2Pac’s biological father has spoken out about his disdain for the Allen Hughes directed Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni & Tupac Shakur docuseries which premiered on Hulu back in April.
In a sit-down interview with The Art Of Dialogue on Saturday (June 3), Billy Garland revealed that he initially denied wanting to sit down to speak with Allen Hughes in an interview about 2Pac, but was persuaded by him, even though he didn’t know the actual footage would be used for Dear Mama.
“We did an interview for about two hours,” Garland said. “After I saw the interview in the documentary, I was slightly disappointed, let’s just say that. I didn’t like it. It was more about something else, than about 2Pac, if you know what I’m saying. If I knew it was about ‘Dear Mama,’ I might’ve still did it, but I probably wouldn’t have. Not for nothing.”
Billy Garland then defended 2Pac against Allen Hughes calling him a “delusional mythmaker” prior to the documentary being made. Garland also said 2Pac wasn’t “bi-polar,” but rather he was reacting because “people were betraying him” throughout the timeline of his success in music.
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Although Billy Garland did not like how the documentary turned out, critics recently gave the five-part docuseries a perfect 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which came after the FX series already shattered TV records.
The new perfect score was unveiled earlier this month, with critics such as TIME, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter praising the sensitive approach to 2Pac’s legacy taken by the director Allen Hughes.
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“One of the most thorough, sensitive portraits I’ve seen of an artist who has by now been eulogized for longer than he was alive,” wrote TIME. “And of the remarkable woman who created him.
The docu-series focuses on the mother-son relationship between Afeni Shakur – a…
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