Tupac Changes (Remake) by JusJosh

Hey. I'm a queer artist from the Chi, recently relocated to Cali. This is my remake of Tupac's Changes, Not OK. It's a powerful song that I put my own heart into. If you likes what your hear be sure to like, subscribe, check out my other songs, and spread the word! LGBT artists like myself are working hard to place the our voices and the voices of our communities into the ears of wider audiences. Please follow me on Twitter at "JusJosh90" and join my Facebook fan page "JusJosh Queer-Hop Fan Page". Remember, change need not whisper. Scream!
Lyrics below:

Verse 1:
It's like, life's too hard to be human.
The hue you've abused got my heart beating blueprints.
I'll never be a man of elegance.
This is the most innocent I have ever been.
A queer, broken blessing
Living in a black house I'll be living in
With the steel locks
Till the lords eviction ends up in my mailbox.
Some days I pretend to just black out
Like I don't hear them.
Really I'm listening
To every petition
To blast glocks down my whole block.
That maybe they can drive-bye
And make the drive in my heart stop
But I can't stop now.
You can't drown my sound out with a few rounds.
Permanence, can't white me out.
Born from the dirt so you ain't gotta wipe me down.
They say things won't change. "That's just the way it is."
I say we can't afford to be giving in.
Dreams differed, we must affirm them.
Langston's words, we must convert them. Go!

Chorus:
But if you say it is
To just be the way it is
Things will never change.
It's not OK,
The pain we face,
The dreams we turn away.
It's not OK.

Verse 2:
I held my lover's hand
Then he pulled away.
In our circumstance
It's common to be afraid.
Though it hurt, my conscious
Knew what was wrong.
Couldn't blame him cuz everyday a life is stoned
For affection shown
In the eyes of cruel hands
With crueler intentions.
Did I mention
It's hard to make love persistent
When out love's made forbidden
But I won't fold into this system, no.
We're far to beautiful
To hide behind these binding doors.
Break through these doors.
We're what the world's been waiting for.

Chorus:
But if you say it is
To just be the way it is
Things will never change.
It's not OK,
The pain we face,
The dreams we turn away.
It's not OK.

Verse 3:
Do this one thing.
Just breathe in
And remember they're a lot not breathing.
They wanna treat us like our heart's aren't beating.
Bump that. This fat bitch believes in
Combat, even when I'm worn out wheezing.
Large but I'm starving.
Charged but I'm leaking.
I'm driving on E but believe I'm speeding.
If we don't stand up
They'll stay seated.
A while back I had a cop push fag to my forehead
But this time I got the bullet in my own hand.
I'll die fore I fade in the life that you programmed.
Got heart. Got gods under my garments.
Grenade kind of faith
When I step into the gauntlet.
This garbage you market as Gandhi
Is not peace. Peace out.
Black out of a dark sleep.
Black sheep. We will not cease.
Sorry.
Brown and you can't hold me down.
Queer and you can't stop my fierce.
I'm still here. Hear me.
I won't stand still
And change don't just come.
We gotta make that.
Freedom, gotta take that.
Pains not made from the earth.
We created that.
Jails cells are man made
So I fight fire with fire,
Build bars to their bars,
Build an empire
Built for blackness
And every queer forced in the place
Where the only way is to make a change.
Keep fighting. We're still enslaved.
Refuse to be silent or fade away.

Chorus:
But if you say it is
To just be the way it is
Things will never change.
It's not OK,
The pain we face,
The dreams we turn away.
It's not OK.
Definition of Queer-Hop for those who want to know what Queer-Hop means TO ME:
Queer is to stand out in an awkward or unusual way or "Unusually different", often meant in a bad way like "weird". It was/is a term that a lot of people use(d) to isolate and target people in the LGBT community as abnormal. Many like myself have taken the work back and embraced being different or "unusual" rather than try to fit into socialized norms. Is is to say that we are NOT all the same and that's OK. IN fact, it's more than OK. It's beautiful. Diversity is beautiful. Being isolated as a gay black and bipolar man I've come to embrace the term queer rather than fear it. Queer-Hop is a subculture and movement within the Hip-Hop movement.

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[imViiZ]

tupac ;(

[JusJosh90]

@imViiZ I know. I miss his presence in hip-hop. This is one of my favorite songs of his.

[JewelledEden]

i love this! <3

[JusJosh90]

@JewelledEden Awww thank you:)

[alicehalrrules]

wow i saw a commet u posted and linked up to ur channel i have been in the closet for 7 years but with the help of my local lgbt gruop i am slowly walking out of my closet

[JusJosh90]

@alicehalrrules Thank you:) and that's amazing. It's really important to have support. There are so many steps in coming out and even till this day I'm still having to come out over and over again with family, new work spaces, new friends, music, etc. It's hard but it's a beautiful thing. We need more lgbt support groups and lgbt friendly environments.

[nayr3636]

My gay friend went up to me and said, "Hey listen to this gay rapper" and I didn't pay no mind to it cause at first i didn't think they would even exist. After a long time of my friend saying i should listen to it, i finally do, and i must say, you did 2pac justice to this song. Would love to see more of your music that you do in the future... Subbed! :)

[rastafletterpasta]

@JusJosh90 No problem! +Sub!

[JusJosh90]

@rastafletterpasta Awww thank you:) I'm working hard to make it happen. Thanks for being supportive.

[rastafletterpasta]

Really talented ^^ Definetly start in the music career if you haven't already :)

[frozenmoon999]

@JusJosh90 :D