LOS ANGELES – To understand rapper Tupac Shakur, you need to know his mother, says Black Panther veteran Jamal Joseph.
“That symbiotic relationship was key to who they both were,” he says. Even before he was born, Tupac was immersed in his family’s political endeavors.
“Afeni was that person who could be cussing you out one minute and in tears the next in the same conversation about the same person,” Joseph says. During his time as an artist, Tupac produced a string of hit albums, starred in several films and served as the subject of more than a dozen documentaries.
Tupac, Joseph says, was royalty among members of the Black Panther Party. “He was the firstborn – what we call ‘Panther cub’ because of who his mother was. He wrestled with this his whole life. There was never a period in his life when Tupac was completely at rest or comfortable with who he was or what was going on in life.”
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