
She is asked her thoughts about Dear Mama Seems like a suitable time to listen to this so if you have 2 minutes go listen. when Tupac comes in the studio very upset and proceeds to explain to us that we had to take out Yo-Yo’s part because a person by the name of Pat Charbonet would not give us the clearance to use that part in the song, so we had no choice but to take it out and that’s where even the Richard Pryor excerpt, which you will hear, is completely off the released version of the song. in part, products of the admiration and love he had for his mother. The day after we had finished up on everything we were in Echo Sound in L.A. The sample was ‘Wouldn’t be a damn thang without a woman,’ which was taken from the original song from Ice Cube’s ‘This Is A Man’s World,’ with the scratching done, of course, by yours truly DJ King Assassin. “Originally, the hook was a sample of a song from the legendary rapper and friend of both of ours named Yo-Yo, from Ice Cube’s Lench Mob. 2Pac Dear Mama 2Pac Artist Top 10 Hits: 1 of 2 4 Weeks in Top 10 Peak at 9 On 56,560,408 views - Year 1995 2 2Pac.

“The original version of ‘Dear Mama’ was far different than the version that was released, as far as the hook was constructed,” DJ King Assassin explained in a note with the track via Ambrosia for Heads.


The original version of “Dear Mama” includes vocals from Yo-Yo and some other samples unknown previously. Now a version of the song that is said to predate the popular recording has surfaced courtesy of Tupac’s early collaborator DJ King Assassin.
