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Songwriters have found inspiration in all sorts of places, from transvestites to team tennis titans. Maggie Koerth-Baker has read between the liner notes to find out for whom 8 famous songs were written.
1. “Philadelphia Freedom”
Written by: Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Written for: Billie Jean King, as a thank-you for a tracksuit she gave Elton. And what a tracksuit it must have been! The 1975 song remains one of the most popular disco hits ever, leaving thousands of Hustle enthusiasts wondering just what Billie Jean King had to do with Philadelphia, anyway.
Turns out, the song was a reference to King’s pro tennis team, The Philadelphia Freedoms. Prior to 1968, tennis players were all considered “amateurs” and weren’t eligible to receive prize money. So, if you didn’t have the wealth to support yourself, you couldn’t play. Billie Jean King fought against those constraints, ultimately founding Professional World Team Tennis in 1974 and turning tennis into a paid league sport.
2. “Lola”
Written by: The Kinks’ Ray Davies
Written for: A transvestite. But the question is, which one? According to Rolling Stone, “Lola” was inspired by Candy Darling, a member of Andy Warhol’s entourage, whom Ray Davies briefly (and cluelessly) dated. If that’s the case, then “Lola” is just another notch on Darling’s song belt—she’s also referred to in Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” (”Candy came from out on the Island/ In the backroom she was everybody’s darlin’.”)
But, in the Kinks’ official biography, Davies tells a different story. He says “Lola” was written after the band’s manager spent a very drunken night dancing with a woman whose five o’clock shadow was apparently obvious to everyone but him.
3. “867-5309/Jenny”
Written by: Jim Keller (of Tommy Tutone) and Alex Call
Written for: Unknown, as the songwriters apparently make up a different story about its inspiration every time they’re asked. While the woman continues to remain a mystery, however, the phone number is all too real. In fact, it’s been wreaking havoc ever since 1982the passage of time hasn’t quelled of the number of crank calls. In 1999, Brown University freshman roommates Nina Clemente and Jahanaz Mirza found that out the hard way, when the school adopted an 867 exchange number for its on-campus phone system. Immediately, the girls’ innocuous Room No. 5309 became a magnet for every drunk college kid with a 1980s fetish.
Other unfortunate phone customers have fought back with creative and profitable solutions, like the holder of 212-867-5309, who put his phone number up for auction on eBay in 2004. Bids approached $100,000 before eBay pulled the item at the request of Verizon, the number’s actual owner.
4. “Für Elise”
Written by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Written for: Some girl probably not named Elise. In fact, as far as most historians can tell, Beethoven didn’t even know an Elise. Instead, the song was originally titled “Bagatelle in A minor” based on some handwritten notation a Beethoven researcher claimed to have seen on a now-lost copy of the sheet music.
Further complicating things, Beethoven had hideous handwriting—to the point that some scholars speculate the song was actually written “for Therese,” as in Therese Malfatti, one of several women who turned down a marriage proposal from the notoriously lovesick maestro.
5. “Oh, Carol”
Written by: Neil Sedaka
Written for: Carole King, naturally. Sedaka and King actually dated briefly in high school — a romance Sedaka was able to successfully milk with “Oh, Carol,” a then top-10 (if now somewhat forgettable) 1959 pop song.
However, the real success of “Oh, Carol” came a few months later, when it inspired King to write a rebuttal entitled “Oh, Neil.” At the time, King and her husband, Gerry Goffin, were fledgling songwriters in need of a hit tune. “Oh, Neil” wasn’t that, but it did pay off. After Sedaka gave a tape of the song to his boss, King and Goffin landed jobs at the legendary Brill Building pop music factory, where the duo went on to write chart-toppers like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” and “The Loco-Motion.”
6. “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
Written by: Bob Dylan
Written for: Joan Baez, though it clearly wasn’t the nicest gift Dylan could have given her. The two met in 1961, when Baez was an up-and-coming folk singerand Dylan was a nobody from Minnesota. Desperate to make his break in the music biz, Dylan worked like crazy to get Baez’s attention. He eventually ended up going on tour with her, which is how he first became famous, and also how the two began dating. For a while, they seemed like the golden couple, but things soon went downhill.
During a European concert tour together in early 1965, they had a huge fight and parted ways. That May, Dylan was holed up in a hotel after being hospitalized with a virus, and Baez, hoping to remain friends, decided to bring him flowers. Sadly, that’s how she found out that her ex was already dating someone else. That someone else was Sara Lownds, whom Dylan married a mere six months later.
