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Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known by the 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 t
Christopher Jordan Wallace (born October 29, 1996), also known by his stage name Lil Biggie, is an American actor. [ 1 ] [ a ] He is the son of the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G and American singer Faith Evans .
After Biggie's murder on March 9, 1997, Combs helped Evans produce her tribute song named "I'll Be Missing You", based on the melody of The Police's 1983 single "Every Breath You Take". The song, which featured Combs, Evans, and the all-male group 112 , became a worldwide number-one success and debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 ...
Hip-hop experts join the show to celebrate the life of one of the greatest rappers ever. It is impossible to […] The post Remembering the life and legacy of Biggie Smalls appeared first on TheGrio.
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]
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.
The legendary rapper spent more than a decade deriding the decision to cast former pop star turned actor Naturi Naughton as her in the 2009 Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious.
"Sky's the Limit" is the third and final single from The Notorious B.I.G.'s second album Life After Death. It features vocals from R&B group 112 and somber production from Clark Kent.