It reached number one on the Billboard 200, and eventually achieved a diamond certification in the United States.
Wallace's second album Life After Death, a double album, was released two weeks later. On March 9, 1997, six months after Shakur's death, Wallace was murdered in a drive-by shooting while visiting Los Angeles. Following Tupac Shakur's death in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996, speculations of involvement in Shakur's murder by criminal elements orbiting the Bad Boy circle circulated as a result of Wallace's public feud with Shakur. The following year, he led his protégé group Junior M.A.F.I.A., a team of himself and longtime friends, including Lil' Kim, to chart success.ĭuring 1996, while recording his second album, Wallace became ensnarled in the escalating East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud. Wallace was awarded the 1995 Billboard Music Awards' Rapper of the Year. The album made him the central figure in East Coast hip hop, and restored New York's visibility at a time when the West Coast hip hop scene was dominating hip hop music. His debut album Ready to Die (1994) was met with widespread critical acclaim, and included his signature songs " Juicy" and " Big Poppa". īorn and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, Wallace signed to Sean "Puffy" Combs's label Bad Boy Records as it launched in 1993, and gained exposure through features on several other artists' singles that year. His music was often semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality, but also of debauchery and celebration. Wallace became known for his distinctive laid-back lyrical delivery, offsetting the lyrics' often grim content. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. on Sunday March 9, 1997.Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper and songwriter. Wallace’s entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. At around 12:45 AM, at a red light on the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire Blvd, about 50 yards from The Petersen Automotive Museum Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls was shot in the chest four times by an African American male dressed in a blue suit and a bow tie. Puffy traveled in the other vehicle with three bodyguards. member Lil’ Cease and driver, Gregory “G-Money” Young. traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates, Damion “D-Roc” Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. after the Fire Department closed the party because of overcrowding, Biggie left the party with his entourage in two GMC Suburbans to return to his hotel.ī.I.G. Here’s Biggie and Puff posing for photos after midnight as they are leaving the party moments before the murder… PHOTO REMOVED BY REQUEST FROM PHOTOGRAPHER Venus Bernardo PhotographyĪfter midnight now (March 9, 1997) at around 12:30 a.m. Here’s some photos of B.I.G. and Puff Daddy enjoying themselves at the party… PHOTO REMOVED BY REQUEST FROM PHOTOGRAPHER Maury L.
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