On Friday (April 21), the first two episodes of Dear Mama premiered. The docuseries, covering the parallel journeys of Tupac Shakur and his mother, Afeni Shakur, is directed by Allen Hughes, one-half of the Hughes Brothers team that gave viewers Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and documentaries, including The Defiant Ones. In addition to the live broadcast on FX, the first two episodes are available on Hulu.

For episode #107 of the What’s The Headline podcast, the Ambrosia For Heads team—avid Tupac Shakur fans—spoke about some of the items they learned from those first two hours—after first reporting on the production in 2019. The conversation, available in the video and audio below, tries to avoid spoilers. Instead, it names some themes and rarely-discussed information found in Dear Mama, while celebrating the production quality of the docuseries.

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