3 hours ago, Roland Barthes said:Sometimes i wonder if she did not leak that Tupac letter herself since up until then their "hook ups" were mostly unknown to the great public...
*hook ups because that's what they were. Tupac was dating Quincy Jones eldest daughter at the time...(that's why Quincy called Madonna himself to tell her that her Vibe Magazine cover with Rodman was trashed at the last minute as he was the editor in chief)
She does seem to latch more onto the memory culturally relevant exes, but Tupac dated Kidada Jones in 1996, the year he died which was long after his affair with Madonna. I agree that it was just a hook up. Tupac never claimed Madonna as a girlfriend, he called her a friend. Even in the letter he wrote to her from prison he talks about friendship, it's not a love letter like some claim. They were only pictured together on one day in early 1994 around the time they were recording for Bedtime Stories. By the spring of 1994 Madonna was already having a high profile affair with Dennis Rodman and Tupac was dating Keisha Morris who he married in 1995, their marriage was annulled after 10 months.
According to Dennis Rodman's book, the Vibe cover story was scrapped because the interview didn't turn out the way they (Vibe) had intended. News reports from 1994 say the cover was pulled because Quincy Jones didn't want to have a white person on the cover for a second consecutive month.
Here an excerpt from The Washington Post on May 11, 1994:
Controversy came to the Quincy Jones-founded hip-hop magazine when Van Meter, who is white, decided to put the over-exposed Madonna and now-sitting-out-the-playoffs basketball star Dennis Rodman on the upcoming June-July cover (Madonna was Rodman's interviewer). Vibe's first eight covers all featured African American or Hispanic artists, but the current issue features the Beastie Boys, white rappers less than embraced by much of the hip-hop community and hardly major players. Jones was reportedly against having a second straight cover featuring a white star, fearing it would offend black readers, particularly since the June-July issue was also to include stories on Eddie Murphy (now scheduled for the cover), Spike Lee and Sly Stone. The Madonna-Rodman story was apparently a late addition to the schedule, and Madonna's contractual demand to be on the cover gummed things up. (Outside of her music persona, Madonna is, of course, the well-known author of "Sex" and a clever interview partner. Just ask David Letterman.) The Madonna-Rodman story, reportedly including hot photos by Melodie McDaniel, is now likely to appear in some other publication. Ironically, Madonna had been featured in the September 1992 test issue of Vibe, in a one-page story titled "Madonna's Props" (her business and social associates). These may not be the best of times for the needs-new-Material Girl. She is the butt of two new books, Ilene Rosenzweig's "The I Hate Madonna Handbook" and more low-brow "The Sexiest Jokes About Madonna" by Cardinal Syn. Rosenzweig's book includes such chapters as "Feminist or Slut?," "America's Most Unwanted," "Justify My Love Life" (with Madonna Ex-Lover Trading Cards) and "The Madonna Hall of Shamelessness."
