*Tupac Shakur will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 26 years after his death.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce confirmed the rapper will be honored with a ceremony on June 7. The event will be emceed by REAL 92.3 host Big Boy. Tupac’s sister, Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur, will accept the star. Director Allen Hughes will serve as a guest speaker, TMZ reports.
Hughes is behind F/X’s new Pac documentary “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur.” We previously reported that the five-part documentary re-tells Pac’s relationship with his mother, a noted civil rights activist and Black Panther member. Afeni Shakur died in 2016 at age 69.
According to a news release, the series features interviews from people who personally knew Afeni and the hip-hop icon and never-before-heard or seen music, writings, and poetry from Pac.
“It was tough, because me and Tupac have a complex history, to say the least,” Hughes said of the docuseries while speaking to Variety at the Los Angeles debut of “Dear Mama.”
“When you sit with Snoop Dogg and you’re exploring stuff that happened 25 years ago with a man who’s now 50, who’s had the opportunity to progress as a man and mature as a man, talking about his friend who didn’t make it past 25. … That’s a surreal experience to watch,” Hughes explained.
“You’ll see as the series goes on, men talking about what boys did and the actions of boys who weren’t yet men, and that’s emotional,” Hughes said.
“Alan found footage that I didn’t know existed. Those moments with Afeni, moments with me in the Panther office and reliving it — every time I see it, it moves me,” Black Panther Party leader Jamal Joseph, who serves as an executive producer on the project, told Variety.
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