Shakur met the-then-Jada Pinkett at an assembly at Maryland High School, a Baltimore School for the Arts. Jada was quoted as saying that they hit it off from that moment on. From her show "The Red Table Talk", Jada said that they had a connection and were able to talk to each other about their mothers' substance abuse issues as well as financial situations.
Here is a quote from Jada about their friendship: "When you have somebody that has your back when you feel like you’re nothing, that’s everything,”
Even the Tupac's sister Sekyiwa Shakur opened up about her brother's relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith and another friend John Cole. Here is her statement:
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“All I remember is John coming over to the house all the time. And nothing else could be talked about but Jada,” she says in Tupac Shakur. “His music changed. This people changed. And Jada came — the entity! The magazine posters had come off his wall and John’s art went up on his wall. And pictures of Jada.”
The author also revealed a poem that Tupac wrote to Pinkett Smith after Shakur moved to Marin City, California, in which he called her. Here is some of that poetry: “The omega of my Heart...u will never fully understand / How Deeply my Heart Feels 4 u....“U R my Heart in Human Form / a Friend I could never replace,”
Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett Smith were estranged after she had distanced herself from their friendship when she thought his life was becoming dangerous and then a fight led to their separation. Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at age 25. Over the years, Jada Pinkett Smith spoken out about their relationship in interviews.
Here is a statement from Jada (from an interview with RollingOut) about her connection with Tupac Shakur:
'"If there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think that Pac and I have traveled a few together," she said when asked if she ever regretted that their relationship was never romantic. "It just wasn't possible."
"It was like God made us that way," she continued. “It was like, look, I'm going to put y'all together, right? Y'all are going to be a dynamic duo. But I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to make it so y'all are not going to be able to get together 'cause that just wasn't the purpose."
Although the author Staci Robinson wrote the biography, it was the late rapper mother's Afeni Shakur Davis who authorized the book before her death in 2016.
Source: People