7. “Our House”
Written by: Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Written for: Joni Mitchell. In December 1968, Nash and Mitchell moved into a cozy little house in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles. Though commonly left out of the hippy pantheon, Laurel Canyon was sort of a commune-home away from commune-home for San Francisco society — not just CSN&Y, but also Jim Morrison, the Eagles, Frank Zappa, and more.
“Our House” was directly inspired by a lazy Sunday in the Nash/Mitchell household. The couple went out to brunch, hit an antiques store, and then returned to find the house just a bit chilly, at which point Nash literally “lit a fire,” while Mitchell “placed the flowers in the vase that she bought that day.” No, really. The whole tableau seemed so ridiculously domestic to Nash that he immediately sat down and spent the rest of the day writing about it.
8. “Dear Mama”
Written by: Tupac Shakur
Written for: Afeni Shakur, who is, obviously, Tupac’s mama. A fascinating character in her own right, Afeni Shakur was born Alice Fay Williams, but changed her name while working with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. In fact, Tupac (named after the Peruvian revolutionary leader Tupac Amaru II) was born in 1971—just a month after Afeni was acquitted of bombing conspiracy charges. (She had spent most of her pregnancy behind bars.) As the song implies, she and Tupac didn’t always get along, particularly during his adolescence, when Afeni was addicted to crack. But, by the time of Tupac’s death in 1996, she was clean and the two had patched things up long enough for Tupac to write that she “was appreciated.” Today, Afeni runs a charity in her son’s name and is (somewhat controversially) responsible for Tupac’s multiple posthumous CD releases.
无论是从异性模仿癖者还是从网球巨人队中，歌曲创作者总能在各种各样的地方找到灵感。Maggie Koerth-Baker 已经从唱片封套上的说明文字中找出8首著名的歌曲是为了谁而创作的。
1。费城自由
作者：Elton John & Bernie Taupin
致：Billie Jean King. 作为她送给ELTON的一件田径服的回报。 这是一件怎样的田径服啊！这首1975年的歌曲一直作为最流行的迪斯可个歌曲之一，给其成千上万的狂热爱好者留下了一个疑问：到底Billie Jean King 和费城有什么关系？
结果是，这首歌提及的是KING的职业网球队，费城自由。在1968年以前，人们认为网球运动员是业余的并且没有资格领取奖金。所有，如果你没有金钱支持，你就不能成为网球运动员。Billie Jean King 与那些不平等的压迫做斗争，最终在1974年成立职业的世界网球队从而把网球变成一项有酬的体育联盟。
2。劳拉
作者：The Kinks’ Ray Davies
致：一位异性模仿癖者。问题是，她到底是哪一位？根据滚石唱片的说法，“劳拉”是受Candy Darling，一位 Andy Warhol的随行人员，曾和Ray Davies 短暂约会过的女人的激发而创作。如果这是事实，那么“劳拉”就只是Darling歌带上的一道痕迹，她在Lou Reed的“在野外漫步”中也被提及（Candy来自于小岛/在密室中她是我们每个人的情人）
