As I walk thru the valley of the shadow of I a look at my life and realize there's much left I've been brassin' and laughin' so long that Even my Mama that my mind is gone But I never crossed a man didn't deserve it Me be treated like a punk, you that's unheard of You'd better watch how you talkin', and where walkin' Or you and your homies might be a chap I really hate to check but I look As they croak I see myself in the pistals ... fool I'm the kind of little homies wanna be like On my knees in the night, sayin' in the street light
Been spending most their livin' in the gangsta's paradise spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our living in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our living in the gangsta's paradise
They got the situation, they got me I can't with no more right, I was raised by the street So I be damned with the hood team Too television watchin' got me chasin' dreams I'm a educated fool with on my mind Got my 10 in my hand and a in my eye I'm a loped out placeto certain banker And my homing is down so don't my anger ... fool Dead bay nothin' but a beat away I'm livin' light, do or die, can I say I'm 23 now but I live to see 24 The way things is goin' I don't
Tell me why are we so to see That the ones we are you and me
Been spending most lives living in the gangsta's paradise spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our lives in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our lives in the gangsta's paradise
The and the money, money and the power Minute minute, hour after hour Everybody's money, but half of them lookin' goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cooking They say I've got to but nobody's there to teach me If they understand how can they reach me I they can't I guess they I guess they That's why I know my life is out of for
Been spending most their lives in the gangsta's paradise Been spending most their lives in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our living in the gangsta's paradise Keep spending most our lives in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we so to see That the ones we are you and me Tell me why are we so to see That the ones we are you and me ...