Known as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls or Biggie ... proclaiming him New York’s rap rex on the July 1995 cover. Biggie’s epic double LP, “Life After Death,” was one of the most ...

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 ...