2Pac - Changes ft Talent Lyrics

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Artist Group 2Pac Album Greatest Hits Released 1998 Label Amaru Death Row Interscope Watch the Official Video of this song a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fwatch 3Fv 3DeXvBjCO19QY a -------------------------------------------------- Changes is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Talent The song makes references to the war on drugs the treatment of black people by the police racism explicitly the reconciliation between the black and white races in America the perpetuation of poverty and its accompanying vicious-cycle value system in urban African American culture and the difficulties of life in the ghetto The song was originally recorded during his tenure at Interscope Records in 1992 and was produced by Big D The Impossible Deon Evans Changes was later remixed The song re-uses lines from I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto which was recorded during the same year The song samples the 1986 hit The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range The chorus of The Way It Is was re-sung by Talent and was used for this song At times Tupac re-used lines from other unreleased songs because he planned to make an updated version at a later date However since his death many of the unreleased and unmastered songs have been officially released The remixed version released in 1998 has notably different percussion and a few minor changes to the musical elements The chorus on the original track features a notable difference in a vocal sample of the line It's like that and that's the way it is from Run DMCs It's Like That which is also played twice during the intro The second chorus adds the Ice Cube line Dope dealers you're as bad as the police from his song Us The third chorus omits the Ice Cube sample and adds B-boy-style chant with an unknown person repeating Clap your hands and feel it clap you hands and feel it until the song ends The song is an interpretation of the 1986 hit The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range and was further influenced by the 1972 hit Changes by Black Sabbath Bay Area rapper E-40 had interpreted the song already on his track Things'll Never Change for his album Tha Hall of Game The Tupac Changes instrumental was used by Insane Clown Posse in Mom Song a Mother's Day song Nas also sampled the song for his song Black President The song was a 1 hit in Norway and the Netherlands and reached the top ten in the singles charts of several other countries including 3 in the United Kingdom which gained Tupac a broader audience Released posthumously on his album Greatest Hits the song talks about all of the different issues that were related to Tupac's era of influence - notably racism police brutality drugs and gang violence The Huey that 2Pac mentions in the song two shots in the dark now Huey's dead is Huey P Newton founder of the Black Panther Party The song refers to the possibility of a black president of the United States claiming we ain't ready Further the last verse of the song refers to Tupac's premonition about being shot to death mimicking the sound of the gun with the phrase rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat The Chris Hafner-directed music video is a compilation of a number of previous music videos Tupac released in addition to home videos and never-before-seen pictures similar to the format of The Notorious B I G 's Dead Wrong also released in 1999 Changes was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2000 and remains the only posthumous song to be nominated in this category It was also nominated at the MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing in a Video Best Rap Video in 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Follow 2Pac a https 3A 2F 2Fwww facebook com 2Ftupacshakur 2F a a https 3A 2F 2Fwww instagram com 2F2pac 2F a a https 3A 2F 2Ftwitter com 2F2pac a 2pac tupacshakur raplyrics hiphoplyrics lyrics

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