![]() ![]() The album featured 3 singles "Juicy", "Big Poppa", and "One More Chance". It debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum. His first album Ready to Die was released on September 13, 1994. In April 1993, his solo track, "Party and Bullshit", appeared on the soundtrack to the 1993 comedy movie Who's the Man?. After Combs was fired from Uptown Records in 1993, he decided to sign Biggie to his record label, Bad Boy Records. ![]() Sean Combs, a rapper and producer, heard Biggie's early songs. In 1991, he released a demo tape called Microphone Murderer. It also because of his height and weight. ![]() He nicknamed himself "Biggie Smalls" after a gangster character in the 1975 crime comedy movie Let's Do It Again. As a teenager, he began rhyming to entertain people on street corners and in neighborhood groups. He excelled academically and received multiple awards in school for English. He was the only child of Jamaican parents Voletta Wallace and Selwyn George Latore. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the East Coast/West Coast hip hop feud, through which record companies from both sides of the United States fostered a feud between New York-based and California-based artists.Ĭhristopher George Latore Wallace was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. The release of Wallace's first album Ready to Die in 1994 made him an East Coast hip hop icon. He was murdered by drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California on Maat age 24. Both his death and the death of his friend/rival Tupac Shakur, who died in September 1996, are still unsolved. 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. Wallace is considered by many music enthusiasts to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Christopher George Latore Wallace (– March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names, The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper, who grew up in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. ![]()
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