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Changes by Tupac onsdag 28. november 2018 10:31

https://prezi.com/ckf5-smwxsyw/2pac-changes-analysis/ Tupac was an American rapper who got killed in 1996. The guy who killed him is still unknown and remain as a mystery. When the first cop arrived at the crime scene, he asked Tupac who did this to him and he answered with "fuck you". He was a West-Coast rapper who performed with other rappers such as Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Rap songs was the music for black people and the lyrics often reffered to the though life in the poor "hoods"; where criminality, murder and drugs was high rated. 2pac often present these themes in his songs. East-coast rappers and West-coast rappers disliked each other and that ended up in gang fights and several shootings. 2pac was in many shootings where he got heavily wounded but got away each time except when he got shot and died in 1996. 2pac´s song "Changes" is about the hard life in the streets and the hoods. He refers to his own experiences and emotions in "Changes". The song also takes up important problems such as drugs, poverty, racism and gang battles. The message he really wants to show in this song is peace and equality. Tupac tells the people that we need to make a change together; "We gotta make a change(...)". "Changes" by 2pac became very famous because of the lyrics and it even became a number 1 hit in Norway and The Netherlands together with many top tens at other countries billboards.

https://artofrap.weebly.com/tupac-shakurs-changes-analysis.html Tupac has always stood out in the rap game because of his ability to be poetic while being a gangster rapper at the same time. "Changes" is one of Tupac Shakur's most famous songs. The rapper compromises his more dominant bad-boy gangster side to tackle African American social issues in this magnificently brilliant song. In the first couple lines of the song Tupac raps "I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black, my stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch," these lines illustrate how many black people in America live in poverty and are not given as many opportunities to do right so instead they divert to being criminals just to get by. This concept is repeated when he raps "Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare." When he raps "Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull the trigger, kill a n*gga, he's a hero," he's touching the controversial topic of how African Americans, more commonly African American males are targeted by the police and if a cop kills a African American male it's not a big deal. Tupac wants to inspire his people to join him and take a stand against these issues that are holding his people back. Tupac raps on how there's a war in the Middle East but instead of tackling poverty, the government is tackling drugs and because African Americans have a certain involvement with the use and trafficking of drugs, they can target them, the lines are "There's war on the streets & 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." What Tupac means by the last line is that he's never done a crime unless he was forced to because he needed to get by as stated before African Americans don't have the same opportunities as other races. Tupac also points fingers at his own race for a lot of the hate and anger they are surrounded by, he raps "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 'stead of two distant strangers." He knows that his own people are at blame because they have jealousy towards each other and they're more about individuality then unity. He's trying to inspire them to take a stand. Tupac repeats throughout the song that he sees no changes and truly want to see his people rise and make changes to benefit them. Mid way through the song he gives an inspirational speech over the beat, "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." When African Americans had no one trying to inspire them to rise and take a stand, Tupac tried to rise to the occasion and be an unelected leader for his people. Just like Martin Luther King Jr , Tupac tried to inspire his people and just like Martin Luther King Jr, Tupac was tragically gunned down.

East side / west side The East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry was a feud between artists and fans of the East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop scenes in the United States, especially from 1994 to 1997. Focal points of the feud were East Coast–based rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (and his New York–based label, Bad Boy Records), and West Coast–based rapper Tupac Shakur (and his Los Angeles–based label, Death Row Records), who were both murdered in drive-by shootings. Orlando Anderson (a.k.a. Baby Lane) is believed to be the person responsible for the murder of Shakur. The person responsible for the murder of Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.) remains unknown.

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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

As a rapper, Pac speaks for the whole community, which allows him to embody an ordinary black man living in a suburb. He wonders about the meaning of life, seeing there’s “no changes” for his bad situation. Unfortunately, these morning thoughts seem not to be far from real life for people in the same situation.

My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch

Tupac’s rapping about the reality that low income communities face in America. Crime isn’t an elective pastime—for some, it’s a means of survival. Therein lies the cyclical oppression of African- Americans. ‘Pac’s experienced poverty growing up, and wanted to represent life as it was for the many poor black people growing up in unjust, racist society. As he said: Every day, I’m standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, it’s like: Give me the food Or I’m breaking down the door. After a year you’re just like: I’m picking the lock. Coming through the door blasting.

