This five-part docuseries about one of the greatest rappers of all time’s relationship with his radical mother is a meticulous, emotional watch. It’s so detailed it demands multiple sittings
usic documentaries tend to follow certain beats – upbringing; career beginnings; meteoric rise; inevitable fall. The director Allen Hughes is smart enough not to draw entirely outside these lines with Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and– his five-part docuseries about Tupac, one of the most famous and influential rappers of all time, and his Black Panther mother. The series moves at a snappy pace, and is told chronologically, while intercutting between Tupac’s youth and Afeni’s.
Talking heads interviewed in Dear Mama, including Afeni’s sister Glo, draw constant parallels between Afeni and her son – their magnetism, their determination – and Hughes makes it abundantly clear that Tupac’s culturally disruptive art and celebrity could be traced directly back to Afeni’s radicalism. Even so, Dear Mama is at its most fascinating when operating as a study of Afeni; I can imagine it working just as effectively if it were simply a five-hour study of her life and struggles.
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