Tupac's Video Mother Recalls 'Dear Mama' Video Shoot
. (Radio.com) Tupac Shakur's third album Me Against The World was released 20 years ago, while he was serving a prison sentence. The album debuted at No. 1 and spawned several smash singles, most notably its platinum-rated first single, 'Dear Mama," an emotional ode to his mother Afeni Shakur. Accompanying the song was a video that was filmed while Tupac was in prison. In it, his mother looks through photo albums and flashes back to their past relationship. Model and magazine editor Tracii McGregor played Afeni in the video; WatchLOUD asked her to share memories of Tupac and describe what it was like playing his mother. "For this role I looked like Afeni, I looked close enough," she explained. "So they hired me for the role. [Afeni] came over and said hi and she was just marveling at how much I looked like her, couldn't believe the casting. We got to watch the parts where she was looking through the photos and it just made it more real and there was more pressure to get it right and not make it contrived." MacGregor described an intense shoot. "The one thing I remember, and I still don't know to this day if they did this on purpose, but I didn't eat the whole day," she recalled. "They didn't feed me! And I don't know if they did that to get me in character but it was an intense day. One minute I'm going to a graveyard with my kids and the next minute I'm partying and smoking." Read more here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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