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Tupac's 'Dear Mama' endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with their mothers, street life and the pursuit of success

  • Written by A.D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
Tupac's 'Dear Mama' endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with their mothers, street life and the pursuit of successAfenia Shakur (left). mother of Tupac Shakur (right).Getty Images

In hip-hop music, it sometimes seems as if songs to and about mothers are common enough that audiences might take them for granted.

As someone who studies hip-hop and how it shapes and is shaped by society and culture, I don’t believe rap has ever abandoned the idea that a song...

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