Christopher Wallace: Notorious B. I. K.

557 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Drugs in the music world

Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Notorious B.IG. Christopher George Latore Wallace was born on May 21st, 1972. The background of the notorious B.I.G Wallace, he was the son of Jamaican parents, Voletta, a preschool teacher, and George Latore, a welder and small-time politician. Growing up he was raised in the poor neighborhood of Bedford-Stuy vesant as the son of a preschool teacher. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen biggie became a crack dealer, which he proclaimed was only source of income. Biggie Smalls hustle one’s ways was common life for young black man trying to make a living in the ghetto his career choice involved certain risks. However, doing a trip to North Carolina for a routine drug he exchanges ended being the soon-to be MC a nine-month stay bars. Once Biggie was released he borrowed a friend tape recorder and laid …show more content…

On the night of March 8,1997 around 12:47 a.m. According to the FBI Case Files at the time of the murder Biggie Smalls was traveling with entourage in two GMC Suburban along with associates Damion Butler a.k.a "D-Roc" junior M.A.F.I.A member Lil Cease, and driver Gregory Yong a.k.a G-money. Sean Combs a.k.a “P-Diddy “and Puff Daddy, the CEO of Bad Boys Records Which Biggie Smalls was signed to, was travelling in the front GMC Suburban along with three bodyguards. The Chevy Blazer with Bad Boys Record label director of security was in the rear behind Biggie Smalls Suburban. Witnesses stated that a black man dresses in blue suit and bow tie driving a dark color Chevy Impala SS, drove up next to Biggie’s Suburban wind down his window and fire four shots from a 9mm Blue steel pistol, into Biggie’s Suburban hitting and killing him. According to witnesses the shooting was gang related and Biggie’s death was retaliation for the murder of Rapper Tupac Shakur six months

Show More
Related

  • A Brief Biography Of Lil Boosie: Torrence Hatch's Revolution

    524 Words  | 2 Pages

    Torrence Hatch (Lil Boosie) was born November 14, 1982 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was born and raised in W. Garfield St, on the south side of Baton Rouge, a neighborhood well known for drugs and violence. Boosie faced many troubles inside and outside for school as he was growing up. When Boosie was 14, he moved in with his grandmother after his father was murdered in a drug-related activity. He then started to get very serious about basketball, he played in order to stay off of the streets, he was expected to go to college level, but then got expelled for possession of illegal drugs. Boosie had been rapping since he was 14 or 15, but never let anyone know because he didn’t think he was good enough, but after he was expelled, he began to get very serious about his music career. Unfortunately, Baton Rouge lacked a music scene, so it was difficult for him to create a contract, which resulted in a lack of exposure. But lucky for Lil Boosie, a mutual friend of Boosie and a local rapper, C-Loc, introduced the two and before Boosie knew it, he was recording his homemade raps in a p...

    Read More

  • Mystery Behind Death of Tupac Shakur

    1846 Words  | 4 Pages

    June 16th, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. Lesane Parish Crooks was born. Left by his father, Alice Williams, Tupac's mother changed his name from Lesage to Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac has moved from Oakland to New York and back again. When he was fifteen he was into writing rap lyrics and gang related subjects. By the time Tupac was eighteen he had been arrested eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse. Tupac studied the teachings of a war strategist known as Machiavelli in prison.

    Read More

  • Tupac

    722 Words  | 2 Pages

    Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in New York City to Afeni Shakur, a Black Panther member since 1968. She gave birth to him 2 months after she was released from Women’s House of Detentions in Grenwich Village. She was charged with conspiracy to bomb several New York public locations and just had her bail revoked. In court she represented herself and won against the state of New York in a surprising turn out. In Incan dialect, his name Tupac Amaru means “shining serpent” and Shakur is Arabic for “thankful to God.” For most of his childhood his crack addicted mother shuffled Tupac between the ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was educated in ballet and acting. Tupac was forced to drop out of the school because he had to move to California with his mother, where his criminal career began. He left his house at the age of 17 because of the continuous fights with his mother he then began selling/doing drugs, and was homeless for about 2 years. His life was spiraling down wards at a rapid rate. Till one day he got his big break. Tupac always dreamt about being famous someday, now his dream was becoming a reality. He struck a recording deal with Interscope records. He was on his way to super stardom, but as we all know with fame comes problems. He was involved in the shooting of two off duty police officers, although the chargers were later dropped. He was also convicted of rape, and sentenced to 5 years in Clinton Correctional Facilities.

    Read More

  • Booker T. Washington

    641 Words  | 2 Pages

    In 1881, I founded and became principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. I started this school in an old abandoned church and a shanty. The school's name was later changed to Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). The school taught specific trades, such as carpentry, farming, and mechanics, and trained teachers. As it expanded, I spent much of his time raising funds. Under Washington's leadership, the institute became famous as a model of industrial education. The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, established in 1974, includes Washington's home, student-made college buildings, and the George Washington Carver Museum.

    Read More

  • Faith Evans

    1181 Words  | 3 Pages

    Over the next couple of years, Evans continued her behind-the-scenes work, performing and writing for records by the likes of Color Me Badd and LSG. She and Biggie also had a son, Christopher Wallace Jr., in late 1996; however, by that point, their marriage had already become strained. Biggie had publicly taken up with rapper Lil' Kim and rumors had been spreading about an Evans liaison with Biggie's rival 2Pac (alluded to on 2Pac's venomous "Hit Me Off"). The couple had unofficially separated when Biggie was shot and killed in March 1997. A grief-stricken Evans was prominently featured on the Puff Daddy tribute single "I'll Be Missing You," which with its cribbed Police hook zoomed to the top of the charts and became one of the year's biggest hits.