但是，在Kink的公开自传中，DAVIES讲了一个不同的故事。他说.“劳拉”写于一个乐队成员在一个酒醉的夜晚和一个女人共舞之后，而这个女人的影像对于他来说早已模糊不清。
3. “867-5309/简尼”
作者：Jim Keller (of Tommy Tutone) and Alex Call
致：未知，这正如同歌曲作者再问到他们的灵感来自何处时惯于编造一个不同的故事一样。这个女人依旧还是一个谜，但是这个电话号码却是千真万确的。事实上，自从1982年以来，这个号码带来了无尽的灾难，并且时间的流逝也并没有减少骚扰电话的次数。在1999年，当布朗大学开始使用867为其校内电话系统的交换台号码时，这一秘密被新生室友Nina Clemente 和Jahanaz Mirza 发现，马上，带着19世纪80年代的狂热崇拜精神，无辜的女生宿舍 NO.5309 就如同一块磁铁一样，将每个醉酒的学生紧紧吸引住。
另外一些不幸的电话用户学会了用创作性和有益的解决方法还击，就像212-867-5309的使用者Verizon，他在2004年把他的电话号码放在eBay上拍卖，在他把这个号码从eBay撤下来时，出价已经接近$100,000 。
4。致爱丽丝
作者：贝多芬
致：一些并不叫做爱丽丝的女孩。事实上，据大部分的历史学家所言，贝多芬并不认识一个叫爱丽丝的女孩。相反，根据一份现在已经失传的手写乐谱，一位贝多芬研究学者宣称，这首曲子最初的名字为“巴加泰勒A小调”。
更为复杂的是，贝多芬的字体写得极糟，所以一些学者推断，这首曲应该为“致泰蕾兹”，就是泰蕾兹马尔法蒂，几个曾经拒绝过这位总所周知的害相思病的艺术大师的求婚的女人之一。
5.“哦，卡洛”
作者：Neil Sedaka
致：Carole King, Sedaka 和 King的确在高中时曾短暂约会过， Sedaka 成功地把这段罗曼史用“哦，卡洛”缓缓道来，这首歌也成为了1959年的十大流行歌曲。
然而，几个月之后，当它激励着KING写出一首反驳的歌曲”哦，尼尔“，这首歌曲的胜利才真正来临。在那时，KING和她的丈夫Gerry Goffin都是稚嫩的词曲作家，急需一个有影响的作品。“哦，尼尔”称不上有影响，但也足够让他们打入市场。在Sedaka把这首歌的磁带老板之后， king夫妇在传奇布里尔大厦流行音乐工厂稳定下来，在这里，这对搭档继续写出了他们的代表作“明天你依旧爱我吗"和”本地动态”。
6。“这不是我，宝贝”
作者：Bob Dylan
致：Joan Baez，虽然这并不是DYLAN给她的最好的礼物。他们在1961年相识，那是BAEZ是一个事业如日中天的民歌手，而dylan只是一个从明尼苏达州来的无名小卒。dylan不顾一切地以音乐谋生，并且像疯子一样工作来取得baez地注意。终于，他得到了和baez一起出游的机会，这使他第一次出名，也使他们两个开始 约会。无需太多时间，他们就像金童玉女一样，但事情很快就改变了
在他们一起出行的1965年欧洲演唱会期间，他们之间爆发了激烈的战争并同时分道扬镳。那个五月，dylan因感染病毒而在酒店就医,依旧期望他们还是朋友的baez决定带着花去看他。令人难过的是，她发现她的前男友已经开始和别人约会，这个别人就是 Sara Lownds，也就是dylan 在短短的6个月后于其结婚的女人。
7。“我们的房子”
作者：Graham Nash
致：Joni Mitchell。 在1968年12月，nash和michell搬进洛杉矶月桂谷区的一个温馨的小房子。虽然这里没有嬉皮士名人，但月桂谷却是嬉皮士们远离旧金山社会的一个共同的家园，不仅仅是CSN&Y，还包括Jim Morrison, the Eagles, Frank Zappa都在此地。
“我们的房子”的灵感直接来自于nashs&metchell家中的一个慵懒的星期天。这对夫妇出了吃了早午餐，逛了一家古玩店，回家后发现他们的房子有点寒冷，于是这促使了nash"生了一堆火”，而michell"把她那天买的花插进花瓶”。这整个画面对nash来说都是如此可笑地温馨，于是他马上坐下来用这一天余下的时间来把他们写出来。
8。“亲爱的妈妈”
作者：Tupac Shakur
致：Afeni Shakur，很显然，她就是tupac的母亲。这是一个有趣的人物，她的本名是Alice Fay Williams，但在19世纪60年代与 Black Panthers 一起工作时改了名字。事实上，tupac是以秘鲁革命领袖 Tupac Amaru II 而命名的，他在1971年出生，仅在他的母亲被宣布无罪后的一个月（他的母亲因被指控为爆炸阴谋罪在牢狱中度过了大部分的怀孕期）。就像这首歌所暗示的一样，他和母亲并不是经常在一起，特别是在他的青少年时期，也是在这一段时期他沉溺于可卡因中。当时到了1996 tupac 去世的那一年，母亲的改变让他们彻底修补了以前的裂缝，也让tupac写下了这样的句子“她是值得称赞的”。现在，afeni 管理着一个以她儿子命名的慈善机构并负责（虽然这有些争议）儿子的去世后的多张CD的发行。
受女人激发而创作的8首歌
更新于2015年09月12日
来源于小e英语
Songwriters have found inspiration in all sorts of places, from transvestites to team tennis titans. Maggie Koerth-Baker has read between the liner notes to find out for whom 8 famous songs were written.
