In September 1996, Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas. Shakur has sold 75 million records worldwide and has been stated as one of the most acclaimed and best-selling artists in the world by Rolling Stone magazine. Shakur’s song was inducted along with pieces from musicians Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightning,” Patti Smith’s “Horses” and the original 1959 cast recording of “Gypsy” and battle sounds from World War II. “Dear Mama” was written to honor his mother, former Black Panther Afeni Shakur, who had been acquitted on more than 150 charges of conspiracy against the country, shortly before Shakur served a brief prison sentence. His poetic scripts have been added to Atlanta University Center’s Robert Woodruff Library. Praised outside of the rap community, Shakur’s song “Changes” was selected among one of the Vatican’s “12 Favorite Songs” last December. As 2Pac, he documented his struggle within the lyrics of his music. And in the name of love, listen to some Tupac Shakur. He entered into the entertainment industry as a backup dancer for the group Digital Underground. Get the lyrics, meaning and technique for the song Dear Mama. “‘Cause through the drama I can always depend on my mama / And when it seems that I’m hopeless/ You say the words that can get me back in focus” “I gotta thank the Lord that you made me/ There are no words that can express how I feel/ You never kept a secret, always stayed real/ And I appreciate how you raised me.Raised in poverty, Shakur was raised by a mother who suffered from drug addiction. This was owed to his mother, who was the only real inspiration he had in his life. It was his “Mama” that kept him on the straight and narrow despite her various problems. Sweet lady And dear mama Place no one above ya, sweet lady You are appreciated Dont ya know we love ya Pour out some liquor and I reminisce, cause through the drama I can always depend on my mama And when it seems that Im hopeless You say the words that can get me back in focus When I was sick as a little kid To keep me happy theres no. Regardless, the respect he held for his mother was huge. The song is about Shakur forgiving his mother for abandoning him and thanking her for raising him the appropriate way she could. There is only one album version of this song called Me Against the World. Rapping “ When I was young, me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old, kicked out on the streets” Pac was forced to move home to California, and this was when he began to live the street life. The song Dear Mama is a song written by Tupac Shakur at the age of 25 from East Harlem, New York (Tupac Shakur). When Tupac started out rapping, he lived a relatively stable lifestyle in comparison to many at the time, and he even got the chance to study at Baltimore school of Arts – on the other hand, his mother was struggling for work and was linked to the infamous black panther political party. He was never one to be shy to rap about his own problems and frailties and this was a perfect example. Afeni Shakur was key to the Tupac we all knew and loved at the time, and he made sure that everyone knew about it. This was all about his roots and exactly where he came from. 1 Tupac track is the incredible ‘Dear Mama’, a track that every single person on the planet can relate to through their admiration of their mother. This was the track that opened the gates to hundreds of disses between the two coasts and in turn created an ill-fated war that Hip Hop would never forget. He not only dissed Biggie, and Puff but his whole entourage too. Tupac announced his allegiance to the West coast, and talks about death row killing the East’s most prominent label bad boy entertainment he rapped “ West Side, Bad Boy killers“. He now felt he trusted a single person, not even his own crew the ‘Outlawz’. It was started off with a royal “ fuck yo’” to Biggie and all his family.
Most of you hip hop fans will know Pac accused him and Puffy (Puff daddy) of setting him up to be shot at a studio in 1994. Pac was mad and felt betrayed by a friend.
The feud between the former ‘homies’ had begun. Pac fired heavy shots and his ex-best friend, the one and only Notorious B.I.G. The war began with a bang and one of the biggest diss tracks of them all. This was the moment it officially hit the fan between the east, and west coast.