@thecelebcore on Instagram: "It’s amazing that one of the most iconic gangsta rap songs ever, Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio featuring L.V., doesn’t contain a single curse word despite its dark subject matter. That wasn’t a coincidence — the song samples Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise, and Wonder agreed to the interpolation only after Coolio removed all profanities from the lyrics.  The track opens with a line from Psalm 23:4 (“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death”), setting a sp

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