As I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life
And realize there's none left

Cause I've been brassing
And laughing so long that
Even my mamma thinks
That my mind is gone

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're talking
And where you're walking
Or you and your homies
Might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip
But I gotta lope
As they croak I see myself
In the pistal smoke, fool

I'm the kinda G
That little homies want to be like
On my knees in the night
Saying prayers in the street light

They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise

We keep spending most our lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise

They got the situation
They got me facing
I can't live a normal life
I was raised by the strip

So I gotta be down
With the hood team
Too much television watching
Got me chasing dreams

I'm a educated fool
With money on my mind
Got my ten in my hand
And a gleam in my eye

I'm a loped out gangsta
Set tripping banger
And my homies is down
So don't arouse my anger, fool

Death ain't nothing
But a heartbeat away
I'm living life do or die
What can I say

I'm twenty-three
Never will I live
To see twenty-four
The way things is going
I don't know

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

They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise

We keep spending most our lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise

Power and the money
Money and the power
Minute after minute
Hour after hour

Everybody's running
But half of them ain't looking
What's going on in the kitchen
But I don't know what's cooking

They say I've got to learn
But nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand it
How can they reach me

I guess they can't
I guess they won't
I guess they fron't
That's why I know my life
Is out of luck, fool

They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise

We keep spending most our lives
Living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Living 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

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