FIRST TIME HEARING Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video] REACTION 

Congratulations, I’m 39 but your channel has successfully made me feel at least 70. 😂

41 year old housewife from England and proud to say that I just rapped the whole thing to my very embarrassed and confused 14 year old son! 💥😂

The fact that you've lived this long without hearing Gangsta's Paradise is shocking.

RIP Coolio ( thank you for your historic contribution to Hip Hop Culture )

You know you’re old when they don’t recognise Michelle Pfeifer and how dope this movie was

This song is hard af and there are ZERO cuss words. Crazy.

I'm 37 and I can't believe we reached the point in life when we are watching other kids reacting to our songs for the first time lol

A historical masterpiece with 0% auto-tone snd 100% pure talent.

All the joking comments aside, it strikes me how they both react to the lyrics even 20+ years after they were written. It says a lot about the depth of the lyrics of this amazing song.

L.V. was from a group called South Central Cartel, Coolio was in a group called W.C. and The Mad Circle, this song was from the soundtrack for the movie Dangerous Minds and stayed in the #1 spot for 14 weeks, one of the biggest music singles ever released, you couldn’t go ANYWHERE in 1995 without hearing this

I was teaching in New Orleans when this came out. It broke my heart because so many kids missed Coolio's message...that the "gangster's paradise" was a trap...that they are killing each other....and themselves.

This song transcended all races and classes of people… it captivated literally EVERYONE in the world when it came out. It was EASILY one of the most popular songs of the 90s. I was a 10-year-old white boy from rural Ohio jamming this on my boom box CONSTANTLY when it dropped 😂.

This song is the theme song to a movie called "Dangerous Minds ". Coolio actually has a masters degree.

"I feel like I've heard it before..." Because it's A CLASSIC.

The 90s were the golden age of hip-hop: Tupac, Biggie, Coolio, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Foxxy, Missy, Salt n Pepa, Lil Kim...The list goes on and on! 💕

Y’all heard he passed away today🙏🏾 Rest In Peace Coolio. This song is forever my fav. I always get chills listening to it.

Yall have no idea how much people love this song man! Straight 🔥🔥🔥

Coolio recorded this song for the movie “Dangerous Minds” about a teacher played by Michelle Pfeiffer (the blonde lady in the video) who gets a job teaching teens in a gang and drug infested school! I can’t watch this video without thinking about Weird Al’s parody called Amish Paradise! 😂😂😂😂

Yes young men, tell your homies how REAL rap music sounds like, none of these mumblings you hear these days.

Twins, This song, "Gangsta's Paradise" performed by Coolio in 1995 Won and was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, 2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video and Best Video from a Film, and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album in 1996. Please watch the great movie, "Dangerous Minds". The woman in the video is Michelle Phifer, the lead actress in the movie. Very profound film. I've seen it many times and I love this song. Coolio sampled the opening of Stevie Wonder's track "Pastime Paradise".

The 90's were legendary. You had to be there to understand.

Coolio was trying to reach as many as he could trying to wake people up to life in the hood. Speaking from rhe gangstas perspective. Definitely still one of my favorites

Its actually a rule that you have to react to Amish Paradise now.

This song gives me chills every time. I've never lived this kind of life but he's able to transport the listener to right where he's at.

Im a 43 year Scottish pealy waly white mum whose teenagers cringe when I sing and rap to this. I hate the rap of today but way back in the 90s or 00s I loved this and still do. ❣❣

This is from the movie Dangerous Minds. The woman who sits down in the beginning is the teacher at an underpriveleged school and the story involves the changes she makes to her students' lives by showing them they matter. I highly recommend it!

I'm 40 now, Asian housewife, still can rap to these lyrics, and the whole thing still makes chills run through my body!

Did anyone tell say that this song is a great sample of Stevie Wonder's song "Pastime Paradise" from the album Songs in The Key of Life!?!? RIP Coolio! 🌹🌹🌹

One of the greatest songs of all time. Goosebumps every time.

