Tupac Freak Out Analysis

Throughout the years, artists, songwriters, and protesters have used songs as a way to communicate their feelings to different topics or current events. As an assignment, I am to choose five artists whose lyrics made a change in the civil rights movement, war and peace, anti-censorship and so on. I have chosen very interesting singers and songwriters whom I have enjoyed reading about and have given me a different perspective on how to see the world from a different magnifying glass. I will now tell you of my findings and hope you find it as interesting to read as I have. Frank Zappa is the second artist that I chose to write about. I read, Freak Out! a book about Pauline Butcher whom lived a very interesting life along Frank Zappa. The book is not disappointing but it didn’t give me much about the differences that Frank Zappa had done for the world or music …show more content…
Tupac Shakur is a great example to follow because he used his music to express & demonstrate how he demanded a change in society. His song “Changes” is the perfect song that fits for this circumstance. “We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start making some changes… Let's change the way we live… And let's change the way we treat each other…” this excerpt from the song is part of why many Americans were captivated on the idea to begin to change the way they treat each other. Because of artists like Tupac Shakur, many different artists of other races began to protest for a change. Not only blacks, but also Hispanics, Asians, and Europeans etc. started to become part of the American culture. The nineties ended with the fact that people were accepting the diversity emerging in the U.S. Racism of course still existed, however it was not encountered