2Pac's Former Manager Praises Docuseries, "Dear Mama"

Sat, April 1, 2023 at 2:08 PM

2Pac's Former Manager Praises Docuseries, "Dear Mama"

2Pac's former manager, Leila Steinberg, praised the upcoming docuseries, Dear Mama, for its "honesty." Steinberg spoke about the highly-anticipated series during an interview with SiriusXM's The Last Mile Radio.

"Well, I wanted to say something about Dear Mama. Last year, [director] Allen Hughes reached out to me and said he was doing the five-part series on FX that's coming out...April 21st.... Part of [Alan] wanting to really do this piece was about healing, was about honesty, was about all of us looking at what happened. And, so I'm just saying this to say, he's done an incredible piece," she said.

2Pac Performing In Chicago

CHICAGO - MARCH 1994: Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

While Steinburg admitted 2Pac's behavior could be erratic, she also blamed the music industry for his downfall. "Tupac was not always right. Matter of fact, he was so passionate and so emotional and so often not emotionally literate, not able to control his emotions. And so he let his anger speak first and then later he would apologize or acknowledge things," she said.

Steinburg continued: "I have to sit here as someone who was close to Tupac until his death, who was present many times when I no longer worked with him in a managerial capacity. I was at lots of video shoots that he did. I was in the studio at Can-Am when he was with Suge [Knight]. And this industry is so destructive, that if I point the finger, I would say that executives and this industry had more to do with his collapse than anything."

Dear Mama will premiere on FX on April 21, with the first two of five episodes being released at the same time. The rest of the series will air on the following three Fridays. Hulu will also host the episodes one day after they air on FX. For the documentary, director Allen Hughes has said that he and his team focused on finding unreleased audio and video content of Afeni Shakur and her son. Check out a trailer for the project below.