Michelle Pfeifer plays a marine, retrained as a teacher in the worst area possible. But she finds something more in the kids she teaches, something even they could not see themselves. A very tragic story with a very emotional ending. One of the best films i have ever seen and YOU TWO NEED TO WATCH IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

How about 'No Diggity' from Blackstreet. One of my personal favorites.

I'm so sorry to hear of Coolio's passing today. He was a King. RIP Coolio.

Coolio was 32yrs old when this cut was released, and though he had other moderately successful songs, this was by far his biggest hit. He won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance and this was the highest selling single of '95.

Wonderful. Now you MUST do your further homework and check out the root of this song: Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise. Bonus assignment is the live performance of Coolio and Stevie singing both songs interchangeably!

This song is built on Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise," if you like this one, don't miss the original, it's so beautiful.

I am 41 and I have worked with and been around folks around yalls age.. they had no clue who Prince was.. and they were not willing to even try music from generations before them. I respect you guys for being open to all music from different times and styles. Plus your reactions are great! Keep up the great work! Maybe more from your Generation will be open to learning like you two.

This one of the songs you can’t unlearn the lyrics because it’s truth and poetry intertwined with music.

The chorus is a sample of “Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder

Nothing will compare to the 80's and 90's music!!!! So glad I grew up during this time!!! No cellphones and social media etc!!

RIP he shook a lot of peoples mind w this song. If you watched the movie you need to, it’s worth it. Coolio was an icon. I’m 39 old but this is the music that raised us lol

Dudes. Y'all *GOTTA* check out the group *En Vogue* man! Listen to *Giving Him Something He Can Feel,* fellas. Their vocals and harmony are *legendary* and you two will *not* be disappointed.

Y'all need to check out Bones, Thugs and Harmony "Tha' Crossroads" one of their beautifully iconic songs. I know you'll like it because I love it, it's one of those classics from the 95, their classic album or CD titled "E 1999 Eternal. It would be if you could bring up the video while listening to it because it helps to clarify the messaging behind the song!

My mum made me play this song at her 60th a few years ago. She is a white australian lady. ... i was like ohh mum RESPECT!!!!

His sudden passing is deeply shocking and an absolute tragedy to the world of music where success and fame so often seems to lead to hugely talented artists being taken way before their time

“Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder. That’s where the hook came from.

I had this as my ring tone on my phone. I'm 65 and worked in a Medicaid Pregnancy clinic. My phone would ring and the girl I was ultrasounding would laugh. I'd say, I know, I'm an old white woman, but I love this! 😂

I’m showing my age with this comment, but oh well. LOL. This song was originally only available on the soundtrack for the movie “Dangerous Minds,” which premiered in Aug. 1995. I had just started driving when this song dropped. I loved it so much that I had to buy the movie soundtrack on CD in order to listen to the song. I remember blasting this song in my ‘95 Pontiac Grand Am GT & cruising the strip with this song bumping. LOL. I still love the song & still have it memorized. I actually have it in my iTunes library. I didn’t know until several years ago that the song was a reworking of Stevie Wonder’s song “Pastime Paradise,” & that Stevie wouldn’t allow Coolio to release the song until he agreed to take curse words out of the song. You guys need to watch the movie “Dangerous Minds.” It’s really good! Even though Coolio & LV can certainly relate to the lyrics, the lyrics really aren’t about Coolio or Larry Sanders (aka LV, which stands for Large Variety). The song is about the lives of the kids portrayed in the movie “Dangerous Minds.” I’m proud of you guys for listening to older music & learning about the deeper meanings in the lyrics of the songs. Love you guys! Keep listening to older music, & never stop learning! ✌🏽❤️

RIP Coolio!! age 59, this was cool to watch you both see this first time too! I remember this song, it was in the movie "Dangerous MInds" so very popular, it won a Grammy in 1996!! good music, good lyrics

So, everyone else gonna tell you about the song and the movie, let me tell you about Coolio. This dude is so cool and funny, man. My best friend from high school was this wild punk rock chick and she was in Vegas partying and ran into him, he was so drunk he tripped off the curb in front of a bus and she snatched his drunk ass back onto the sidewalk before he got hit. So, she’s laughing at him and he’s kinda dazed and when he realizes what just happened he was like, “you’re partying with Coolio tonight, girl” they had a wild ass night, vip everything. She said they still talk once in a while

I’m a 61 year old grandma. I loved the movie, loved the song. Still a relevant message, but the song still makes me get up and move!

