Key: Cm
Introduction: F Dm E7 Am F Dm E7 Am
F Dm
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
E7 Am
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
F Dm
Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,
E7 Am
That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
F Dm
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
E7 Am
Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
F Dm
You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking
E7 Am*
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
F Dm
I really hate to trip but I gotta loc
E7 Am
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
F Dm
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
E7 Am
On my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm
Look at the situation they got me facin'
E7) Am
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets
F Dm
So I gotta be down with the hood team
N.C.
F Dm
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
E7 Am
Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
F Dm
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
E7 Am
And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
F Dm
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
E7 Am
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
F Dm
I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24
E7 Am
The way things is going I don't know
F Dm E7 Am
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F Dm E7 Am
That the ones we hurt are you and me
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm
Power and the money, money and the power
E7 Am
Minute after minute, hour after hour
F Dm
Everybody's running but half of them ain't looking
E7 Am
What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'
F Dm
They say I gotta learn but nobody's here to teach me
E7 Am
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me
F Dm
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
E7 Am
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
They been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E7 Am
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F Dm E Am
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F Dm E Am
That the ones we hurt are you and me
F Dm E Am
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F Dm E Am
That the ones we hurt are you and me