean u could say anything, i could answer anything but don't wantto cuz its fucking boring as fuck boiii
Maly Mal28 ironic I agree I just said something similar to that ,I grew up in this era of music ,with tupac,ice cube, snoop,bone thugs ,do or die,biggie etc...
i gotta agree on that. it's weird because i'm from 2004, and probably most of the people of my age listen to such artists as 69 etc. but what they don't know is that THIS was made without autotune. i wish i lived in the 90's as a teen.
Jason Smith exactly. The 80’s music is so overrated that the people forget his empty verses, meanwhile the 90’s songs revives the social criticism into the back of the pop by the grunge hand and introducing the hip hop culture like a real and pure manifestation, no like the simple one hit wonders
For sure ain't no racist's Livin in paradise the words speak for themselves and to anyone out there who's reading this 2024 no racist's I believe that everyone has the right to live there lives in peace no matter what colour there skin is and to all you racist's out there just remember we all bleed the same colour and have the fricking right to live in peace rip Coolio xx and this song is legendary love it hard to believe it was 1995 when these 3 were performing this song and even now in 2024 and I listen to this belter of a song it still gets me every time to have the Motown legend Stevie wonder and l.v and Coolio singing a song that Stevie wrote and he gave Coolio and l.v. permission to mix it and for Stevie to sing it with them fricking amazing performance rip Coolio xx x
Would have been great to see Sting sing Lucid Dreams with Juice Wrld seeing as he said it was his favourite reworking of Shape of My Heart. One of his backing singers does a verse from it but it would have been a beautiful coming together of generations and cultures to have them perform it together
LV pays homage to Stevie Wonder by singing Pastime Paradise, while Stevie pays homage to LV by singing Gangsters Paradise. How cool is that? The coolest thing ever.
The harmonizing of the "ain't no gangstas/racists living in paradise" was iconic! Rest In Peace Coolio! We lost a real one and you will truly be missed.
Dissipation Of race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutation Miscreation Confirmation to the evils of the world
In my opinion also . 🔥⛈️The most/more iconic song in hip-hop history usa. Coz in usa the most of the songs are loosy , crappy and the hip-hop also except Warren G , Wu Tang , Coolio , The Game , Rakim, Nate Dog ⛈️🔥
I just found out Coolio passed away and had to come back to this video. Sad to believe he’s younger than L.V. and Stevie Wonder and they’re still with us. This performance was legendary. You don’t see a lot of things like this nowadays.
Death don’t care about age babies died teenagers died and even you will die. Death don’t care about how many children you have what church you attend or how many degrees you have. The Bible said “No man or woman knows the day or the hour when your appointed time ( name will be called” when we make plans the good lord laugh at us.
The word "Gangsta" outta Stevie's mouth bridges the gap between old & new at that time. Him singing the song with them was epic. This shoulda been the official extended version.
Chills?? Tears running over my cheeks... I love the original song from Stevie's epic "Songs in the key of life", and then you see how rappers pick up this song 19 years later... pure magic.
I can't stop looking at this clip. An excellent performance. Rest In Peace Coolio, the award was presented by Luther Vandross (RIP) and Kenny G, ICONIC! A great collaboration and a powerful video. Stevie and LV's vocals are on point.
Im dutch and back in the days we went to africa to catch nikkaz. When our boats where fully packed we set sail to usa and sold all our caught nikkas to the farmers. Our nikkas made us a lot of money. My country became very rich due to this.
I love everything about this. The performance. Stevie’s entrance. The list of nominees. The fact that Luther Vandross(RIP) and Kenny G of all people are presenting. It’s just so 90’s. My heart.
I've never seen this live performance before,it was-GRAND !!! The live choir made up of little kids,plus the young kids playing their instruments live took this performance to another level. Coolio,Stevie Wonder and the other singer/rapper made this performance-UNFORGETTABLE- and flawless.
I agree. Long gone but never forgotten, James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti gifted us with another epic collaboration. If you haven’t seen it yet, look it up, it’s beautiful.
