Tina Knowles recalls the time a 5-year-old Solange met Tupac Shakur while he was smoking weed
Her youngest daughter had joined her and her sister Beyoncé’s girl group Girls Tyme during a trip to California
Tupac ended up calling Solange “really special”
Solange had an interesting encounter with Tupac Shakur during her childhood.
In her memoir Matriarch, Tina Knowles recalls when her youngest daughter met the “California Love” musician — who was murdered in 1996 — in 1991.
Solange was 5 years old and joined her mom and her sister Beyoncé’s girl group Girls Tyme (later Destiny’s Child) on a trip to Sausalito, Calif. where they were set to record demos.
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At the time, Knowles, 71, described the “Losing You” musician, now 38, as a “confident wanderer” who was always going off on her own.
One afternoon, the businesswoman couldn’t find Solange and found herself in a “panic” trying to find her throughout the halls and the bathroom.
“We walked in and found her sitting in a chair, smiling ear- to- ear and holding court as two young guys smoking Marin County’s entire supply of weed hung on her every word,” wrote Knowles.
One of the young men happened to be Tupac, who smiled and called Solange “a trip.”
According to the late rapper, who was with Shock G at the time, Solange was talking and dancing.
“She’s really special,” said Tupac.
Once the “Hit Em Up” artist found fame, it was Beyoncé, 43, who recognized him.
She joked that her sister was likely telling Tupac “all these stories about us.”
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In April, for PEOPLE’s World’s Most Beautiful issue, Knowles opened up about why she was hesitant to write her memoir.
Initially, she didn’t want to write it because she thought people would “only want to know all my kids’ business.”
Knowles thought they wouldn’t be “interested” in her life.
However, she revealed that her writing journey began years before the memoir was released.
“I started, probably about 12 years ago, just recording my story, which I think everyone should do, for my great grandchildren, because for some reason, I just started thinking about the fact that I never met my grandparents and the history that I gathered for my mom,” said Knowles of her late mother Agnes Buyincé (their surnames are different because of hospital clerical error when Knowles was born).
“I wish that I would have asked her more,” she said. “I wish I would have investigated more.”
Matriarch is available now wherever books are sold.
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