Fun fact: Stevie would only allow Coolio to release Gangsta's Paradise if it didn't have profanity, as it did when it was first written. That allowed it to become the worldwide smash hit that it became, since it could be played anywhere.
Of course as I hear the first notes of this song, the lyrics leap to the front of my mind... "As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain..."
If you've never listened to Wonder's album " Songs in the key of life" do yourself of favor and listen to the whole album. One of the best albums ever made. Wonder at his best.
I remember how pissed Coolio was when Weird Al parodied Gangsta's Paradise. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the song wasn't even an original creation. This music was the original, and Coolio was a hypocrite.
Thank goodness I am old enough to have lived during his heyday in the 70s. Gen X young ones had the BEST of music straight from the 70s into the 90s. EPIC!
Só o Sample e do Steve a letra e do coolios ele teve que retirar 4 palavrões da letra pois com eles o Steve proibiu de usar o Sample na música ele tirou e Steve permitiu o LV que canta a parte do coro gravou coolios foi pegar um cheque com produtor saiu trocou uma ideia sobre carro com mano pro um tempo voltou pra ir ao banheiro passou em frente ao quarto onde era o Studio ouviu a pedrada e então quis participar e escreveu a letra de paraíso gangster
This song is about taking action to affect the future for good. Coolio's version is about what it's like living in a ghetto and making the best of the situation that that environment affords. Weird Al's version is about the joys of the Amish lifestyle! 😂
no, Amish paradise is about the psychological and physical struggle of living in an Amish place because as a women you get beaten all the time by your husband (go medieval on your hiney) and told you aren't holy enough (psychological torture). It's about oppression, same as Gangster's Paradise (only in Gangster's Paradise, it's the children of the gang members who are being oppressed and beaten and drugged and given asthma attacks by adult drugged/smoking/abusive/murderous gang members, gang members who want to imagine that they have a lot of kids looking up to them (I'm the homie that all the kids wanna be like as I say my prayers in the street light.) The teachers want to reach out to the kids and the young parents but they are struggling with how. So more and more kids keep joining gangs and getting smoke blown in their faces so they have asthma attacks and get set up by the adults to start shooting people and robbing etc. But the adults are crying out for help just as much as the kids are because they don't know how to stop. Whereas nobody is going into the Amish communities to rescue the women and children who are being beaten and oppressed by men...so we need to go there and fight fo their rights since they are human too!
I thought Coolio just sampled the memorable synthesizer part that opens the song; I didn't know that basically the whole song was used with rewritten lyrics. Something amazing came out of it.
‘61 baby here. Huge Stevie Wonder fan since before I can remember. Never heard this until today. Shocked. I thought Coolio was the genius, all this time it was Stevie.
well, the ostinato played by the strings does remind me of minor key passacaglias from the Baroque period. And at 2:55 and on, the synth gives a hint of polyphonic structure (i.e. second voice). I guess one could argue there has been a very slight Baroque influence on this piece.
@@Anonymous-je7qc You’re not wrong tbf, western classical has had a HUGE influence on all pop. Especially with the idea of functional harmony as explored by Bach and (although not a baroque concept) 12 tone temperament which is still used today
Ah thank you for this comment. Does anyone think he himself may have sampled the strings from something back in the day, as it sounds very similar to a piece of music I just heard on a video about A Clockwork Orange, lol.
[Chorus] They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been wasting most of their time Glorifying days long gone behind They've been wasting most their days In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise [Bridge] Tell me who of them will come to be? How many of them are you and me? [Verse 1] Dissipation of race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutations Miscreation Confirmation to the evils of the world [Chorus] They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been looking in their minds For the day that sorrow's lost from time They keep telling of the day When the Savior of love will come to stay [Bridge] Tell me who of them will come to be? How many of them are you and me? [Verse 2] Proclamation of race relations Consolation Integration Verification of revelation Acclamation World Salvation Vibrations Simulation Confirmation to the peace of the world [Chorus] They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise [Chorus] We've been spending too much of our lives Living in a pastime paradise Let's start living our lives Living for the future paradise Praise to our lives Living for the future paradise Shame to anyone's lives Living in a pastime paradise
Stevie Wonder is a musical delight, His melodies and lyrics take flight, With his soulful voice and talented hands, He creates music that truly expands. He's a master of the keyboard and harmonica too, His skills and creativity are always anew, From "Superstition" to "I Just Called to Say I Love You", His songs are timeless and always true. Stevie Wonder's music touches the heart, His songs are a work of art, His talent and passion are plain to see, Stevie Wonder, you're a true inspiration to me.
