You may know the words and you may bop your head to it, but you don’t really understand what you’re singing. Before his murder in 1997, Christopher Wallace recorded two classic albums as The Notorious B.I.G.

He told MTV: “A lot of people listen to music, but they don’t really listen to it. ‘Decoded’ – a collection of autobiographical writing, pictures and heavily annotated lyrics- is to explain the messages his words convey plainly for people. ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ rapper Jay has also recently explained how one of the reasons he wrote “He loved being in Los Angeles – and we see this happen in movies – when everything is just fine, and we hung up the phone, and one hour later, he’s no longer with us.” “He felt like he finally was back in Los Angeles and everything was where it was supposed to be. For him to die so senselessly – I spoke to him that night, and he was so happy to be in Los Angeles, after the whole East Coast-West Coast thing. The King of Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls, busted through with an instant hip-hop classic on his first album, Ready to Die, but he outdid even his standard on Life After Death, an audible, posthumous autobiography about the life of the former dope dealer. His mother, Violetta Wallace, was a Jamaican immigrant who taught pre-school and worked two jobs to support. James Place near the Bedford-Stuyvesant border. Wallace today works as an actor and entrepreneur. Just six months after his sonsbirth, Biggie was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. Wallace, named after his father, Christopher. and Faith Evans had a son In 1996, Evans gave birth to Biggies second child and first son, C. An only child, Wallace spent most of his childhood on 226 St. Did Notorious BIG have a child The Notorious B.I.G. Puffy and Biggie worked on the artists first album, and the. was born Christopher George Latore Wallace in Brooklyn, New York City. Impressed, Puffy went to sign Biggie to his new label, Bad Boy Records. A young impresario and sometime producer by the name of Sean Combs heard Biggies early tapes. Speaking about Biggie at the launch of his new book, ‘Decoded’, at the New York Public Library, Jay said: “He wasn’t a troublemaker at all. Biggie was a Black man who was overweight, extremely dark skinned, and had a crook in his eye, yet he was a charmer. The two New York rappers were friends in the early 90s and Jay revealed he talked on the phone with the ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ rapper just hours before he was fatally shot in Los Angeles in 1997.ī.I.G – real name Christopher Wallace, but also known as Biggie or Biggie Smalls – was embroiled in a bitter war between rappers from the East and West coasts of the US at the time, which had started to spill over into gang related violence, and he is suspected of being gunned down by a gang member. Jay-Z spoke with The Notorious B.I.G an hour before he was gunned down and killed.

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