Jada Pinkett Smith published several photos of she and the late Tupac Shakur on her Instagram page that reveal a softer side of the hardcore west coast rapper. The Daily Mail describes[1] how the two became inseparable after meeting at the Baltimore School for the Arts back in the 1980s. Both shared a love for the arts, with Tupac studying acting, poetry, jazz, and surprisingly ballet. In the photo above, a youthful Tupac is shown looking very dapper in from of a school locker with Jada. Here is more on Jada and Tupac’s relationship: The pair remained very close until the rapper’s murder 17 years ago at an intersection in Las Vegas, Nevada. The California Love singer was shot in a drive-by shooting as he sat in a car alongside fellow hip hop icon Suge Knight on September 7, 1996. Shot a number of times, he was raced to a nearby hospital but died six days later at the age of just 25. While extremely close, the pair were not speaking at the time of Tupac’s murder as despite not been r ...