This tune is the capital song of 90s Hip Hop era. Its also from my the Dangerous Minds movie soundtrack. 👊🏾

90's High School. This was the jam. Listen to his lyrics

How could anyone not have heard this song? My 11 year old grandson had it on his Spotify and wanted me to listen to this “crazy cool song” which near broke me🤣🤣! The fact that I knew every word broke him😁

Now time to listen to Weird Al Yankovic's Version called "Amish Paradise!"

Aight, so now that you've heard this song... can you listen to "Amish Paradise" by "Weird Al" Yankovic? It's a hilarious spoof of this song that was just as big, and funny!

When rap and hip-hop have become such a 'big thing', especially in the African American population, welcome to one of THE greats who, back in 1995, was kicking the whole thing off. The song was cowritten by the sensational Stevie Wonder, who also produced it, and has writing credits for it, and whose own song, Pastime Paradise, is sampled in it.

For many kids/teens of the 90s, this song was like the "gateway drug" to gangsta rap or rap in general. It was for me. I'm not a big fan of rap, but there are a handful of rap songs I enjoy, and this is one of them. The first lyric, "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left," is taken from Psalm 23:4. "Yea, tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me." In the Bible verse, King David mentions how God is with him as protection just like a shepherd protects the flock, but Coolio's version indicates he's all alone. This was the main track from the 1995 film "Dangerous Minds", starring Michelle Pfeiffer (the woman talking to Coolio), about an ex-Marine who takes a job teaching a group of gangsta teens at an inner-city school. The part sung by L.V. is to the tune of Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise". Larry Sanders aka L.V. ("Large Variety") did the demo chorus first, and sent it to Coolio, who liked it and wrote the main verses around it. Coolio and L.V. were familiar with the "gangsta" lifestyle, the former having grown up in Compton, and the latter having survived a shooting, but Coolio had said the song was not about him personally. Rather, it was about the kids in the movie, who felt like they had no control over their lives. In the movie "Dangerous Minds", Pfeiffer's character intends to turns the kids' lives around, convincing them that they are, in fact, in control of their lives. Various scenarios throughout the movie prove otherwise.

“Gangsta’s Paradise” was on the soundtrack of the 1995 movie, “Dangerous Minds,” which starred Michelle Pfeiffer as an idealistic teacher in a ghetto high school - a modern iteration ...

Did y'all know, that Gangsta's Paradise was originally Stevie Wonder's song called "Pastime Paradise"?

I just know this song made a big impact during the 90’s because that’s how people were living during that time. He was speaking on people gang banging and losing their lives over it. How they had no choice because that’s what they were born into. If you watch the movie Dangerous Minds it explains most of it.

This song needs to be rereleased. Pertinent to today's youth.

Throws me back to my youth. Still know all the lyrics. Still gives me chills. 🔥

Next up Fugees “Killing Me Softly” since Lauryn Hill is in the feature film that took this soundtrack

The late 80s and 99s was the rap you could really enjoy! The story telling was the truth! No need to use profanity or sexual content just truth and facts!! Rest In Heaven Coolio!

Dude, this is uploaded 3 days ago, and it's their first time seeing him! Nothing made me feel any older lately until I seen this. And I'm only 33 😆

This is actually Stevie Wonders song,"pastime paradise" Stevie gave him permission to use it as long as he didn't swear...

I can't hear this song without thinking of Weird Al's version "Amish Paradise" 😂

R.I.P Coolio ! 🕊️

He got his stage name from a (drunk)friend who decided to call him "Coolio Iglesias", because he sang well.

“The chorus..I feel like I’ve heard it before”...yep look to Stevie Wonder...

Fun fact. Coolio never cussed in a rap song ever. This is still my all-time favorite rap song ever.

