Tupac Shakur wrote a poem for Jada Pinkett Smith in which he confessed his lifelong love for her.
The rapper described Pinkett Smith as the “omega of my heart” in the poem.
The poem is included in Shakur’s 1999 poetry collection, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete.”
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Tupac Shakur, the rapper known as 2Pac, once wrote a poem for his childhood friend Jada Pinkett Smith in which he confessed his lifelong love for her.
The handwritten poem, titled “Jada,” is printed in full in Staci Robinson’s new biography of the late emcee, “Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography.”
In the poem, Shakur described Pinkett Smith as the “omega of my heart” and said she brought him to “climax without sex.”
“U will never fully understand / How deeply my heart feels 4 u,” Shakur wrote.
The original copy of the poem was put on display at an exhibition titled “Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free” in Los Angeles last year.
The poem was also included in Shakur’s posthumously published 1999 poetry collection, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete.”
Shakur and Pinkett Smith first met during the 1980s as sophomores at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland.
In “Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography,” Robinson recalls how the two quickly became close friends.
Robinson writes that, alongside another friend named John Cole, Shakur and Pinkett Smith would often stay up all night debating and discussing everything from Shakespeare to Reaganomics.
Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, tells Robinson that from the moment her brother and Pinkett Smith met, she knew they had a special connection.
“All I remember is John coming over the house all the time. And nothing else could be talked about but Jada,” Sekyiwa recalls. “His music changed. His people changed. And Jada came – the entity! The magazine posters had come off his wall and John’s art went up on his wall. And pictures of Jada.”
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Earlier this month, Pinkett Smith revealed that Shakur proposed to her while he was serving time in prison in 1995.
Pinkett Smith made the revelation during an appearance on the “All the Smoke” podcast.
“I knew at that time that he needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway,” adds Pinkett Smith in Shakur’s biography. “He didn’t have to marry me to do that. I’m here. He needed a rock. Because of our friendship and everything we had been through together, he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation.”
Shakur did not marry Pinkett Smith while behind bars, but he did marry his girlfriend Keisha Morris.
The two tied the knot on April 29, 1995. Their marriage was annulled just 10 months later, once Shakur was released on bail.
“Things were getting very different once he got bail, and I felt like I wasn’t needed anymore,” Morris told XXL in a 2011 interview. “It wasn’t a good feeling.”
