Changes (Tupac Shakur song)

"Changes"
Single by 2Pac
from the album Greatest Hits
Released	October 13, 1998 (1998-10-13)
Recorded	1992 1998 (remix)
Genre	Conscious hip hop political hip hop R&B
Length	4:43 4:30 (remix) 4:54 (remix) (with longer piano intro)
Label	Amaru Death Row Interscope Jive
Songwriter(s)	Tupac Shakur Deon Evans Bruce Hornsby[1]
Producer(s)	Big D The Impossible, Trackmasters (Remix)
2Pac singles chronology
"Do for Love" (1998) "Changes" (1998) "Unconditional Love" (1999)
Music video
"Changes" on YouTube

"Changes" (alternatively titled "That’s Just the Way It Is") is a song by American rapper 2Pac. It was recorded in 1992 before being remixed and released as a single from Shakur's Greatest Hits compilation on October 13, 1998. The song features Talent, an R&B trio from Kansas City consisting of Marlon “Castor Troy” Hatcher, Keith “Casino” Murrell and Ernest “Bishop” Dixon that was active from 1998 to 2005.^[2] The song makes references to the many wars in the Middle East, the war on drugs, the treatment of black people by the police, racism, the reconciliation between the black and white people in America, the perpetuation of poverty and its accompanying vicious-cycle value system in urban African American culture, and the difficulties of life in the ghetto.

"Changes" samples Bruce Hornsby and the Range's 1986 song "The Way It Is". The chorus was sung by Talent. "Changes" received a nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards, making it the only posthumous song to be nominated in this category. The song is widely regarded as one of the greatest rap songs of all time, as well as one of Shakur's greatest songs. In 2017, Consequence ranked the song number two on their list of the 20 greatest Tupac Shakur songs, and in 2020, Far Out ranked the song number six on their list of the 10 greatest Tupac Shakur songs.