| Dear Mama
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| You are appreciated
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| Verse One: 2Pac
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| When I was young me and my mama had beef
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| Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
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| Though back at the time, I never thought I’d see her face
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| Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place
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| Suspended from school; |
| and scared to go home, I was a fool
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| with the big boys, breakin all the rules
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| I shed tears with my baby sister
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| Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
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| And even though we had different daddy’s, the same drama
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| When things went wrong we’d blame mama
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| I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
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| Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
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| And who’d think in elementary?
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| Heeey! |
| I see the penitentiary, one day
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| And runnin from the police, that’s right
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| Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
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| And even as a crack fiend, mama
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| You always was a black queen, mama
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| I finally understand
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| for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man
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| You always was committed
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| A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it There’s no way I can pay you back
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| But the plan is to show you that I understand
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| You are appreciated
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| Chorus: Reggie Green &Sweet Franklin w/ 2Pac *
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| Lady…
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| Don’t cha know we love ya? |
| Sweet lady
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| Dear mama
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| Place no one above ya, sweet lady
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| You are appreciated
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| Don’t cha know we love ya?
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| Verse Two: 2Pac
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| Now ain’t nobody tell us it was fair
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| No love from my daddy cause the coward wasn’t there
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| He passed away and I didn’t cry, cause my anger
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| wouldn’t let me feel for a stranger
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| They say I’m wrong and I’m heartless, but all along
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| I was lookin for a father he was gone
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| I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs
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| They showed a young brother love |