2Pac and Jada Pinkett Smithâs relationship is well documented, and now the pair have found themselves immortalized in meme culture amid the drama surrounding Will Smithâs sex life.
On Wednesday (November 15), Jada Pinkett was interviewed by TMZ while leaving iHeartRadio offices in New York City about the allegations that her estranged husband once had gay sex with fellow actor Duane Martin.
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Pinkett, who was on the phone at the time, briefly paused her conversation and told the outlet: âWe suing!â before jumping into a car.
The actressâ body language and facial expression drew comparisons to the famous video of 2Pac spitting at news cameras while leaving a courthouse in the Big Apple in 1994 during his sexual assault case (which resulted in him serving nine months in prison).
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âIf you pause the screen when Jada says âWe Suingâ it looks just like when Pac spits at the cameras. Who has the side by side?â Hot 97 and Apple Musicâs Ebro Darden wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
From there, Photoshop savvy users began putting together side-by-comparisons of Jada and âPac, with one viral post even superimposing the rapperâs Detroit Red Wings jersey and bandana onto Smith.
âThe internet is undefeated,â Darden declared after seeing the latter, before jokingly calling her âJada Tupac Amaru Smith.â
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â Big Joe đ± (@Headgraphix) November 15, 2023
â the Old Man Ebro (@oldmanebro) November 15, 2023
Jada Pinkett Smithâs close bond with 2Pac has been back in the headlines lately, thanks to comments made by the Menace II Society star while promoting her memoir Worthy.
During an appearance on former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jacksonâs All the Smoke podcast in October, she revealed that âPac proposed to her during his incarceration â but she turned it down.
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âThat was probably one of the more painful parts [in writing my book],â she said. âSeeing him there, the condition that he was in and having to leave him there. He was in bad shape. And so, when he asked me to get married, he was at Rikers [Island].
âI knew at that time that he needed somebody to do time with him, which I was gonna do anyway. He didnât have to marry me to do that. Iâm here. He needed a rock. Because of our friendship and everything we had been through together, he just wanted to feel that solidified foundation.â
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She continued: âI promise you, he wouldâve married me and divorced me as soon as his ass got out [of prison]. He wouldâve! [âŠ] I just think it was the mind state that he was in. He wrote me this long letter, and even before âPac went to jail, he was starting to shift in a certain manner. Good, really good.
âAnd I think that for him, he just felt like, âOkay, if I can tether myself, itâll keep me on a trajectory.â But trust me, he wouldâve divorced me as soon as he â one thing he wouldnât want me as is a wife. I know that for a fact! But I think just being at Rikers, it just kinda shook him a little.â
As for the Will Smith-Duane Martin allegations, Smithâs former assistant, Brother Bilaal, made the explosive claims in an interview with Tasha K earlier this week.
âIâm running all over the studio [trying to find Will]. Heâs not in his dressing room [âŠ] but I see his car there,â he said. âIâm holding Duane down too, so I had the keys to his dressing room.
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âI opened the door to Duaneâs dressing room and thatâs when I see Duane having anal sex with Will. There was a couch and Will was bent over on the couch, and Duane was standing up killing him, murdering him. It was murder in there.â
Will Smithâs team have denied the allegations, calling them âunequivocally false,â while Jada Pinkett dismissed them as ânonsenseâ during an interview with The Breakfast Club on Wednesday.
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âItâs ridiculous,â she said. âThis is a person that tried a money shakedown that didnât work. Weâre going to take legal action, because itâs one thing to have your opinion about somebody versus just making up salacious, malicious stories.â