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Will Smith Reflects on Final Conversations with Prince and Biggie Smalls Before Their Deaths

The actor and rapper shared details about his eerie connections to the music legends' untimely passings during a podcast interview.

  • Will Smith revealed on the Broken Record podcast that he spoke to Prince and met Biggie Smalls just hours before their deaths.
  • Prince called Smith to pitch a business idea involving an entertainment company with Jay-Z the night before his accidental overdose in 2016.
  • Smith met Biggie Smalls for the first time four hours before the rapper was fatally shot in a drive-by in Los Angeles in 1997.
  • The actor described Biggie's death as particularly emotional and frightening, calling it a senseless loss tied to the hip-hop world.
  • Smith jokingly commented on the strange coincidence, saying it might be bad luck to talk to him before adding that the experiences deeply affected him.
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