Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Week 5 - Changes
Tupac Shakur is someone that most people today would call a THUG. Seeing that he does have THUG LIFE tattooed across his back it is a safe call. Anyways he is a famous rapper from Los Angelos, California. Most of his songs are the typical rap songs about gang banging, drugs, girls, and crime. In 1992 Tupac released a song that was different from his others, Changes. This song of his we tried to tell a different story, one that is a great message. Tupac says that it is everyone that needs to start making changes. "Its time for us as a 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." Tupac grew up on a world of poverty and violence and he saw all the terrible things that can happen in the ghetto. In this song he uses emotion to persuade his listeners. He tries to paint a painting about how bad living as a black man in the ghetto is. He talks about the trials that he faces everyday. "I see no changes I wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living should I blast myself." He is trying to say that everyday he goes through the same struggles and we wants to see a change. Tupac tells through this song that he wants racism to stop. His whole life he talks about how "white people" are out to get him. In the song he says "I see no changes all I see are racist faces." The chorus of the song shoots down Tupacs dreams of change. "That's just the way it is, things will never be the same, that's just the way it is" Tupac even though he is what some might call a bad role model, and he probably is, his message he was getting at is a good one. Tupac ended up seeing no changes because he was gunned down in 1996. His message still lives on and we can do our part to make sure it stays that way. We can all fight the fight, we can all strive for "Changes"
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I can't say I have ever heard this song, but I see how strongly Tupac feels about the things he expresses in his song. Change is a difficult thing to achieve but it is achievable. I wonder if we were to ask Tupac today if he has seen any of difference he had desired in this song since he wrote it....
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw the title I thought it was going to be about David Bowie's "Changes". But I was pleasantly surprised. Aside from most of his material, Tupac does have some very meaningful and deep material. I miss you 2 pac.
ReplyDeleteIt's tight that Carrie Underwood and Tupac can sing about the same thing, "change". Love this song..
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ReplyDeleteI like that you've identified several purposes the author may have put into this song. When you mention that there's a lot of "emotion," what emotion, specifically, do you mean?