@@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
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.
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.
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
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
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
Dissipation Of race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutation Miscreation Confirmation to the evils of the world
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.
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'm glad that Coolio passed by a health problem and not by bullets, that tells me he was not into gangsta world, plus he got to live 59 John 5: 28,29 says that it'll be a resurrection of the dead, just like when Jesus raised Lazarus after being dead for 4 days. I'm looking forward for that day .
RIP Coolio. I don't normally listen to rap, but this is a great one. The lyric is good, the sound is timeless and transcends generation. Stevie Wonder's performance is wonderful too.
@@ianseb that's near impossible to answer, and it varies from day to day.. i'd have to sit down for days to think that out 😄 some artist/groups i can throw out tho is Big L, Kool G Rap, Boot Camp Clik, Diamond D, Looptroop, Redman, Rakim, Big Pun etcetera etcetera
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 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 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 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
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.
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
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
Stevies voice vocals invredible .. Crazy how coolio not even saying a word or interrupting when they were singing together, he knew how iconic this was. Top 5 best live performances of all time for sure. amazing respect.. and r.i.p.
Stevie singing “spending most our lives in a gangsta’s paradise”, the way Coolio glows when Stevie comes out, the children’s choir, the live strings…it’s perfection
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.
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.)
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.
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