90% of hip hop rap was sampled from the great legends of the 60's and 70's....everybody knows this. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic and Ray Charles are probably the most sampled. Hip hop blew up in the 90s and the bigshots found a way to make money and exploit the rappers who didn't do the paperwork part correct. Ray Charles owned all his stuff so he got paid. Prince was also great with this...while he lived, he owned all his stuff and publishing rights. Difficult to see his songs on RUclips back then, until he passed
This song was made exactly 40 years ago, it's so creepy that this song reflects today's world " they spending most of their lives by living future paradise"
Today's gangstas are the social activists who fight everyone else, going by the very playbook of the ones they compared everyone else to now. Burning down cities in the "Summer of Love", kicking people to death because they are not black, or won't allow their store to be looted by a foaming at the mouth mob. Bravery is called is the new racism, homicide the new righteousness.
@@pbague. Well, the form how I arrived here is this: I saw "Sonic: The movie" trailer, I searched in RUclips "Gangsta's paradise". I listened Coolio and L.V.'s version. Days later in my recommendeds I saw Gangsta's paradise, later I searched Gangsta's paradise in Google and I clicked on the Wikipedia's article and I discovered that the song was made from a song called Pastime paradise and I searched it in RUclips, and...
Coolio reused this entire song and just added new lyrics... so how could Coolio fairly be mad that Weird Al did a parody? To be fair Coolio later changed his attitude about that, but still. Why in the first place, if he copied someone too?
HowDareThey1970 LV had a lot to do with this song, from Rolling Stone Interview on the song: Rasheed: Paul was a DJ. He had a record collection and I had a record collection, so we used to see who could pull the hottest sample out. One day, I pulled out the Stevie Wonder record, Songs in the Key of Life, because that's one of my favorite albums. I pulled that sample out of "Pastime Paradise," and Paul was like, "Wow, that's tight!" So I decided to sample it and make a beat with it. L.V. was trying to get a deal at that time, so I was like, "Let's do it on L.V.!"L.V.: I came in singing "Pastime Paradise," but then I changed it up to "Gangsta's Paradise." I did my parts, all the vocals and the chorus, and I did the choir. That whole choir that you hear was actually me - I did all the parts from soprano down to tenor to the bass. Doug and I were like, "Man, who can we get to rap on the song?" I asked my homeboy Prodeje from South Central Cartel to do it, and Prodeje told me, "Man, you should do it by yourself!" I said, "No, I want a rapper on it!" Prodeje didn't get on the song, so I thought of Coolio. Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coolios-gangstas-paradise-the-oral-history-of-1995s-pop-rap-smash-20150807#ixzz3iN5EmT5R Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
HowDareThey1970 It was the way he used it. Al was mocking an entire culture that are not modern at all and definitely not violent, and coolio's version is about the streets. It was the complete opposite of Gangsta Paradise
Sr Stefanov With that in mind, he never should have been outraged with Weird Al. But he admits that himself now, he knew he was wrong, and has been cool for years now
Crlh .. Eu nunca iria saber que a música original era dele, já vi ele cantando com o Coolio em uma apresentação muito foda e só. O cara é uma lenda mesmo !! Preciso voltar a falar com meu pai, pra mostrar isso a ele kkkk
Coolio dying brought me back here . RIP. Stevie is amazing , Coolio had not heard of this when he was offered the sample for Gangster Paradise . Both versions are beautiful . Steve got 95 percent of the royalties . He is amazing and smart. Look up 95 awards Coolio and Stevie . Them performing together are the best !
A few months younger than me, I've followed Stevie since we were both teenagers, but it would really take days, months, years to catch up with all of his accomplishments and influence on all of our lives. He's always been there, with wise words and perfect music, and I just wanted to give my thanks for all of it.
Stevie met the devotes of Krishna in Westwood, Los Angeles on Harinam, chanting the all purifying Hare Krishna mantra on the street, and he had his chauffeur stop his limousine and he asked the devotees to come into the recording studio to include the Hare Krishna mantra into this song. Not manhy people know this. It is an inside story. I think Agnideva Das was one of the chanters in the studio. Who else?
