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Crazy lovers, the duets of the summer. 1/4 – You can be rich, famous and succumb to a love at first sight: many detonating duets that have marked pop culture. Today, return to the impossible love story of the Queen of Pop and the Prince of Rap, in the 1990s.
July 2019. The auctioneer’s hammer falls: $ 100,000 for a three-page letter. The buyer has just got hold of one of the best kept secrets of the 1990s: the correspondence of Tupac Shakur – known as the 2PAC stage – in Madonna, from Dannemora prison, in New York State. In this letter, dated January 15, 1995, the rapper reveals to the singer how much she matters for him and apologizes for not always behaving with her. Between them, it all started on March 9, 1993, at the Soul Train Music Awards. Madonna, 34, then reigns over the Pop planet. She is provocative and her tubes are a box. Tupac is 21 years old and has just exploded with his committed rap which denounces inequalities. Actress Rosie Perez attends their meeting in the queue of the toilet. To the host Andy Cohen, she said in 2022: “Madonna launched me:” Are you sleeping with him? ” I answer no. She continues: “Surchand me a blow. Tell her that I want to sleep with him now.” So, I’m going to see Tupac: “Madonna wants to sleep with you.” He replies: “Where is she?” And the turn was played. “
A bond in the shadows
Madonna immediately swaps her glamorous outfits against bandanas and hip-hop looks. But its affair with Tupac remains unofficial. A public photo of them exists, however: it was taken in March 1994 during an evening of the magazine Interview . We see the rapper at the Bandana attached with a brunette Madonna, hair wisely attached in a bun, the same piercing with the left nostril as Tupac. Only social pressure is right. The interpreter of California Loveraised by a Black Panther mother, discovers the limits of interracial love. The time of rupture has come.
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The letter that says everything
In 1995, Tupac was ranging in prison for rape, a crime he has always denied. From his Dannemora cell, he wrote a last love letter to Madonna. “For you, being seen with a black man would not have compromised your career in any way, it could even have shown you more open. Me, I felt like I was going to drop half of the people who made me what I am today. ” The rapper admits his vulnerability: “I never wanted to hurt you. In fact, I was fully on you, but I was afraid. These words may be her last for Madonna. Tupac died on September 13, 1996, in Las Vegas, murdered after a fight by Mike Tyson. He was 25 years old.