He also appeared on the Flava in ya Ear remix. Blige's smash hits Real Love and What's the 411. He made his second mainstream appearance on the remix of Mary J. Wallace first gained notice with Party and Bullshit, his first single. Combs and Wallace became instant friends, performing together on the 1992 reggae song Dolly My Babii by Super Cat. The demo tape found its way into the hands of then Uptown Records employee Sean Puffy Combs (now Diddy, who subsequently arranged for a meeting with Wallace. This tape reached The Source magazine and they co-signed Biggie in their Unsigned Hype column, which is dedicated to aspiring rappers. Cee, who was the DJ for Brooklyn MC Big Daddy Kane. He developed into a talented lyricist, recording a demo tape with local performer Mr.
With a baby on the way, Wallace decided to start rapping. Shortly after he was released, he had his first child, T'Yanna. He was eventually busted, and served 10 months in jail. Wallace, who originally didn't stray much farther than his Brooklyn neighborhood to sell drugs, began to traffic drugs to Virginia and Maryland where it was sold at a higher price. His best childhood friend and inspiration was a chubby kid who went by the name of Lil Punisha. While he is known to have dropped out of school and become a drug dealer, his mother has claimed that the family was not poor and that Wallace exaggerated his childhood situation in his lyrics. His father, George Latore, left the family shortly after his birth, and his mother, Voletta, was a schoolteacher. is considered by many to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.Ĭhristopher Wallace was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. He is remembered for his storytelling ability, talented freestyling ability, and his easy to understand yet complex flow.
His career was overshadowed by the Bad Boy/Death Row Records feud during his life, but following his untimely death in 1997, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game and, since his death, Books Instead of Guns), was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s. Christopher George Latore Wallace (March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975's Let's Do it Again) and Frank White (from the film King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G.
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