Jada Pinkett Smith’s latest preview for her upcoming memoir included a flashback with the late Tupac Shakur, dancing to her future husband Will Smith’s song, “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”
Pinkett Smith (52) released a short excerpt from her upcoming memoir Worthy on Instagram where she wrote about the moment she, Shakur and Smith (54) collided.
She included a video of her and Shakur dancing to the Grammy-winning 1988 hit Smith scored as one half of the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
“Never in a million years would I have dreamed that the Fresh Prince and I would, um, get to know each other well,” wrote Pinkett Smith. “Never in a million years could I have imagined that three lives, their destinies, would be so intertwined.”
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The video became “a tangible memory of the last time Pac and I were just kids together,” she wrote. “Pac and I belting out Parents Just Don’t Understand by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince during our freshman year in high school. Who would have thought?”
Pinkett Smith later shared the entire video on Instagram. “Here’s part of the original video of Paco and I doing a terrible job of matching Parents Just Don’t Understand,” she captioned another post.
Pinkett Smith and Shakur, who was killed in September 1996, attended the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland as teenagers. They quickly became friends, and their relationship was depicted in a 2017 biopic All eyes on mewith Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Shakuram and Kat Graham as Pinkett Smith.
In a 2015 interview with Howard Stern, Pinkett Smith recalled how she had “never met a person like Pac in her life,” adding that Shakur had “so much charisma.”
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Tupac Shakur (left) and Jada Pinkett Smith (right). Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Tupac Shakur’s sister tearfully remembers the late rapper who was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
“You know, it’s so funny because now that I’m older, I understand better what it was between us,” Pinkett Smith told Stern, 69, explaining how their relationship never turned romantic. “When you have two young people who have very strong feelings, but there was no physical chemistry between us at all, and it wasn’t just for me – it was him.”
The Talk about the red table The host believed that “a higher power just didn’t want it,” telling Stern, “We could have killed each other because we were both so passionate and deeply in love.”
In June 2021, Pinkett Smith marked Shakur’s 50th birthday by sharing a never-before-seen song he wrote called “Lost Soulz”.
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Worthy is set to be released on October 17, the day after Pinkett Smith kicks off her book tour in New York.
“So many people encouraged me to write the book,” Pinkett Smith told PEOPLE when announcing the book in June. “But I believed that my journey was not worth the journey. But when I saw it on paper — I couldn’t help but look at myself and say, wow. What a life.”
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