1. “Philadelphia Freedom”
Written by: Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Written for: Billie Jean King, as a thank-you for a tracksuit she gave Elton. And what a tracksuit it must have been! The 1975 song remains one of the most popular disco hits ever, leaving thousands of Hustle enthusiasts wondering just what Billie Jean King had to do with Philadelphia, anyway.
Turns out, the song was a reference to King’s pro tennis team, The Philadelphia Freedoms. Prior to 1968, tennis players were all considered “amateurs” and weren’t eligible to receive prize money. So, if you didn’t have the wealth to support yourself, you couldn’t play. Billie Jean King fought against those constraints, ultimately founding Professional World Team Tennis in 1974 and turning tennis into a paid league sport.
2. “Lola”
Written by: The Kinks’ Ray Davies
Written for: A transvestite. But the question is, which one? According to Rolling Stone, “Lola” was inspired by Candy Darling, a member of Andy Warhol’s entourage, whom Ray Davies briefly (and cluelessly) dated. If that’s the case, then “Lola” is just another notch on Darling’s song belt—she’s also referred to in Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” (”Candy came from out on the Island/ In the backroom she was everybody’s darlin’.”)
But, in the Kinks’ official biography, Davies tells a different story. He says “Lola” was written after the band’s manager spent a very drunken night dancing with a woman whose five o’clock shadow was apparently obvious to everyone but him.
3. “867-5309/Jenny”
Written by: Jim Keller (of Tommy Tutone) and Alex Call
Written for: Unknown, as the songwriters apparently make up a different story about its inspiration every time they’re asked. While the woman continues to remain a mystery, however, the phone number is all too real. In fact, it’s been wreaking havoc ever since 1982the passage of time hasn’t quelled of the number of crank calls. In 1999, Brown University freshman roommates Nina Clemente and Jahanaz Mirza found that out the hard way, when the school adopted an 867 exchange number for its on-campus phone system. Immediately, the girls’ innocuous Room No. 5309 became a magnet for every drunk college kid with a 1980s fetish.
Other unfortunate phone customers have fought back with creative and profitable solutions, like the holder of 212-867-5309, who put his phone number up for auction on eBay in 2004. Bids approached $100,000 before eBay pulled the item at the request of Verizon, the number’s actual owner.
4. “Für Elise”
Written by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Written for: Some girl probably not named Elise. In fact, as far as most historians can tell, Beethoven didn’t even know an Elise. Instead, the song was originally titled “Bagatelle in A minor” based on some handwritten notation a Beethoven researcher claimed to have seen on a now-lost copy of the sheet music.
Further complicating things, Beethoven had hideous handwriting—to the point that some scholars speculate the song was actually written “for Therese,” as in Therese Malfatti, one of several women who turned down a marriage proposal from the notoriously lovesick maestro.
5. “Oh, Carol”
Written by: Neil Sedaka
Written for: Carole King, naturally. Sedaka and King actually dated briefly in high school — a romance Sedaka was able to successfully milk with “Oh, Carol,” a then top-10 (if now somewhat forgettable) 1959 pop song.
However, the real success of “Oh, Carol” came a few months later, when it inspired King to write a rebuttal entitled “Oh, Neil.” At the time, King and her husband, Gerry Goffin, were fledgling songwriters in need of a hit tune. “Oh, Neil” wasn’t that, but it did pay off. After Sedaka gave a tape of the song to his boss, King and Goffin landed jobs at the legendary Brill Building pop music factory, where the duo went on to write chart-toppers like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” and “The Loco-Motion.”
6. “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
Written by: Bob Dylan
Written for: Joan Baez, though it clearly wasn’t the nicest gift Dylan could have given her. The two met in 1961, when Baez was an up-and-coming folk singerand Dylan was a nobody from Minnesota. Desperate to make his break in the music biz, Dylan worked like crazy to get Baez’s attention. He eventually ended up going on tour with her, which is how he first became famous, and also how the two began dating. For a while, they seemed like the golden couple, but things soon went downhill.
