Gangsta's Paradise faced several hurdles on its way ... Incensed, the star's manager decided to shop the song around to movie studios. It nearly ended up on the soundtrack to the Will Smith ...

The New York Jets really thought they were doing something cool when they entered the field blasting “Gangsta’s Paradise” on a boom box. But they seemed to forget two important details about ...

Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr, won a Grammy for the 1995 track Gangsta's Paradise, which led the soundtrack to the film Dangerous Minds. Pfeiffer, who starred in the movie ...