It depends on what genre of music you are in the mood for. This version is powerful and hopeful. Coolios version just sounds pretty badass. When you are just pissed off at everything.
Fair play to Coolio who managed to pull off one of the few covers that works but the original is simply sublime - just love the chanting towards the end. My favourite Stevie song EVER!
Stevie Wonder made this before Coolio. Coolio asked Steve Wonder to work on a song for a movie. They made Gansta's Paradise. Then Wierd AL just parodied it. There, no dumb comments.
Grew up on this! Saw Stevie in concert in my youth, the most amazing concert I've ever been to. They literally had to pull him off the stage! He just wanted to give the fans more of his genius.
not really coolio was singing about gangstars having no future and that it is not there fault what they are using stevie wonder to do so stevie wonder accepted him to do so however weird al was a pr ick and used a real good song and turned it into terrible sh it
Fair enough. It should be mentioned, however, that Weird Al did get the permission of the record label that owns the song. He's said since that he wouldn't have done the parody if he'd known Coolio wasn't okay with it. It's a courtesy on his part to ask permission to parody songs since he's protected legally by fair use.
In 1995 high school time a class mate introduced this song to me after Colioo version was played in Viva & Mtv in that time a lot …unforgettable time & always make my day when i play this one because it always reminds me the good time when i was 21 years old .
Es increíble saber que Gansta Paradise fue un arreglo entre Stevie Wonder y Coolio para que saliera esta joya de la música. I love this beautiful song ❤
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Stevie is just a genius. Dude was writing ground breaking '90s songs
... in the '70s.
I guess Stevie is past time himself.
He’s living in the future paradise.
same with 2pac
weird al yankovic did it first in 1699
N Yuu Future XD
It's very simple;
Stevie Wonder - 1976
Coolio - 1995
Weird Al Jankovic - 1899
You're welcome.
1899?
Z E R O 1699 when they have a party🤣
blue - curtain falls?
PMJ: 1924
But only if you do your chores, and I do thine.
this feels like an alternate universe where every song is from the '70s
Welcome to Earth where this recycling of music is as old as music its self.
ruclips.net/video/Lxh-E_x9S9w/видео.html
This one was just an average day, Honest.
@@redneckhippiefreak ruclips.net/video/Lxh-E_x9S9w/видео.html yep
@@johnh23z Sorry, I dont click on rando shit. Cheers.
This is from the 70s, but also the original
Never knew this existed. The lyrics are amazing.
Finding out just now, wow!
I didn’t know either existed until after Weird Al parodied the Coolio version.
I didn’t either, and I am 52
@@hilariecalijo4643 so what about gangsta paradise
F Coolio
Fun fact: Stevie would only allow Coolio to release Gangsta's Paradise if it didn't have profanity, as it did when it was first written. That allowed it to become the worldwide smash hit that it became, since it could be played anywhere.
Just shows how profanity and vulgarity limit you more then help you.
@@lowercasepeople49 just shows that singers back in the 60,70 didn't need it to make great masterpieces.
@@vexystar3389 peepee ass
@@lowercasepeople49
That's only this specific scenario you dipshit
@@lowercasepeople49 not really because radio edits exist, its only if its something extremely vulgar like WAP for example where it hinders you
whaaaat!? I've been living in a lie all these years!! LOL
+cricri It's ok - so has Coolio.
***** did you know that jokes exist? geez, youtube is full of people like you.
you ok now? did you show your superiority? ok, bye
***** aaaaand you did it again, Lazy sunday, huh?
***** isn't she looooovely, isn't she wonderfuuuul
Merry Xmas from the bottom of my heaaaart
bye
This masterpiece is so ahead of its time!! Respect to Stevie and RIP Coolio!
you missed weird al
@@soumyabhattacharjee6442 yeah weird al’s is best
@@beefeon Weird Al is a talentless jew who makes money off other peoples' work
ahead of time? That was THE TIME. Starting 1990s music started to turn to shit
@@HiddenUsename but gangsters paradise came out in 1995
The more I read about Stevie, the more I'm amazed of his genius and contributions.
If you LISTENED to Stevie....you'd know he's been a genius for decades.
I haven't, but you're right I'm sure. Now I know
3:20 "gangsters paradise" you had one job
lmaooooooooooooo
Not an easy job to be "writed" for someone with visual impairment.
