"CHANGES"
“Changes” is
one of the most famous songs of Tupac Shakur who was considered one of greatest rappers
in the world. This song was a single from the album Greatest Hits, recorded in1992 and released in 1998, two years after Tupac’s death in
1996.
The song “Changes” had an enormous meaning to African-
Americans in the 90s because it talks about difference issues that were related to that community
during those times. For instance: racism, poverty, police brutality, drugs and
gang violence. Troubles that black
people in the US were facing every day. With that song Tupac tries to express
the idea that changes needs to be made in order to stop poverty and racism; he
criticizes the dispersion of African-Americans over the idea of unity to overcome
the issues that were facing them. And also, he affirms that after the
African-American Civil Right Movement, during the 50’s and 60’s that was
supposed that will bring an end to social issues that were afflicting
African-American population with “Changes” he shows that nothing had changed because
the same social issues that concerns African-Americans before the Civil Right
Movement were still common in the 90s.
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Very nice presentation Javier. The hip hop movement was stigmatized in the 80's and those who liked it or belonged to it, were tagged as gangsters and adicts especially the Afroamerican youth. In the 90's, this movement reached a more universal level because it portrayed the fears, problems, concerns of the poor, the difficult lives of Afroamericans in their hoods, the flaming racism and gangs wars. This song talks about those difficulties and a remote possibility of a black American president as a hope for this ethnicity,
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