Gotta love Coolio he was one of the many rappers in the 90’s who can rap without saying a cursing word… Now That You Got Your Wings I’ll See You When I Get There R.I.P To A Real Legend 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
At the VH1 Hip Hop Honors concert in 2004, the Sugarhill Gang joined Chic on stage to play Rapper's Delight together. Also, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons played Uptown Girl at the Billy Joel Living Legends Award concert in 1990. (Uptown Girl is Billy Joel's original song that was inspired by the music of Frankie Valli.)
the young kids- singing, playing instruments..They're all middle aged now...I wonder if they realized at the time what a powerful, generation-changing song this was? what a night, what a performance...damn
This song is 25 years old and it's still hard and relevant till this day!!! Pure and natural artistry at its best. Salute to everyone who still listens to this song in 2020, the industry today cannot compare with legendary performances like this one right here.
Despite Stevie not wanting any profanity in this tune, this is still one of the greatest hip-hop tunes ever, and the best hip-hop tune ever in my book. And this tune being a hit just when I was in grade school, it was too perfect, as this was also the first rap that I tried to mimic and remember, and also play the riff on the piano.
I believe the lack of profanity was also to help it get better circulation (this was back when explicit music was never on the radio) and probably helped it reach way more listeners. It took me years to realize there’s no cussing on this song, which is actually kinda impressive. Shows that they had to get real creative with the lyric writing
But yet ja rule got a bunch of profanity in living it up a sample from Stevie Wonder it's one of the hip hop songs with the most profanity in Hip-Hop history
I was born in 1993 and gre up listening to this type of music. Ice Cube, BTNH, 2Pac and many others. I’m 28 now and it’s weird that all these artists such as Coolio and DMX had one hit that we all know them from. One day all the 80s-90s Gangster rap or old school rap artists will be gone and it will be the end of that era. An era when rap had a meaning about true life events and also where the artists showed their emotions with their own vocals. 90s artist and before we’re actually talented unlike most rappers now days Nothing compares with 90s Rap 🤩
I think i get what u meant by them having a hit we know them for, but i think DMX is different because he really had a hold on the rap game from his first album and went platinum twice in 1 year and has plenty of huge #1 hits into the mid 2000’s
As someone who grew up with a blind sibling I'll just say it's so cool seeing how much respect these gangsters showed for stevie. Even in 2020 there isn't many gangsters that'd take another man's hand and help him out. It was a good song in 95 and still is to this day much respect to coolio lv and stevie, what a bad ass version of this song
Coolio was exposed to gangs growing up, but I don't he lived the gangster life much. LV speaks even less gangsta than Coolio, so you may be reading too much into the wardrobe and performance. Gangs, like any community, are diverse. Those which are in the worst neighborhoods amidst stifling poverty can sport crime and inhumanity but those gang members who were family oriented and simply "chose" the gang life because that's what they saw around them are harder to categorize. Some of them went on become well read and make some compelling choices (such as help broker gang truces or even help found the Black Panther philosophy in the 60s), so, for those gang members in the 2020s who are in that "optional gang member with family respect" mode, I wouldn't be shocked by surprisingly humanitarian choices by them. I've seen gang members walk old ladies across the street, and I've obviously seen them commit heinous crimes on the news. It's a mixed bag that refuses reductionist thought.
@@ravelasquezo Coolio grew up in Compton. He was a teenager in the late 70s and early 80s. He may not have been ina gang but he was surrounded by it during the most influential time of his life and saw how it destroyed his neighborhood. That's why he wrote the song and got so offended when weird Al parodied it.
![Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fPO76Jlnz6c/mqdefault.jpg)
Are we not gonna talk about how epic Stevie's entrance was?
Awesome, even I didn't see that coming
Bro I was there and it was like Jesus just walked into the place.
Folks lost their minds
I like how no one reacted until they actually saw him lol because it could've been pre recorded.
Literal chills!
@@0h_X Well, I guess he didnt either
Love how L.V. sings "pastime paradise" while Stevie sings "Gangsta's Paradise," so cool!
Yea
You mean so coolio!
One of the coolest moments of that entire evening.... Hearing Stevie even acknowledge gangsta as a word to sing is incredible...
Now we need weird al singing amish paradise
Sure thing !!!!
Who is listening in 2024???
Me 😅
2024 14th May❤
Still listening to this nostalgic legendary song ❤
Now
Escutando á alto e bom som
Fun fact: A lot of people don’t realize that pastime Paradise was this song written by Stevie Wonder, and he gave permission to Coolio to remix it as long as he did not use really bad swearing.
Да, так и есть, Стиви первую версию песни забраковал из за ругательных слов.
