Watch The Official Trailer For New Tupac Shakur Docuseries, ‘Dear Mama’

A trailer for the new docuseries Dear Mama, which centers around 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) and his mother Afeni, has been released by FX. You can check it out below.

The brief teaser for the five-part Dear Mama was released to coincide with Mother’s Day in the US. It shows images of Shakur, with a voiceover from Afeni describing a lesson she taught her son.

“It was my responsibility to teach 2Pac how to survive his reality,” Afeni Shakur says in the clip. “So, 2Pac do something wrong, take your little sorry self in that corner, get the New York Times and let’s have a debate about it. Not a discussion, a debate. Let me hear what your idea is, stand up, defend it.”

Dear Mama is named after the 1995 2Pac track, which is a tribute to Afeni and the love and respect that the rapper held for his mother. The docuseries is directed by Allen Hughes and “told through the eyes of the people who knew them best”.

Hughes was behind the July 2017 HBO documentary The Defiant Ones, which focused on the creative and business partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.

The 2Pac docuseries was initially teased in 2019, when Hughes was given the blessing of the late rapper’s estate.

Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in September 1996 at the age of 25. After his death, Afeni created the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Georgia in his honor. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 69.

Recently, a biopic on the life of Afeni Shakur called Peace, Love & Respect; the Afeni Shakur/Panther 21 Story was also announced. The new biopic will follow a crucial two years in her life between 1969 and 1971, and her involvement in the Black Panther Party.

The new biopic is set to be executive produced by Jasmine Guy and Jamal Joseph, while Dina LaPolt is producing. The film has also received the backing of the Shakur estate.

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