Biggie Smalls

First Tupac Now Biggie Smalls How Take 3 Restaurant Is Honoring Hip Hop Legends In A Special Way

... fan of Notorious Big. It's fans like Barraza that owner Desirae Washington is trying to attract. She redecorated the entire restaurant with Biggie Smalls art drawn by local artists, hired a Dj and created a special breakfast menu as well. "We're serving steak cheese and welches grape, that's a line from big papa; the 546 am treats comes from his song The Warning, so we're just kind of pulling bits and pieces of his songs," said Washington. Washington says the art community has really been supportive through this difficult time. "Even with the construction that's happening, obviously business slows from that, but it's crazy to see how many people are still coming down it's been really helpful," said Washington. Randall Morrison Deputy City Engineer says fans won't have to brave construction for long. "We are scheduled to be complete early summer," said ...

20 Years Later, Biggie Smalls’ Murder Remains Rap’s Great Mystery

... “So now, here we are, in this backyard running around with guns, just playing. Luckily, they were all unloaded,” Dan recalled in music magazine The Fader. “While we were running around, ’Pac walks into the kitchen and starts cooking for us. He’s in the kitchen cooking some steaks. And we go into the kitchen, and he had steaks, and French fries, and bread and Kool-Aid, and we just sittin’ there eating and drinking and laughing. “And you know, that’s truly where Big and ’Pac’s friendship started.”. Biggie and Tupac were soon hanging out whenever they were on the same coast, including at the now-epic “Where Brooklyn At” freestyle rap-off at Madison Square Garden. Biggie was still a relative unknown, but Tupac, who stylized his stage name as 2 Pac, was on the fast track to stardom. The 22-year-old had already released two well-received albums, “2 Pacalypse Now” and “Strictly 4 My N. I. G. G. A. Z.,” and had a budding movie career after starring in “Juice” and “Poetic Justice” with Janet Jackson. Within a year, the two rappers’ bond went bust. Biggie, ...

Shaq Regrets Missing Party Where Biggie Was Shot

... to join Biggie Smalls and attend an after-party for the Soul Train Music Awards on March 9, 1997, but ended up sleeping through it, according to The Undefeated. As Shaq slumbered, Biggie was fatally shot just fifty yards away from where the party was held. “I don’t say I could’ve prevented it,” said Shaq, looking back on the fateful night. “I was just saying, if I was out there by the car, would they still have fired? That’s the only thing I would say to myself.”. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Artists — Pics. “I don’t wanna make it seem like I could’ve saved him,” Shaq added. “I don’t wanna make it seem like if I was there, the shooters wouldn’t have shot. If I was there by the truck, after we all left and I’m dapping him up, would they still have shot?”. Shaq actually bumped into Biggie near a tattoo parlor on Sunset Boulevard, just days before the rapper’s murder outside the Petersen Automotive Museum. Shaq, noting that Biggie was in LA just six months after Tupac Shakur was shot, told him to “be careful.” The Notorious B. I. G. ...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Honors Biggie Smalls

... of the rapper’s death, New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries honored him on the House floor. “It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine/Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine/Hangin' pictures on my wall/Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl,” Jeffries said Thursday, reciting the lyrics from “Juicy.”. “Those were the words of the late great Notorious B. I. G., Biggie Smalls, Frank White, the King of New York. He died 20 years ago today in a tragedy that occurred in Los Angeles. But his words live on forever. I’ve got the privilege of representing the district where Biggie Smalls was raised. We know he went from negative to positive and emerged as one of the world’s most important hip hop stars. His rags-to-riches life story is the classic embodiment of the American dream. Biggie Smalls is gone but he will never be forgotten. Rest in peace, Notorious B. I. G. Where Brooklyn at?”. Biggie Smalls was shot and killed in Los Angeles 20 years ago Thursday. (Davis, Clarence). The Brooklyn-raised rapper was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in L. A. on March 9, 1997. He was 24. The ...

On Losing Biggie And Dealing With Ptsd From Growing Up In The Hood

... and it was my generation’s job to create something better. I share all of this to say, I expected Biggie to die. He rapped about it, and my experience had shown me that this was Black male life unless you chose something radically different. I also considered him to be a man, not even a young man, just a Black man, which from my traumatized perspective, meant that death was highly probable. It wasn’t until I passed the age of 25, the age that he died, that I truly understood the gravity of losing such a talent in his youth. The normalization of violence and poverty have done exactly what it’s supposed to do to the Black community. It’s created cyclical destructive behaviors that cripple too many of us in ways that intersect and are so interwoven—think financially, emotionally and physically—that one invariably impacts the other. The result? It has prevented us from building enough strong families, which impacts us financially, emotionally and physically, and from working as a collective team, which, you guessed it… has ...

