This resulted in the sensational distribution of eighteen million copies if this CD worldwide. Wallace’s tragic death made his second album even more anticipated. This killing has remained unsolved until now and raised a lot of alleged connections with Tupac’s murder. Although he was immediately delivered to a hospital, the doctors were unable to save his life ruined by the four bullets in his chest. was murdered in his car by a streak of gun shots from another vehicle. In March 1997, two weeks before the release of Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. suffered a car accident that chained him to a wheelchair for a while and then made him use a cane. He was arrested several times for a number of offences, including battering, drugs and weapon possession and robbery.ĭuring the preparation of his second album, Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. Apart from this, the rapper had numerous troubles with the law. However, the slaying of Tupac shortly afterwards raised the flux of speculations on Wallace’s involvement into this affair.
restrained himself from the direct reply. Tupac Shakur, a leading performer from the other coast, released an outrageous song defiling the image of his new competitor from New York. Unwillingly, he became the main figure in the war between the two rap schools of the States. was excellent at combining gangster tales with romantic ballads. Along with his unrivaled skill to rhyme the words rapidly, B.I.G. His songs, soaked in his vicious memories of the wrongful past, appeared a sincere revelation of the criminal life that found a huge response all over the USA. The new rap star from New York became the person who could finally bring the fame back to the East Coast hip-hop from the leading West Coast. Two weeks later, the record ran double platinum, exploding a bomb in the American hip-hop society. He made the young rapper quit it and commit himself solely to music. kept selling drugs, which went contrary to Combs’s rules. Trying to support his little daughter, B.I.G. and decided to turn the young man’s talent into a big rapping act.
He gave Chris his stage name Notorious B.I.G. Spread widely throughout New York clubs, this record eventually caught the eye of Sean Combs (widely known as Puff Daddy), a celebrated producer. As the friends kept telling him how good he was at freestyles, Chris gave it a try and made a demo. At that time, rapping was no more than just a hobby for the young man. As Chris made friends with the other guys outside he named himself B.I.G. Christopher’s mother worked hard day and night to support her son and protect him from the mean streets, but this was not enough. He studied together with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z. The father left the family when Chris was just eighteen months and this fact made him never think anything good about the old man. Christopher Wallace was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York.