In march, 96 The Notorious B.I.G.was going to a party
in L.A with his friend Sean "Puffy" Combs. Even
that it was heald in L.A there was many east-coast
rappers on the party.The Party started kicking around
10.pm and you could see that Biggie and Puffy was
enjoing with a bottle of champage.Some hours later the
hosters thought it was time for everybody to go home.
The guest was waiting for their limos, from that point
itīs imposseble to know what really happend, becouse their
is a millin different stories.Hereīs how "Puffy" put it.
I had just got my limo and I was just opening the door
when I heard some gunshots.My first thought was "Biggie!".
And unfortunately what Puffy had feared was true. Biggie
had been hit.At 1.25 am the 9th of March The Notorious
B.I.G. was declared dead. The murderer still remains
unknown and the description the LAPD released is "male
, black, early 20's" and despite what they say, they
haven't gotten any closer to solving the case.
B.I.G. was named Rapper of the Year at the 1995
Billboard Awards.Rolling Stone called the record
the best rap debut since Ice Cube's Amerikkka's
Most Wanted.
Ready To Die differed from other rap albums, the songs
are about his life on the street and the more money you
got the more problems so get.
"One More Chance" was named Billboard's Rap Single of
the Year.
But the luck changes, in the next years he was very
offen at the police.
In 1994, he and Puffy were accused of setting up the
shooting of world fameos rap-star Tupac Shakur, a
charge both of them vehemently denied.
Tupac later mocked B.I.G. in a song, claiming to have
slept with Faith Evans, the R&B singer B.I.G. married
shortly afterthe release of Ready To Die.
B.I.G. kept extremely busy in the years between his
two albums. He carried on a very publicfair with L'il
Kim, and went on to produce her album Hardcore.He also
appeared on R. Kelly's debut album and shared studio
time with the King of Pop himself, appearing on Michael
Jackson's History. Along with Sticky Fingers and M.C.
Lyte, the portly rapper even played himself on an
episode of the TV show New York Undercover.
B.I.G.'s murder thrust the so-called "rap war" into the
national spotlight and created a call for peace from all
sides. Rappers from both coasts, including Snoop Doggy
Dogg, Chuck D, and Doug E.Fresh attended a summit held
by Louis Farrakhan in Chicago, pledging their support
for a unity pact that would include a joint peace tour
and an album. Puffy Combs was unable to attend but sent
his support, as did Ice-T and Ice Cube. Cube also canceled
two shows he had scheduled in L.A. out of respect for the
slain rapper.
"Stop the Gunfight," a 
single recorded several years ago that featured
both Tupac and B.I.G. was released soon after,
and Puffy Combs put together a tribute album
that included a single with both B.I.G. and
Faith Evans. May 14 was declared Notorious
B.I.G.Day, with over two hundred radio stations
nationwide playing the single, followed by a
thirty-second moment of silence.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s public funeral, however,
was anything but peaceful. Thousands flooded
into his Brooklyn neighborhood to catch a
glimpse of his hearse, jumping on cars and
clashing with police; ten people were arrested.
A private funeral held earlier was more cordial, with Queen
Latifah and members of Public Enemy and Naughty by Nature
in attendance. The casket was open from the waist up, and
the rapper had been fitted in a double-breasted white suit
and matching hat. A week later, the double-CD Life After
Death hit the streets, landing at the top of the charts,
where it remained for three weeks.
From Drugs to Rap!
Biggie was Brooklyn born and raised.
And the streets of Crooklyn aren't
easy to deal with,
so to survive Christopher Wallace
started selling drugs.
-I was a full time 100 percent
hustler. Selling drugs,
waking up early in the morning,
hitting the streats selling my
shit 'til the crack of dawn.
His mother couldent see hin
sell the shit so she begged
him to stop, and look how it
became.Biggie didn't know what
to do with his life. Is this
the way he was supposed to live?
Ducking bullets and selling drugs,
life was hell. Another
day, another struggle.
Just for fun,Biggie picked up the mic and dropped
a few rhymes once in a while.
He and everybody else knew he was talented,
but the thought of a rap-career never crossed his
mind. His tape circulated first in Brooklyn and
finally Big Daddy Kane's DJ Mister Cee got a hold
of it and he liked what he heard. He asked
Biggie to appear on an album called 'Unsigned Hype",
the album was never released but several of the mc's on it
including Biggie, ended up with record deals.
"Me on the mic?, itīs shit, Na, no way." Biggie wasn't
expecting his rapping to be more than a hobby, but there
he was signing a deal with Uptown Records. Uptown's
National Director of A&R Sean "Puffy" Combs saw something
in Biggie and took him to his family. Biggie's first
appearance was on a Mary J. Blige song, and suddenly the
question wasn't if his first solo release was going to be
dope, it was how dope it was going to be. So Puffy and
Biggie finished the album, but after having trouble with
Uptown Puffy left and started his own label with the help
of Arista Records, the now legendary Bad Boy Entertainment
was here. Biggie dropped his first album, 'Ready To Die'.
This album was something special, lyrical perfection and dope
beats was some of the things that made this album go platinum.
You could feel Biggie's anger on the album, in 'Things Done
Changed', 'Gimmie The Loot', 'Everyday Struggle' and 'Machine
Gun Funk' he talked about life on the streats in Brooklyn.
'Warning' was about how more money will only result in more
problems, and in 'Ready To Die' he told the world what he
thought of it. 'Juicy' explained how he had turned his life
around from negative to positive. The lyrics was hard and
angry, but was he Ready To Die? No, actually what Biggie
meant with the title was that he was willing to go all out
for his music, he would do anything to get off the streets.