("Changes")
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I see no changes wake up in the morning ♪
♪ 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 he's a hero ♪
♪ Give the 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 ♪
♪ Two 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 ♪
♪ 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 changed, and that's the way it is ♪
♪ Things will never be the same ♪
- I knew I'd be private in my whole life
and live my life and to be responsible for what I do.
I don't know how to be responsible
That's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here.
♪ 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' tonight ♪
♪ And 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, uh ♪
♪ 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' to the kid I gotta get paid ♪
♪ Well hey, well that's the way it is ♪
♪ Things will never be the same ♪
♪ That's just the way it is, the way it is ♪
♪ Things will never be the same, never be the same ♪
- [Woman] Rap star and actor Tupac Shakur.
♪ 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 ♪
♪ 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-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uh ♪
♪ Things will never be the same ♪
♪ That's just the way it is, way it is ♪
♪ You're my brother, you're my sister ♪
♪ That's just the way it is, the way it is ♪
♪ Things will never be the same ♪