Radisha Jones famously argued with Tupac Shakur in the 90s, and she's now spilling all the details about what went down during their interaction. Have they ever made amends?
According to People magazine, the now 48-year-old actress wrote an open letter to The Source in 1993 after the rapper made disparaging comments to her Black father, legendary musician Quincy Jones, for having children with white women.
"Because I am 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 do think that anyone who reads this article would be shocked by his ignorance and lack of respect for his people," Radisha wrote when she was 17 years old.
She added that demeaning a man like Quincy Jones, who defied all odds and became a music legend, demeans the "whole progress of African Americans."
Radisha concluded her letter by questioning where the rapper would be if Black people like her father hadn't paved the way for him to have the opportunity to express himself.
"I don't see you fighting for you race. In my Opinion, you're destroying it and s****** all over your people," she added.
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More recently, the actress spoke with The New Yorker, where she recalled being "furious" and "so mad" because Tupac's comments were a "new perspective" to her.
She clarified that now that she's older, she understands the nuance more, but she admitted that it felt like an "unwarranted attack" back then.
"My dad doesn't work for the government. He's a music producer. How he chooses to live his life and who he loves is just his own business, and I've always felt that way," she added.
Radisha then revealed that the issue was resolved, and he immediately apologized to her when they first met. He also expressed his apologies to Quincy Jones.
"We sat down and had a really good conversation about it, and then he was family," she said.
Later, Tupac had a relationship with Radisha's sister, Kidada, and said in the 2001 book The Autobiography of Quincy Jones that he was "the love of my life."
The former couple lived together for four months, but unfortunately, Tupac Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas in 1996, which she described as the "most horrible thing" that ever happened to her.
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