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Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [4] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [5] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, [1] was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Biggie, Tupac, Suge: How Diddy became the last man standing in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry ... He parlayed his rap success into a Hollywood acting career and made serious money from ...
On March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, just as The Notorious B.I.G. is stopped at a red light, an assailant in a Chevrolet Impala pulls up next to his SUV and opens fire.. The film flashes back to his childhood in 1980s Brooklyn, New York, where he was a hard-working school student before being groomed into drug dealing.
Launched in B.I.G.’s native Brooklyn by his daughter, T’yanna Wallace, The Biggie Experience museum immerses fans in hip-hop history. Entering […] The post The Biggie Experience is ‘one ...
In alluding to Sullivan and Poole's theory that formed the basis of the Wallace family's dismissed $500 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, The New York Times wrote: "A cottage industry of criminal speculation has sprung up around the case, with documentaries, books and a stream of lurid magazine articles implicating gangs, crooked ...
Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs and 50 Cent came up in the rap industry around the same time — and have been feuding for almost as long. While ...
The song is a "rags-to-riches chronicle". [4]The Notorious B.I.G. chronicles his childhood years living in poverty, his initial dreams of becoming a rapper, early musical influences, his time dealing drugs, criminal involvement, and his eventual success in the music industry and current lavish lifestyle.