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  1. 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, [2] was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his ...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Biggie Smalls, also known as "The Notorious B.I.G.," was a revered hip-hop artist and face of East Coast gangsta rap. He was shot and killed on March 9, 1997.

  3. 6 days ago · The Notorious B.I.G., also called Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper who was one of the most influential artists of 1990s gangsta rap. He is often credited with reviving the ‘East Coast’ hip-hop recording labels based in New York City and prompted a rivalry with ‘West Coast’ labels based in Los Angeles.

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  4. The Notorious B.I.G.. Soundtrack: Bad Boys. Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, was born on May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Jamaican parents, Voletta Wallace, a pre-school teacher, and Selwyn George Latore, a welder and small-time politician. He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen ...

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    • March 9, 1997
  5. Aug 23, 2023 · As hip-hop turns 50, Biggie Smalls' legacy reminds us of what the genre has survived. A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. On Sept ...

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  7. Feb 26, 2021 · Christopher Wallace, also known as the Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls, was at the vanguard of 1990’s rap music and his fame would burn glaringly bright, if only briefly in life.Lauded as one ...

  8. Mar 1, 2021 · By Jon Caramanica. March 1, 2021. There are only a few known photographs of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur standing side by side, but just one that’s truly canonical. It’s from 1993 ...

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