Tupac Shakur remembered by Janet Jackson and Jada Pinkett Smith on what would have been his 50th birthday - Yahoo Entertainment

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Shakur, who was trending on Twitter by Wednesday afternoon, was also on the mind of Jada Pinkett Smith, who has been open about her close friendship with the rapper.

So close, in fact, that her husband, Will Smith, said he was jealous of Shakur in the early days of his relationship with the Girls Trip actress. .

"They grew up together and they loved each other," Smith said in a January 2020 interview on New York radio station Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club.

Pinkett Smith herself has said the two were inseparable for a while, but they had a fight and were estranged until he died. .

"That was a huge loss in my life because he was one of those people that I expected to be here," she said in a 2018 episode.

"Over the years, 'Pac wrote me many letters and many poems, and I don't think this one has ever been published, honestly" she said.

"He had a song called 'Lost Souls' on the Gang Related soundtrack, but I believe this was the original concept, because he wrote this, I believe, when he was at Rikers [Island].".

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She said that she didn't think Shakur would mind if she shared his words.

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