Rashida Jones Recalls Tupac Slamming Her Dad Quincy Jones For Dating White Women: 'A Completely Unwarranted Attack'
'Parks and Recreation' star Rashida Jones is looking back on disparaging comments the late Tupac Shakur made about her father Quincy Jones.
In 1993, Tupac spoke to 'The Source' magazine about Jones, claiming "All he does is stick his d**k in white b*****s and make f****d up kids." According to 'The New Yorker,' his comments enraged a then 17-year-old Rashida, prompting her to write an irate open letter to the rapper.
In her open letter, she wrote that Tupac's harmful words reflected "ignorance and a lack of respect for his people. "
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During a recent interview with the outlet, Rashida, 48, recalled that she was "furious!"
"So precocious, so self-righteous. Yeah, I was so mad. It was a new perspective to me. I kind of understand the nuance more now that I'm older," she said. "It just felt like a completely unwarranted attack. 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."
'The Office' actress described how she printed off her open letter at the time from her "word processor and put it in an envelope and sent it to 'The Source.' I was interning at Warner Bros. Records that summer, so I think I wrote it there. Maybe I had the other intern proof it for me."
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The "California Love" rapper came up to Jones's sister, Kidada Jones, thinking she was Rashida and apologized to her. Rashida remembered how "we sat down and had a really good conversation about it, and then he was family."
Now, Rashida looks back at her memories with Tupac fondly.
"It speaks so much to who he was. You can say whatever you're going to say, and you can mean it. And then, when you meet people, that can change," she said. "That was an early lesson for me, because I have been self-righteous in my life, and I really have worked hard to stop looking at things in a binary way. We're so flawed and so complicated."
