‘Dear Mama’ Reveals How Tupac’s Mother Gave Him His Rebel Heart
FAMILY TIES
The new five-part FX docuseries “Dear Mama” explores the influence that Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur, a former Black Panther lieutenant, had on her talented son.
There may be no hip-hop artist who’s been mythologized more than Tupac Shakur—this is an icon, after all, who had so many posthumous albums released following his 1996 death (seven, in fact) that some fans began semi-jokingly speculating, à la Elvis rumors, that he wasn’t really dead but, rather, continuing...
