Tupac Shakur was "hurt" by Jada Pinkett Smith years ago when the actress allegedly asked the rapper not to harm Will Smith once they started dating, according to a friend of the late musician.
Pinkett Smith and the rapper, born Lesane Parish Crooks, met at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland in the late 1980s and became close friends.
Pinkett Smith has previously said that the two were never romantic. Now, almost a month after Will Smith went viral for his slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars over a joke about his wife's bald head, a 2021 interview with Shakur's friend and Outlawz collaborator Mutah "Napoleon" Wassin Shabazz Beale has resurfaced on the internet.
In the interview, Napoleon is asked about Pinkett Smith and Shakur's friendship. "He had a lot of love for Jada Pinkett and a lot of respect for her," Napoleon said on The Art of Dialogue YouTube channel.
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