In a latest interview, Rashida Jones recalled how she obtained right into a heated argument with Tupac Shakur when she was in her late teenagers.
Shakur began the change by criticizing her father, legendary music producer Quincy Jones, within the pages of a 1993 subject of The Supply for having kids with white ladies. In a follow-up subject of the hip-hop journal, Rashida Jones, then 17, wrote a response to Shakur.
In an interview with The New Yorker printed Sunday, she mirrored on the change with the late rapper.
“So precocious, so self-righteous,” she mentioned. “Yeah, I was so mad. It was a new perspective to me. I kind of understand the nuance more now that I’m older. It just felt like a completely unwarranted attack.”
Rashida Jones recalled being “furious” on the time and pondering that her father ought to have the ability to “live his life” how he needs and determine “who he loves” with out criticism. Issues in the end took a heartwarming flip when her sister, Kidada Jones, bumped into Shakur in public.
“And then my sister was out somewhere in New York, and Tupac came up to apologize to her, because he thought it was me,” Rashida Jones mentioned. “It resolved itself really nicely, because when I met him, he immediately apologized to me, immediately apologized to my dad. We sat down and had a really good conversation about it, and then he was family.”
The then-22-year-old Shakur had reportedly advised The Supply about Quincy, “All he does is stick his dick in white bitches and make fucked up kids.” Rashida and Kidada Jones’ mom was the late actor Peggy Lipton, greatest identified for her work on “The Mod Squad” and “Twin Peaks.”
In “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones,” Kidada Jones recounted how she ran into Shakur in a nightclub, and he apologized to her for his feedback.
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“I met Tupac at a club after that and he said, ‘I want to apologize to you. I didn’t mean that about your dad or you. I didn’t see you as real human beings. Now that I see you…,’” she mentioned. “He was all game. He was trying to get a play, let’s face it, but I liked him.”
“I didn’t tell my dad about it, because I thought there’d be trouble,” she added.
Kidada Jones and Shakur went on to this point and lived collectively till his dying in 1996. The rap icon was killed in a drive-by taking pictures in Las Vegas at 25 years previous.
In her father’s e book, Kidada Jones described Shakur’s dying as “the most horrible thing that ever happened to me.”
