Rapper Spice 1 has claimed that Tupac ruined his chances with Janet Jackson after he hooked up with one of he back up dancers. Tupac and Janet starred in “Poetic Justice” in 1993. Janet was married to Rene Elizondo at the time but during Janet's documentary earlier this year, her Poetic Justice co-star Regina King said that they had romantic chemistry on set.
During an interview with The Art of Dialogue, Spice 1 said, “I was egging ‘Pac on to get with Janet,” Spice 1 recalled. “I kept on like, ‘Hey, man. You need to go holla at Janet, my n***a. You trippin’.’ I don’t know what happened with that. I guess she got mad at him and wanted him to take an AIDS test and all kinds of crazy sh*t. But damn. Still to this day, I’m like, ‘Man, you should have got with Janet.’ But J.D. Jackson’s ex-boyfriend Jermaine Dupri handling that though.”
He continued, “He was f*ckin’ with her and everything was cool. He was tryin’ to holler at her and everything. Maybe she was gonna holler at him or talk to him. But I think, you know, man …. you be asking me some crazy sh*t. He was like, ‘Man, sh*t she was taking too long.’ I think he ended up f*cking one of her dancers or something and sh*t, and that struck a nerve. She wasn’t f*ckin’ with that. She was like, ‘N***a, you out your goddamn mind.’ That kinda ended everything right there I think — from my perspective, from my view. Something like that. Janet wasn’t f*ckin’ with that. She was like, ‘No, n***a.'”