- Changes (2Pac song)
Infobox Single
Name = Changes
Artist = 2Pac featuringTalent
from Album = Greatest Hits
Released =1998
Format =CD
Recorded = 1992-1996
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 4:30
Label =Interscope /Amaru /Death Row
Writer = 2Pac/Bruce Hornsby
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =Do For Love
This single = "Changes "(1998)
Next single = "Runnin' ""Changes" is a rap song by the late
Tupac Shakur originally recorded during his tenure atInterscope records but, was rerecorded and remixed between 1995-96. It is one of his most notable and popular songs. Released initially on his album "Greatest Hits", the song addresses issues close to 2Pac's era of influence, notablyracism ,police brutality ,drugs andgang violence . In addition, the song heavily samples the 1986 hit "The Way It Is " by Bruce Hornsby and the Range.The Chris Hafner-directed
music video is a compilation of a number of previous music videos 2Pac released in addition to home videos and never-before-seen pictures."Changes" was nominated for
Best Rap Solo Performance at theGrammy Awards of 2000 ; it remains the only posthumous song to be nominated in this category. One verse in "Changes" was first featured in his previous release "I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto ". There is also a notable remix of the song mashed up withNelly Furtado 's "All Good Things (Come to an End) ". The "Huey" that 2Pac mentions in the song ("two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead") isBlack Panther Party activistHuey P. Newton .
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