Afeni Shakur appeared in the video, flipping through the pages of a photo album with images of a young Tupac. The music video for “Dear Mama” was directed by Calvin Caday while 2Pac was serving a prison sentence, so he had to use a Tupac double for certain moments in the video. The official remix also is produced by Nitty and features the collaboration of R&B singer Anthony Hamilton on the album Best of 2Pac 2007. In 1998, the song was included in the album Greatest Hits. It is considered by many to be the most emotional and most respected 2Pac’s song, and it is praised by many artists (Eminem mentions it as their favorite song), even by many artists who are not in the rap world. The single was certified platinum by the RIAA on July 13th, 1995. It also ranked highest on the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles chart for four weeks. The song topped Billboard’s Hot Rap Singles chart for five weeks, the R & B / Hip-Hop Songs for a week, and reached # 9 on the Hot 100. “Dear Mama” was nominated for a Grammy Award for best solo rap performance. The song is also considered by critics, fans and purists as one of the best rap songs of all time, and one of the best songs of 2Pac in particular, being chosen #4 on the list of rap’s top 100 songs from. The single was the most successful of all the releases of the album. The song was produced by Tony Pizarro and written by 2Pac in dedication to his mother Afeni Shakur. “Dear Mama” is the first single from the third album of 2Pac Me Against the World. The price for which it is sold is $ 75,000 and can be purchased through. The lyrics, occupied 3 sheets of paper and, according to reports, come from the Tupac’s recording studio, and they have been purchased from a collector from Poland. 3 historical sheets and thousands of dollars in auction The last one: the handwritten lyrics of his song “Dear Mama”. From the chain he wore when he was moored in 1994 to the Bible he had in jail, in recent months a number of unique articles of the singer have been sold. Coincidence or not, since 2pac Shakur mother’s death, a number of possessions of the singer have begun to auction that have purchased high prices at sites for collectors.