Tupac Shakur also known as 2Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York and died on September 13, 1996. Tupac was known for his talent of rapping and his ability to create controversial lyrics. Tupac won 2 awards out of 3 nominations on Soul Train and nominated in many other award shows. Tupac created a song named "Changes", which is very popular in today's society. In this song 2Pac is suggesting that people should make changes within their lives. 2Pac feels poverty, violence, drugs and hatred is interfering with people's lives, yet no one is attempting to adapt to a new life style of peace.
At the beginning of the song the author states "I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living, should …show more content…
In the lines 3-4, the author is implying that he is living in poverty and it is causing hunger and angry thoughts which are leading to criminal actions to make life less complicated. People that are living in poverty suffer every day from hunger, making it easier for people to become impatient to wait for effective financial help. The author wants to give the people listening to his music an idea of people seeing each other as close instead of distant. The author states "Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers. And that’s how it’s supposed to be"(l.13-14). The author makes this message to help the black community understand they need to get along and love one another instead of killing each other. The author states "And only time we chill is when we kill each other"(l.30), the author is implying the same idea as lines 13 and 14. People in the black community should unite together, however; the only time the people are uniting is when they are murdering each other. Once in life people died together yet today's society the people are murdering each other having a major impact on hate. People in the black community are going against each other rather than sticking together as a family and creating
At the beginning of the song the author states "I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living, should …show more content…
In the lines 3-4, the author is implying that he is living in poverty and it is causing hunger and angry thoughts which are leading to criminal actions to make life less complicated. People that are living in poverty suffer every day from hunger, making it easier for people to become impatient to wait for effective financial help. The author wants to give the people listening to his music an idea of people seeing each other as close instead of distant. The author states "Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of two distant strangers. And that’s how it’s supposed to be"(l.13-14). The author makes this message to help the black community understand they need to get along and love one another instead of killing each other. The author states "And only time we chill is when we kill each other"(l.30), the author is implying the same idea as lines 13 and 14. People in the black community should unite together, however; the only time the people are uniting is when they are murdering each other. Once in life people died together yet today's society the people are murdering each other having a major impact on hate. People in the black community are going against each other rather than sticking together as a family and creating