Wallace began rapping when he was a teenager. He spent nine months behind bars until he made bail.
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A year later, Wallace was arrested in North Carolina for dealing crack cocaine. In 1990, he was arrested on a violation of his probation. In 1989, he was arrested on weapons charges in Brooklyn and sentenced to five years' probation.
At seventeen, Wallace dropped out of high school and became further involved in crime. According to his mother, Wallace was still a good student, but developed a "smart-ass" attitude at the new school. Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes were also students at that school. Wallace transferred out of the private Roman Catholic school that he attended, at his request, to attend the state-funded George Westinghouse Information Technology High School. His mother, often away at work, did not know about the drug-selling until Wallace was an adult. At the age of 12, he began selling drugs. He was nicknamed "Big" because of his size before he turned 10-years-old. At the Queen of All Saints Middle School, Wallace excelled in class, winning several awards as an English student. His father left the family when Wallace was two years old, leaving his mother to work two jobs while raising him. Wallace was the only child to Voletta Wallace, a Jamaican pre-school teacher, and George Latore, a welder and small-time Jamaican politician. Mary's Hospital, although claiming to be raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, the apartment Wallace grew up in is located in neighboring Clinton Hill. MTV ranked him at #3 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time.īorn in St. Since his death, a further three albums have been released. Wallace was noted for his "loose, easy flow", dark semi-autobiographical lyrics and storytelling abilities. album charts and was certified Diamond in 2000. His double-disc set Life After Death, released fifteen days later, hit #1 on the U.S. On March 9, 1997, Wallace was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud, dominating the scene at the time.
The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A. When Wallace released his debut album with the 1994 record Ready to Die, he was a central figure in the East Coast hip hop scene and increased New York's visibility at a time when hip hop was mostly dominated by West Coast artists. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Wallace grew up during the peak years of the 1980s' crack epidemic and started dealing drugs at an early age. Christopher George Latore Wallace (– March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a fictional gangster in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again), Frank White (from the 1990 film King of New York), and his primary stage name The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper.
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