A special song..

Well this is a song with a little story for me: When I was in the high school (just a few years ago jeje) my teachers discovered that we never read the books so they chose put pictures and they forced us to watch it, and then we must answered a test. That way, our teachers discovered that it was a good form to develop the analysis capability, because my classmates weren´t really interested in the school (the true is that it never was a good school). In this context, we washed “Dangerous mind” a film from 1995 with Michel Pfiffer like an inexperienced school teacher who comes to a new school with many problematic students: each them was a social problem in itself. It was really close to my school reality so many of my classmates and friends feel really identified, when we washed the movie, was the first time that I saw him in silence. The main theme song was “Gangstas paradise” by Coolio, a strongly and hard rap song, that say the story of a guy that recognize the difficult to live a dangerous life, but he feel that he hasn´t another options to be who he is, he say: “I'm an educated fool with money on my mind Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye”, but this is what he is, and what he was, it´s the only option and he knows that their only possible ending is the dead.

The true is that I don´t like the rap very much, but the context, and the reactions of my classmates made from this song something unforgettable from me…

Gangsta's Paradise By Coolio

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life
and realize there's nothing left.
'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long
that even my momma thinks that my mind has gone.
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it.
Maybe treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of.
You betta watch how ya talking
and where ya walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk.
I really hate to trip but I gotta loc,
as they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.
Fool, I'm the kinda g that little homie's wanna be like,
on my knees in the night
saying prayers in the street light.

Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Keep spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.

Look at the situation, they got me facing,
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state.
So I gotta be down with the 'hood team,
too much television watching, got me chasing dreams.
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye.
I'm a locked out gangsta, set tripping banger
and my homies are down so don't arouse my anger.
Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away,
I'm living life do or die, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, will I ever 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?

Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Keep spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.

Power in the money, money in the power,
minute after minute, hour after hour,
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
it's going on in the kitchen
but I don't know what's cooking.
They say I gotta 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 front,
that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!.

Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Been spending most our lives
living in a gangsta's paradise.
Keep spending most our lives
living in a 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?