Album : Greatest Hits ('98)
원래가 힙합이라는 장르를 많이 듣는 편도 아니었고,
게다가 내가 접하기엔 그가 일찍 세상을 등진 탓인지
90년대 초반 투팍의 생존당시의 음반을 들어본 적도 없었다.
오히려 투팍을 듣게 된 계기는 96년에 투팍이 총맞고
사망한 후에 발매된 R U Still Down ('97)이라는
앨범이었다. (고1떄였나;)
후에 베스트앨범을 통해
2pac의 걸작이라 불리는 곡들을 접하려고 시도하였지만,
이상하게 범작이라 평가받는 사후발매된 앨범의
곡들을 더 즐겨듣게 되는 이유는 나도 알 수 없다.;;
- 가사에는 관심이 없기 때문이겠지.(아마;;OTL)
이 곡역시 미발표곡이었다가 98년의 베스트앨범에서
싱글컷으로 발표된 것.
(come on, come on)
I see no changes,
wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living, or should I blast myself
I'm tired of being poor, and even worse I'm back
my stomach hurts, so I'm looking for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull a trigger, kill a nigger, he's a hero
Givin back to the kids, who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
first ship them dope, let them deal to brothers
give them guns,
step back and watch them kill each other
It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said
2 shots in the dark, now Huey's dead
I got love for my brothers
but we can never go nowhere
unless we share woth each other
we gotta start makin changes
learn to see me as a brother
instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed be
how can you tell them take brother if he's close to me
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things change, and that's the way it is
come on, come on
that's just the way it is
things will never be the same
that's just the way it is, ahh yeahX2
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate, makes disgrace the racist
we under, I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
take the evil out the people, they'll be actin right
cuz both black and white are smokin crack tonight
and the only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
and I know it seems Heaven since
we aint ready, to see a black president
it aint a secret of a sealed up fact
penetentiarys packed, and it's filled with blacks
but some things will never change
tried to show another way,
but ya stayin in the dope game
now tell me what's a mother to do?
being real don't appeal to the brother in you
- yeah - You gotto operate the easy way
- I made a G today - but you made it in a sleezy way
sellin crack th the kids - I gotta get paid -
well hey, well that's the way it is
[chorus]
talkng ..
we gotta make a change
it's time for us as a people
to start making some changes
let's change the way we eat
let's change the way live
let's change the way we treat each other
see our old way wasn't working
so it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive
and still I see no changes, can't a brother get a
little peace? there's war on the streets
and the war in the Middel East
instead of war on poverty
they got a war on drugs so the police cna bother me
and I aint never did a crime I aint have to do
but now I'm back from the locks givin back to you
don't let them jack you up back you up crack you up
and pimp smack you up
you gotta learn to hold your own
they get jealous when see you with your moblie phone
but tell the cops the can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
that's the sound of my tool you say it aint cool
but mama didn't raise no fool
and as long as I stay black
I gotta stay strapped
and I never get to lay back
cuz I always gotta worry about the payback
some punk that I ruffed up way back
comin back after all these years
rat-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is
[chorus]
some thing will never change
