THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G

Life can change in an instant. And nobody understands these words better than a die-hard hip-hop fan. In the ever-expanding universe of rap, one blink of the eye and the entire landscape can be transformed. From street styles to microphone flows to the artists themselves, nothing lasts forever.

In the case of the Brooklyn boy who the world simply called Big, that change came much too soon. The fatal bullet that killed the Notorious B.I.G. on March 9th 1997, transformed the lives of those who loved him - family, friends and fans.

A dark-skinned Buddha belly baby born to a twenty-five-year old schoolteacher on May 21st 1972, young Christopher Wallace, an only child, from his bedroom window witnessed the ills of a city in decline. It was on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, that the future B.I.G. first witnessed the depressing lives and laughing eyes that would later lace his street-hardened lyrics.

Going from a happy baby to a sullen teenager to a badass man, two things came along that would change his life forever: rap and crack. Rap would turn out to be the ultimate fuel for his witty imagination.
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