LV was the one that did the remix first without Coolio's rap, then Coolio used LV's version and added his rap parts.
0% autotune,just pure vocal....masterpiece....
You know autotune can be good if used to make something good
This is pretty closed mind...
Yep. Heard the same. Refreshing to listen just pure rap & singing which aint over produced
gausm warhole - it’s pretty close minded to assume that they don’t understand the value of auto tune just because they shared their preference ;)
@@MrTravisHD dude why r u wasting ur time goin into that inception shit i mean u could say anything, i could answer anything but don't wantto cuz its fucking boring as fuck boiii
Drooksy JB I missed the days when people who couldn’t rap, DIDN’T rap.
The 90’s were epic
Maly Mal28 ironic I agree I just said something similar to that ,I grew up in this era of music ,with tupac,ice cube, snoop,bone thugs ,do or die,biggie etc...
i gotta agree on that. it's weird because i'm from 2004, and probably most of the people of my age listen to such artists as 69 etc. but what they don't know is that THIS was made without autotune. i wish i lived in the 90's as a teen.
The 2019 - 3019 were Epic!!
Yeah and despite me being not born in the 90s i still like music from 90s
Jason Smith exactly. The 80’s music is so overrated that the people forget his empty verses, meanwhile the 90’s songs revives the social criticism into the back of the pop by the grunge hand and introducing the hip hop culture like a real and pure manifestation, no like the simple one hit wonders
“Ain’t no racists livin in paradise” some of the truest words spoken!
For sure ain't no racist's Livin in paradise the words speak for themselves and to anyone out there who's reading this 2024 no racist's I believe that everyone has the right to live there lives in peace no matter what colour there skin is and to all you racist's out there just remember we all bleed the same colour and have the fricking right to live in peace rip Coolio xx and this song is legendary love it hard to believe it was 1995 when these 3 were performing this song and even now in 2024 and I listen to this belter of a song it still gets me every time to have the Motown legend Stevie wonder and l.v and Coolio singing a song that Stevie wrote and he gave Coolio and l.v. permission to mix it and for Stevie to sing it with them fricking amazing performance rip Coolio xx x
@@jackiesmith3684 so that obviously would include all of the Pro-Terrorists on campuses these days
@@JayInMinnesotayou think your god endorses 35000 Palestinian women and children getting murdered? 😂
Paradise is an illusion ...you can only get there in your dreams. Racist people are already there...get it??
No Trump supporters livin in paradise
Imagine you sample a Stevie Wonder song and it becomes song of the year and you were able to perform it with him!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Mind blowing to be on stage with a God/Legend like Stevie Wonder...
And you a reformed gangbanger who made it to the stage with Stevie wonder
Definition of success
Would have been great to see Sting sing Lucid Dreams with Juice Wrld seeing as he said it was his favourite reworking of Shape of My Heart. One of his backing singers does a verse from it but it would have been a beautiful coming together of generations and cultures to have them perform it together
And the humility of Stevie to perform the song with artists that come after him… that’s real talent and real OG shit.
Still gives me chills.... RIP Coolio.
Legendary moment
Til dis day
This performance was just beautiful 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Well miss you Coolio!!! GOD BLESS YOU GOOD MAN!!! ✝️🙏
rip
Imagine saying that you were a choir kid that sing for Stevie Wonder, LV and Coolio at the Billboards for the Best Song of the Year
hoping someone who was there watches this back and responds to this
2:56 imagine being THOSE kids, leading stevie in (n3n)
Wow!!!!
hello i am one of them lol
@@abooksigun6958 Really? Would be cool to hear about it if you were in fact there.
LV pays homage to Stevie Wonder by singing Pastime Paradise, while Stevie pays homage to LV by singing Gangsters Paradise. How cool is that? The coolest thing ever.
Coolios energy SKYROCKETED after Stevie came out!!!
He'll yeah, that man was FEELING it
The harmonizing of the "ain't no gangstas/racists living in paradise" was iconic! Rest In Peace Coolio! We lost a real one and you will truly be missed.
Absolutely!
Tookem all the way to church on this one
Check out this Coolio Gangsta's Paradise Remix czcams.com/video/AF3hPKiU6Ic/video.html
The realness got him. Lot of realness getting handled lately. When keeping it real gets you got
PREACH!! 🙌🏻 😭 🎉
Stevie wonder is a human auto tune
always on ezzy mode900 aka yung rap fan 😂
😂😂😂 yeeah
Hell beach he is...
