Listen to the OG version of “Dear Mama” below. when Tupac comes in the studio very upset and proceeds to explain to us that we had to take out Yo-Yo’s part because a person by the name of Pat Charbonet would not give us the clearance to use that part in the song, so we had no choice but to take it out and that’s where even the Richard Pryor excerpt, which you will hear, is completely off the released version of the song.” His father left the family when Tupac was five, after which his mother, Afeni Shakur, worked hard as a single parent to raise him and his half-sister in the face of many difficulties, including drug addiction and poverty. “The day after we had finished up on everything we were in Echo Sound in L.A. Cover for Tupac's single of 'Dear Mama.' Tupac Shakur was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1971. An excerpt from Richard Pryor was also cut from the final record. READ: The Black Panther Party Releases Statement On Afeni Shakur’s PassingĪccording to Assassin, Yo-Yo was replaced after Pac failed to get her sample cleared. 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) - Dear Mama Part 2 (Letra e msica para ouvir) - Tupac / Death Row / Thats where. The song is a tribute to his mother, Afeni Shakur. The sample was ‘Wouldn’t be a damn thang without a woman,’ which was taken from the original song from Ice Cube’s ‘This Is A Man’s World,’ with the scratching done, of course, by yours truly DJ King Assassin.” 'Dear Mama' is a song by American hip hop recording artist 2Pac, released on Februas the lead single from his third studio album, Me Against the World (1995).
Signing with Death Row Records in late 1995, 2Pac released the double-album All Eyez on Me in the spring of 1996, and the record, as well as its hit single 'California Love,' confirmed his superstar status.
“Originally, the hook was a sample of a song from the legendary rapper and friend of both of ours named Yo-Yo, from Ice Cube’s Lench Mob,” Assassin explained. Yet, as the single 'Dear Mama' illustrated, he was capable of sensitivity as well as violence.
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