on 7 October 2022 at number 55. Music video The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Antoine Fuqua and featured Michelle Pfeiffer reprising her earlier role in Dangerous Minds. Initially Coolio was concerned with the video's treatment stating, "I wanted some low-riders and some shit in it; I was trying to take it 'hood'." Despite this he trusted Fuqua and was ultimately pleased with the final result. For the music video, Coolio won the Best Rap Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1996. The music video hit one billion YouTube views in July 2022. Cast and credits Michelle Pfeiffer Coolio Directed by: Antoine Fuqua Sound editor: Jeff Clark Impact and legacy In 1996, "Gangsta's Paradise" was named Best Rap 12-inch at the International Dance Music Awards in Miami. In 1999, The Village Voice listed the song number 4 in their list of "Top Singles of the 90's".Rocklist.net..Jeff Brown's Village Voice Lists - Best of the '80's & '90's In 2008, it was ranked number 38 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop". In 2012, NME listed the song at number 100 in their ranking of "100 Best Songs of the 1990s". In 2019, Billboard placed it at number 20 in their ranking of "Billboards Top Songs of the '90s". Same year, Stacker placed it at number 19 in their list of "Best 90s pop songs". In July 2020, digital publication The Pudding carried out a study on the most iconic songs from the '90s and songs that are most known by Millennials and the people of Generation Z. "Gangsta's Paradise" was the song with the twelfth highest recognisability rate. Parodies and covers There are several parodies of the song, including "Amish Paradise" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, which was released the following year, reaching number 53 on the U.S. chart. Coolio claimed that he did not give permission for the parody, which led to disagreements between the two. Yankovic claimed that he had been told Coolio had given the go-ahead through his record label, and apologized. Because of this incident, Yankovic now seeks approval for song parodies through the artists themselves, rather than communicating through intermediaries. Coolio himself said in a 2011 interview that he had since "apologized to him (Yankovic)", further stating in a Rolling Stone retrospective that objecting to the parody "was probably one of the least smart things I've done over the