LV so evidently sings out of tune, and it becomes even more apparent when Stevie steps in.
podchauffe not really, he changed the melody slightly and lv holds his own
"Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?"
this is the great lesson of this music.
Dissipation
Of race relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutation
Miscreation
Confirmation to the evils of the world
4:13 those harmonies gave me goosebumps
because 3 legends sing man
Same here
One of the most iconic moments in hip hop history... In my opinion
Most*
@@chezbe Uh
It's like that Star Trek movie Generations, you know the one where Jean-Luc Picard and James T. Kirk were working together.
One of the most iconic moments in music history!*
In my opinion also . 🔥⛈️The most/more iconic song in hip-hop history usa. Coz in usa the most of the songs are loosy , crappy and the hip-hop also except Warren G , Wu Tang , Coolio , The Game , Rakim, Nate Dog ⛈️🔥
The ending where LV and Stevie were singing in harmony. Magical
I felt that shit in my chest
The best part
Yes lawd!
@@luwise8003 Really fantastic performing of Stevie Wonder!
what are they saying
5:24 that look on Coolio’s face says it all. He knew how legendary this moment was
RIP Coolio
#thatpart
I just found out Coolio passed away and had to come back to this video. Sad to believe he’s younger than L.V. and Stevie Wonder and they’re still with us. This performance was legendary. You don’t see a lot of things like this nowadays.
Que Cometario!!! ✊🏾 hermano .no puedo contener las Lágrimas
Buenas tardes hermano Quisiera saber Que dijo Coolio y L.V por favor
Absolutely, this tune, this performance, are just legendary. R.I.P. Coolio
Death don’t care about age babies died teenagers died and even you will die. Death don’t care about how many children you have what church you attend or how many degrees you have. The Bible said “No man or woman knows the day or the hour when your appointed time ( name will be called” when we make plans the good lord laugh at us.
Lol what tf are u talking about bruh. What do u even mean Biggie was the first to die? Nobody even brought up BIG. U know this a Coolio video right.
The word "Gangsta" outta Stevie's mouth bridges the gap between old & new at that time. Him singing the song with them was epic. This shoulda been the official extended version.
They could still make that happen!
Stevie helped write it 🤗
@@wisdomabvalllight8741 he wasn’t in the studio with them, but he’s credited as a writer since it’s based on his song Pastime Paradise
That would have been dope
@@Santino520 no they can't LV is dead.
It was pretty cool to see L.V. and Stevie Wonder trade lyrics. 😎
Yeah, pretty cool
yeah I though that was pretty awesome
Yes my homie!
I thought you meant Luther vandross before watching the video.
But those harmonies though! FIYA!!🔥🎶
Stevie genuinely truly loves Coolio and LV's reworking of his classic. There is surely no greater compliment.
Seriously one of the greatest live performances ever. What powerful words "ain't no gangsters in paradise, ain't no racists in paradise."
This is not just a song. This is an ANTHEM
Please rise for the anthem💙💯
No 🧢
ameno dotabareikomaneameno
Marvel: Avengers: Infinity War is the most abitious crossover in history
Coolio: *_Hold my beer_*
Infinity war without the Magus is bs.
Jajaja that's funny man
Heard this song a thousand times but didn’t know LV was so talented. Went toe to toe with Stevie and sounded great.
Rest in peace Coolio 😔😔 this song is forever in all ghetto's of the world 🥹🥹
Anyone else get literal chills when stevie walked out?
Chills?? Tears running over my cheeks... I love the original song from Stevie's epic "Songs in the key of life", and then you see how rappers pick up this song 19 years later... pure magic.
Yesss
Nope. Just very excited. I loved the kids choir too. They all crushed it! I'm keeping this clip for my grandkids to see!
Chills tears
Everything
0% autotune = 100% masterpiece.
100% Gangsta Paradise...
wait until you find out what mixing is, dumbass elitist
Yep
50% gangsta’s 50% paradise
@@LemonYerg seh ich genau so bruder
I can't stop looking at this clip. An excellent performance. Rest In Peace Coolio, the award was presented by Luther Vandross (RIP) and Kenny G, ICONIC! A great collaboration and a powerful video. Stevie and LV's vocals are on point.
