Iconic NYC record store where Biggie Smalls, MC Hammer got their start celebrates 50 years in business. Story by Nicole Rosenthal • 1w. This shop is still spinning.

The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 album Life After Death, which was released just days after he was murdered, is an iconic piece of hip-hop history. Now, to coincide with the ongoing celebration of ...

Faith Evans, Lil' Kim, Biggie Smalls’ children and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son Christian attended the funeral of the Notorious B.I.G.'s’ mother, Voletta Wallace.

More specifically, the settlement confirmed a number of important principles: (1) the Chi Modu Estate alone owns the copyrighted images and, as such, the Estate is (2) free to sell copies of the ...

On Sept. 13, 1994, the same day President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G ...

However, after Biggie Smalls died, the rapper’s mother didn’t appreciate how Diddy treated her son’s legacy. So much so she was a bit relieved Smalls never got to see the real Diddy.

Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls performing at Meadowlands, New Jersey, 29 June 1995. (Photo credit: David Corio/Redferns via Bang Media) The sage of Biggie Smalls continues, as Angie Martinez ...

Biggie Smalls’s mother, a preschool teacher and devout Jehovah’s Witness, didn’t listen to her son’s music until his death. After his killing in 1997, Voletta Wallace’s life’s work ...

In 2005, she penned a memoir entitled “Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G.” Four years later, she’d put on a Hollywood hat to help produce ...

Former MTV VJ Bill Bellamy opens up to PEOPLE about his new book, Top Billin': Stories of Laughter, Lessons and Triumph, which details the trailblazer's iconic memories in the '90s when hip hop ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 17, 2025--Following a confidential settlement reached in 2024 between the Estate of renowned photographer Chi Modu and the family of famed rapper Christopher Wallace ...