Cops give a damn about a negro Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero

You might read this line and think he’s being melodramatic, but remember that the LAPD are some corrupt-ass thug motherfuckers A reference to the institutionalized racism in America and how if a police man shot a black man he’s more likely to be considered a hero instead of a criminal. ‘Pac was politicized in the era of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent LA Riots. This line is also very relevant years later today when you look at the repeated murders of blacks Americans by police officers. His lyrics ring true today.

That's just the way it is Things will never be the same That's just the way it is Aww yeah That's just the way it is Things will never be the same That's just the way it is Aww yeah

The chorus is a reworking of the chorus from “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range That’s just the way it is Some things’ll never change That’s just the way it is Ha, but don’t you believe them

Oddly, the new line “Things’ll never be the same” seems to suggest change has come. Hornsby himself was asked about this change in an interview with LA Weekly: Do you find it weird that the chorus on “Changes” is “Things will never be the same,” while the chorus on “The Way It Is” is the opposite, “Some things will never change”? Yeah, well, that’s right, but I thought it was a positive message, I didn’t think it was a negative message. Some things´ll never change This is arguably the deepest and most serious rap song ever written, and therefore deserves more respect than it gets. Yes, rap fans acknowledge it, but why not those who are higher up: Our law makers, governments, and even presidents and prime-ministers? This song was written and composed by a single man who had witnessed all of this and died in the persistent hope for change. This man was someone who had a dream, like Martin Luther King, but close-minded people may believe this is “just another rap song by a dead rapper”. The content in this song, to some disbelief, happens internationally. In South America, North America, Canada, Asia and Eastern Europe, this ghetto area exists, and with that comes close-mindedness which brings a country down. As long as i stay black, i gotta stay strapped “Stay strapped” means carrying a gun to protect oneself in case of assaults. Sadly, he thinks that it is an almost natural behavior due to his condition as a black man.

Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races He thinks that hate is misplaced. People’s hate is placed on other races, when people should be placing their hate on the evil things in the world instead of blind hate towards other races. This is a “disgrace to races” because hating on other humans based on race is disgraceful to anyone that does it.

The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks The US is reported to have one of the largest prison population in the world. Moreover, as the federal justice system and the police pays more attention to black people, they are way more numerous than any other ethnic group and it didn’t change over the recent years.

To him, it is another large injustice that nobody seems to care about and that is sadly still existing with the publication of the book “The New Jim Crow” published in 2010.

You gotta operate the easy way "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way Sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid, " Well hey, well that's the way it is

Let’s see… On the one hand, being real: hard work, low pay, implies agreeing with your mother On the other hand, selling crack: easy, big money, popular with the ladies Pac’s trying to bring to the dealer’s attention they are profiting out of the kids who are hooked on the drugs. And as we all know, drugs are destructive to people’s lives. Pac doesn’t agree with him, but he understands that life’s a game and we all need to make money for obvious reasons. I believe Pac’s bringing up a morality issue here and this is an example of how some people don’t care about others as long as they make money. But that’s the way it is and it must be changed. Criticizing the capitalist status quo which motivates people to do evil things (like selling drugs to kids) in order to turn a profit. The definition of status quo is “the way it is”

West Coast Rap Artists Highlights grid list        

N.W.A. Snoop Dogg. 2Pac. Too $hort. Warren G. Coolio. Cypress Hill. Ice Cube.

Any list of East Coast hip hop artists has to include the likes of Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Jay Z, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy, Gang Starr and Notorious B.I.G.

