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B.IG was born in Broklyn hes real name (Christopher Wallace)
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Ready to Die was released, Biggie married R&B singer and Bad Boy labelmate Faith Evans.
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, in September 1994. Its lead single, "Juicy," went gold, and the follow-up smash, "Big Poppa," achieved platinum sales and went Top Ten on the pop and R&B charts.
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The Notorious B.I.G., released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records. but he wasnt alive to see the disc come out.
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November 1994, West Coast gangsta star Tupac Shakur was shot several times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and robbed of thousands of dollars in jewelry. police found marijuana and weapons in a raid on Biggie's home in Teaneck, NJ.
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Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip. Given their very public feud, it didn't take long for rumors of Biggie's involvement to start swirling, although none were substantiated. They accused biggie smalls for his murdered.
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March 9, 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was leaving a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, thrown by Vibe magazine in celebration of the Soul Train Music Awards. He sat in the passenger side of his SUV, with his bodyguard in the driver's seat SUV while it was stopped at a red light, and 6-10 shots were fired. Biggie's bodyguard rushed him to the nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but it was too late.
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Faith Evans gave birth to Wallace's son
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an album of previously unreleased B.I.G. material, Born Again, was released and entered the charts at number one. It eventually went double platinum, but thus far it's been the only posthumous collection in Biggie's discography (unlike the cottage industry surrounding 2Pac).
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Faith Evans and Voletta Wallace (Biggie's mother) filed a civil suit against the LAPD alleging wrongful death, among other charges. In September of that year, the L.A. Times published a report alleging that the Notorious B.I.G. had paid members of the Crips one million dollars to murder 2Pac, and even supplied the gun used.