Im dutch and back in the days we went to africa to catch nikkaz. When our boats where fully packed we set sail to usa and sold all our caught nikkas to the farmers. Our nikkas made us a lot of money. My country became very rich due to this.
The third verse by Coolio was pure talent. On stage with two of the best vocalists and still maintained presence.
I love everything about this.
The performance.
Stevie’s entrance.
The list of nominees.
The fact that Luther Vandross(RIP) and Kenny G of all people are presenting.
It’s just so 90’s. My heart.
True
Ikr… it’s low key sad seeing Left Eye and everyone who’s gone now 😢
that little pink plastic dick thing hanging under coolios shirt front.....
Stevie Wonder just transcends. His influence and contribution is huge and this shows why. He reaches all ears.
A remarkable musical genius very much
Rest In Peace to the legend
seh ich genau so bruder
@@kingzistoxel3970stevie wonder isn't dead bro
He may be blind but he is a lwgend
How can someone forget this voice? Still alive in our minds man...
I've never seen this live performance before,it was-GRAND !!! The live choir made up of little kids,plus the young kids playing their instruments live took this performance to another level. Coolio,Stevie Wonder and the other singer/rapper made this performance-UNFORGETTABLE- and flawless.
Such Legend stuff you will never see again after the 2000s. Thankfull to born in the 80s🙌
This has aged incredibly well. What a classic performance.
I agree. Long gone but never forgotten, James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti gifted us with another epic collaboration. If you haven’t seen it yet, look it up, it’s beautiful.
Because it's real music
@@mrvrose9999 thanks. About to check that out
Stevie just jumps up to the harmonies. A credit to he’s so above everybody else with the ear for music
StevenInfinity good one lol
@StevenInfinity if with "stuff" you mean music then yes
My God, this performance gave me chills. This message still remains true in 2024.
Stevie's entrance was smooooooooth!
3:24 you can feel how much energy Coolio got with Stevie's entrance and appearance.
Damn. RIP Coolie. This gave me chills.
@@jaypers232 A mi Me Partió él 💔 Que tristeza Dios
@@jaypers232 rip coolio😭
rip bro :(
yeah coolio first verse was like on cruise control but when stevie came in he started spitting better
If you haven’t heard “Gangsters Paradise” by LV and “Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder you owe it to yourself
You gotta check out amish paradise too
Amish Paradise was the original. A Great Hit in 1699
Stevie's addition to this performance made this nothing less than legendary...
Goddamn it was so good
@@user-nj8ul6mx4f I remember listening to it while plowing the field back in the day
@@wulf2863 😂😂
RIP Legend, at least you made it past 24
Enjoying this masterpiece in 2024. RIP Coolio ❤
A hip-hop song where it's sang live in its entirety, verses and choruses, without a vocal backing track? You know that's unheard of!
Without near naked women
Stevie’s voice is simply incredible.
Stevie's lyrics and Coolio's fit so beautifully. RIP Coolio
Just by looking at all those nominations, the 90’s really was the golden age for music, movies, pop culture, almost everything!
True. And Luther presenting...
Yep , plus more racism and sexism ? Fr !
90s & 2000s
RIP Coolio, we will always remember this masterpiece
seh ich genau so bruder
Rip Coolio. This was such a hit. U will be missed
This hurts so much. 😭😭😭😭
Gotta love Coolio he was one of the many rappers in the 90’s who can rap without saying a cursing word… Now That You Got Your Wings I’ll See You When I Get There R.I.P To A Real Legend 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
go clutch your pearls somewhere else
thank you ric flair
@@gospodinzvijer you’re more than welcome
he wanted to swear in this song but Stevie Wonder wouldn't allow him to use the Pastime Paradise sample unless he rewrote the song without swearing.
Man when Stevie came out it was like the red sea was parted . what a beautiful performance. not one cuss Word Singing and rapping at its finest
Stevie almost equals Moses
fuck off with your pearl clutching
@@levanabrzeni Moses didn't write Songs in the Keys of Life tho
True
Man, if Al Yankovic showed up, this would be the ultimate trio of living in paradise
Samuel Kim ha hahaha
😅
Then if I showed up and people sang my shit!!! We are talking fucking the most epic all time banger know to existence!!! Point blank period!