During a European concert tour together in early 1965, they had a huge fight and parted ways. That May, Dylan was holed up in a hotel after being hospitalized with a virus, and Baez, hoping to remain friends, decided to bring him flowers. Sadly, that’s how she found out that her ex was already dating someone else. That someone else was Sara Lownds, whom Dylan married a mere six months later.
7. “Our House”
Written by: Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Written for: Joni Mitchell. In December 1968, Nash and Mitchell moved into a cozy little house in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles. Though commonly left out of the hippy pantheon, Laurel Canyon was sort of a commune-home away from commune-home for San Francisco society — not just CSN&Y, but also Jim Morrison, the Eagles, Frank Zappa, and more.
“Our House” was directly inspired by a lazy Sunday in the Nash/Mitchell household. The couple went out to brunch, hit an antiques store, and then returned to find the house just a bit chilly, at which point Nash literally “lit a fire,” while Mitchell “placed the flowers in the vase that she bought that day.” No, really. The whole tableau seemed so ridiculously domestic to Nash that he immediately sat down and spent the rest of the day writing about it.
8. “Dear Mama”
Written by: Tupac Shakur
Written for: Afeni Shakur, who is, obviously, Tupac’s mama. A fascinating character in her own right, Afeni Shakur was born Alice Fay Williams, but changed her name while working with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. In fact, Tupac (named after the Peruvian revolutionary leader Tupac Amaru II) was born in 1971—just a month after Afeni was acquitted of bombing conspiracy charges. (She had spent most of her pregnancy behind bars.) As the song implies, she and Tupac didn’t always get along, particularly during his adolescence, when Afeni was addicted to crack. But, by the time of Tupac’s death in 1996, she was clean and the two had patched things up long enough for Tupac to write that she “was appreciated.” Today, Afeni runs a charity in her son’s name and is (somewhat controversially) responsible for Tupac’s multiple posthumous CD releases.
无论是从异性模仿癖者还是从网球巨人队中，歌曲创作者总能在各种各样的地方找到灵感。Maggie Koerth-Baker 已经从唱片封套上的说明文字中找出8首著名的歌曲是为了谁而创作的。
1。费城自由
作者：Elton John & Bernie Taupin
致：Billie Jean King. 作为她送给ELTON的一件田径服的回报。 这是一件怎样的田径服啊！这首1975年的歌曲一直作为最流行的迪斯可个歌曲之一，给其成千上万的狂热爱好者留下了一个疑问：到底Billie Jean King 和费城有什么关系？
