The song refers to the possibility of a black president of the United States, claiming "we ain't ready". Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. The "Huey" that 2Pac mentions in the song ("two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead") is Huey P. Released posthumously on his album Greatest Hits, the song talks about all of the different issues that were related to Tupac's era of influence - notably racism, police brutality, drugs and gang violence. The song was a #1 hit in Norway and the Netherlands and reached the top ten in the singles charts of several other countries, including #3 in the United Kingdom, which gained Tupac a broader audience. “Changes” samples the drum loop from the 1984 song "Set It Off” by Strafe. Polo G interpolated "Changes" on his 2020 song "Wishing for a Hero". Nas sampled the song for his song "Black President". The Tupac "Changes" instrumental was used by Insane Clown Posse in "Mom Song", a Mother's Day song. Bay Area rapper E-40 had interpreted the song already on his track, "Things'll Never Change", for his album Tha Hall of Game. The song is an interpretation of the 1986 hit " The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, and was further influenced by the 1972 hit " Changes" by Black Sabbath. The third chorus omits the Ice Cube sample and adds B-boy-style chant with an unknown person repeating, "Clap your hands and feel it, clap you hands and feel it!" until the song ends. The second chorus adds the Ice Cube line, "Dope dealers, you're as bad as the police," from his song, "Us". The chorus on the original track features a notable difference in a vocal sample of the line, "It's like that and that's the way it is", from Run DMCs "It's Like That", which is also played twice during the intro. The remixed version released in 1998 has notably different percussion, and a few minor changes to the musical elements. However, since his death many of the unreleased and unmastered songs have been officially released. At times Tupac re-used lines from other unreleased songs because he planned to make an updated version at a later date. The chorus of "The Way It Is" was slightly reworded and sung by Talent and was used for this song. The song re-uses lines from " I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" which was recorded during the same year, and samples the 1986 hit " The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and the Range.
"Changes" was later remixed in 1998 by Poke from Trackmasters. By bringing up this Tupac hoped for the listener to understand that violence is not the way to solve violence.The song was originally recorded during his tenure at Interscope Records in 1992 and was produced by Big D The Impossible (Deon Evans). Huey Newton’s radical militant viewpoint in order to eradicate police brutality would eventually end up in his death. This can be proven through the use of enjambment as Tupac continues his reference to the Black Panther party by alluding to the death of huey newton, the founding member of the black panther party who was brutally killed at an early hour of the morning. The use of allusion to a group that Tupac’s parents were a part of and by highlighting their mistakes, in that violence is not the way to solve issues and that changes must be made on how issues such as police brutality are solved. Tupacs parents were affiliated with this party which would have meant that he had somewhat of an emotional attachment to this group. Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead” are all references to the Black Panther Party, a neighbourhood watch who were formed in order to stop the police brutality among African Americans. “it's time to fight back," that's what Huey said. Changes …show more content… The next 3 lines in changes “Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other Having being born into a family of poverty and black activists, Tupac was well aware of the importance of the issues that he highlights in this song as he himself had experienced them first hand. Tupac was born to parents of The Black Panther Party, a revolutionary party standing for the rights of African Americans. Changes seeks the best out of both these worlds and addresses the issue of poverty and poor treatment by police that the African American community face often on a day to day basis. Tupac was quite successful and was known to be a gangsta rapper as well as a poetic rapper at the same time. The song ¨Changes” is written and performed by Tupac Shakur who was born Jand was shot down September 13, 1996.