    Read More

  • Research Paper On Tupac Shakur

    1070 Words  | 3 Pages

    Tupac Amaru Shakur born in East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16 1971. His both parents were members of the Black Panther Party. Tupac Shakur was a vocal participant during the East Coast and West Coast hip hop rivalry. He went to High School in California and Maryland. His career brought him back to New York City. Forget about his education and family background, thinking about how he put himself into his career so successfully. To succeed and accomplishment that made him in legacy…..

    Read More

  • The True Story Capture in "Biggie and Tupac"

    996 Words  | 2 Pages

    The documentary film was about the murders of hip hop rappers Christopher “Notorious B.I.G” Wallace and Tupac “2Pac” Shakur. Following the film closely, the evidences and theories was based mainly on a former detective of which Broomfield suggested that it was due to the East Coast/ West Coast rivalry in the hip hop culture that had resulted in the two killings orchestrated by the fearsome puppet-master, Suge Knight, former CEO of Death Row Records. The film also uncovered possible involvement by Los Angeles police officers who were on Knight’s payroll after Broomfield presented an eye-witness who were able to name one of the hit men (VanillaIceJuggalo, 2012).

    Read More

  • Booker T. Washington

    1169 Words  | 3 Pages

    Booker T. Washington was the first African American whose likeness appeared on a United States postage stamp. Washington also was thus honored a quarter century after his death. In 1946 he also became the first black with his image on a coin, a 50-cent piece. The Tuskegee Institute, which Washington started at the age of 25, was the where the 10-cent stamps first were available. The educator's monument on its campus shows him lifting a symbolic veil from the head of a freed slave.

    Read More

  • Dr. Dre

    977 Words  | 2 Pages

    With N.W.A. he melded the noise collages of the Bomb Squad with funky rhythms. On his own, he reworked George Clinton's elastic funk into the self-styled G-Funk, a slow-rolling variation that relied more on sound than content. When he left N.W.A. in 1992, he founded Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and the label quickly became the dominant force in mid-'90s hip-hop thanks to his debut, The Chronic. Soon, most rap records imitated its sound, and his productions for Snoop Doggy Dogg, Warren G and Blackstreet were massive hits. For nearly four years, G-funk dominated hip-hop, and Dre had enough sense to abandon it and Death Row just before the whole empire collapsed in late 1996. Dre retaliated by forming a new company, Aftermath, and while it was initially slow getting started, his bold moves forward earned critical respect.

    Read More

  • Tupac Shakur's Death

    659 Words  | 2 Pages

    Many people have this one thing they ALWAYS do, and Tupac’s was wear a bullet-proof vest. It is so ironic how the night he didn't wear one he ended up getting shot. Tupac was cremated the day after he died. Now who gets cremated the day after they die, no autopsy no nothing. They can’t did him up like they wanted to do with Elvis Presley or former President Abraham Lincoln. The Cadillac that the murderer was in was never found. If someone would have robbed a bank or casino in Las Vegas the police would've been all over the scene. In Atlanta, GA., if someone was shot the police would look for the gunman immediately. However the city that the shooting was in was only about eight blocks who could run away in a city of eight blocks that fast.

    Read More

  • Similarities Between Tupac Shakur And The Notorious B. I. G.

    634 Words  | 2 Pages

    --Topic Sentence--Tupac and Biggie both were born in New York, spending their early years there. Tupac was primarily from the East Harlem section of Manhattan New York City, New York, but he moved multiple times in his youth. Tupac moved to Baltimore,

    Read More

  • Booker T. Washington

    1862 Words  | 4 Pages

    Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great leader. He was all for helping the black community become stronger. His goal was very hard to achieve considering the period in which he lived. America, during Washington's time under reconstruction. The Civil War was over and blacks were, by law, equal to any other human being.

    Read More

  • Biggie Smalls: The Life Of The Waste Of People

    1787 Words  | 4 Pages

    Biggie Smalls was the son of Jamaican parents, Violetta Wallace and George Latore. His father left the family when Biggie was just one years old. In Biggie’s early life, he was surrounded by drug dealing and other negative pursuits. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 21, 1972 and grew up on 226 St. James Place in a ghetto area. Biggie dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen. He often told his mother that he saw education as useless and a waste of time. At this point in his life, Biggie turned to drugs and became a crack dealer which became his only source of income. During this same year, he was caught doing a routine drug exchange in North Carolina in 1990 and was sent behind bars for nine months. Biggie called this event, “a blessing in disguise.” When he was released from jail, he began to turn to

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Tupac, And 2morrow By Amaru Shakur

    1423 Words  | 3 Pages

    Tupac Amaru Shakur was an African-American rapper, poet, and record producer during the 1990’s. In his adolescent years, he attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he took acting and dance classes, like ballet. He was taught radical politics by his mother, which helped him develop ideas about topics he would later use in his many works. At an early age, Tupac had seen the injustices of the real world. His mother was a former Black Panther activist who turned to substance abuse during Tupac’s childhood. Aside from that, he and his mother also moved many times while they lived together in New York City. While Tupac was in Baltimore, he discovered rap; not long after, he and his mother moved to the West Coast where he joined the rap group

    Read More

  • Tupac Shakur

    913 Words  | 2 Pages

    “ Poverty, murder, violence and never a day 2 rest.” Those were the words of Tupac Shakur, a legendary rapper. Tupac Amaru Shakur (born June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rapping and hip hop music, as well as his movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75 million albums sold worldwide, including over 50 millions in the United States alone. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up around violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society, and sometimes qualms with other rappers. Shakur's work is known for advocating political, economic, social, and racial equality as well as his raw descriptions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and conflicts with the law. Many fans, critics, and industry insiders rank him as the greatest rapper ever.

    Read More

More about Christopher Wallace: Notorious B. I. K.

Open Document