Stevie took it from Amish Paradise, which is from 1699
That's called sampling dumbass
@@brrr6342 idiot hes commenting on the fact that the credits say gangstas paradise, even though the song is pastime paradise
Of course as I hear the first notes of this song, the lyrics leap to the front of my mind...
"As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain..."
But thats just perfect for an amish like me...
coz we shun fancy things like electricity
+Pentarax At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows
+George Kakaratsios Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows.
+Pentarax But I've been milking and plowing so long that even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone!
Thank god for Stevie Wonder, who’s still with us here.
We gotta continue giving this living icon his flowers. The world of music is a better place because of Stevie Wonder.
Far too few people!
If you've never listened to Wonder's album " Songs in the key of life" do yourself of favor and listen to the whole album. One of the best albums ever made. Wonder at his best.
😍
I think it's THE best album ever made. It's filled with perfection from start to finish
It certainly is one of the greatest contemporary albums ever produced, that's for sure.
You know what, I think I will!
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius.
Never knew this song existed
Me either, I never knew Coolio Gansta Paradise was a remake of stevie wonder's original version, Very cool!!
Taken from the LP " Song in the Key of Life " (1976)
***** same!
now you know who the true genius is......
Me neither. I heard it today on the radio and I thought it was a cover of Gangsta's Paradise
this is a good parody of amish paradise
that's what I was thinking.
that's what I was thinking.
are you sure?
That's pretty sad...
You're a very bad troll.
I remember how pissed Coolio was when Weird Al parodied Gangsta's Paradise. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the song wasn't even an original creation. This music was the original, and Coolio was a hypocrite.
RIP Coolio.
Thanks Stevie for allowing Coolio to remix this.
God I wish I knew this existed sooner. It’s so gorgeous.
Likewise 😏
Lool only took me 19 years to realise gangstas paradise wasn't an original and was sampled off this
@@hamzah3655 finding it out, and I am 34 years old. I was like 6 or so when gangsta paradise(soundtrack of the movie)
You kids, saying Coolio, ahahaha this tune blew my mind to pieces, this is just beauty
Thank goodness I am old enough to have lived during his heyday in the 70s. Gen X young ones had the BEST of music straight from the 70s into the 90s. EPIC!
And this is why I read RUclips comments. If I didn't I never would've knew this existed.
I got to know this song from my mom, who recommended this to me after I discovered she likes gangsta paradise
@@MegaMGstudios lmao dude
I found it from a comment section too lol
same. Like thanks to that one comment in a mellotron video I watched I now know this exists.
This is comforting to know. Some of the young homies discovering these gems? Life comes full circle! XD
I'm today years old learning Gangster's Paradise was a Stevie Wonder song
Друг, мне 33 года, я всю жизнь слушала эту песню и думала что это Кулио. Мы никогда не были так близко к провалу....
Só o Sample e do Steve a letra e do coolios ele teve que retirar 4 palavrões da letra pois com eles o Steve proibiu de usar o Sample na música ele tirou e Steve permitiu o LV que canta a parte do coro gravou coolios foi pegar um cheque com produtor saiu trocou uma ideia sobre carro com mano pro um tempo voltou pra ir ao banheiro passou em frente ao quarto onde era o Studio ouviu a pedrada e então quis participar e escreveu a letra de paraíso gangster
Real GANGSTA'S PARADISE
This song is about taking action to affect the future for good.
Coolio's version is about what it's like living in a ghetto and making the best of the situation that that environment affords.
Weird Al's version is about the joys of the Amish lifestyle! 😂
What about L.V's version? (L.V Gangstas Paradise (L.V Version).
HowtoROBLOX that's coolio ft L.V ---- its coolio's version ---
And I love "Amish paradise" by Weird Al !
And Miners paradise is about the struggles of a Professional miner
no, Amish paradise is about the psychological and physical struggle of living in an Amish place because as a women you get beaten all the time by your husband (go medieval on your hiney) and told you aren't holy enough (psychological torture). It's about oppression, same as Gangster's Paradise (only in Gangster's Paradise, it's the children of the gang members who are being oppressed and beaten and drugged and given asthma attacks by adult drugged/smoking/abusive/murderous gang members, gang members who want to imagine that they have a lot of kids looking up to them (I'm the homie that all the kids wanna be like as I say my prayers in the street light.) The teachers want to reach out to the kids and the young parents but they are struggling with how. So more and more kids keep joining gangs and getting smoke blown in their faces so they have asthma attacks and get set up by the adults to start shooting people and robbing etc. But the adults are crying out for help just as much as the kids are because they don't know how to stop. Whereas nobody is going into the Amish communities to rescue the women and children who are being beaten and oppressed by men...so we need to go there and fight fo their rights since they are human too!
