The Truth About Tupac Shakur's Friendship With Jada Pinkett Smith

Publish date: 2024-03-14

In the Instagram video, Jada Pinkett Smith showed an original concept poem for the song "Lost Souls," which he wrote while incarcerated at Rikers' Island. The poem starts off, "Some say nothing gold can last forever and to believe this I need no proof."

While at school, Smith was a drug dealer, according to Biography, and Tupac Shakur's family had struggled to find stable housing throughout his upbringing. Smith described their struggles, saying, "It was about survival, and it had always been about survival between us," according to Cheat Sheet. Smith says that Tupac could be possessive of her, and played an "older brother" role in her life.

Jada Pinkett Smith is known as an actress, director, and producer, who has most recently starred in "The Matrix Resurrections" (via IMDb). As the producer of Red Table Talk, she frequently shares vulnerable moments from her past with her daughter, Willow Smith, and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, also known as Gammy, according to IMDb. And when she talks about her relationship with Shakur, Smith can't hold back tears.

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