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[00:12.20]As I walk through the valley
[00:13.60]Of the shadow of death
[00:14.96]I take a look at my life
[00:16.59]And realise there's nuthin' left
[00:18.38]'Cuz I've been blasting
[00:19.53]And laughing so long that
[00:21.33]Even my mama thinks
[00:22.43]That my mind is gone
[00:24.27]But I ain't never crossed a man
[00:25.82]That didn't deserve it
[00:26.97]Me be treated like a punk
[00:28.70]You know that's unheard of
[00:30.30]You better watch how you're talking
[00:32.25]And where you're walking
[00:33.69]Or you and your homies
[00:34.84]Might be lined in chalk
[00:36.35]I really hate to trip
[00:37.60]But I gotta loc
[00:38.98]As I grow I see myself
[00:40.67]In the pistol smoke fool
[00:42.64]I'm the kinda g the
[00:43.79]Little homies wanna be like
[00:44.99]On my knees in the night
[00:46.50]Saying prayers in the streetlight
[00:49.00]Been spending most their lives
[00:51.30]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[00:54.81]Been spending most their lives
[00:57.01]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[01:00.93]Keep spending most our lives
[01:02.94]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[01:06.71]Keep spending most our lives
[01:09.01]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[01:12.67]The getto situation
[01:13.73]They got me facin'
[01:15.08]I can't live a normal life
[01:16.58]I was raised by the stripes
[01:18.18]So I gotta be down
[01:19.64]With the hood team
[01:21.18]Too much television watching
[01:22.48]Got me chasing dreams
[01:24.13]I'm an educated fool
[01:25.58]With money on my mind
[01:27.41]Got my tin in my hand
[01:28.76]And a gleam in my eye
[01:30.28]I'm a loc'd out
[01:31.23]gangsta set trippin' banger
[01:33.08]And my homies is down
[01:34.52]So don't arouse my anger fool
[01:36.56]Death ain't nothing
[01:37.51]But a heartbeat away
[01:38.96]I'm living life
[01:39.81]Do or die what can I say
[01:42.34]I'm 23 now but will
[01:44.19]I live to see 24
[01:45.24]The way things are going I don't know
[01:47.82]Tell me why are we
[01:50.98]So blind to see
[01:53.63]That the one's we hurt
[01:57.12]Are you and me
[02:01.09]Been spending most their lives
[02:03.34]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[02:06.90]Been spending most their lives
[02:09.10]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[02:12.91]Keep spending most our lives
[02:15.06]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[02:18.82]Keep spending most our lives
[02:21.07]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[02:24.53]Power and the money
[02:25.78]Money and the power
[02:27.33]Minute after minute
[02:28.88]Hour after hour
[02:30.62]Everybody's running
[02:31.87]But half of them ain't looking
[02:33.17]What's going on in the kitchen
[02:34.87]But I don't know what's cookin'
[02:36.42]They say I gotta learn
[02:37.73]But nobody's here to teach me
[02:39.30]If they can't undersstand it
[02:40.92]How can they reach me
[02:42.65]I guess they can't
[02:43.85]I guess they won't
[02:45.06]I guess they front that's
[02:46.47]Why I know my
[02:47.33]Life is out of luck fool
[02:48.78]Been spending most their lives
[02:51.28]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[02:54.89]Been spending most their lives
[02:57.14]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[03:00.84]Keep spending most our lives
[03:03.15]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[03:06.85]Keep spending most our lives
[03:09.34]Living in the gangsta's paradise
[03:11.94]Tell me why are we
[03:15.05]So blind to see
[03:17.70]That the one's we hurt
[03:21.00]Are you and me
[03:23.66]Tell me why are we
[03:26.71]So blind to see
[03:29.62]That the one's we hurt
[03:33.05]Are you and me