I thought Coolio just sampled the memorable synthesizer part that opens the song; I didn't know that basically the whole song was used with rewritten lyrics. Something amazing came out of it.
Ummmm yea... the original song was amazing in 1976, if you had been there for Steve's "Songs In The Key Of Life" Double Album.
Same , Bradley!!
And Coolio got upset at Weird Al for the parody. It was hardly even Coolio’s song!
That's not a synthesizer bro, it's a violin with a chello (or some other bass instrument not sure)
He also acted like only he owned the rights:
Amish Paradise
2023, and I just learn this existed.
How did I miss this? '81 baby here.
82 baby here. Today years old when I discovered this and am slightly ashamed
72 baby here. i am so ashamed
‘61 baby here. Huge Stevie Wonder fan since before I can remember. Never heard this until today. Shocked. I thought Coolio was the genius, all this time it was Stevie.
@@cslloyd1 ok, well if you didn't know, then I don't feel bad. LOL
83 here and I just found out today 😂
I love love the Bach influence in this tune. Stevie's gorgeous funky voice against the baroque strings is wondrous. Dynamite chorus at the end.
Wait what’s baroque about this? The fact he uses strings? Or....?
well, the ostinato played by the strings does remind me of minor key passacaglias from the Baroque period. And at 2:55 and on, the synth gives a hint of polyphonic structure (i.e. second voice).
I guess one could argue there has been a very slight Baroque influence on this piece.
@@Anonymous-je7qc You’re not wrong tbf, western classical has had a HUGE influence on all pop. Especially with the idea of functional harmony as explored by Bach and (although not a baroque concept) 12 tone temperament which is still used today
Ah thank you for this comment. Does anyone think he himself may have sampled the strings from something back in the day, as it sounds very similar to a piece of music I just heard on a video about A Clockwork Orange, lol.
I think Pachelbel is the composer you're hearing
Couldn’t Stevie Wonder have been sued by Yankovic? He clearly stole Al’s “Amish Paradise” which was a classic back in 1699.
Stevie Wonder probably never harvested grain all his life smh
@@WillKarleskint Yeah that coward
How would Al even know, he shuns fancy things like electricity?
Dante Santana Well played, Epic Gamer. I wish I could give you gold lol.
Yeah! I cant believe this
Sonic: Gangsta’s Paradise
Sonic 2: Pastime Paradise
Sonic 3: Amish Paradise
Sonic CD: Gendos Paradise
@@derrick2181 Elon Musk's Paradise :
ruclips.net/video/fAz8rLQmbKw/видео.html
Please
But pastime Paradise was made before gangsta’s paradise?
@@Lagrenadiere1812 Gangsta's Paradise was used for the original live action sonic trailer
Stevie a freaking genius man
My grandpa used to hear this masterpiece and i still remember its lyrics... Just got recommended by RUclips out of nowhere ... R. I. P grandpa 🥺
Sending ❤💖
Sorry to hear about your loss.
I feel so sorry and I also think the song is a masterpiece❤
this got to me 😢❤
[Chorus]
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most of their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
[Bridge]
Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?
[Verse 1]
Dissipation of race relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation to the evils of the world
[Chorus]
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's lost from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
[Bridge]
Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?
[Verse 2]
Proclamation of race relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of revelation
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation to the peace of the world
[Chorus]
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
[Chorus]
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyone's lives
Living in a pastime paradise
thank you!
Grazie!!! ❤️
Thanks
Obrigada
Danke❤😉🙂
Anyone else in 2024?
February 3 , 2024
Alibi, gangsta paradise, pastime paradise
15/02/2024
2021 and only today do I know this is Stevie Wonder Original... also, makes sense makes perfect sense
Me too bro & I know Stevie songs smh lol
Stevie Wonder is a musical delight,
His melodies and lyrics take flight,
With his soulful voice and talented hands,
He creates music that truly expands.
