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Christopher Notorious BIG Wallace June.21.1972 - March.9.1997

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Christopher George Latore Wallace
best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again). Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. When Wallace released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip-hop scene and increased New York's visibility at a time when West Coast artists were more common in the mainstream.

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POP MUSIC; Biggie Smalls, Rap's Man of the Moment

Source: The New York Times

Moments before, he had finished the third of three sold-out concerts at the Apollo Theater and, wearing the same brown leather Army jacket and pants and beige Kangol cap he had worn on stage, he then slipped out the back door of the theater. At the corner, he relaxed in the middle of a circle of friends but soon heard his own voice booming back at him from the radios of cars as they stopped at or cruised slowly through the intersection. As the rapper surveyed the scene, he found himself being inadvertently saluted by his own song "Big Papa."

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B.I.G.’s music still lives on 15 years after his death

Source: NY Daily News.com

Can it really be 15 years since the brutal murder of Brooklyn’s own Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls)? March 9 marks the sad day when one of the most narratively attuned rappers of all time lost his life at age 24. It only makes it worse that his slaying remains unsolved. Of course, his voluminous stories live on. Besides the slyly distinct nasality of his tone, B.I.G. impressed millions with the detail in his writing. His stories helped move hip-hop to the next level of narrative during his commercial peak in the early '90s.

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Notorious B.I.G. Facebook

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Hailed by many as the greatest MC of all time, the Notorious B.I.G. was Bad Boy's flagship artist. From his early verses on Craig Mack's "Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)" and "Real Love" by Mary J. Blige, it was clear to the hip-hop world that a new king had been crowned. Biggie solidified his position with his classic 1994 debut album, "READY TO DIE." Through the combination of Sean Combs' powerful production and B.I.G.'s vivid rhymes, the disc brought Bad Boy Records to the forefront of East Coast hip-hop and went to sell over four million copies.

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Dreaming Big About Acting Big

Source: The New York Times

They came from Massachusetts, Florida, and Canada, and from Flatbush, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy. There were fur coats and fedoras, shades and patterned Coogi sweaters, and enough extra poundage to tip a Mack truck. On Saturday, nearly 100 people turned up on a quiet street in Chelsea to audition for their chance to be B.I.G. Arriving on foot, by Escalade or late-model sedan, men of all ages and backgrounds — but mostly one body type — came for the open casting call for “Notorious,” a biopic of the rapper Christopher G. Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G. The hunt for the unknown star began online in August, when the Fox Searchlight studio invited would-be Biggies to send audition tapes.

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