| "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" | ||||
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| Single by 2Pac | ||||
| from the album R U Still Down? (Remember Me) | ||||
| B-side | "When I Get Free" | |||
| Released | September 21, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
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| Length | 4:40 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Tupac Shakur, D.K. McDowell, Larry Troutman, Lawrence Goodman, Roger Troutman | |||
| Producer(s) | Soulshock & Karlin | |||
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| "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" on YouTube | ||||
"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" is a song by American rapper 2Pac. It was released as the first single from the posthumous album R U Still Down? (Remember Me). The original version, titled "I Wonda if Heaven's Got a Ghetto", was released as a B-side on the 1993 single, "Keep Ya Head Up".
There are two versions of the song on the R U Still Down? (Remember Me) album. One, a remake of the original (using the same sample); the other, a completely new remix, subtitled as the "hip hop version", was the version used for the song's single release.
The song's title originally came from the lyrics of fellow West Coast rapper, Spice 1's 1992 song, "Welcome to the Ghetto",[1] and contains a direct sample of Cameo's 1978 song, Two of Us.[2]
Many of the song's lyrics were reused in 2Pac's 1992 single "Changes" .
Rapper Nas interpolated "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" in the song "Black President" from his untitled 2008 album. The line "And though it seems heaven sent/We ain't ready to have a black president" is used repeatedly as the song's chorus. Rapper The Game used the instrumental in the beginning of his song "I Didn't Wanna Write This Song" off of his studio album Born 2 Rap.
- ^ "2Pac's "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" Sample of Spice 1's "Welcome to the Ghetto"". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- ^ "2Pac's "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" Sample of Cameo's "Two of Us" and Roger Troutman's 1981 song, "Do It Roger"". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 18, 2021.