He's a master of the keyboard and harmonica too,
His skills and creativity are always anew,
From "Superstition" to "I Just Called to Say I Love You",
His songs are timeless and always true.
Stevie Wonder's music touches the heart,
His songs are a work of art,
His talent and passion are plain to see,
Stevie Wonder, you're a true inspiration to me.
Don't quit your day job
Bro used ChatGPT to write a comment
Don't listen to @orochifire. That was very nice, @pastimevids.
One of the first songs to feature realistic synthesizers (the violins/strings) back when the tech was brand new.
Listen to Village Ghetto Land and forget all this rap shit !
HOLY shit ALL this time i NEVER knew coolie got his song from stevie wonder
Yeah it's from Songs of the key of Life... One thing Stevie Wonder hates is swearing
@@vjones3224 Songs to the Key of LIfe is one of the greatest albums ever made. It was Prince's favorite.
Wow. I don't remember this song. That's amazing.
90% of hip hop rap was sampled from the great legends of the 60's and 70's....everybody knows this. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic and Ray Charles are probably the most sampled. Hip hop blew up in the 90s and the bigshots found a way to make money and exploit the rappers who didn't do the paperwork part correct. Ray Charles owned all his stuff so he got paid. Prince was also great with this...while he lived, he owned all his stuff and publishing rights. Difficult to see his songs on RUclips back then, until he passed
Who's Coolie? I thought he's called Coolio.
When I first heard this I thought Coolio was an unsung genius. I had no idea Stevie Wonder wrote the core music.
Stevie was one of a kind. A genius of his time.
He's still alive
This is from Songs In The Key of Life, probably one of the best overall albums of any generation
RnB NerdyGeek brightest star and As are my jam as well as this of course
No doubt one of the greatest musical achievements by a single artist. Stevie was and is absolute magic.
This song was made exactly 40 years ago, it's so creepy that this song reflects today's world " they spending most of their lives by living future paradise"
What does that mean?
@@ssssSTopmotion I interpret it as either people living too much in the past, or people looking too much for some lovely future.
Today's gangstas are the social activists who fight everyone else, going by the very playbook of the ones they compared everyone else to now.
Burning down cities in the "Summer of Love", kicking people to death because they are not black, or won't allow their store to be looted by a foaming at the mouth mob. Bravery is called is the new racism, homicide the new righteousness.
@@outis439-A for me it's about our job of trying to fight for the rights of the future generation, even though we won't be there to experience it
It's a vague enough line that it could be applicable to any generation or decade.
RIP COOLIO 🙏
RIP Coolio, and people still don't know this Stevie song exists, Pastime Paradise
Is it me or the song is ahead of its time? Especially Stevie's singing, which sounds like modern R&B singing. Awesome!
Modern r&b should be so lucky
Exactly what came to my mind.
This could very well have been an R&B hit in the 90s or even today.
It blows my mind that he wrote that in the 70s.
@@7shinta7 A genius and innovator in both singing and songwriting/composing!
God have you never listened to his album "Songs in the key of Life" ? If you haven't find it and listen to the whole album. PURE GENIUS.
What are you people thinking. Some of the greatest R & B tunes came out of the 70s. Have you never heard of Motown!
Pastime Paradise to Gangsta's Paradise and, into Amish paradise
Dat comment
Then loli Paradise
You mean Amish paradise to Pastime paradise to Gangsta paradise
Then we got shepherds paradise and than algore paradise
Into green hill zone paradise.
Le génie… Je ne savais même pas que cette chanson était de lui… Magnifique
Tout le Hip Hop des années 90 sont des samples. Aucune création .
R.i.p. Coolio❤️⚱️🕯️
If that sonic trailer has done anything right it's introducing a new generation of millenials to some great music which deserves recognition
They’re all going to listen to coolio’s version tho
Better than nothing
@@pbague. Well, the form how I arrived here is this:
I saw "Sonic: The movie" trailer, I searched in RUclips "Gangsta's paradise". I listened Coolio and L.V.'s version. Days later in my recommendeds I saw Gangsta's paradise, later I searched Gangsta's paradise in Google and I clicked on the Wikipedia's article and I discovered that the song was made from a song called Pastime paradise and I searched it in RUclips, and...
Coolio version is for milleneals.
Nah, the best version of the song is obviously Amish Paradise
@@pbague the worst thing is the falling in reverse verison (actually it's alright it's not amazing but it's not terrible either.
