TUPAC GAVE WILLIAMS HIS BIG BREAK

A short time later, Tupac Shakur was filming the movie Bullet and spotted a Polaroid picture of the scarred actor. 

He then reacted by saying Williams looked "thugged out enough that he could play my little brother".

And so he landed his first acting role alongside Tupac who was playing a drug kingpin.

But just weeks after the film, the influential rapper was shot dead in 1996 aged 25.

Paying tribute to him years later, Williams told how Pac inspired him through his passion and professionalism. 

He said: "I was very blessed, very humbled, to be there as an actor in his presence and I just did a lot of listening. 

"I spoke very little and I listened to him every time he spoke.

"Very early on, he showed me how to command the set – to lock it down. He showed me how, on a certain level, to get things done."