‘Cause I’ve been blastin’ and laughin’ so long thatĮven my momma thinks that my mind is gone.” I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin’ left, who sung all parts of the chorus line heard on the single - made for a successful collaboration, and even more entertaining music video.Ĭoolio raps, “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, Coolio’s heartfelt delivery coupled with the infectious hook sung by R&B singer L.V. 8, 1995.Ī bit of trivia, the song was originally going to be used for the Bad Boys soundtrack, but the studio passed on it, refusing to outbid the Disney team behind Dangerous Minds. What really catapulted the film to legendary status, however, was not the film itself, but the hauntingly memorable lyrics and beat of Compton rapper Coolio’s song “Gangsta’s Paradise,” which was featured on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack and released as a single on Aug.
at $23 million), becoming a conversation in mainstream media and social circles.
11, 1995, the pic amassed $179.5 million worldwide (production budget est. Vance, Lorraine Toussaint, were all featured in the John N. Then, there was this small, gritty film called Dangerous Minds, a coming of age story based on the LouAnne Johnson book Posse Don’t Do Homework, about an ex-marine teacher struggling to connect with a group of inner-city high schoolers dealing with the reality of growing up in a war zone littered with poverty and violence. On the music side, R&B and pop songs TLC’s “Waterfalls” and Boyz II Men’s “On Bended Knee” were “blazing” the charts - that’s what they used to say back then…”Blazin’ hip hop and R&B.” Meanwhile, Waiting to Exhale, starring the late Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon, had sparked a feminist revolution in the world of womanhood and dating. Director Michael Bay had released his first film ever, Bad Boys, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, and John Singleton was on the rise coming off of the success of Boyz In The Hood and prepping for the release of Higher Learning, starring Ice Cube and Tyra Banks.
On the other side of the spectrum was a whole world of budding directors with fresh and compelling visions.
Of course, there were the big Blockbuster films, such as Apollo 13, Toy Story, and Batman Forever, that were the talk of the time. Speaking of movies, the film foray was quite busy with exciting projects. Many of the books released that year from authors Danielle Steel, Tom Clancey, and Robert James Waller ended up being adapted into movies. A bomb placed in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma by civilian Timothy MacVeigh killed 168 people. Simpson was found not guilty for the murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, via a televised courtroom.
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