Wallace was known by the street name Biggie Smalls and the stage name Notorious B.I.G.Īrrived on the music scene in 1994 with the debut album Ready to Die, which sold more than 1 million copies. Wallace, in Brooklyn, New York shot to death March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, CA son of Voletta Wallace married Faith Evans (a singer) children: T ’yanna, Christopher. The product of a brutal environment, he commented on the For the Record …īorn Christopher G. Born Christopher Wallace, he used the street name Biggie Smalls and the stage name Notorious B.I.G. A big man, he was variously described as standing between 6-feet and 6-feet-3-inches tall and weighing between 230 and 380 pounds. rapped his way to a better life only to lose that life to the street violence he could not leave behind. And his posthumous second album -ironically and prophetically titled Life After Death … Til Death Do Us Part - confirmed that the heavyweight rapper had the potential to be big, indeed, on the music charts.Īt the same time, he was a hard man to pin down.
’s funeral -he was buried in a white double-breasted suit and an extra-large mahogany casket -attracted rap ’s elite and drew hordes of fans onto Brooklyn streets. His death at age 24 -the second drive-by slaying of a gangsta rapper in a six -month span-intensified a purported deadly feud between rap music ’s East Coast and West Coast factions.
0 kommentar(er)
