The much-discussed friendship between 2Pac and Jada Pinkett-Smith dates back to their early adolescence, and Dear Mama director Allen Hughes has now described their “intense bond” in more detail.
The well-known director spoke with the host of VLAD TV during an interview to explain how close they were.
Hughes claims that there was one particular encounter between Smith and the “California Love” rapper that stood out. In the 1993 movie Menace II Society, directed by Albert and his brother, Smith was cast to play Ronnie, Caine’s love interest.
According to Hughes, when ‘Pac arrived on the first day of rehearsal, although he is unsure of “which one ran to whom,” it felt as if the “seas [had] parted.”
He claimed, “He threw her like a rag doll in the air and just kept catching her.” They then hugged each other tightly, resembling the main characters in Gone with the Wind, according to Hughes.
In any event, he was sure to make it clear that it was simply a very close friendship and not in any way sexual: “…They weren’t tongue kissing, but it was just in the rapture of love.”
Remember once more that nobody is aware of Baltimore School of Arts, he said.Everyone was confused by their close bond because no one knew they were ever acquainted.
Despite being from New York, 2Pac lived in Baltimore for a spell in the early 1980s with his mother and brothers. It was there that he met Smith while a student at the Baltimore School of Arts.
Despite the fact that the West Coast pioneer passed away more than twenty years ago, Smith has not stopped raving about him and recalling their close relationship.
She shared one of the numerous poems he had written for her in 2021, on the day he would have turned 50.
Prior to that, she acknowledged that ‘Pac was never far from her mind in an interview with MTV in 2019. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Pac, she claimed. I consider him on a daily basis.
But it wasn’t always nice. Will Smith acknowledged his intense jealously of the rapper in his autobiography of the same name.
Although they were never intimate, he stated in the book, “their love for each other is legendary – they defined ‘ride or die’.” “When we first started dating, their link was torturing my head. I was me, and he was PAC.
“Pac was like Harry [Smith’s younger brother] in that he made me feel like a coward,” he continued. I was racked with raged jealousy because I despised the fact that I wasn’t what he was in the world and yearned for Jada to look at me in that way.