15 Of The Saddest Music Videos Ever Made

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2Pac – “Dear Mama”

If you ever want to see a thug’s softer side, ask him about his mother. He may have had “Thug Life” scrawled across his stomach and frequently walked around donning a bulletproof vest, but 2Pac decided to lift the veil and show the world his Achilles heel with the song “Dear Mama.” The video opens with his mother Afeni Shakur talking about how happy she was to give birth to a son. Images from the video included his mother watching actual footage of 2Pac while a lookalike was used for other scenes because the rapper was incarcerated at the time of the filming. The tribute to 2Pac’s mother is one of 25 songs that were added to the National Recording Registry in 2010. The Library of Congress has called “Dear Mama” “a moving and eloquent homage to both the murdered rapper’s own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference.”

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