Producer/s: Big D The Impossible (Deon Evans) Songwriter/s: Tupac Shakur, Deon Evans & Bruce Hornsby It was uploaded to the 2PacVEVO channel in July 2011, and as of June 2019, has over 100 million views and over 45,000 comments and 663,000 plus likes. The music video was directed by Chris Hafner, and is a compilation of previous music videos, interviews and pictures that were never released of 2Pac. The track is ultimately urging and pushing for change The chorus of “The Way It Is” is re-sung by Talent who features on the song. The piano and chorus are sampled from Bruce Hornsby and the Range from the song “The Way It Is”, as well as re-using lines from Tupac’s previous track “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto”. Some of the most notable lines from the track are “Is life worth livin’? Should I blast myself? / I’m tired of being poor and even worse, I’m black”, as well as “but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other”. “Changes” is a track dedicated to discussing the treatment of the black community by the police at the time, racism throughout America and the hope for both the white and black community to live in peace and harmony. 2Pac’s music discussed race issues, and contemporary social issues in the poverty stricken parts of cities, and was considered an activist at the time. His death shocked the world, as the musician has been titled as one of the “greatest rappers of all time”. “Changes” was released on Tupac Shakur (stage name 2Pac) “Greatest Hits” album in 1998, two years after he was shot at age 25 in a drive by unknown occupants in a Cadillac.
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