Dear Mama By Tupac Analysis

Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in the 20th century. He was born on June

The poet was born June 16, 2pac passed away September 13 he grew up in New York. It was published October 28, 1999. Tupac wanted to name his first child star He uses phrases like “bloodclot crying.” This poem don’t any stanza he also Tupac was born as Lesane Parish Crooks.

The song implements on the hardships a mother will face for the growth of their son because love is what keeps them going. The love a mother will have for her son means that even though they don’t have a father figure around to show them how to grow up, they will always have their mothers to teach them the way of life through a woman’s perspective. In the song, “Dear Mama”, Tupac mentions, “For a woman it ain’t easy trying to raise a man, you always was committed” and he is able to foreshadow the hardships his mother had to face while Tupac was growing up without a father. At the age of seventeen Tupac, was always caught up in drama with his mom. Since Tupac was young he got involved into the hustle and was left in the streets where he basically had to risk he life every day. He never realized that being pushed into the streets would make him think about his mother or even worry about her. Tupac reflects upon the behavior he had during the time and how much stress he would add on his mother’s shoulders, but little did he know that his mother would be there for him regardless. Tupac Shakur’s mom was committed to his son and no matter the troubles he caused and faced she would be there for him to either help him out or at least hear him when he was not feeling good. She was a single mother on welfare, but she always tried

Throughout the song, Tupac gives an inside look on the social problems affecting African-Americans and suggests possible solutions. In the first stanza of the song, Tupac first talks about how certain social issues are linked together; he makes a correlation between his skin color and being poor. Tupac says “I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black.” Then he explains how poverty causes crime by saying “My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch.” And finally, he demonstrates the relationship between police brutality and race by saying “Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero.”

To help understand Tupac’s poem, you must grasp yourself around the image of a very young boy, who has no father, grew up in the rougher parts of New York, and was barely supported by his mother.

Tupac Shakur was one of the most influential artist of our last decade. He not only made several albums, but was also a large role in many films and a poet. Millions of people bought and still buy his albums. He was a pioneer to gangster rap, and he sang about things that mattered. Although, he was a role model and was admired by many, he also had a lot of enemies, and in the end, his enemies over powered his fans by taking his life. Some say that he may still be alive, but no one really knows.

Tupac was born to parents of The Black Panther Party, a revolutionary party standing for the rights of African Americans. Having being born into a family of poverty and black activists, Tupac was well aware of the importance of the issues that he highlights in this song as he himself had experienced them first hand.

Social Justice is a huge topic in our society. Its touches on important subjects such as labor laws, environmental rights (racism), poverty, etc. These topics are things that many people have views on whether they agree or disagree. Many artist took note of this and made songs about this and voiced what they thought was right or how they saw the act.

In the 2015 kendrick Lamar song “u”. Kendrick describes the feelings that constantly haunt his heart and the guilt he carries everyday. Reflecting on his darkest moments, lingering pain and the details of his depression. The song “u” by kendrick uses literary tools like Soliloquy and Conflict to show how built up guilt leads to his prolonged depression.

Central theme: Tupac was a very misunderstood individual, and a lot can be learned from his life.

This song had a large impact on women in the year of 1993. It talked about the wrongdoings that African American men have done towards women and how we need to stand up and protect our women. This song was very effective, and led to the decrease of violent relationships in black communities. Because of Tupac, people got to see and realize how he felt on the subject of women. Tupac felt that black communities needed to come together to end this in their own community.

Social inequality issues can be revealed by different kinds of artworks such as literature and songs. One of the most famous hip hop artists Tupac Amaru Shakur (Stage Name 2Pac), who experienced shooting and incarceration, produced most of his songs which revolved around controversial issues such as crime, drug and racial discrimination in the inner cities in America society in the 1990s. The rap song “Changes” that was released in 1988, two years after Tupac’s death, reflected the social discrimination towards African American under the aspects of racial prejudice and crimes. The lyric of the song demonstrated the concept of Underclass stereotype towards African Americans by Abelmann and Lie, and Wilson realistically, which provided a more comprehensive explanation for understanding Pager’s argument of the negative influence of the interaction of race and crime towards black people.

Barack Obama said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” “Change” by Tupac Shakur talks about change is hard because people stereotype. Although, change is a difficult thing to do, one can change lifestyle if they wanted it to.

Edward G. Armstrong (2001) has argued that rap is dependent on lyrical content and that rappers avoid using metaphors and word play, instead choosing to transmit their message directly and foregoing any subtleties that may be implied through the lyrics (p. 99). Armstrong (2001) contends that through analysis of rap lyrics, the narrator provides the listener with a first-person perspective of modern urban life (p. 99). Whereas many rappers have exploited the hard and violent lifestyle to which they have been continuously exposed to in their music, often through the celebration of misogyny and violence, Shakur's "Dear Mama" (1995) not only pays tribute to his mother, but also to the countless mothers who have made sacrifices for their children. As Armstrong argues rap music is mostly

Throughout the Rock and Roll: Catalyst For Social Change course, students have learned about many different artists, genres, and their songs in Western musical history. More importantly, we’ve learned about how those artists and songs have addressed far-reaching social issues. For instance, Charley Patton's "Tom Rushen Blues" addressed racism, and Prince’s songs provoked controversy concerning censorship and freedom of speech, as discussed in the previous weeks. However, there are many more songs that could be used as teachers of this wide array of social issues. Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” and Jennifer Lopez’s “Ain’t Your Mama” are two songs that Western Music History students could benefit from learning about.