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Gangsta's Paradise
1995Coolio
Gangsta's Paradise is 11 years older than you
It's from 1995, before you were born.
- Artist
- Coolio
- Genre
- Hip-hop
- Released
- 1995
- Note
- one of the biggest singles of the '90s
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About
As of 2026, it's 31 years old.
Gangsta's Paradise became one of the biggest songs of the decade, with Coolio building a brooding meditation on mortality and street life atop a Stevie Wonder sample for the film Dangerous Minds. Its haunting hook and somber tone made it inescapable — and, somewhat improbably, the most successful single of 1995.
It won a Grammy and remains instantly recognizable, even after 'Weird Al' Yankovic affectionately parodied it as 'Amish Paradise.'
Haunting, reflective, and massively popular, Gangsta's Paradise is the song that topped the charts worldwide and proved a somber meditation could be a global smash.
