I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto
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“I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto” | |||||
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Single by 2Pac from the album R U Still Down? (Remember Me) |
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B-side | When I Get Free | ||||
Released | 1997 | ||||
Format | 12" single | ||||
Recorded | 1994-1996 | ||||
Genre | Rap | ||||
Length | 4:40 | ||||
Label | Interscope Jive Records Amaru Entertainment |
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Writer(s) | T. Shakur, D.K. McDowell, Larry Troutman, Lawrence Goodman, Roger Troutman | ||||
2Pac singles chronology | |||||
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"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" the first posthumous single by 2Pac. It appears on his album R U Still Down? (Remember Me). It was also released as the B-side on the "Keep Ya Head Up" single.
There are two versions of the song on "R U Still Down? (Remember Me)" album. One is the regular remix version; the other is a "hip-hop remix" version which was recorded while he was on Death Row and intended for the album. They are both different from the original version that was featured on the Keep Ya Head Up single.
In "Changes", lyrics from I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto are featured in the first verse. 2Pac often wrote songs that remained unreleased when he was alive, and as such took liberties re-using lyrics.
The phrase I wonder if Heaven got a ghetto first appears in the 1992 song "Welcome to the Ghetto" by Spice 1.
[edit] Video
The video was filmed after Tupac's death. The camera is positioned is if it were shot from Shakur's perspective. The video begins as he is walking (after being shot) to a nunnery in fictional Rukahs, New Mexico. Reversing 'Rukahs' spells out 'Shakur'. In the video "Heaven Gotta Ghetto", the license plate of the car that he gets in with the older man reads "61671". Which is a reference to Tupac's birthday 6-16-71, not a reference to the number 7.In the video for "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" the town it takes place in is called Rukahs. The room he goes into with the girl is room number 7. The clock in the background at the end is at 4:03...the same time he officially died.
Some famous people can be seen around the video. During the bus scene Mother Teresa is seen getting on the bus, and on the bus is Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King Jr. in the suit, a Black Panther Party member, and Elvis Presley. In the bar, you can see Ray Charles on the piano, and Snoop Dogg greeting the girl that Tupac is bringing to the room.
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