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"Dear Mama" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his third studio album, Me Against the World (1995). It was released on February 21, 1995, as the lead single from the album. It was released on February 21, 1995, as the lead single from the album.
"Dear Mama" is a tear-jerking tribute to his mother, "Lord Knows" discloses desperate considerations of suicide, and "So Many Tears" ponders a merciless world that wrecks young lives. 2Pac even includes a sorrowful "shout-out" to Robert Sandifer, the Chicago youth whose brief life ended in a brutal shooting. After earlier releases that lacked ...
In 2Pac's song "Dear Mama", a single from the album from which "Runnin '" was cut, he alludes to his vocals leading up to his verse in "Runnin '" ("runnin' from the police, that's right"). The verse in "Dear Mama" reads, "And runnin' from the police, that's right / Mama catch me, put a whoopin' to my backside".
The post What Tupac, ‘Dear Mama’ can teach us about gifted students and trauma-informed teaching appeared first on TheGrio. OPINON: Folks failed to make the connection that as brilliant as ...
"Toss It Up" (A new mix with some altered lyrics featuring uncredited vocals by K-Ci & JoJo, Danny Boy, Aaron Hall) The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996) 4:42: 10. "Dear Mama" Me Against the World (1995) 4:40: 11. "All About U" (featuring Nate Dogg, Top Dogg, Dru Down and uncredited vocals by Hussein Fatal and Yaki Kadafi)
Dear Mama spends five approximately hourlong episodes exploring the parallels between the lives of Tupac and Afeni, but Hughes offers to summarize them. “Right down to their experiences,” he says.
Similar to the music video for "Dear Mama", many shots use a lookalike of 2Pac, mixed with previously released footage of the artist. Tupac himself was serving his four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. He released this song, and the associated album, while being sentenced. While in prison his album quickly climbed the charts.
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