Who killed biggie. The policeman revealed the bloody secret of Tupac's murder: the killer was hired by P Diddy. FBI closes Notorious B.I.G murder case

Christopher George Slag Wallace (eng. Christopher George Latore Wallace; May 21, 1972, Brooklyn, New York - March 9, 1997, Los Angeles, California) is a famous American rapper. He performed under the pseudonyms Biggie Smalls, Frank White and most famously - The Notorious B.I.G.

Introduction

Notorious B.I.G. born May 21, 1972; was the only child of Voletta Wallace.

“He started singing and talking before he could walk. He started writing before he started going to school, he had the most beautiful handwriting, ”recalls his mother.

His mother raised him alone, but she never saved him from the influence of Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a place where there was pressure from his neighborhood, young people who were known to be juvenile delinquents. The rapper left high school at the age of seventeen to sell crack (drugs). Although his mother says he shouldn't have sold drugs. He was never hungry. The rapper himself stated that: "Drug dealers were my role models." It was the only way for a young black man to earn his living in the ghetto. Of course, this connected him with a huge risk, and did not go unnoticed: the transportation of drugs to North Carolina ended with a nine-month stay behind bars. Then he had enough time to think about his future, but becoming a millionaire musician was still in his fantasies. After getting out of prison, Biggie borrowed a friend's tape recorder with a four-band equalizer and recorded several tracks.

Although he was known as "Big Chris" in his neighborhood and could be found right on the corner of the block, everyone knew that he could do more than just play dice well. He could rhyme well.

“He used to only go to house parties, spitting rhymes and shaking things around. He was always good. It was a gift from God,” says Lil’ Cease.

Carier start

The tape he made with DJ Big Daddy Kane and Mister Cee was submitted to The Source magazine for the "Unsigned Hype" contest. And he won this competition. The tape was then sent to Uptown Records producer, Bad Boy Records founder and CEO, Sean "Puffy" Combs, who was looking for hardcore rappers.

“I just kept rewinding and rewinding that tape. I was supposed to meet him,” Combs recalls.

Within weeks of signing Biggie, Puffy puts him to work with the likes of Mary J. Blige, Super Cat and Neneh Cherry. On September 13, 1994, Biggie's long-awaited debut, his album titled "Ready To Die" was released. This album, with its spontaneity, honest human autobiographical "story" and excellent style, easily changed hip-hop.

The album was a resounding success. The first single, "Juicy", went gold within a few weeks, and by the end of the year the album was certified triple platinum. "Juicy" reached the top five rap singles on the Billboard chart. His second single, "Big Poppa/Warning" reached number one. In June 1995, the single "One More Chance" debuted in the top five charts. "Ready To Die" was popular throughout 1995, eventually selling two million copies. With this success, The Notorious B.I.G. became the most prominent figure in hip-hop. A perfect mix of commercial materialism and realistic gangsterism, the debut of The Notorious B.I.G. 1994's multi-platinum album Ready To Die made him a hip-hop superstar.

But despite his new role as a successful rap artist, Biggie hasn't left his old life behind. He had several run-ins with the law, he was accused of beating people and started cases related to drugs and weapons. In 1994, he and Puffy were charged with involvement in the shooting and robbery of Tupac Shakur, both of whom denied the fact. (Later, Shakur did a diss on Biggie, in which he revealed that he slept with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans).

Biggie is starting to bring his old friends Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease onto the stage by forming a group called Junior M.A.F.I.A. Their album "Conspiracy", which was released in 1995, went gold. And after that, Lil' Kim's solo album called "Hardcore" released in 1996 went platinum.

Biggie wins three times in 1995 at the Source Music Awards, including the Discovery of the Year nomination. In the same years, at the Billboard Music Awards, his single "Big Poppa" was named "Single of the Year" and, in 1997, "Life After Death" received the Billboard award in the category "R'n'B Album of the Year" , after which he receives an award at the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video and two ASCAP Awards. But an album's impact cannot be measured by simple sales charts, platinum status, or even awards.

