It is impossible to talk about hip-hop without speaking about the contribution and legacy of Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls. March 9 makes it 27 years since the rapper’s tragic ...

The Notorious B.I.G. released Big Poppa, a record that would permanently shift his trajectory and reshape how Hip Hop crossed ...

The Notorious B.I.G. was only 22 when he released Ready to Die. This is perhaps the most stunning fact about his brilliant debut: the fact that Biggie, at such a young age, constructed an album that ...

Voletta Wallace died earlier this year. She was widely known as a champion for her son Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, before and after his tragic death in 1995. In ...

Fourteen years ago today, the rapper Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace--also known as Biggie Smalls--was killed in Los Angeles in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, only months after his rival ...

Rapper Notorious B.I.G. AKA Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace) receives Billboard Music Award on December 6, 1995 at The Coliseum in New York City. The Notorious B.I.G. was killed when he was 24 ...

The Notorious B.I.G. was killed when he was 24 years old, but he had already become known as one of the greatest rappers of all time. The musician — born Christopher George Latore Wallace on May 21, ...