Song · 2Pac
“Changes” by 2Pac featuring Talent
Released 1998 Featuring Talent
“Changes” by 2Pac featuring Talent appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2021 and 2023. It was first released in 1998. Its best result is #5 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,328 indie & aaa song of all time and #249 of the '90s.
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2Pac recorded "Changes" in 1992, but it stayed in the vault until it was remixed and issued as a single from his Greatest Hits collection on October 13, 1998. It rides a sample of Bruce Hornsby and the Range's 1986 song "The Way It Is", and Hornsby shares the writing credit with 2Pac and Big D The Impossible. The song digs into race relations and class, weighs them against wider global conflicts and takes stock of how hard ghetto life can be; Talent, an R&B trio from Kansas City, sings the chorus.
It was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards, the only posthumous song nominated in that category, and it is widely counted among his greatest songs and the greatest rap songs of all. In 2017 Consequence ranked it second among the 20 greatest Tupac Shakur songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2023 | 188 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2023 | 490 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
Also listed as: Changes feat. Talent.
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