Dear mama by Tupac Shakur

“Dear Mama”
Written by: Tupac Shakur
Written for: Afeni Shakur, who is, obviously, Tupac’s mama. A fascinating character in her own right, Afeni Shakur was born Alice Fay Williams, but changed her name while working with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. In fact, Tupac (named after the Peruvian revolutionary leader Tupac Amaru II) was born in 1971—just a month after Afeni was acquitted of bombing conspiracy charges. (She had spent most of her pregnancy behind bars.) As the song implies, she and Tupac didn’t always get along, particularly during his adolescence, when Afeni was addicted to crack. But, by the time of Tupac’s death in 1996, she was clean and the two had patched things up long enough for Tupac to write that she “was appreciated.” Today, Afeni runs a charity in her son’s name and is (somewhat controversially) responsible for Tupac’s multiple posthumous CD releases.

“亲爱的妈妈”
作者：Tupac Shakur
致：Afeni Shakur，很显然，她就是tupac的母亲。这是一个有趣的人物，她的本名是Alice Fay Williams，但在19世纪60年代与 Black Panthers 一起工作时改了名字。事实上，tupac是以秘鲁革命领袖 Tupac Amaru II 而命名的，他在1971年出生，仅在他的母亲被宣布无罪后的一个月（他的母亲因被指控为爆炸阴谋罪在牢狱中度过了大部分的怀孕期）。就像这首歌所暗示的一样，他和母亲并不是经常在一起，特别是在他的青少年时期，也是在这一段时期他沉溺于**中。当时到了1996 tupac 去世的那一年，母亲的改变让他们彻底修补了以前的裂缝，也让tupac写下了这样的句子“她是值得称赞的”。现在，afeni 管理着一个以她儿子命名的慈善机构并负责（虽然这有些争议）儿子的去世后的多张CD的发行。