A virtuoso of flow as well as a master storyteller, Biggie was arguably the greatest rapper of all time. Compellingly written and brilliantly illustrated, with rare color and black-and-white photographs from Vibe's archives and Biggie's family, this is an in-depth look at the life and afterlife of an icon whose music is as powerful and prevalent as ever. Coker's narrative is based on exclusive interviews with Biggie's family and friends, some of whom have never spoken publicly about Biggie before. and as Biggie Smalls helped make him a definitive voice of a generation. An honors student who dropped out of school to sell drugs, Biggie soon discovered that he had a gift for rocking the mike. Ordained with a flow as soulful to black, post-Reaganomics America as Louis Armstrong’s trumpet during the days of the civil rights movement, the street narratives of Brooklyn’s own Christopher Wallace deified in music history as The Notorious B.I.G.
At the time of his death, C.J., whom he shared with Grammy-winning singer Faith Evans, was only five.
Before he rocketed to fame as Biggie, Christopher Wallace was a young black man growing up in Brooklyn with a loving single mother. Biggie Smalls, n Christopher Wallace, was shot and killed in March 1997 at the age of 24. He was 24 years old when he was gunned down in. Despite the clash of personalities and styles, all four were key players in a volatile and creative era of hip hop, a time when gangsta rap became popular music. WHO IS BIGGIE SMALL Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G., lived a short life. In this riveting account of Biggie's remarkable life, hip hop journalist Cheo Hodari Coker tells the story you've never heard about the dramatic, tension-filled world of Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, and Suge Knight, tracing their friendships and feuds from the beginning to the bitter end. Summary: From the same people who brought you vibe magazine's New York Times bestseller tupac shakur comes the other half of the story that rocked the world: unbelievable, the larger-than-life biography of Christopher Wallace, a.k.a.
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