结果是，这首歌提及的是KING的职业网球队，费城自由。在1968年以前，人们认为网球运动员是业余的并且没有资格领取奖金。所有，如果你没有金钱支持，你就不能成为网球运动员。Billie Jean King 与那些不平等的压迫做斗争，最终在1974年成立职业的世界网球队从而把网球变成一项有酬的体育联盟。
2。劳拉
作者：The Kinks’ Ray Davies
致：一位异性模仿癖者。问题是，她到底是哪一位？根据滚石唱片的说法，“劳拉”是受Candy Darling，一位 Andy Warhol的随行人员，曾和Ray Davies 短暂约会过的女人的激发而创作。如果这是事实，那么“劳拉”就只是Darling歌带上的一道痕迹，她在Lou Reed的“在野外漫步”中也被提及（Candy来自于小岛/在密室中她是我们每个人的情人）
但是，在Kink的公开自传中，DAVIES讲了一个不同的故事。他说.“劳拉”写于一个乐队成员在一个酒醉的夜晚和一个女人共舞之后，而这个女人的影像对于他来说早已模糊不清。
3. “867-5309/简尼”
作者：Jim Keller (of Tommy Tutone) and Alex Call
致：未知，这正如同歌曲作者再问到他们的灵感来自何处时惯于编造一个不同的故事一样。这个女人依旧还是一个谜，但是这个电话号码却是千真万确的。事实上，自从1982年以来，这个号码带来了无尽的灾难，并且时间的流逝也并没有减少骚扰电话的次数。在1999年，当布朗大学开始使用867为其校内电话系统的交换台号码时，这一秘密被新生室友Nina Clemente 和Jahanaz Mirza 发现，马上，带着19世纪80年代的狂热崇拜精神，无辜的女生宿舍 NO.5309 就如同一块磁铁一样，将每个醉酒的学生紧紧吸引住。
另外一些不幸的电话用户学会了用创作性和有益的解决方法还击，就像212-867-5309的使用者Verizon，他在2004年把他的电话号码放在eBay上拍卖，在他把这个号码从eBay撤下来时，出价已经接近$100,000 。
4。致爱丽丝
作者：贝多芬
致：一些并不叫做爱丽丝的女孩。事实上，据大部分的历史学家所言，贝多芬并不认识一个叫爱丽丝的女孩。相反，根据一份现在已经失传的手写乐谱，一位贝多芬研究学者宣称，这首曲子最初的名字为“巴加泰勒A小调”。
更为复杂的是，贝多芬的字体写得极糟，所以一些学者推断，这首曲应该为“致泰蕾兹”，就是泰蕾兹马尔法蒂，几个曾经拒绝过这位总所周知的害相思病的艺术大师的求婚的女人之一。
5.“哦，卡洛”
作者：Neil Sedaka
致：Carole King, Sedaka 和 King的确在高中时曾短暂约会过， Sedaka 成功地把这段罗曼史用“哦，卡洛”缓缓道来，这首歌也成为了1959年的十大流行歌曲。
然而，几个月之后，当它激励着KING写出一首反驳的歌曲”哦，尼尔“，这首歌曲的胜利才真正来临。在那时，KING和她的丈夫Gerry Goffin都是稚嫩的词曲作家，急需一个有影响的作品。“哦，尼尔”称不上有影响，但也足够让他们打入市场。在Sedaka把这首歌的磁带老板之后， king夫妇在传奇布里尔大厦流行音乐工厂稳定下来，在这里，这对搭档继续写出了他们的代表作“明天你依旧爱我吗"和”本地动态”。
6。“这不是我，宝贝”
作者：Bob Dylan
致：Joan Baez，虽然这并不是DYLAN给她的最好的礼物。他们在1961年相识，那是BAEZ是一个事业如日中天的民歌手，而dylan只是一个从明尼苏达州来的无名小卒。dylan不顾一切地以音乐谋生，并且像疯子一样工作来取得baez地注意。终于，他得到了和baez一起出游的机会，这使他第一次出名，也使他们两个开始 约会。无需太多时间，他们就像金童玉女一样，但事情很快就改变了
在他们一起出行的1965年欧洲演唱会期间，他们之间爆发了激烈的战争并同时分道扬镳。那个五月，dylan因感染病毒而在酒店就医,依旧期望他们还是朋友的baez决定带着花去看他。令人难过的是，她发现她的前男友已经开始和别人约会，这个别人就是 Sara Lownds，也就是dylan 在短短的6个月后于其结婚的女人。
7。“我们的房子”
作者：Graham Nash
致：Joni Mitchell。 在1968年12月，nash和michell搬进洛杉矶月桂谷区的一个温馨的小房子。虽然这里没有嬉皮士名人，但月桂谷却是嬉皮士们远离旧金山社会的一个共同的家园，不仅仅是CSN&Y，还包括Jim Morrison, the Eagles, Frank Zappa都在此地。
“我们的房子”的灵感直接来自于nashs&metchell家中的一个慵懒的星期天。这对夫妇出了吃了早午餐，逛了一家古玩店，回家后发现他们的房子有点寒冷，于是这促使了nash"生了一堆火”，而michell"把她那天买的花插进花瓶”。这整个画面对nash来说都是如此可笑地温馨，于是他马上坐下来用这一天余下的时间来把他们写出来。
8。“亲爱的妈妈”
作者：Tupac Shakur
致：Afeni Shakur，很显然，她就是tupac的母亲。这是一个有趣的人物，她的本名是Alice Fay Williams，但在19世纪60年代与 Black Panthers 一起工作时改了名字。事实上，tupac是以秘鲁革命领袖 Tupac Amaru II 而命名的，他在1971年出生，仅在他的母亲被宣布无罪后的一个月（他的母亲因被指控为爆炸阴谋罪在牢狱中度过了大部分的怀孕期）。就像这首歌所暗示的一样，他和母亲并不是经常在一起，特别是在他的青少年时期，也是在这一段时期他沉溺于可卡因中。当时到了1996 tupac 去世的那一年，母亲的改变让他们彻底修补了以前的裂缝，也让tupac写下了这样的句子“她是值得称赞的”。现在，afeni 管理着一个以她儿子命名的慈善机构并负责（虽然这有些争议）儿子的去世后的多张CD的发行。
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