Coolio reused this entire song and just added new lyrics... so how could Coolio fairly be mad that Weird Al did a parody? To be fair Coolio later changed his attitude about that, but still. Why in the first place, if he copied someone too?
HowDareThey1970 LV had a lot to do with this song, from Rolling Stone Interview on the song: Rasheed: Paul was a DJ. He had a record collection and I had a record collection, so we used to see who could pull the hottest sample out. One day, I pulled out the Stevie Wonder record, Songs in the Key of Life, because that's one of my favorite albums. I pulled that sample out of "Pastime Paradise," and Paul was like, "Wow, that's tight!" So I decided to sample it and make a beat with it. L.V. was trying to get a deal at that time, so I was like, "Let's do it on L.V.!"L.V.: I came in singing "Pastime Paradise," but then I changed it up to "Gangsta's Paradise." I did my parts, all the vocals and the chorus, and I did the choir. That whole choir that you hear was actually me - I did all the parts from soprano down to tenor to the bass. Doug and I were like, "Man, who can we get to rap on the song?" I asked my homeboy Prodeje from South Central Cartel to do it, and Prodeje told me, "Man, you should do it by yourself!" I said, "No, I want a rapper on it!" Prodeje didn't get on the song, so I thought of Coolio.
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HowDareThey1970 It was the way he used it. Al was mocking an entire culture that are not modern at all and definitely not violent, and coolio's version is about the streets. It was the complete opposite of Gangsta Paradise
HowDareThey1970 it's called sampling, not stealing or copying.
hip hop is based on it
RnB NerdyGeek That's kind of the point of a parody--of his parodies--to be the opposite
Sr Stefanov With that in mind, he never should have been outraged with Weird Al. But he admits that himself now, he knew he was wrong, and has been cool for years now
So beautiful...Stevie wonder is honestly a lyrical genius.
Meilleur version pour moi rip pour coolio pour sa version
He sould've made a more ''ghetto'' version with a name like ''Gangsta paradise'', I see potential man
He already had a song on the very same album called "Village Ghetto Land"
damn... it took me 31 years to this day to realize, that there is an original version of coolio's gangsta's paradise... well definitely shame on me :(
It's not an original gangster's paradise, it's an original song from one of Stevie Wonders best albums ever.
Well, really only 25 years as Gangsta’s Paradise wasn’t around 31 years ago 😉😜
@@katedaniels9020 Double shame 😂 Didn't notice the release date of it. thanks for clear this up!
Me too! XD
I was today years old...
OLD IS GOLD
Anyone 2023 ?🤩
Stevie, Coolio and Weird Al on stage together doing their versions at the same time would be epic
ruclips.net/video/ZhJUDN4CwnM/видео.html here you go
Close enough i guess
Crlh .. Eu nunca iria saber que a música original era dele, já vi ele cantando com o Coolio em uma apresentação muito foda e só. O cara é uma lenda mesmo !! Preciso voltar a falar com meu pai, pra mostrar isso a ele kkkk
E aí? Voltou a falar com seu pai?! Espero que sim. A vida é curta...
First time I've heard it, although I'm already 40
It's great.
Coolio dying brought me back here . RIP. Stevie is amazing , Coolio had not heard of this when he was offered the sample for Gangster Paradise . Both versions are beautiful . Steve got 95 percent of the royalties . He is amazing and smart. Look up 95 awards Coolio and Stevie . Them performing together are the best !
Isn't it amazing that a single melody created three very different world class hits?
Yeah, kinda ... weird.
I saw what you two did there.
I didn't see that one coming
I didn't expect the similarity to Gangsta's Paradise is so big!
This guy had a vision into the future man, He is saying that we are all wastiong away on videogames and other shit like that
R.I.P Coolio
The OG Gansta’s Paradise
A few months younger than me, I've followed Stevie since we were both teenagers, but it would really take days, months, years to catch up with all of his accomplishments and influence on all of our lives. He's always been there, with wise words and perfect music, and I just wanted to give my thanks for all of it.
I was born just 20 years ago and have never been in the US. But when I listen it, as if I was in 1970-80 in US
Now I'm not wondering anymore how can gangsta's paradise be such a cool song. There's the mark of one of the absolute goats
I was this years old when I found this Stevie song and realized Coolio borrowed it. 2 legends.
