response to the song

This song is very emotional for the poor and blacks that grew up in a racist time and young people with no jobs. he song was a #1 hit in Norway and in The Netherlands and reached the top ten in the singles charts of several other countries. It is one of his most notable and popular songs that he made. Released posthumously on his album greatest hits, the song talks about all of the different issues that were related to 2Pac's era of influence, notably racism, police brutality, drugs, and gang violence. It states in the song that
see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
"is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black
my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero"

Its showing how in the early 1990's the poor faced so many difficulties and police brutality of racism. Theirs so many important message being told from this song about how the life of a black person is. In this song history is showing, its true color. That's why Tupac Shakur is telling everyone for a change and make a better living but the government wouldn't help instead they wouldn't care about how the blacks were treated.One thing I would really like to say is that when you are in a room with white/Mexican/black/Japanese/etc. people, turn out the lights.we are all the same color and that's how Tupac explains himself in this song from growing up in the darkness of racism.

tupac song changes

Come on come on
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
How can the devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things change, and that's the way it is

Chorus:
That's just the way it is
Things'll never be the same
That's just the way it is
aww yeah
(Repeat)

-2-
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
and the only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do
bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
I made a G today But you made it in a sleazy way
sellin' crack to the kids. I gotta get paid,
Well hey, that's the way it is

Chorus:
That's just the way it is
Things'll never be the same
That's just the way it is
aww yeah
(Repeat)

Talking:
We gotta make a change...
It's 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.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.

-3-
And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,
crack you up and pimp smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
~they get~ jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
my mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
and I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
some buck that I roughed up way back
comin' back after all these years
rat-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

The importance of music in the Civil Rights movement : Post 2

Music is very important in the Civil rights movement because it made people express their feeling and spread their voice out to the people of America. Music made people unite with each other at every time especially in the Civil rights movement. 
 In the book  "The Art of Protest" T.V. Reed shows how they felt when the protest happened and when people were fighting for their rights, they expressed their feeling through music. Also they communicate with each other from white Americans to black Americans from music.

post 3 Mississppi GODDAM

When i first heard this song it was unsure to me, that whom this song is dedicated to. But after reading it through i can see that the blacks wanted equality. The message was to be sent to white Americans and how the segregated states agreed to the laws. The song was an important message to all Americans for giving the blacks their rights. It was time for the sun to rise for the Black Americans to come up and fight for their rights. Government was  neglecting and not helping the Black Americans in some states. so i believe that this son has a great argument for its rights.

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