Boosie Badazz in his exclusive interview with Vlad talked about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s stressful marriage and how Will thought he could get 2Pac off Jada’s mind but he failed.
From what Boosie said, Jada still got the late 2Pac on her mind. She loves him.
Boosie talks about the legacy of 2Pac and why he remains so important to this very day. He goes on to talk about the late rapper’s friendship with Jada and the unshakable bond that the two had during their youth. To that, DJ Vlad chimes in and attempts to make a comparison between the legacies of 2Pac and Will Smith. This prompts a conversation about the long-lasting effect that a musician can have on the world as opposed to an actor.
Boosie talks about an insert from Will Smith’s book (Will) where he states that he was jealous of what 2Pac was to the world and his wife, Jada. As the conversation continues, the Baton Rouge emcee talks about the many ways that 2Pac’s legacy influenced his life and why the late rapper had such an unbreakable bond with Jada Smith.
Boosie not lying here is what Will Smith himself had to say about Pac.
2Pac and Jada met in the mid-1980s and had a close friendship before he went to prison in 1995. They had a falling out and he was murdered in a drive by shooting in 1996 before they could ever make amends. Will reflected on their ‘ride or die’ bond in the book and wrote, “Though they were never intimate, their love for each other is legendary – they defined ‘ride or die.” He went on to say his mind was “tortured” by their connection. “In the beginning of our relationship, my mind was tortured by their connection. He was PAC! and I was me. He triggered the perception of myself as a coward. I hated that I wasn’t what he was in the world, and I suffered a raging jealousy: I wanted Jada to look at me like that,” he explained.
Almost 26 years later Will reflected on the ‘twisted kind of victory’ he felt when she spent time with him over 2Pac, “If she chose me over Tupac, there was no way I could be a coward.” “I have rarely felt more validated… I was in a room with Tupac on multiple occasions, but I never spoke to him. The way Jada loved Pac rendered me incapable of being friends with him. I was too immature,” he added. The 54-year-old also described the late rapper as a man with a “fearless passion that was intoxicating, a militant morality, and a willingness to fight and die for what he believed was right.”
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