Hiphop rap culture

torsdag 29. november 2018 23:01

https://www.diggitmagazine.com/blog/hiphoprap-culture. 27/04/2017 What is hiphop/rap culture? Hip Hop is defined in the following way by the Urban Dictionary: ‘Hip Hop is a social-political movement created in the late 70's. Hip Hop is a culture to give people who grew up in the ghetto a voice, songs in hip hop are spoken from personal experience. Songs are usually mixed with other genres of music like rock and classical (piano), or with record players and scratchers. Break Dancing and Graffiti is also apart of hip hop as a way to express the people apart of the cultures selves, Freestyling is also a major part of hip hop along with rap battles.’ This definition gives us some very important characteristics of hip hop music that probably pop up to all of us when we think of hip hop; scratchers, break dancing, graffiti, freestyling and rap battles. However, the thing that stood out to me is that hiphop is regarded to be a ‘social political movement’, and therefore hiphop music is only a piece of the puzzle here. It appears that hiphop truly is more than simply the music that I listen to - If you listen to hiphop music, there’s a certain lifestyle and vision that belongs to it in order to really be a part of the hiphop community. However, I believe this lifestyle has changed. One of the reasons for this is that hiphop music, and especially rap music, has become huge in the past few years. Dutch rap is now extremely popular, mostly among teenagers in the age of 12 to 23 years. This group includes a great variety of people; black, white, male, female, rich, poor. Hiphop does no longer belong to the poor Afro-Americans. It is now popular worldwide, listened to by the poor as well as the richer population, and the hiphop artists earn huge amounts of money through their music. Therefore, the group of people that produces and listens to hiphop and rap music has changed, and so the hiphop/rap culture and lifestyle has become different as well. Hiphop music itself has obviously changed too in the past 40 years, and not all hiphop fans agree that this change has been a positive one. An example of this is the following comment that someone left on a hiphop forum, giving an answer to the question whether old-school or new-school hiphop was better: ‘Old school, faw shaw (= for sure). I think that old school rap is raw and real. Back when people didn’t have auto-tune, intricate mixing devices, and sonic control, people rapped for the sake of rapping, and emphasized expressing their emotions through words. Rappers were not too long ago down to Earth, and very contemplative in terms of writing their rhymes and looking to make their music as effective as possible, as they looked out to audiences for support. The thing that I dislike about new school rap, is that it’s very generic. I actually liked the fact that each OS rapper represented a certain part of a country or city. That’s what made the music so damn beautiful . Rappers would learn from each other, which made their style of rapping more eclectic than invariable. Old school, yo.’ (1) Out of this comment we can make up that the writer believes that today’s rappers are not ‘down to Earth’ anymore. The reason for him saying this could be that the rappers that are well-known earn big money with it nowadays, and in their music they choose to rap about money very often, too. Lyrics that focus on earning money and getting rich seems to speak to a lot of young people –

especially young males, as well as about drugs, sex and ‘bitches’. These topics are often addressed through hiphop music. Actually, the lyrics themselves tell us what it takes to live according to the hiphop lifestyle; get rich, smoke weed, drink alcohol, go to parties and have sex. However, I don’t believe a lot of hiphoppers actually live up to this quite extreme lifestyle. We all know youngsters like to go to clubs, drink and use drugs, but it’s quite obvious that it’s impossible to live like this every day (at least it is if you’re not an extremely rich rapper). Still, I think the lifestyle that is lived and rapped about by popular hiphop artists like Tory Lanez, Wiz Khalifa and Future sets an example to any hiphop fan. Hiphop clothing Fashion and clothing form an important aspect of the hiphop/rap culture. It makes hiphoppers recognizable to the outside world and to fellow hiphoppers. We’re probably all familiar with the old fashion-stereotype for hiphoppers: baggy skaterjeans, oversized t-shirts, caps (worn backwards), bandanas and golden necklaces. This is not completely accurate anymore, since in the past twenty years fashion has changed and so has the clothing style we understand as hiphop clothing. Nevertheless, it has still remained the same in some ways. Here I will show you a picture of hiphop clothing as we knew it in the 90’s, and followed by that some pictures of rappers nowadays:

Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or Biggie,[1]was an American rapper. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.[2] Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His debut album Ready to Die (1994) made him a central figure in East Coast hip hop, and increased New York City's visibility in the genre at a time when West Coast hip hop dominated the mainstream.[3] The following year, Wallace led Junior M.A.F.I.A. to chart success, a protégé group composed of his childhood friends. In 1996, while recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the growing East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud. Wallace was murdered by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997. His doubledisc album, Life After Death, released sixteen days later, rose to number one on the U.S. album charts. In 2000, it became one of the few hip-hop albums to be certified Diamond.[4] Wallace was noted for his "loose, easy flow",[5] dark semi-autobiographical lyrics, and storytelling, which focused on violence and hardship. Three more albums have been released since his death, and he has certified sales of over 17 million records in the United States,[6] including 13.4 million albums.[7]

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