@@TheMatthiasRiots your shit? no disrespect, but who are you
If Weird Al would've showed up Coolio, LV & the kids in the chrior would've beat the shit outta his goofy ass!!!
04/13/2024... who?
This track deserved the full treatment violin 🎻 and all ..
Fly high Coolio ✌
I love the arrange they did when Stevie shows up singing, i wish there was a studio version of this Coolio, LV and Stevie Wonder collab ❤❤❤
you tube to mp3 converter if u want it on a differnt system
@@lotusmist3 the crowd cheering and audio quality is not as good as studio version
Personally, I've never seen where the hit song artist does a concert/collab with the artist they sampled. Very cool, Coolio
Only the Eminem with the Dido
Kid Rock did it with Lynyrd Skynyrd (Kid Rock performed All Summer Long, Lynyrd joined the stage and they started singing Sweet Home Alabama.)
Late to the party, but Run DMC kinda kicked the door in with Aerosmith back in the day
Destiny's Child had Stevie Nicks playing a guitar in the Bootylicious video.
At the VH1 Hip Hop Honors concert in 2004, the Sugarhill Gang joined Chic on stage to play Rapper's Delight together. Also, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons played Uptown Girl at the Billy Joel Living Legends Award concert in 1990. (Uptown Girl is Billy Joel's original song that was inspired by the music of Frankie Valli.)
A Entrada do Stevie Wonder é Épica, uma letra que até hoje se mantém Atual, R.I.P Eterno Coolio.. 🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥
the young kids- singing, playing instruments..They're all middle aged now...I wonder if they realized at the time what a powerful, generation-changing song this was? what a night, what a performance...damn
Is anyone gonna talk about those kids playing those instruments and singing in the choir who are they. They're good
Nah the violin kids ruined it
@@Solitude_7 the violin kids were fine.
You must be tone deaf Logan. They SUCK
This thread sums up the internet
@@Solitude_7 let's see you do better
I don’t care if you hate rap or love it, this song is a masterpiece.
I'm not much of a rap person myself, but you gotta respect something as real and excellent as this. Same with OutKast, i love their whole discography.
Art is eternal. 2023 and counting..
The good old days damn I miss the 90s
Me too 🎵🎼🎤🎶
This performance is so strong and emotional.
I cry when Coolio raps from his heart
No autotune needed, always singing/rapping live, no playback. Good old times.
A marvelous performance
Gives me goosebumps. Things are not the same any more
I think this is the best peformance of this song... Such an underrated song from the past.
Underrated? Underrated?
RIP Coolio 🙏
the best live performance on awards show of all time
I can't argue with that
Better than p Diddy and Sting
What a beautiful live work of art. The harmonies of LV and Stevie are top notch. Can’t get enough of it!
5:07 harmony hit harder than on home run by babe Ruth in 1936
Their vocals are phenomenal
This song is 25 years old and it's still hard and relevant till this day!!! Pure and natural artistry at its best. Salute to everyone who still listens to this song in 2020, the industry today cannot compare with legendary performances like this one right here.
So true…
2021 baby
2022!
the original song (pastime paradise) is from 1976. let that sink.
2022 !!
This is one of the most beautiful collabs ever
That was epic! RIP Coolio. Thank you Stevie, Coolio and LV for this master piece
Absolutely outstanding... sad to watch this today, but remember this performance so well. RIP Coolio
there ain't no gangstas livin in paradise. Amen.
Despite Stevie not wanting any profanity in this tune, this is still one of the greatest hip-hop tunes ever, and the best hip-hop tune ever in my book. And this tune being a hit just when I was in grade school, it was too perfect, as this was also the first rap that I tried to mimic and remember, and also play the riff on the piano.
I believe the lack of profanity was also to help it get better circulation (this was back when explicit music was never on the radio) and probably helped it reach way more listeners. It took me years to realize there’s no cussing on this song, which is actually kinda impressive. Shows that they had to get real creative with the lyric writing
But yet ja rule got a bunch of profanity in living it up a sample from Stevie Wonder it's one of the hip hop songs with the most profanity in Hip-Hop history
Tú é loko quando o Stevie wonder entra no palco é de arrepiar, canta muito.....
Simmmm
One of the Greatest old school songs of my time.....RIP Coolio
“why are we so blind to see”
stevie: and i took that personally
That choir is chilling. So hauntingly good.
