

Although she keeps most of their communications private, on what would have been Shakur's 50th birthday, she posted an Instagram video of an early draft of a special poem given to her by the rapper. In a 2021 Instagram video, Smith shared that Tupac wrote her lots of poems and letters, many of which were never published. Tupac described his time at the Baltimore School for the Arts as "the freest I ever felt." Shakur wrote poetry and music, and Smith starred in one of Shakur's early music videos. It all started when they met each other at students Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland in the 1980s, and quickly became friends (via Biography). But although their relationship was completely platonic, Shakur could be possessive over Smith. She mentions their "complex relationship" - a very tight-knit friendship formed while they were at college. "I hated that I wasn't what he was in the world, and I suffered a raging jealousy: I wanted Jada to look at me like that.On an episode of Red Table Talk, actress Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about her friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur, who was one of her closest friends until the rapper's death, reports Cheat Sheet. "He triggered the perception of myself as a coward," the "I Am Legend" star said. Smith described the late rapper as someone who was "fearless" and had "a willingness to fight and die for what he believed was right." In his memoir, Smith said that his "mind was tortured" by Pinkett Smith's close, platonic relationship with Shakur, who was her classmate at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Five days after Smith received the divorce papers, he called Pinkett Smith and they began quietly dating. Upon speaking with Pinkett Smith at a lounge for hours, Smith knew that he was in a relationship with the wrong person. At the time, he was married to Sheree Zampino and the couple shared a son named Trey Smith. "Though they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary - they defined 'ride or die,'" Smith wrote of Pinkett Smith and Shakur in chapter 13 his self-titled memoir, released on Tuesday. Will Smith said that he was so jealous of Jada Pinkett Smith's love for Tupac Shakur that he was incapable of befriending the rapper.


Smith said that he "suffered a raging jealousy" and was "too immature" to try and befriend Shakur. Smith took to Facebook on Friday morning to. "He triggered the perception of myself as a coward," Smith wrote in his new memoir. Jada Pinkett Smith wants to set a few things straight regarding her relationship with the late Tupac Shakur. Will Smith spoke about being jealous of Jada Pinkett Smith's friendship with Tupac Shakur.
