The death of Biggie Smalls, coming six months after the murder of friend-turned-rival Tupac Shakur, ushered the rap game and its East Coast-West Coast feud into the national spotlight.

Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in Los Angeles in March 1997. He was 24. Billboard rates his 1997 album “ The Notorious BIG, Life After Death ” among the ...

The full autopsy report for Notorious B.I.G. was finally released in 2012, 15 years after his death. A mural of Notorious B.I.G. near his childhood home in Brooklyn.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s mom, Voletta Wallace has died aged 72, according to sources. Biggie Smalls' mother sadly died on Friday morning in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, according to the Monroe Country ...

Des Willie/Redferns. On May 21, 1972, Christopher Wallace was born in Brooklyn, New York. The young man would go on to rise to fame as Biggie, Notorious B.I.G., and Biggie Smalls in his early 20s ...

20 years ago today, Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive-by in Los Angeles, California – the case remains unsolved. He would have been 44 today, and his legacy can ...

Biggie Smalls Was Supposedly Trying To Leave Diddy’s Bad Boy Records Prior to His Death: ... he tasked her with ensuring that Biggie’s posthumous album Life After Death would go No. 1 upon its ...

After the Notorious B.I.G.'s death, his mother, Voletta Wallace, stepped up to make sure his legacy was never forgotten.