On Wednesday’s (Nov. 7) episode of the Drew Barrymore Present, Rosie Perez as soon as once more recalled how she performed Cupid for the Queen of Pop, Madonna, and the late, nice Tupac Shakur.
The previous In Dwelling Shade Fly Woman dancer and longtime pal of Pac spoke in regards to the night time of the 1993 Soul Prepare Music Awards, when she was stood up by her date and the “California Love” rapper stepped in.
“I used to be like, ‘You mom…!’” she remembered screaming into the telephone. She then shared that her telephone rang once more, but it surely was Pac. After listening to her out, she mentioned Pac didn’t hesitate to be her alternative. “You already know what, I’m gonna go together with you, we’re gonna stroll up in there, we’re gonna act like we’re on a date, and he’s going to die,” Perez recalled him saying.
As Perez and Pac rolled to the award present collectively, she then shared how the night time took a flip when Madonna requested her to introduce her to the rap star. “Hook me up,” she recalled the “Materials Woman” icon saying, to which Perez asserted, “You bought it.”
And the remainder was historical past.
The 2 musical legends turned some of the talked-about secret relationships of the ’90s.
Madonna and Tupac’s romance flew below the radar from 1993 to 1994, with the 66-year-old confirming their fling in a 2015 Howard Stern interview. Snoop Dogg additionally advised Stern in 2018 that he would see them collectively up to now—recalling a time Pac dropped off some weed to him whereas Madonna was with him.
“She was simply using alongside for the journey,” the West Coast legend mentioned on the time.
Moreover an electrifying romance, the couple additionally had a enterprise relationship. The 2 reportedly recorded music for Madonna’s 1994 Bedtime Tales album, though the observe by no means noticed the sunshine of day. She additionally shared that when Pac was despatched to jail in 1995, he wrote her a heartfelt apology expressing remorse from their breakup.
Sadly, he died a 12 months later at 25.