"Dear Mama" is inducted into the Library of Congress

This year Tupac Shakur's "Dear Mama" will be among the 25 recordings that will be inducted into the Library of Congress' Recording Registry, which preserves "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" works.

The Library of Congress called Tupac's "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." "Dear Mama" marks only the third hip-hop recording to gain entry into the Library of Congress following Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet. 1995's "Dear Mama" also becomes the Recording Registry's most recent entrant, coming four years after Nirvana's Nevermind, which was previously the "youngest" Library of Congress inductee. (via Rolling Stone)