Talk:Gangsta's Paradise
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this isnt completly rap
editAnyone else think R&B is too present in this song to just put it as Gangsta Rap. The Riff is even stevie wonder. I think this should have two genres not just one.
Isn't the song grammatically wrong?
editThe question in the subject refers to the following line from verse 2:"But my homies is down". Shouldn't it be "But my homies are down"? --Fandelasketchup (talk) 16:59, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that it's intended to be vernacular, as in the way people talk. Persistent Corvid (talk) 08:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
- I also don't understand in one verse when it says, "but I gotta loc". What does "loc" mean? Fandelasketchup (talk) 21:06, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
Orphaned references in Gangsta's Paradise
editI check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Gangsta's Paradise's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "BBFC":
- From Pain & Gain: "PAIN & GAIN (15)". British Board of Film Classification. April 30, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - From Sonic the Hedgehog (film): "Sonic the Hedgehog (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. January 15, 2020. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
sample vs. compose
editIs it correct to say that Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" is being "sampled" for "Gangsta's Paradise"? Wonder's music provides essentially all of the music for "Gangsta's"-- the latter seems to be just an arrangement--, and even much of the lyrics in the chorus. Wonder is of course properly credited in the infobox, but it seems his contribution is much more substantial than just having been sampled; "Gangsta's" is more of a cover with revised lyrics. (Wonder did get 3/4 of the publishing proceeds, fide the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/arts/music/coolio-gangstas-paradise.html .) Some other word than "sampling" should be used to describe his relation to the song. MayerG (talk) 11:11, 30 September 2022 (UTC)