In 1991, he released his first demo tape. By the age of 12, the newly rechristened Big was selling crack in his Bed-Stuy neighborhood a mere five years later, the high school dropout was arrested for dealing in North Carolina and did a nine-month stint in prison before making bail. An only child, he was raised by his mother after his father abandoned the family when Wallace was two. No small feat for a chubby drug dealer who released only one album in his lifetime.Ĭhristopher George Latore Wallace was born on in Brooklyn, New York. Guru may have been the architect, RZA is the scientist, but P-O-P-P-A? He’s the king, and Biggie begat a generation of hip hop artists who are still following the path he blazed. Today’s In Memoriam is brought to you by the letter B:ī is for Big Poppa, Biggie Smalls, or maybe you know him as The Notorious B.I.G. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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