Overview

• 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.