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Short summary

Tupac Shakur performs in the music video "Changes" from the album "Greatest Hits" recorded for Interscope and Death Row Records. The music video created after Tupac's death features footage from previously released music video plus unreleased home video footage and still photographs.

The song re-uses lines from "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" which was recorded during the same year.

The song samples the 1986 hit "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and the Range.

The Tupac "Changes" instrumental was used by Insane Clown Posse in "Mom Song", a Mother's Day song.

Nas sampled the song for his song "Black President".

The song was the #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.

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 Chris Hafner-directed music video is a compilation of a number of previous music videos Tupac released in addition to home videos and never-before-seen pictures, similar to the format of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Dead Wrong", also released in 1999.

"Changes" was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2000 and remains the only posthumous song to be nominated in this category.

It was nominated at the MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing in a Video & Best Rap Video in 1999.

United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum certification with 600,000 sales.


Credited cast:
Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur - 2Pac (archive footage)
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