Tupac Dear Mama Docuseries Coming To FX

FX has a five-part documentary coming out about Tupac Shakur’s relationship with his mother named after his song “Dear Mama.” The cable channel dropped the teaser on Mother’s Day and Afeni can be heard talking about the way she disciplined her son. The Allen Hughes-directed series will come out in the fall.

Throwback: 2Pac-I Get Around Feat. Digital Underground

2Pac ‘s”I Get Around” was another collaboration with the Digital Underground camp. The second single from his Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. 1993 sophomore album was all about the fun in being a player. They had already worked together on Digital Underground’s “Same Song” which was on the soundtrack for the movie Nothing But Trouble. Shock G produced “I Get Around” and rapped on it with Money B. It was one 2Pac’s less serious moments in contrast to a song like “Keep Ya Head Up” that was about the struggles of Black women.

The album was not received well initially but “I Get Around” became one of 2Pac’s biggest songs and it helped Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. fare better commercially than his 2Pacalypse Now debut. In 1996, Death Row’s Greatest Hits was released and it had the “I Get Around” remix which has three verses from 2Pac and the absence of Money B. The Above The Rim soundtrack was reissued in May 2021 on cassette with the addition of the song “Pain” which was previously only available on the cassette release 30 years ago. 2Pac’s influence on pop culture continues to be felt 25 years after his passing. Shock G passed in April 2021 leaving a legacy with Digital Underground, his soloÂ work and being the man that presented 2Pac to the world first as a background dancer and then as a rapper on “Same Song.”

Media Questions Of The Week

How is it that no police officer was held accountable for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor?

Kamala Harris asked, who’s the best rapper alive?

She answers @2PAC

Then says “Not alive, I know, I keep doing that.”

Tries to think of another living rapper. “There’s some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane.” pic.twitter.com/MZJ5FZC4qP

— Emily Brooks (@emilybrooksnews) September 25, 2020

Did Kamala Harris really mean best rapper ever when she was asked by CNN who she thought was the “best rapper alive?”Â Â

Media Questions Of The Week

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Did Lizzo plagiarize Cece Peniston’s “Finally” for her hit song “Juice?”Â

Was Frank Ocean’s concept of reimagining a club night in the ’80s with the fairly new HIV-prevention drug PrEP a disservice to people who lived with HIV then?

[youtube id=”89Aggc_jVgo”]Â Did Ice Cube’s jealousy of Tupac really stop Yo-Yo from working on Tupac’s “Dear Mama?”