Tupac “2Pac” Shakur- Change September 7, 1996 will go down in the history books for many people. On the eve of that day, Tupac“2Pac” Shakur, who was sitting in a passenger seat, got shot in a drive by. 2Pac got rushed to the hospital and six days later, he died. He was known for his rap music which he sang about poor black African Americans going through their tough life, living in the hood. In this paper, I will discuss 2Pac’s song Change, which was recorded in 1992 but was remixed and came out in October 13, 1998. Pre-warning, there are curse words in this song that I will be discussing and all photo rights go to Google Images. The music video to Change does not have an official video because 2Pac had died two years after
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All I see is racist faces. Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races we under. I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let’s erase the wasted.” This statement is referring to black people verses white people. Racists are people who believe some races are better than others. Later on, 2Pac raps, “We ain’t ready to see a black President, uhh. It ain’t a secret don’t conceal the fact…the penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks”. During the 1990’s America was not ready for a black president but in 2008, our first black president was here and 2Pac did not get the chance to see it. America has changed but not fully “changed” like 2Pac rapped …show more content…
He stated “We gotta make a change. It’s time for us as people to start makin’ some changes. Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live, and let’s change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive”. Again, this song was written in 1992, if 2Pac could see all the little things that needed to change why did our presidents not? If higher authority would have listened to this song, with an open mind in 1992, the world might be in a different place. But as 2Pac said, “That’s just the way it is. Things will never be the
All I see is racist faces. Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races we under. I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let’s erase the wasted.” This statement is referring to black people verses white people. Racists are people who believe some races are better than others. Later on, 2Pac raps, “We ain’t ready to see a black President, uhh. It ain’t a secret don’t conceal the fact…the penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks”. During the 1990’s America was not ready for a black president but in 2008, our first black president was here and 2Pac did not get the chance to see it. America has changed but not fully “changed” like 2Pac rapped …show more content…
He stated “We gotta make a change. It’s time for us as people to start makin’ some changes. Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live, and let’s change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive”. Again, this song was written in 1992, if 2Pac could see all the little things that needed to change why did our presidents not? If higher authority would have listened to this song, with an open mind in 1992, the world might be in a different place. But as 2Pac said, “That’s just the way it is. Things will never be the