New Notorious B.I.G. documentary to premiere on Netflix, March 1st Although there are many and plenty documentaries that capture the life of Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls, there haven’t been any approved by Biggie’s estate, until now. Netflix will host the first official estate-approved documentary for Notorious B.I.G. on March 1st. Biggie: I Got A

Method Man was the only rapper to appear on both a Biggie and 2Pac album while they were both still alive. The East Coast vs West Coast feud of the mid-’90s divided the rap world. One artist was able to move freely between the battle lines and it was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Method Man

The Notorious B.I.G. was in the room when Pete Rock produced the “In The Flesh” from The Main Ingredient. During a 2013 interview with The MC Report’s The Revival web series, Pete Rock revealed that Biggie came to his house one day and watched Pete make a beat. “Notorious came over, he’s in my basement and wanted to see

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 late Christopher George Latore Wallace (best known as The Notorious B.I.G.), has been inducted into the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class. Joining him, is the late Whitney Houston. On May 2nd of this year, the induction ceremony will take place at Cleveland’s Public Hall. The ceremony will also be aired live

The Notorious B.I.G.’s original rap name was M.C. CWest or M.C. Quest Before Christopher Wallace was known as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie or, Biggie Smalls his first rap name was M.C. CWest (pronounced and sometimes spelled Quest). Biggie Smalls came from a character in the 1975 Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby movie Let’s Do It Again.

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

The last verses The Notorious B.I.G.—also known as— Biggie recorded were on Victory off Puff Daddy’s debut studio album No Way Out. The song also featured Busta Rhymes and was originally titled Hell Up in Harlem. The Notorious B.I.G.’s verse on Victory was recorded on March 8th, 1997, a day before he was killed. Victory

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are the only group to work with 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Eazy-E, and Big Pun while all four were still alive. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony worked with Eazy-E on 1994’s “Foe Tha Love Of $,” with Big Pun on 1996’s”No Mercy,” with Tupac on 1997’s “Thug Love,” and with Biggie on 1997’s “Notorious Thugs.”

It was all a dream! The corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place in Clinton Hill has been renamed “Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace Way” Hip-hop legends, fans and Bedford-Stuyvesant locals gathered around and celebrated the renaming of the corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place in Clinton Hill to “Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace