https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G6ro-c0C5E
Changes by Tupac Shakur is a hip-hop song, this song makes references of the treatment of black and brown people by the government, racism, the war on drugs, and the perpetuation of poverty and the difficulties of life in the inner-city (the ghetto). Changes has been one of my favorite songs that Shakur ever released, why? Changes speaks the truth, Changes speaks reality in a black and brown world. Changes speaks inner-cities and their harsh environments. If you read these lyrics he shows strong emotions,
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living should I blast myself?
I’m tired of bein’ poor and even worse I’m black
My stomach hurts so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger kill a nigga he’s a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship ’em dope and let ’em deal the brothers
Give ’em guns step back watch ’em kill each other
It’s time to fight back that’s what Huey said
Two shots in the dark now Huey’s dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
Unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin’ changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that’s how it’s supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he’s close to me?
I’d love to go back to when we played as kids
But things changed, and that’s the way it is.
In this first verse by Tupac Shakur,
As you read these lyrics, its so short and effective, Tupac was able to express his emotions and what happens in America. Not even that but how bad it has been around his time and still is to this date. There is really nothing else for me to say but to this day we still need changes in the inner-cities and the way they are right now, with violence, low graduates and poverty, that’s just the way it’ll be if American state governments don’t help.
Tupac Shakur, Tupac. Changes, Big D the Impossible, Death Row, California, 13 Oct. 1994.