{"id":275998,"date":"2021-06-16T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/2pac-never-before-seen-poem-shared-by-jada-pinkett-smith-for-his-50th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:24:25","slug":"2pac-never-before-seen-poem-shared-by-jada-pinkett-smith-for-his-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/2pac-never-before-seen-poem-shared-by-jada-pinkett-smith-for-his-50th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"#2Pac Never-Before-Seen Poem Shared By Jada Pinkett Smith For His 50th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#2Pac Never-Before-Seen Poem Shared By Jada Pinkett Smith For His 50th Birthday<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2021\/06\/2pac-getty-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"2Pac Never-Before-Seen Poem Shared By Jada Pinkett Smith For His 50th Birthday\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nWednesday (June 16) marks 50 years since the legendary 2Pac was born. To celebrate the occasion, Jada Pinkett Smith took to Instagram to share a never-before-seen poem that was handwritten by the late r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er.<\/p>\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\" style=\"margin: 10px 0 11px -10px\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit\u201c200\u201d\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            CMNUNT.load(\"content-b\", { \n                                containerid: \"contentUnit\u201c200\u201d\",\n                                keywords: \"section_post_inarticle\",\n                                lazyLoad: true\n                            });\n                        }\n                    <\/script>\u201cTupac Amaru Shakur would have been 50 midnight tonight!\u201d she wrote in the caption. \u201cAs we prepare to celebrate his legacy \u2026 let\u2019s remember him for that which we loved most \u2026 his way with words. Here are a few you may have never heard before. Happy \u2018you goin\u2019n to be 50 at midnight\u2019 Birthday Pac! I got next. P.s I was planning to post tomorrow which is why the video says today is Pac\u2019s bday. But I decided to start earlyyyyy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before reading out \u201cLost Soulz,\u201d Jada Pinkett Smith gave some background behind the poem and admitted she thought 2Pac would be okay with her sharing his words with the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went down memory lane over the years,\u201d she said. \u201cPac wrote me many letters and many poems and I don\u2019t think this one has ever been published, honestly. He had a song called \u2018Lost Souls\u2019 on the <em>Gang Related<\/em> soundtrack but I believe this was the original concept because he wrote this, I believe, when he was at Rikers [Island]. And I was like, I don\u2019t think he would have minded that I share this with you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2Pac wrote, \u201cSome say nothing gold can last forever \/ And 2 believe this [I] need no proof \/ I have witnessed all that was pure in me \/ And be changed by the evil men can do \/ The innocence possessed by children \/ Once lived inside my soul \/ But surviving years with criminal peers \/ Has turned my warm heart to cold \/ I used 2 dream and fantasize \/ But now I\u2019m scared 2 sleep \/ Petrified, not to live or die \/ But to awaken and still be me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\" style=\"margin: 10px 0 11px -10px\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit\u201c300\u201d\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            CMNUNT.load(\"content-b\", { \n                                containerid: \"contentUnit\u201c300\u201d\",\n                                keywords: \"section_post_inarticle\",\n                                lazyLoad: true\n                            });\n                        }\n                    <\/script>He continues, \u201cIt is true that nothing gold can last \/ We will all one day see death \/ When the purest hearts are torn apart \/ LOST SOULS are all that\u2019s left \/ Down on my knees I beg of God \/ To save me from this fate \/ Let me live to see what was gold in me \/ Before it is all too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CQJjmooHTjI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CQJjmooHTjI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\">A post shared by Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapinkettsmith)<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Close friends with 2Pac after meeting in high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Jada Pinkett Smith was deeply effected by his death after being killed in a drive-by shooting on September 13, 1996. During an episode of her <em>Red Table Talk<\/em> show in 2018, she opened up about 2Pac no longer being around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of loss,\u201d she said. \u201cSo many of my close friends gone. They didn\u2019t make it to 30. They didn\u2019t make it past 25. A lot of people talk about my relationship with Pac and figure that out. That was a huge loss I my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\" style=\"margin: 10px 0 11px -10px\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit\u201c400\u201d\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            CMNUNT.load(\"content-b\", { \n                                containerid: \"contentUnit\u201c400\u201d\",\n                                keywords: \"section_post_inarticle\",\n                                lazyLoad: true\n                            });\n                        }\n                    <\/script>She added, \u201cBecause he was one of those people I expected to be here. My upset is more anger because I feel like he left me. And I know that\u2019s not true and it\u2019s a very selfish way to think about it\u2026 I really did believe he\u2019d be here for the long run. 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