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While Tupac was known for making music in which he rapped about banging multiple women and wearing his player, the man actually had a committed relationship with music legend Quincy Jones' daughter, Kidada.
While not many details are known about their relationship since the two dated before social media, Kidada's sister Rashida Jones spoke about a heated exchange that took place between her and Tupac before she dated with her older sister. . According HuffPost, the animosity between her and Pac began when the iconic rapper was interviewed in a 1993 issue The source magazine and criticized her father, Qunicy Jones, for fathering children with white women and “does[ing] damn kids.”
A then-17-year-old Rashida Jones wrote a response to Tupac in a subsequent issue, and it apparently resonated with the rapper in such a way that he felt the need to apologize to the Jones family.
In a recent interview with the New YorkerJones recalls how Shakur approached her sister, Kidada, in New York thinking it was her and asked for forgiveness for his harsh words about her father and his children.
From the New Yorker:
“And then my sister was somewhere in New York and Tupac came to apologize to her, because he thought it was me,” Rashida Jones said. “It worked out really well because when I met him, he immediately apologized to me, he immediately apologized to my dad. We sat down and had a really good conversation about it, and then it became a family.”
Tupac and Kidada continued to date and even lived together for a while before the rapper was murdered in 1996. Q: Qunicy Jones' autobiographyKidada recalled the moment Tupac approached her about the situation and admitted she knew it was much more than an apology at the time.
“I met Tupac in 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…” he said. “It was all game. He was trying to get a play, let's face it, but I loved it.”
Yes, that sounds right. The ladies may have loved Cool James in the early 90s, but they also loved them some Tupac.
Helluva season.