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In the 2000 book The Murder of Biggie Smalls, investigative journalist and author Cathy Scott suggested that Wallace and Shakur's murders might have been the result of the East Coast–West Coast feud and motivated by financial gain for the record companies, because the rappers were worth more dead than alive. [26]
Wardell Fouse (July 22, 1960 – July 24, 2003), also known as Darnell Bolton and Poochie, was an American gang member implicated in the 1997 murder of the rapper Christopher Wallace, whose stage name was Notorious B.I.G. Fouse belonged to the California-based gang known as the Mob Piru Bloods.
Russell Wayne Poole (November 29, 1956 – August 19, 2015) was a Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), a rapper also known as Biggie Smalls.
The pair were also at the center of the “East Coast vs. West Coast” rap beef in the 1990s after Shakur, a West Coast-based artist, became convinced that Wallace, who was from Brooklyn, helped ...
The first arrest in the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls. The shooting deaths of the two hip-hop luminaries and rivals — Shakur in ...
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, [1] and Biggie, [2] was an American rapper. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
The Murder of Biggie Smalls, a biography covering the life and death of the late rapper, was released by St. Martin's Press in October 2000. The Murder of Biggie Smalls was reprinted in the UK by Plexus Publishing, a music genre publisher. [14] It has also been made into a talking book, read by narrator Bob Moore. [15]
Voletta Wallace, the mother of Christopher Wallace, known as the Notorious B.I.G., has died, almost 28 years after the death of her son. She was 78. She died of natural causes in hospice care at ...