Released as the lead single for Tupac‘s third studio album, Me Against the World (1995), “Dear Mama” went on to become one of the late rapper’s most instantly recognizable songs. With impassioned ...

Terrance Thomas, a New York City bus driver, is claiming that he has not been paid for his contributions to the classic 1995 song. In his lawsuit, he cites that a group led by Tony Pizarro, the lead ...

2Pac's 1995 hit "Dear Mama" is at the center of a new lawsuit. According to a report from Music Business Worldwide, DJ Master Tee, who's credited as a co-producer on the iconic song, has filed a ...

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 ...

Over the last two decades, documentaries about the late Tupac Shakur have become a cottage industry of sorts. The best of them — like Lauren Lazin’s Tupac: Resurrection, which largely draws from the ...

Tupac Shakur released the hit song “Dear Mama” back in 1995. And now, 28 years later, one of the song’s creators says he was never compensated for helping to create the track. Tupac Shakur’s legacy ...

Tupac Shakur may be on the path to winning a Grammy Award posthumously. The rapper, who died after being shot in Las Vegas in 1996, was one of three late artists who were nominated last week in best ...

LOS ANGELES -- He is one of the most influential rappers of all time, an artist whose music is still relevant today, 27 years after his death. She was an influential member of the Black Panther party, ...

This fall, a new docuseries about Tupac Shakur and his mother, Afeni Shakur, is coming to FX and Hulu. Dear Mama offers “an intimate wide-angle portrait of the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son ...