Tupac - Changes

[MOBNigga06]

I was listening to the OG version of Changes yesterday and a thought came to me:

If Tupac were still alive, this song would probably never have seen the light of day.

The biggest hit of 1998, and one of the biggest songs of Pac's career, would remain entirely unknown to the masses. 

Why do I say this? Well, the song's outro refers to "92," and if Pac hadn't reworked it within the four years since it was recorded, it was obviously never going to come out.The non-release of Changes is rendered all the more likely by Pac's reuse of its last verse on I Wonda If Heaven's Got a Ghetto.

Crazy to think this song would be virtually unknown if the G.O.A.T. were still alive.

Amaru fucked up a lot of things, but they scored a massive and kinda surprising success with Changes.

[DeeezNuuuts83]

Not necessarily.  Remember that at that time, album releases containing only stuff like remixes and B-sides weren't uncommon.  So it could've seen the light of day... not that Pac needed to, since he was recording so much stuff at that rate.

[Blasphemy]

I was listening to the OG version of Changes yesterday and a thought came to me:

If Tupac were still alive, this song would probably never have seen the light of day.

The biggest hit of 1998, and one of the biggest songs of Pac's career, would remain entirely unknown to the masses. 

Why do I say this? Well, the song's outro refers to "92," and if Pac hadn't reworked it within the four years since it was recorded, it was obviously never going to come out.The non-release of Changes is rendered all the more likely by Pac's reuse of its last verse on I Wonda If Heaven's Got a Ghetto.

Crazy to think this song would be virtually unknown if the G.O.A.T. were still alive.

Amaru fucked up a lot of things, but they scored a massive and kinda surprising success with Changes.

Yeah that could be said for essentially ALL the the releases Including the Makaveli album, Given the amount that has leaked/released, a lot of these tracks would of never seen the light of day, hell Just imagine all the cuts from other artist from that Era no longer signed to those old defunct labels just laying around.

[Sccit]

SOMETHING THE CASUAL FAN STILL DOESNT GET, ONLY ABOUT 20% OF RECORDED MATERIAL GETS RELEASED TO BEGIN WITH

[Blasphemy]

SOMETHING THE CASUAL FAN STILL DOESNT GET, ONLY ABOUT 20% OF RECORDED MATERIAL GETS RELEASED TO BEGIN WITH

Lot of albums have completely cut tracks, Alternate tracks, Alternate takes, Alternate cuts, Alternate lyrics, Alternate vocals, versions with uncleared samples and that's IF the album is even getting released and that's not including how Rappers get down, just hanging out in the studio recording track after track, concept after concept, tweaking, and collaborating, redoing under unclearable samples.


Honestly My only question is for albums that got released with uncleared samples they had to stop sell and release a alternate version. I've always wonder did they even try to get the clearance after the release. like Sublime had to rerelease they first album "40oz to Freedom" due to a song contain a illegally sampled baseline, and it's never been put back in any future version. Hell I always wonder why OG "Next Episode" never got cleared, and they just flat out removed any mention of it from future releases.

[Hack Wilson - real]

SOMETHING THE CASUAL FAN STILL DOESNT GET, ONLY ABOUT 20% OF RECORDED MATERIAL GETS RELEASED TO BEGIN WITH

Not everyone

Necro said he has 0 unreleased songs from any album....does have thousands of unreleased beats but if he raps it it drops.

[Sccit]

SOMETHING THE CASUAL FAN STILL DOESNT GET, ONLY ABOUT 20% OF RECORDED MATERIAL GETS RELEASED TO BEGIN WITH

Not everyone

Necro said he has 0 unreleased songs from any album....does have thousands of unreleased beats but if he raps it it drops.

and thats a problem wit necro....quality control. a lot of his shit sounds raw and freestyles tho, not really polished, so it kinda falls in line wit his steez.

[V2DHeart]

Look at it as preparing food. You chop, peel and dice. There is a lot of excess that gets thrown into the bin