Guest Blogger: Giorgio 1

Tupac Shakur was born in New York City in 1971known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Most of Tupac's songs are about growing up with violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, other social problems and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. 2pac was shot and killed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1996. "Changes" is one of Tupac’s most famous songs. He 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." Tupac repeats throughout the song that he sees no changes and truly want to see his people rise and make changes to benefit them. Half 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. For me that’s an important example of how hard was life for those guys in the late ‘90 . I personally like him for his words and ideas and I wanted to share with you the emotions that every time this amazing rapper give to me.