Changes
The 1998 posthumous single built on Bruce Hornsby's 'The Way It Is'.
"Changes" is a song by 2Pac, recorded in 1992 and remixed for release as a single from the Greatest Hits compilation on October 13, 1998. It features Talent, a Kansas City R&B trio, who sang the chorus.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- 2Pac
- Album
- Greatest Hits
- Released
- 13 October 1998
- Recorded
- 1992; 1998 (remix)
- Genre
- Conscious hip-hop
- political hip-hop
- R&B
- Length
- 4:43; 4:30 (remix); 4:54 (remix) (with longer piano intro)
- Label
- Amaru
- Death Row
- Interscope
- Jive
- Writer
- Tupac Shakur
- Deon Evans
- Bruce Hornsby
Lore & Background
The song addresses societal conflicts, particularly race relations and classism, contrasting them at times with broader global conflicts and the hardships of life in the ghetto. It samples Bruce Hornsby and the Range's 1986 song "The Way It Is", whose chorus was slightly reworded, and re-uses lines from "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto", recorded the same year.
Reader's Guide
Originally produced by Big D The Impossible (Deon Evans) during Shakur's Interscope tenure in 1992, it was remixed in 1998 by Poke of Trackmasters. "Changes" was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards, the only posthumous song nominated in that category, and in 2017 Consequence ranked it second among Shakur's greatest songs.
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