This song was the soundtrack to Dangerous Minds and those are the clips you see throughout the video at that high school. Great movie you should check out.

I’m a 61 year old woman and watching young people appreciate my music is awesome!

62 yr old white woman here & I think think this is one of the best songs/poetry ever written & should be taught in public schools !!!

i'm jealous of y'all! i wish i could hear this song for the first time all over again.

My goodness I’m a chill white great grandma and my grand babies have grown up listening to Coolio✌🏻 He is so missed,breaks my heart

Sampled from Stevie Wonder’s Past Time Paradise.

This song is a super sample of Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. You can find Stevie's song on the legendary album Songs In The Key of Life.

“Tell me, Why are we too blind to see, That the ones we hurt Are you and me ....?”

Rappers like Jay-Z, Nas might be considered best rappers but they will never have a huge hit like this. So that kind of makes Coolio one of the greatest ever. RIP COOLIO One Underrated Brother!

Growing up in the late 80’s and early/mid 90’s was a blast. I know every generation talks about how music was better back then, but when it comes to rap/hip-hop, you can’t beat the 90’s man. It really was the golden age.

57 year old disabled white lady & this is my phone ring tone 😁 Loved it then still loving it now 💜 This song unfortunately is still relevant today:( Like Elvis song In the Ghetto still is. So sad but true🥀

“Or you and your homies might be lying in chalk” Great lyrics with great music! Classic! One of the greatest songs ever! I love you guys!

Lol first time hearing Gangsta Paradise ..i cant believe it

One of the best rap songs ever written....straight facts. Man I really miss the 90's. Music real music hasn't been the same since

Hey twins! This song is still 🔥! Please react to Stevie Wonder's 1976 song, "Pastime Paradise", the song that Coolio sampled to make "Gangsters Paradise". Also, there's a RU-vid video from the 1995 Billboard Awards, during which Stevie and Coolio performed their songs together. Check that out if you have time! 😀

Im in my 30s. I remember when this was the most famous song in US. Everyone heard it at least 10 times and I do mean everyone. It was everywhere. Weird seeing kids that never heard it. Makes me feel so old

I've had this tape for years about 25 years since I was 8. This song is about society. Listen to it. Still holds true to today's ways

I'll never forget watching him and Stevie performing this live with a full choir behind them. Many people actually took this song at face value because the name. But it is actually a very articulate warning against it

This song is very old and its so heartbreaking that we are STILLL in this situation in our country. I am crying right now for every child having to live a life in pain.

Oh man..... this was the jam back in the day ❤ He's telling the story of the kids from the movie Dangerous Minds. Brings back SO many memories... 😁

The Gangsta made it to paradise. Rest easy Coolio.

I love these guys. They openly listen to all kinds of music with minds that stretch and grow. Admiration to you, Gentlemen. Keep Learning and expanding.

"Gangsta's Paradise" is classic and holds up. It's so cool watching y'all hear it for the first time! As a former teacher, what Coolio says about "if you can't understand me, how you gonna reach me?" is absolutely true. My experience was so different from a lot of my students that it was hard to reach them, & I didn't always succeed.

Young people don’t know how important “gangsta rap” was to a certain generation!!! Today’s rap everything sounds the same. There were so many individual sounds and ways of rapping that separate the “90’s from any other decade!!!

It's so refreshing watching the genuine appreciation that you guys have for music from a different generation. And you guys are able to understand the lyrics. ❤

Coolio...OH MY GOD.❤❤❤❤❤BEST SONG EVER EVER EVER...!!!! MOVIE DANGEROUS MINDS...YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT....gangster school movie...BEST EVER!!!

Should watch the movie that the song went with..Dangerous Minds...the song is the movie and vice versa...

"I churned butter once or twice livin in an amish paradise."

I’m the whitest dude, but damn, Coolio laid down one of the most powerful lines in music- ‘I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things are going Idk.” The best lyricists capture a dilemma within the world they’re painting…and that is the line that puts the entire song in perspective. Nas was the master of this style of writing. At it’s heart it captures universal feelings of ‘dreams stolen’ ‘trapped by our environment’ and ‘wtf is next?’