Rashida Jones opens up about beef with 2Pac over comments about her father Quincy Jones

Back in 1993, 2Pac was involved The source for an interview and the late rapper made some disparaging remarks about music legend Quincy Jones. “All he does is stick his dk with white b-es and make kids,” Pac said at the time.

This enraged a then 17-year-old Rashida Jones, so much so that wrote an open letter to the magazine in defense of her father. In her letter she tore into Shakur's interview, beginning it by saying, “Being the youngest of Quincy Jones' six daughters, I cannot view this article or this man without bias. [“War Stories” by Kim Green, Aug, ’93]. But I think anyone reading this article would be appalled at his ignorance and lack of respect for his people.”

Adding, “To belittle a man like Quincy Jones, a man who came from the ghetto of Chicago and through his talent and perseverance became a living legend in music, belittles all the progress of African-Americans.” She then ended her letter by saying, “Where the hell would you be if black people like him hadn't paved the way for you to have a chance to express yourself? I don't see you fighting for your race. In my opinion, you are ruining it and screwing over all your people.”

The actress recalled this incident in her recent profile with The New Yorker and was asked by author Michael Schulman how their relationship developed after the letter and he just started dating her older sister Kidada Jones. “Rage! So premature, so self-righteous. Yes, I was that mad,” she replied. “It was a new perspective for me. I understand the nuance a little bit more now that I'm older. It just felt like a completely unwarranted attack.”

She then added that she was an intern at Warner Bros. Records when he wrote the letter. “I printed it out of my word processor, put it in an envelope and sent it off The sourceshe recalled. “I was an intern at Warner Bros. Records that summer, so I think I wrote it there. Maybe I had the other intern prove it to me.” The actress then said: “Pac mistook Quintana's older sister for her in New York and apologized, saying: 'And then my sister was somewhere in New York and Tupac came to apologize to her because he thought she it was me”.

He went on to say, “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.”

Rashida took the experience as a lesson, saying, “That was an early lesson for me, because I've been self-righteous in my life and I've really worked hard to stop seeing things in a binary way. We are so flawed and so complicated.”

Quincy wasn't a fan of the late rapper dating his daughter either, effective The New York Times in 2012 that “he was not pleased at first.”

But, they eventually mended fences and squeezed things out. “He had attacked me because I had all these white wives. And my daughter Rashida, who was at Harvard, wrote a letter The source separating him,” he said. “I remember one night I was dropping off Rashida at Jerry's delicatessen and Tupac was talking to Kidada because he was falling in love with her at the time. Like an idiot, I walked up to him, put two hands on his shoulders and said, “Duck, we need to sit down and talk, man.”

Adding, “If he had a gun, I would have been done. But we talked. He apologized. We were very close after that.”

Rashida went on to forge a friendship with Shakur and even wrote a paper on him during her freshman year of college.