Prior to Biggie sadly passing away in March 1997, he planned on forming a rap group called The Commission. At the very beginning of Biggie’s “What’s Beef,” you hear him say “The Commission”— which was going to be made up of Biggie himself (Franke White), Jay-Z (Iceberg Slim), Puff Daddy, Lance ‘Un’ Rivera —Producer (Uncle Paulie), Lil’

The baby on the iconic cover art of The Notorious B.I.G.‘s debut album Ready to Die is not Biggie. The chubby baby with the huge afro in diapers is Bronx native Keithroy Yearwood, who says he made $150 from the two-hour modeling agency photoshoot. The Notorious B.I.G. released his debut album on September 13, 1994

On the night of September 9, 1999, while presenting the Best Rap Video award at the MTV Video Music Awards, Will Smith introduced Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace, Tupac and Biggie’s moms, for the first time ever. Roughly three years after the tragic deaths of their sons, the two grieving mothers hugged on the Metropolitan