Pac wrote Gangstas Paradise

[nyknick]

@Nomad1 gets to claim another lyrical masterpiece

 

[MJ Truth]

COOLIO WASNT 23 THOUGH
PAC WAS.



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You’re forgetting this was also during an era where rappers and all artists blatantly lied about their age to be seen as younger, because back then regular fans couldn’t fact check any of that shyt like we can now.

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

If he did...I wouldnt brag about that

shyt was

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

Pac had enemies and loved Hennessey, Biggie thinking about sucking dikk . Pac was helping your favourite rapper get girls without the need for Biggie to suck the girls dad for approval. And Biggie was never appreciative of what the goat had done for him

Not only that but wtf women did Biggie had? Dysfunctional families man...letting your "son in law" blow you just so he can go out with your daughter Smells like incest.

 

[CASHAPP]

WHOLE SONG SOUNDS
LIKE SOME shyt FROM MATW ERA.

ALMOST A SO MANY TEARS KNOCK OFF.

COOLIO SHOWING UP IN
THAT TEMTATIONS VID MAKES SENSE.

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Then you got the references PAC would make all the time about thugs/gangstas in Heaven in his music .

Gangstas Paradise just sounds like a title/theme PAC would come up with.

Coolio rapping that he was in his 20s when he was in his 30s at the time, reminds me of when Diddy had a song on his Press Play album saying that “ since I was 17 I been spitting the illest ether” I mean just write a note on your forehead saying Nas ghostwrote that song

 

[C-Styles]

Even then, why hasn't coolio gotten respect as most of the legends of the 90s? He had great stage presence as well as anybody. Put some respek on Coolio!

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

pulling shyt out of thin air huh.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Pac had enemies and loved Hennessey, Biggie thinking about sucking dikk . Pac was helping your favourite rapper get girls without the need for Biggie to suck the girls dad for approval. And Biggie was never appreciative of what the goat had done for him

“I remember beggin bytches to fukk him”

“so big poppa don’t mean shyt to me and he know that”

 

[Complexion]

If you doubt just look at the lyrics, the way the song is constructed and then compare it to what else Pac was writing in the same time frame. Also consider that he had a habit of speaking about his personal life in the songs he was recording (see Pain) and fitting it to the theme of the track and if thats not obvious enough the sttreeeeecccchheeeeeedddddd vvvooooooweeeeeelllllssssss should give it away so I won't even highlight them:

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left - Classic Pac emotive opening which sets the tone in two bars
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long
That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone - MATW era Pac mentioned his mama religiously as he was going through it

But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke
Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight - The street salvation imagery here is a recurrent theme

Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

Look at the situation they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street
So I gotta be down with the hood team - Black Panther/Underdog mentality. Pac weaving himself into the subject matter as he does
Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

I'm a educated fool with money on my mind - Pacs usual contradictory nature with its blend of ignorance and awareness
Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger

Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
The way things is goin', I don't know - Virtually the same structure as Pain except now he's one year older in real life and lyrics

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?

Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'
It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me? - Pacs trademark social commentary, T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E, elders/society failing the youth
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they frontin', that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?

Realistically you could highlight the entire song because everything about it in every aspect is what Pac rapped about and exactly how he did it but the parts in bold are undeniable as they're repeated in so many of his other tracks. I mean flipping the line from Pain which was recorded a year earlier and redoing it to match the age he was at is a giveaway not to mention that the lyrics have a raw desperation that matches not only his other output from the era but reflects the chaos that whirled around his life in 94. The opening bars especially are virtually identical to MATW and the whole song is saturated in the same vibes as that project.

Even on a blend using vocals from the era its hand in glove:

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There's plenty more that makes me think this, if you see it you saw it.

 

[Metal Face]

Either that or Coolio just jacked shyt from Pac

 

[diggy]

I hated that f'kin song back then and still do

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Even then, why hasn't coolio gotten respect as most of the legends of the 90s? He had great stage presence as well as anybody. Put some respek on Coolio!

Ummm because he ain’t no damn legend. Made a few songs that were aight but crackas loved

 

[DaveyDave]

Even then, why hasn't coolio gotten respect as most of the legends of the 90s? He had great stage presence as well as anybody. Put some respek on Coolio!

I wouldn’t put him down as a legend. Had his time to shine but not legend status

 

[Absolut]

HE WROTE THIS FOR HAMMER
AND YOU CAN TELL ITS
THE SAME nikka WHO WROTE
FOR COOLIO.



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Got hammer sounding like Scarface on the hook

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

thread is the coli personified

OP advances a theory that is personal and Pac stans claim it's official and accept it as truth. that's all it takes.

is this shyt plausible. yes but it's not confirmed yet people are arguing each other down as if it's indeed fact



@CHICAGO put down the pom poms son