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Jada Pinkett Smith called her late rapper friend Tupac Shakur her "soulmate" during a recent interview with Rolling Out’s Christal Jordan on Thursday, October 12. However, simultaneously, she clarified that Tupac and she never had any spark.
“I wish I could get people to understand. And I know it’s so hard [to believe] but it wasn’t just me. It was him too,” Jada stated while talking about their missing spark.
The candid chat was part of Jada Pinkett Smith’s promotion of her upcoming memoir, Worthy, slated to release on October 17. For those uninitiated, the book has a chapter dedicated to her friendship with Tupac Shakur. Meanwhile, Jada Pinkett Smith’s recent remarks about Tupac have sparked wild reactions online.
The late rapper, who was fatally shot on September 7, 1996, was engaged to record producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton’s daughter, Kidada Jones, at the time of his death.
Kidada Jones was Tupac Shakur’s fiancé when he was murdered
Tupac Shakur, the famous New York-based rapper, died on September 13, 1996, at the age of 25. He was shot in the chest, hand, and pelvis while returning from watching Mike Tyson’s boxing match at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Recently, more than two decades later, a former friend of Tupac named Duane “Keefe D” Davis was charged with his murder, as per the New York Post.
As per People, Shakur dated the Queen of Pop, Madonna, in 1994. Later, in April 1995, he tied the knot with a law student named Keisha Morris. However, the marriage was short-lived and annulled ten months later.
In 1996, he began dating and later got engaged to Kidada Jones. In fact, the duo attended the Men’s Fashion Week in Milan hand-in-hand and even walked the ramp for a Versace fashion show. According to the LAD Bible, Jones was at their hotel, a few miles from where Tupac was killed.
In her father’s autobiography published in 2022, Kidada Jones wrote:
“Tupac was the love of my life. He and I lived together for four months and then he was murdered…It was the most horrible thing that ever happened to me.”
She also wrote how being in Las Vegas on that fateful night was a wrong decision and recalled how she was the last person to have spoken to Shakur before he fell into a coma and finally succumbed to the gunshot wounds.
What’s interesting is how the couple began dating. In a 1993 interview with Source Magazine, Shakur called out Kidada’s father Quincy Jones’ marriage to Peggy Lipton and stated how he only allegedly slept around with white women.
However, three years later, when he met Kidada in a club, he got the opportunity to apologize, and the pair soon began dating, as per The Washington Post.
Kidada later married Jeffery Nash in 2003 but divorced him in 2006. Currently, she works as a fashion designer for the Walt Disney Company and is known for her “Kidada for Disney Couture” line. She is also an actress and model.
Netizens has hilarious reactions to Jada Pinkett Smith’s “soulmate” comment about Tupac Shakur
On Thursday, Jada Pinkett Smith sat for a candid chat with Rolling Out’s Christal Jordan, where she called her late friend Tupac Shakur her “soulmate.”
“We have soulmates - our children can be our soulmates. There’s all kinds of definitions of soulmate.”
However, she also clarified that even though there were brief moments of romance between them, it never felt right and that the spark was missing.
“It was almost like God made us that way. It’s like, ‘Look, we’ll put y’all together, alright? Y’all gonna be a dynamic duo, but I’ll tell you right now: I’m gonna make it so you’re not gonna be able to get together,’ because that just wasn’t the purpose,” she further added.
Jada further continued by saying "if there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think that Pac and I have traveled a few together."
Since Jada’s latest comments about Shakur went viral, netizens on X (formerly Twitter) have had hilarious reactions.
For those uninitiated, the duo met at the Baltimore School of Arts and hit it off from day one. After passing high school, they drifted briefly, only to reunite during a 1993 episode of the sitcom The Different World, where Jada was a regular, but Shakur had a guest appearance.
Later, she collaborated with Shakur on his rap ventures including Keep Ya Head Up, Temptations, and California Love. According to People, it was also Pinkett Smith who bailed him out for $100,000, when he was convicted with s*xual abuse charges in 1995. The same year, during an interview, Shakur called her his “heart” and a “lifelong friend.”
Last month, Pinkett Smith was trolled on the internet for posting two throwback videos of her and the late rapper on Instagram where they were seen lip-syncing and grooving to the lyrics of the 1988 Grammy-winning song Parents Just Don’t Understand by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince (Will Smith, who later became Jada’s husband), as a couple of teenagers.
In other news, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith have reportedly been separated for seven years, as per her latest interview with Today. She also called their marriage "a work in progress."
