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Notorious B.I.G.   1972-1997

 Michael Lavine's best shot:

Biggie Smalls in a graveyard

‘I took this

up a hill in in the Veterans Way area of the Cypress Hills cemetery.

Biggie was dead six weeks later’

My best shot

G

Thursday 18 June 2015    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jun/18/
michael-lavines-best-photograph-biggie-smalls-notorious-big

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Official Trailer    15 February 2021

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Video        Official Trailer | Netflix    15 February 2021

Every legend has an origin story. Christopher Wallace,

AKA The Notorious B.I.G., remains one of Hip-Hop’s icons,

renowned for his distinctive flow and autobiographical lyrics.

This documentary celebrates his life

via rare behind-the-scenes footage

and the testimonies of his closest friends and family.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj2NxkM84U

Christopher G. Wallace    1972-1997

(Notorious B.I.G. / Biggie Smalls)

gangsta rap artist

who turned

his drug-dealing past

on the streets of Brooklyn

into a platinum-selling

recording career

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/10/
us/rapper-is-shot-to-death-in-echo-of-killing-6-months-ago.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
christopher-g-wallace-notorious-big 

https://www.npr.org/artists/88479887/
the-notorious-b-i-g

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
notorious-big

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/
1195414007/hip-hop-biggie-smalls-notorious-ready-to-die-justin-tinsley

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/
1085296583/notorious-b-i-g-is-forever-synonymous-with-brooklyn

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/
1028892592/in-chucky-thompson-
black-music-found-a-borderless-million-selling-sound

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/
arts/music/chucky-thompson-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/
1026349642/notorious-b-i-g-nas-and-mary-j-blige-
producer-chucky-thomson-dies-at-53

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/05/
the-notorious-big-his-20-greatest-tracks-ranked

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/
arts/music/biggie-smalls-i-got-a-story-to-tell.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/01/
biggie-i-got-a-story-to-tell-review-netflix-documentary

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jun/18/
michael-lavines-best-photograph-biggie-smalls-notorious-big

http://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2014/09/22/
349607102/microphone-check-live-the-stories-of-the-notorious-b-i-g

http://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2014/09/12/
347752538/remembering-biggie-smalls-and-ready-to-die-20-years-later

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/
arts/music/30drake.html

http://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/
128916682/biggie-smalls-the-voice-that-influenced-a-generation

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/24/
nyregion/rap-artist-arrested-in-assault-with-bat.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/18/
arts/pop-music-biggie-smalls-rap-s-man-of-the-moment.html

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