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This guy does a great deconstruction of the song and its zeitgeist. Highly entertaining, a great sift.

I'm 35, HS class of 96, so Gangsta's Paradise came out early in my senior year.

I remember there was a volunteer exercise in health class where we were asked to bring in a song that we found powerful or meaningful, play it for the class, and then discuss it. Someone brought GP in and, during the discussion portion, the teacher told us that so far at least one person in every class had chosen this song.

Even people like myself who generally did not listen to rap appreciated this song. Only the honkiest of honkies felt otherwise.

There was definitely something about this song in that time.

I don't really think he gives Stevie Wonder enough credit. Yeah, the rap was good, but without the chorus hook, it would never have achieved the kind of success it did.

I loved his angry rant near the end only to make a damning indictment of modern commercialised hip hop.