Tupac’s father “disappointed” by Hulu’s ‘Dear Mama’ docu-series

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Tupac‘s biological father, Billy Garland, has revealed his disappointment in the recent Hulu docu-series, Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni & Tupac Shakur.In March, a trailer was released for the upcoming documentary, revealing its premise of exploring the relationship between the Death Row rapper and his mother Afeni, who was a Black Panther.Earlier this month, in a clip from a The Art Of Dialogue interview, Garland revealed that he was somewhat “disappointed” when he saw the Dear Mama docu-series.

He recounted how the interview he was filmed for came about, and how if he knew how they would edit it then wouldn’t have taken part.“Allen Hughes [director] asked me to do an interview,” said Garland. “He didn’t tell me anything about Dear Mama.

He didn’t tell me too much about anything other than it was about Tupac… I denied him at first. I didn’t want to do no interviews and every time I did an interview, it was always taken out of light.”He said that was interviewed for “two hours” but when he saw his excepts in the show, he “was slightly disappointed.”“I didn’t like [Dear Mama], to be honest with you.

It was more about something else than [it was] about Tupac. If I knew it was about Dear Mama I might’ve still did it, but I probably wouldn’t have.”Garland confessed that the first question Hughes asked him was “‘Do you think Tupac was really bipolar?'” He denied it, saying, “[Tupac] had some success and then it was taken away from him on those flimsy false charges… Bipolar doesn’t fit; how can you have bipolar when people do things to you that make you or change your view of them?”He claimed his son’s behaviour was due to the plight he faced: “He would flare up.