HOLLYWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 10: Actor Will Smith attends the Centerpiece Gala Premiere of Columbia Pictures' "Concussion" during AFI FEST 2015 presented by Audi at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 10, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI)
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Prince Approached Will Smith And Jay-Z To Start An Entertainment Company Hours Before His Death

Prince Approached Will Smith And Jay-Z To Start An Entertainment Company Hours Before His Death

Published Mon, March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM EDT

In a recent iHeart interview Will Smith recounted that Prince approached him just before his untimely death with a proposal to start an entertainment company with him and Jay-Z. "I talked to Prince eight hours before he died," Smith said. "He was pitching me, him, and Jay-Z starting an entertainment company. He said that he'd talked to Jay, and he wanted to do it. We talked that night, and in the morning he was gone."

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I sat down with Prince eye to eye, he told me his wishes before he died"

- Jay-Z 4:44, 2017

Smith also mentioned that he met the Notorious B.I.G. for the first time on the night that he was murdered. "I don't even wanna say it out loud because its like a terrible jinx," he recalled. "I met Biggie four hours before he got killed, and I met Prince eight hours before he died. I don't know what that says about me." Check out the clip above.

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