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His murder remains unsolved.Īmerican rapper Notorious BIG (born Christopher Wallace) attends the 1995 Billboard Music Awards, New York, New York, on December 6, 1995. Stopped at a red light, another vehicle pulled up next to Smalls’ and open fired. Smalls died on March 9, 1997, in a shooting after leaving a party in Los Angeles. She once claimed the acronym stood for “Books Instead of Guns” because her son excelled in English classes in school. stood for Biggie “Business Instead of Game.” “It was fun just hearing myself on tape over beats,” Smalls later said.Īs for the name, The Notorious B.I.G., there are multiple theories about the origin of the name. As an adult, he stood at 6’ 3” tall and 280 pounds.Īfter getting out jail, he made a demo tape under the name, Biggie Smalls, which the rapper got from a drug dealer character in the 1975 film, Let’s Do It Again. The rapper got the nickname “Big” during childhood because of his size.
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How did the Biggie Smalls get his nicknames? He had trouble with the law throughout his teen years. Smalls started dealing drugs at the age of 12 unbeknownst to his mother. After transferring from a private school - the Roman Catholic Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School - to George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, Smalls eventually dropped out at the age of 17 in 1989. To support her son, Voletta worked two jobs. Voletta raised Smalls after her Selwyn left the family in 1974.
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| Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace rolls a cigar outside his mother’s house in Brooklyn.