Боже мой. Это лучшее, что я слышал за последние годы
This Song is a Time Maschine to the Year 1976 for me.
RIP Coo ;-(
Stevie Wonder nos reunindo aqui novamente🤤🎶
Acabei de descobrir essa música. O cara foda
Stevie Wonder - genius, legend!!!
I am today years old that I found out Stevie Wonder is the original composer of this song. Dayum...
Stevie met the devotes of Krishna in Westwood, Los Angeles on Harinam, chanting the all purifying Hare Krishna mantra on the street, and he had his chauffeur stop his limousine and he asked the devotees to come into the recording studio to include the Hare Krishna mantra into this song. Not manhy people know this. It is an inside story. I think Agnideva Das was one of the chanters in the studio. Who else?
😮 listening to it for the first time. Stevie Wonder true legend
I like more this original Version than the other, Stevie is a Master 👍.
not me tbh
It depends on what genre of music you are in the mood for. This version is powerful and hopeful. Coolios version just sounds pretty badass. When you are just pissed off at everything.
Stevie Wonder never saw how legendary this song would become
I just found out about this song today, and Gangster's Paradise was one of my favorite songs growing up
Fair play to Coolio who managed to pull off one of the few covers that works but the original is simply sublime - just love the chanting towards the end. My favourite Stevie song EVER!
Wow, what a great Weird Al cover!
First time hearing it.
Didn't know until now
stevie wonder
stevie wonder #sorocaba
Coolio dies at 59 years and 59 days old on the anniversary of this album, what a crazzzzyyy coincidence
R.i.p. Coolio ❤️
Damn had no clue
Me either until Coolio died!
I just learned something day!!!
Stevie Wonder made this before Coolio. Coolio asked Steve Wonder to work on a song for a movie. They made Gansta's Paradise. Then Wierd AL just parodied it. There, no dumb comments.
Julian Klimczyk exactly
Also for those that do not know Wierd Al always asks the artist before use.
Finally a comment with intelligence.
Beautiful is this one ,and for the movie Dangerous Minds is that one also good .
Julian Klimczyk Holy crap, someone actually did research! Oh, what a marvelous day it is!
Genius this guy is. Masterpiece!.
Wow ! Didn't know this was the original.
I just can't believe in existing of this... when I listen, I just hear Gansta's paradise....
"TELL ME WHY ARE WE, SO BLIND TO SEE THAT THE ONES WE HURT ARE YOU AND ME?" was also inspired by Stevie Wonder
Grew up on this! Saw Stevie in concert in my youth, the most amazing concert I've ever been to. They literally had to pull him off the stage! He just wanted to give the fans more of his genius.
This message isn't dead. It lives on.
Rest In Peace Coolio
Both this and Gangsta’s Paradise are great songs.
I never knew Coolio sampled this song for Gangsta's Paradise. Kinda makes his outrage at Weird Al's parody seems stupid.
not really coolio was singing about gangstars having no future and that it is not there fault what they are using stevie wonder to do so stevie wonder accepted him to do so however weird al was a pr ick and used a real good song and turned it into terrible sh it
Fair enough. It should be mentioned, however, that Weird Al did get the permission of the record label that owns the song. He's said since that he wouldn't have done the parody if he'd known Coolio wasn't okay with it. It's a courtesy on his part to ask permission to parody songs since he's protected legally by fair use.
***** that took you a long time to reply to lol and okay fair enough
For some reason it only just popped up in my notifications. Go figure.
ahh okay seems legit and wtf does that mean? go figure
In 1995 high school time a class mate introduced this song to me after Colioo version was played in Viva & Mtv in that time a lot …unforgettable time & always make my day when i play this one because it always reminds me the good time when i was 21 years old .
RIP Coolio! 😎
Лонгплей открывает все новое и новое для меня, сколько не слушал gangsters paradise и подумать не мог, что это ковер 😅
Aгa
Shout out to the escalator which played the cowbell part.
You know. ;)
Ahahaha :P
CVEITCH got it paused right now lol
Shit McButtz same :P
Ahahahaha 😂 dayum escalator
The only person other than Wesley Snipes and Wesker that can wear sunglasses inside
Gansta's paradise 20 years before. What a genious!!
Yes 😮
Es increíble saber que Gansta Paradise fue un arreglo entre Stevie Wonder y Coolio para que saliera esta joya de la música. I love this beautiful song ❤