2:50 I love how the audience applause when Stevie Wonder comes on stage.
Single of the year 1995
Thats saying alot because 95' was a great year in music. 👌🏽
spending most of our life , livin in the past time paradise
Hmm what about 2pac
The best rap of ALL times
will bad ribeiro no
Marilyn
yeah
SlamBloodiGor Plenty of greater ones
@@Kriegtalith Technically speaking? yes there are better ones, overall scale? Nah this was the peak of a rap song.
You can say that again, i love all the versions of this song.
damm every song is a hit in 2023..what a time for true artists
I was born in 1993 and gre up listening to this type of music. Ice Cube, BTNH, 2Pac and many others. I’m 28 now and it’s weird that all these artists such as Coolio and DMX had one hit that we all know them from. One day all the 80s-90s Gangster rap or old school rap artists will be gone and it will be the end of that era.
An era when rap had a meaning about true life events and also where the artists showed their emotions with their own vocals.
90s artist and before we’re actually talented unlike most rappers now days
Nothing compares with 90s Rap 🤩
oh man DMX had many hits. RIP to all the greats. Long live the gangsta rap era
I think i get what u meant by them having a hit we know them for, but i think DMX is different because he really had a hold on the rap game from his first album and went platinum twice in 1 year and has plenty of huge #1 hits into the mid 2000’s
Born late 80s and couldn’t agree more
stevie has such an amazing voice
L.V voice is fire 🔥 he can sing alongside Stevie Wonder wow 🤩 Timeless classic that’ll live forever.
It sure is!!!
The 90s and early 2000s, JDM Cars, Pimp my ride, the simpler times.
Crazy how when we were in it. We never knew it would be left in that era. RIP to the much simpler times that past.
L.V and Stevie voices together! Jesus Christ! Pure beauty!
Hearing Stevie Wonder sing "Been spending most our lives livin in a Gangsta's Paradise" is seriously one of the coolest things to hit music history.
LV did his thing I would of been star struck singing next to Stevie 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
he probably couldn't process the emotion of singing with someone as brilliant as Stevie Wonder
@@Nope-move-along Especially since he covered his song
I love the inclusion of the youngsters on the violins and violas, but they couldn’t hold a beat to save their lives 😎😭😭😭😭
Raw talent.. 90's Golden era
28.09.2022. песня вошла в историю! Браво !👏
The best version of the songs , I wish there was a studio version of this
On gawd
This is the best version. All of them combined makes it 100× better.
Someone said it....chills! I love both versions equally. Amazing.... truly amazing.
this brought tears to my eyes when Stevie walked out! What a great tribute to him, the production was ridiculous 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yet , this song never died 😂😂😂
I don't think it ever will
Radioactive Hufflepuff it shouldn’t
As someone who grew up with a blind sibling I'll just say it's so cool seeing how much respect these gangsters showed for stevie.
Even in 2020 there isn't many gangsters that'd take another man's hand and help him out.
It was a good song in 95 and still is to this day much respect to coolio lv and stevie, what a bad ass version of this song
Coolio was exposed to gangs growing up, but I don't he lived the gangster life much. LV speaks even less gangsta than Coolio, so you may be reading too much into the wardrobe and performance. Gangs, like any community, are diverse. Those which are in the worst neighborhoods amidst stifling poverty can sport crime and inhumanity but those gang members who were family oriented and simply "chose" the gang life because that's what they saw around them are harder to categorize. Some of them went on become well read and make some compelling choices (such as help broker gang truces or even help found the Black Panther philosophy in the 60s), so, for those gang members in the 2020s who are in that "optional gang member with family respect" mode, I wouldn't be shocked by surprisingly humanitarian choices by them. I've seen gang members walk old ladies across the street, and I've obviously seen them commit heinous crimes on the news. It's a mixed bag that refuses reductionist thought.
@@ravelasquezo coolio did get arrested some time ago for an illegal gun
@@ravelasquezo Coolio grew up in Compton. He was a teenager in the late 70s and early 80s. He may not have been ina gang but he was surrounded by it during the most influential time of his life and saw how it destroyed his neighborhood. That's why he wrote the song and got so offended when weird Al parodied it.
@@schmitty8225 he was childish to get offended by the parody all it did was being more attention to the original.
@@tookool4skool98 he's said he now regrets hating on the song but it's understandable that he initially did all things considered.