Notorious B I G Death
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Critics at such respected organs as The Source, Billboard and Rolling Stone have held the Notorious B.I.G. up as the greatest hip-hop M.C. of all time. That title goes to fellow New Yorker Rakim, hands down.
(Oh, please, don’t argue, the R’s supremacy is an incontrovertible fact.) No, B.I.G. Was not the G.O.A.T. But he was one of the best. The man had style, and we’re not just referring to those woollen pullovers he name-dropped on hits One More Chance / Stay With Me (remix), Hypnotize and Big Poppa. Check the garment-promoting flow on the latter, which uses possession of luxe knitwear to symbolise Big’s rise: “Money, hoes and clothes all a n**** knows / A foolish pleasure, whatever I had to find the buried treasure, so grams I had to measure / However, living better now, Coogi sweater now”. As that lyric suggests, Biggie got his start slanging not CDs but Gs. Autodesk 2014 serial number and product key. Born in Brooklyn in 1972 to Jamaican parents, Wallace grew up in the hardscrabble Clinton Hill hood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Though his work reaped extensive critical acclaim, Biggie held no lofty artistic pretensions. For him, commercial and material success was the focus. “My responsibility in a rap, to me, in my eyes,” he said, “is to keep making hits, keep selling records so my family can be straight.” His family values extended only so far, however, and within years of marrying the ironically named Faith Evans, Biggie got involved in a very public illicit relationship with his diminutive rap mentee, Lil’ Kim Jones, also taking up with Tiffany ‘Charli Baltimore’ Lane (in parallel with Evans and Jones) in 1995.