Tupac Changes - Selected by the Vatican As Part of Its Playlist

Tupac Changes is a song performed by Tupac Shakur and written in collaboration with Bruce Hornsby. The song was done under the Interscope label in the year 1992.

The song contain lines from other songs that Tupac has recorded earlier such as "wonder if heaven has a ghetto". The song is considered as one of the most notable artistic works that Tupac released before his untimely death. The song was release posthumously in an album called greatest hits
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Tupac's Changes was number one on Billboard in a number of countries such Norway and Netherlands. This was in addition to reaching the top ten in the singles charts of several countries.

The song had a strong message and talked about the various issues that Tupac had to contend with during his life time. The song tackled such issues as police brutality, drugs, and racism and gang violence.

The video of the song was a creation of Chris Hafner. The video was a compilation of various music videos that Tupac has released in his earlier works. This was brilliantly edited to produce a truly exceptional video that brings out the emotions in the song. The video also includes home videos and pictures that had not been released before then.

During the Grammy awards of 2000 the song was nominated in the best rap solo performance category. To this day it is the only posthumous song to receive the honor of being nominated in this category. Certain individuals are also named in the song such as Huey. Huey was the founder of the Black Panther party.

The popularity of the song was evident even during 1997 when the song was remixed. Its popularity was to extend even further than that. In 2010 the Vatican was to select it as part of its play list and now its part of the official Vatican MySpace music playlist. The song was considered to have the aim of reaching the hearts of good minded people.

Most regard Tupac as one of the greatest rappers that ever was and still to date there is not an artist who can match him. The issues discussed in the song Changes seem to have to be such as him saying that we were not ready to see a black president which is ironically what we have now. Even if you are not a hip hop fan you cannot help but identify with the lyrics of the song.

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