13, 1994, the same day President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls ... chain smoke blunt after blunt ...

Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls performing at Meadowlands, New Jersey, June 29, 1995. (Photo credit: David Corio/Redferns via Bang Media) The belief for a long time is that Notorious B.I.G ...

By THR Staff Community board members in a Brooklyn neighborhood have shot down a proposal to name a corner for the late rapper Biggie Smalls, citing his criminal past — and his large girth.

Almost two and a half decades later, the Biggie Smalls narrative (music aside) often feels reduced to a few image touchstones, or even just facial expressions, to say nothing of the generations ...

Tinsley, a writer who I first encountered years and years ago while he was a writer at one of my favorite mid-to-late aughts haunts, The Smoking Section ... Was All a Dream: Biggie and the ...

and how a new generation of women and queer artists are refusing to stand for it. We'll also revisit the legacy of the late rapper Biggie Smalls with journalist Justin Tinsley.