Shakur ends the verse with “there is no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand’’.
He sings his mother’s praise and appreciates everything his mother has done for him. For example, he says “For a woman it ain’t easy trying to raise a man.
At the end of this verse Shakur explains he understands the tough situation his mom was going through. He states, “I reminisce on the stress I caused, it was hell hugging on my mama from a jail cell”. However, despite his mother’s struggles, Shakur realizes that he also contributed to his mother’s stress over his own actions. Before graduating he was evicted from his household and was forced to move to Marin City, California to live with a family friend. Shakur’s mother could not keep a job to care for her family. Shakur admits “When things went wrong, we’d blame mama” and speaks about how his mother was a “crack fiend” and on welfare. Many listeners related to this issue then and even today as numerous young men continue to fall victim to crime and drugs in their communities. For example, he tells the audience how he was “suspended from school” and hung out with “big boys breaking all the rules”. He goes on to explain that his actions as a kid did not help the relationship between the two. Shakur says, “when I was young me and my mom had beef, seventeen years old, kicked out on the streets”. The first verse of the song focuses on how the relationship between Shakur and his mother was off to a rocky start. This is the thesis of the whole song, in which you see how Shakur places no one above his mother. For example, he sings, “sweet lady, place no one above ya, you are appreciated”. Tupac Shakur shows how the mystical bond between a mother and her child is hard to separate. Instead of using his “Gangster Rap” style of music, he chose a meaningful sound for his listeners to understand his situation with his mother. The song has a very sad piano tune mixed in with a rap beat. This style of music was rare during that time period.
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