Gangsta's Paradise - Vintage 1920's Al Capone Style Coolio Cover ft. Robyn Adele Anderson

Chicago in the 1920's was truly a gangster's paradise, after all..Check out the amazing Robyn Adele Anderson on this speakeasy jazz version of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" - the way Al Capone would've heard it.

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Follow The Musicians:

Robyn Adele Anderson - vocals

Mike Cottone - trumpet

Lemar Guillary - trombone

Jacob Scesney - clarinet

Adam Kubota - bass

Chip Thomas - drums

Scott Bradlee - piano & arrangement

[smof]

It's amazing just how perfectly the lyrics fit this style of music.

[KyleRobots]

Not only admiring the talent it took from everyone involved to do such a killer cover, but also the self control it took to not have an amish backup dancer slide in at the end.

[GeographyNow]

OH MAN!!!! This was the first rap song I ever learned when I was like 7 years old. You guys brought back so many 90s memories for me!! BEST COVER EVER

[Magnavox-]

Never occurred to me, but doing a Gangsta’s Paradise cover in the style of Jazz popular during the prohibition era is such a perfect fit, and in retrospect, so obvious a decision. Well done, “fellas!” :D

[InTheSteamTunnels]

This deserves to be said more: the musicians absolutely crushed this song. Well done.

And that voice. Million dollar voice.

[brennocalderan]

The lyrics are from a 1990s song but they fit the 1920s too.
Incredible.

[AgentForest]

Seriously, PMJ, open a chain of restaurant/bar/lounges with live performances of these songs so we can sip on our scotch in tuxedos the way your music was meant to be!

[smooshiebear]

Anyone else love irony of this song being done in the style of the time period known for gangsters? It just makes so much sense. So easy to picture her singing about the neighborhood she lives in during the 1920’s.

[man_on_wheelz]

Alright, someone needs to make a new movie, a damn good movie, that takes place somewhere in the 1920s-1940s with a soundtrack entirely made up of well-placed PostmodernJukebox songs. Yes, modern songs, I know it sounds wrong, but sung like this. I think the audience would appreciate it!

[biomanhazard]

I'm watching this in 2020, feels like 1920

[daffyduck]

R.I.P. Coolio. Thank you for a wonderful cover, Robyn Adele Anderson.

[popmuzic]

her makeup, her voice, her dress.... they're just everything.

[gerrycrisostomo]

The 1920s was the time when Mafia gangsters like Al Capone, Salvatore Maranzano, Charles Luciano and many other Italian gangsters ruled America and were blasting each other with Thompson sub-machine guns. The lyrics of this song fit so amazingly to that era. If this song really existed way back then, those gangsters would've loved it.

[truebluekit]

Holy crap! That voice! That music arrangement! Gawddd....

[ankurshah]

Their style is so great to actually understand the lyrics for any song. Vintage where the words were spoken clearly and clean.

[koopatroopa]

Holy shit! It makes me extremely happy to see Robyn doing another song. Robyn, I missed you!

[ellietrent]

I have a school project lately and learnt that the Roaring 20s was a decade of optimism and celebration after the War. It was a highlight period of Jazz music, Art Deco movement and Flappers fashion. Women would wear loose waist dresses with zigzag or chervon pattern, short wavy Bob haircut and some would put on beeded eyelashes makeup, pretty cool. In these years, the impact of Art Deco has left us with many achievements; such as in architecture, there're Chrysler Tower, The Empire States and so on.

[zonapryncess]

RIP Coolio! ❤❤ "Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away"~

[TheKingofBunga]

They literally turned a 1990's rap song into a classical blues song from the 1920's! This is so cool!

[Erowens]

Robyn is so incredibly talented. Love her voice