Notorious BIG, known as Christopher Wallace, while growing up was born on may 21, 1972. BIG was from New York’s Notorious
Brooklyn, deep in the heart of the hip hop community.

As a youth he lived in the area of
Bedford-Stuyvesant, an area which greatly influenced his style of rapping. Ever since he was young Wallace dreamed of becoming a
hip hop icon. Biggie
dropped out of high school at the age of 17, to continue his street life style. Although he was a talented student he found the streets to be more welcoming at this point of his life. As he got more involved in his life on the streets, he began finding that a source of income was needed, as a result he began to sell illegal drugs to make ends meat.
Crack became his main source of income, as it was becoming the cheap drug of choice for many city lowlifes. Soon after he was arrested in north Carolina on drug charges,
spending 9 months in jail.

His first taste of the hip hop world came when he made a
demo tape with 4 tracks on it. This was later picked up by artist and rapper
Big Daddy kane.
BIG was unsigned at this point, but was soon to get on track to getting signed.
Uptown records producer
sean puffy combs picked up BIG in an instant, and the career of BIG took off. Soon with such a success rate Biggie and puff separated from Uptown and Formed well known label, Bad Boy. This was a round the time when Biggie smalls started to use the more well known stage name of the
Notorious BIG, with a recent release with Mary j bilge
Real Love.
In 1994 the Ready to die album was released and received great success on the circuit selling almost 4 million. Soon after BIG was married to Faith evans a fellow
Bad Boy artist.
In
1996 Biggie biggie had an unfortunate incident in a car, the accident caused him to be confined to a wheel chair, but with the release of his second album. Later in the year after much feuding,
an incident occurred resulting in tupacs death. Although the death was not connected with any of the bad boy crew, Rumors circulated that BIG was behind the attack.
Less than a year later BIG was shot dead in a drive by shooting, similar to the death of Tupac Shakur . There are still on going investigations into the incidents with much speculation that there may have even been a police conspiracy, although most is just rumor, there has been no evidence for either side.
the hip hop community has been for ever changed...to all those lookin down thanks for the influences to the game, your music will live on.
one love
R.I.P May 21, 1972 -- March 9, 1997
Comments
Sat, 16.05.2009 20:40
Sick
Fri, 17.10.2008 18:13
It doesn't work on my Laptops b ut it's the dawgs bollox [...]
Wed, 12.12.2007 13:13