The Life Of Biggie Smalls, By Christopher Wallace

Hip-hop star Christopher Wallace best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G was involved in an East Coast conflict with the rapper Tupac. Months after Tupac’s death, Biggie was about to release his second album just before he was gunned down and shot by what is now said to be Tupac’s gang. He was shot while leaving a party in Las Angeles en route to his hotel. Once the album got released, its popularity bumped it all the way to number one on the charts. This helped make Biggie Smalls one of the best rappers of all time in the 90’s.

Christopher was born on May 21, 1972 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His mom, Voletta Wallace, worked at a preschool while his dad, Selwyn Latore, worked as a welder and politician. His dad left the family when Christopher was only two years old leaving Voletta to raise Christopher alone in Brooklyn. Voletta worked two jobs to supply the income for her son to attend a private school. Christopher was a great student but ended up hanging out with the wrong people. This eventually
The following month marked the first album release, “Ready to Die.” His success was starting to create a conflict between the East and West Coast rappers. However, on March 8, 1997, he was attending a party in Las Angeles to promote his new album and single Hypnotize. He was shot on the way back to the hotel.The shooter was said to be a member of the blood gang and was getting paid to shoot him. Biggie Smalls was killed by a drive-by shooting at the age of 24. In 2006, Faith Evans, Voletta Wallace, C.J Wallace, and T’yanna Jackson fired a 500 million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the LAPD stating that corrupt LAPD officers were responsible for Christopher’s death. On March 27, 1997, his album, “Life After Death” was released and was the certified diamond in sales, selling more than 10,000,000 copies. Life after death was the most top-selling album ever to hit