Coolio has performed this song live at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards with L.V. The song has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany alone, and at least 6 million worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.
The song was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. Coolio was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video and Best Video from a Film and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album. NME listed the song at number 100 in their ranking of 100 Best Songs Of The 1990s in 2012. In 2008, it was ranked number 38 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. It samples the chorus and instrumentation of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Pastime Paradise".The song was listed at number 85 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time and number one biggest selling single of 1995 on U.S. The song was released on Coolio's album of the same name, as well as the soundtrack for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds. "Gangsta's Paradise" is a song by American rapper Coolio, featuring singer L.V. Wikipedia (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
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