In March , he was arrested after chasing two autograph hunters with a baseball bat in Manhattan, threatening to kill them; he was sentenced to hours of community service. Months later police raided his house in New Jersey and found 50 grams of marijuana and four automatic weapons. That same summer, he was charged with beating and robbing a friend of a concert promoter at a New Jersey nightclub.
And then in the fall, he was arrested again, this time for smoking marijuana in his car in Brooklyn. On September 7, , his former friend Tupac was shot dead in Las Vegas. Both Biggie and Puffy strenuously denied their involvement and other key suspects have since emerged.
You know what i'm saying? One man against one man made a whole West coast hate a whole East Coast. And vice versa. And that really bugged me out. Like yo, dude don't like me, so his whole coast don't like me. I don't like him, so my whole coast don't like him. It let me know how much strength I have. So what I'm trying to do now, I've got to be the one to try to flip it. And take my power and flip it, like, yo, because Pac can't be the one to try to squash it because he's gone. So I gotta take the weight on both sides.
Sadly, Biggie did not live long enough to see the peace he wished for. He himself was murdered the early hours of March 9, As Biggie's SUV — in which he was riding with a bodyguard and Lil' Cease — waited at a red light, a vehicle pulled up alongside it, and a gunman opened fire.
His bodyguard rushed Biggie to the hospital, but it was already too late. Like that of Tupac, the killing of Biggie Smalls would never be solved. There would be no closure. Also like Tupac, Biggie would release a double album posthumously, in Biggie's case a mere fortnight after his demise.
The album was certified diamond in after selling more than 10 million copies. With his murder seen by many hip hop fans as a tit-for-tat killing, Biggie appeared to continue the beef from beyond the grave on the album track "Long Kiss Goodnight.
But according to the hip hop magazine XXL , the song was likely to have been recorded before Tupac's actual murder. Things had gotten way out of hand. Two of the greatest rappers to ever pick up a microphone were dead and gone. Hip hop's reputation had been dragged through the gutter.
Nobody had any appetite for more. On March 18, Biggie's memorial service was held at the the Frank E. Biggie lay in an open mahogany casket dressed in a white suit.
After the service, his remains were cremated. Funeral cars filled with floral tributes to rapper Biggie Smalls pass down St. A man displays a t-shirt tribute to Smalls on March 18, , as friends and fans lined the funeral procession route through his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. Upon finding out, Combs is said to have tried to make him stop.
Drawn into the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry following the success of Ready to Die , Smalls came to represent the East Coast alongside Bad Boy Records, while rapper and former friend Tupac Shakur and Los Angeles-based Death Row Records were the West Coast, with both sides taking subliminal and blunt digs against the other in music releases, videos and interviews. On September 7, , Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, and no culprit was apprehended, and rumors circulated that Smalls was somehow implicated in the death due to the ongoing feud , rumors Smalls refuted.
While stopped at a red light, a black car pulled alongside the vehicle in which Smalls was traveling and the rapper was shot four times with a pistol brandished from the parallel car.
Rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center he was pronounced dead at a. The murder case remains unsolved. Sixteen days after his death, his two-disc second album — eerily titled Life After Death — was released as planned. Reaching No. Eager to forge peace after the fatal shooting of friend-turned-rival Tupac Shakur, the year-old rapper instead met the same fate in the early morning hours of March 9, The playwright was the toast of London in early — until he decided to sue his lover's father.
On March 9, Biggie was sitting in an SUV on the street when he was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant. He died almost instantly. Biggie was only 24 years old. Sign In. Edit The Notorious B. Showing all 54 items. His solo song was the other top 10 success he had in the UK later that year. Had 2 children: daughter, T'yanna Wallace b. October 29, with estranged wife, Faith Evans. Was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting.
He was an MC who had released two albums before his death, plus another released posthumously. Awarded the Billboard Magazine Award for hip-hop artist of the year.
Despite being one of the most popular and well-known artists in the hip-hop industry, he only saw one album released while alive. He recorded and released "Ready to Die" in He recorded his sophomore album, "Life After Death" while alive. Could not be billed officially as "Biggie Smalls" because someone else trademarked the name "Biggy Smalls" years before.
Thus he became The Notorious B. Released a song called "Who Shot Ya? Although Wallace insisted the song was recorded before the shooting and had nothing to do with it, Shakur saw it differently. As such, 2Pac released one of the most bitter, vindictive, and ingenious hip-hop answer records ever, called "Hit em up," which despite its violent background, was very popular. Frequently referred to himself as "the black Frank White" in his raps.
This name was taken from the drug lord character played by Christopher Walken in the film King of New York Unlike Tupac Shakur , Biggie never got a chance to star or appear in a movie, but he was confined to music videos and an early episode of New York Undercover.
He was writing a screenplay at the time of his death. Was in fact originally good friends with Tupac Shakur. He would call Tupac, 'Duke' and Tupac would call him 'Christopher'. However when Tupac was shot five times and robbed by gang members linked to Biggie's Bad Boy records, the two had a fatal falling out. Ironically on the night he got shot, he was in California for the Soul Train Music awards, so he could promote peace between east and west.
However when on stage, he got booed by the Californian crowd a response to the Shakur murder, the previous year and an embarrassed Biggie left the stage. He was killed hours later. During his early years, he opened for Tupac Shakur on shows.
He impressed Shakur for his ability to flow his rhymes right on the beat. His clothing line, Brooklyn Mint, was launched in He also had plans to open a fast food chain called "Big Poppa's" which was going to be served in his old neighborhood 24 hours a day.
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