#Movie Soundtracks

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Video thumbnail — Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) [Official Music Video]
Music 1995–1996

Coolio — Gangsta's Paradise

The rare rap song that made parents and teenagers converge on the same chorus, and the moment gangsta rap genuinely crossed over into the mainstream. Coolio's dead-serious delivery over a gospel choir and an interpolation of Stevie Wonder proved that the genre had gone everywhere.

Video thumbnail — DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
Music 2002–2003

X Gon' Give It to Ya

A modest 2002 soundtrack cut that became a cultural explosion thirteen years later when Deadpool hijacked it for its entire identity. For one generation it's a 2003 film track; for another, it's the Deadpool song—DMX's snarl reborn for audiences who weren't born for the original run.