In an interview with SiriusXM’sThe Last Mile Radio, 2Pac's former manager Leila Steinberg talked about the new upcoming FX docuseries, Dear Mama, which is focused on the life of Pac and his mother, activist Afeni Shakur.
Steinberg offered her support for the five-part docuseries, calling it an "incredible piece."
“Well, I wanted to say something about Dear Mama. Last year, [director] Alan 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.
She also shared her thoughts about what contributed to his untimely death. “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.
She specifically said the music industry was a catalyst for some of his issues. “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," she said. "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.”