Brooklyn Nets To Celebrate The Life And The Legacy Of The Notorious B.i.g. At Biggie Night On Sunday, March 12

... “greatest rapper of all-time,” when the Nets host the New York Knicks at Barclays Center on Sunday, March 12 at 6 p.m. The evening will commemorate Biggie’s iconic legacy and the 20 th anniversary of his passing on March 9, 1997. Biggie’s closest family and friends will be in attendance to remember him throughout the night, with Sean “Diddy” Combs and Biggie’s mom Voletta Wallace paying tribute to The Notorious B. I. G. with special pre-game and halftime ceremonies. Invited guests include Biggie’s children, T’Yanna and CJ Wallace, Mark Pitts, and Wayne Barrow. Music from Biggie and the artists he inspired will be played throughout the game, the Brooklynettes will perform two special routines, and at halftime, DJ Enuff will play for the crowd. Fans will also see a video montage ...

5 Fast Facts You Need To Know

... friendship to feud is one that’s been ingrained in popular culture. They were the spokesmen of their respective coasts, and their subsequent falling out ushered in the deadliest–and most tragic– consequences the genre has ever seen. Today is the twentieth anniversary of Biggie’s death. Still, his music, his persona, and his beef with 2 Pac (born Tupac Shakur) has never been far from the hip-hop’s collective conscious– immortalized through documentary ( Biggie & Tupac ), biopic ( Notorious ), and, later this year, cable television ( Unsolved ). Here are five fast facts you need to know about their legendary relationship. 1. They First Met In 1993. — 2 Pac News (@2 pacnews) November 14, 2014. In the book  Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (2016), author Ben Westoff reveals that Biggie and 2 Pac first met in Los Angeles in ...

Why I'm Saying Thank You To Biggie Smalls, 20 Years After His Death

... of existence and his microcosm of the hood served as its perfect metaphor. Unfortunately prophetic, he did inform us on his first album that he was Ready to Die, and finally left us with the posthumous gift in the form of a double album, Life After Death. Almost immediately after Biggie left us hip hop changed, which is the diplomatic way of saying that hip-hop died along with him. The following year brought a not-so-subtle changing of the guard, which is to say it brought a change in the sound, and for better or worse, hip-hop would never be the same again. Bad Boy gave rise instead to the softer sounds of Puffy and Mase, soon answered by the choppier gruffness of DMX. Production got cheaper, objectively speaking, as samples that cost royalties became a thing of the past almost overnight, and the south rose in popularity. Suddenly everyone from below the Mason-Dixon Line were becoming instant millionaires for rapping about bitches and money, except most were leagues below the god who did it first. Thank you, BIG. We loved you and miss ...

Fbi Reveals Documents In Biggie Smalls Death Probe

... an LAPD officer, who was later convicted of bank robbery, was involved and that the police department was ignoring evidence. The lawsuit was later dismissed. The newly-published documents, despite the redactions, do indicate tension between the FBI and LAPD. Near the end of the FBI probe, the lead agent writes that he had been ordered to have no contact with the civil lawyers for the Smalls family. The agent notes in one report that he would not contact a certain source "because he/she is one of the main witnesses" in the civil suit against the LAPD. Retired Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, who worked on the Smalls' case, told CNN earlier this year that he believes Suge Knight was behind the murder, even though the Death Row Records' boss was serving time on a probation violation at the time. "Suge Knight ordered the hit," Poole says, adding that he believes it was arranged by Reggie Wright Jr., who headed security for Death Row Records. ...

Notorious B.i.g. Art Show To Celebrate Rapper's Legacy

... “Ready to Die.”. “We thought it was a really special thing for the community to be celebrating art from our community, for someone from here who is cherished,” said gallery co-owner Stevenson Dunn Jr. “As two young men born and raised here in Bed-Stuy,” he said of himself and his partner, “Biggie is a legend to say the least. To be able to not only do things on own your but support other efforts of groups like Spread Art NYC, it’s a par for the course.”. “That’s what we do, spread love the Brooklyn way. … He has inspired us so much.". The Notorious B. I. G., also known as Christopher Wallace, was shot to death in Los Angeles at the age of 24. “I cut class two times in my entire life: once for senior ditch day, and another time in eighth grade when I went to Biggie’s funeral,” Dunn Jr. said. The March 10 event at the Bishop Gallery will feature an opening ceremony and an auction of a painting that served as the template for Rocko and Zimer’s mural. Tyanna Wallace, daughter of the late rapper, is expected to attend, along with DJ 50 Grand and members of the OGB crew, according to Rocko. The showcase will take place ...