Our latest installment: Gangsta’s Paradise.īackground: Coolio, the Compton rapper born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., released his debut album, It Takes a Thief, in 1994, and quickly saw its single “Fantastic Voyage” become a sizable radio hit. Now, years later, we will take a look at these classics in a more objective, unforgiving adult light: Are they really the best ever? How do they hold up now? We’ve already reconsidered Heathers, Ally McBeal, Ace of Base’s The Sign, Ghostbusters, Dinosaurs, and Adam Sandler.
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Coolio was awarded a Grammy for “Best Rap Solo Performance”, two MTV Video Music Awards for “Best Video from a Film” as well as a “Billboard Music Award for the song and his album.The Nostalgia Fact-Check is a recurring Vulture feature in which we revisit a seminal movie, TV show, or album that reflexively evinces an “Oh my God, that was the best ever!” response by a certain demographic, owing to it having been imprinted on them early. It also received Platinum certification in Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands, as well going Gold in Italy and Sweden. It went 4x Platinum in Norway, 3x Platinum in Australia and the US, 2x Platinum in Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Songwriter/s: Artis Ivey Jr., Larry Sanders, Doug Rasheed & Stevie WonderĬhart Rankings, Certifications, Awards: In it’s year of release “Gangsta’s Paradise” went to #1 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US. It was uploaded to the label’s YouTube channel in August 2017, and has almost 115 million views. The music video features Michelle Pfeiffer re-enacting her earlier role in “Dangerous Minds” with Coolio singing the track to her while sitting on a chair, as well as featuring scenes from the original film. Unbeknownst to me, the other condition was that he wanted 95 percent of the publishing!” And Stevie said that if I’d take that out, he would sign off on it. “I had two places where I had the N-word in it, and two places where it was, like, “F**ked in the ass,” or something like that. “His only stipulation was that I had to take the curse words out”, Coolio told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview in August 2017. Thanks to Coolio¡s wife, she contacted Wonder’s brother and managed to convince Wonder to meet with Coolio, In the end, Wonder agreed to allow Coolio to use the sample but only if certain conditions were met.
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Originally, Stevie Wonder did not want Coolio to sample “Pastime Paradise” as he didn’t want his song to be used in “some gangster song”. The track starts out with a line from Psalm 23:4: “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death”, and features some religious tones due to gospel-like choir vocals in the background of the track.
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“Gangsta’s Paradise” was on the soundtrack of 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds”, a film which starred Michelle Pfeiffer as a teacher in a “ghetto” high school. 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”.
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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”.
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Coolio (real name Artis Leon Ivey) released “Gangsta’s Paradise” in 1995, on his same titled album.