An avatar of the singer, who died in 1997, performed with live rappers on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. For a moment on Friday, Biggie Smalls was the only man on stage. A spotlight shone on him in his ...

"You can't talk about the story of hip-hop without mentioning the name Biggie Smalls," Tinsley says. "He's also a reminder of what the genre has survived. Like, [along with Tupac Shakur], this ...

the rapper known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls. Both men are as beloved and missed now as they were almost 30 years ago when they were killed – Shakur in September 1996 ...