Biggie's success changed his life forever. By the time he created his second album, Life After Death (released in 1997), he had known success, fame, fame, wealth and greed. He put his heart and soul into the recording of this project, a double disc with 24 songs. With Sean "Puffy" Combs, The RZA, DJ Premier and more, the album established Biggie as one of the greatest MCs ever. The album was released posthumously, a few weeks after Biggie's tragic death. "Life After Death" debuted at number one, breaking records, in its first weeks of sales and remained on the charts for many months, with singles such as "No Money, No Problems" and "Sky's The Limit". Spin magazine named him "Artist of the Year". "Life After Death" went 10x platinum and played on radio for two full years.

Death

Early on the morning of March 9, Biggie was returning to his hotel in Los Angeles after the Soul Train Award party, when a car fired at him from a passing car from the Peterson Automobile Museum. The rapper tragically died before arriving at the nearest hospital.

An excerpt from ROLLING STONE, February 12, 2006:
Crossroads of Wilshire Boulevard Combs' front car overshot the yellow light. Biggie's Suburban was stopping at a red light when a white Toyota Land Cruiser moving in the opposite direction suddenly made a 180-degree turn and wedged between Biggie's car and the Chevy Blazer driven by Bad Boy's security chief. At the same moment, a black Chevrolet Impala pulled up beside Notorious B.I.G. In the cabin was a black man in a blue suit, bow tie, with a very short haircut. It was later suggested that the man belonged to Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. With his right hand, he took out a pistol, put it on his left forearm and discharged a clip into the musician sitting in the front seat. All bullets hit Notorious B.I.G. The killer's car took off and sped forward down Wilshire Boulevard. The Land Cruiser, which was covering him, turned sharply and disappeared at high speed.

One of the versions of the murder of the rapper was the revenge of the boss of the label "Death Row-Suge Knight". This version was followed by the police. But not enough evidence was collected, and the case was closed, although at the moment the proceedings are still ongoing. Marion "Suge" Knight, who was in prison, told the informant that he was responsible for Notorious's death. Again, no one knows what will happen next.

Biggie's death was a major blow to the music industry. Biggie's public funeral was accompanied by riots. Thousands of people in Brooklyn climbed onto cars and clashed with police for a glimpse of his hearse. As a result, ten people were arrested. Private funerals were more peaceful, attended by Queen Latifah, members of Public Enemy and Naughty By Nature.

Many artists have paid tribute to Biggie, especially his record company colleagues who released a song called "I'll Be Missing You" ("I'll miss you") as gratitude and respect for Biggie's short but very colorful life. On May 14th, Notorious B.I.G. Day was announced by over 200 radio stations and the single was played nationwide with a thirty second silence. More than 3 million copies were sold, and the money from the sales went to the children who were left with Biggie.

In clubs and concerts, Biggie always evoked a storm of emotions with lyrical stories from his own life experiences. Biggie once said in an interview that growing up on the streets of New York, his main role models were local drug dealers, and added that they gave him an idea of ​​what life on the streets really is.

Two years after Biggie's death, his posthumous album, Born Again, was released and went straight to number one on the charts. The album was recorded in collaboration with Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube and other famous rappers. This album was not a reminder or tribute to a man, it was a celebration of his life. The name, which translates as "born again", is largely symbolic, alluding to the belief in the transfer of the soul after death to a better world, the belief in an afterlife. This name is used to breathe life into the legacy left by this great man. "Born Again" is more than archival material released to fill a void. Members of Biggie's "family" including Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease, and Puff Daddy added their own poetry to it, giving them another opportunity to be with their hero and friend. He bequeathed to us his music, unsurpassed talent and inimitable voice.

In 2005, Notorious' second posthumous and final album, Duets: The Final Charter, was released. Here, together with Notorious, current rap stars (The Game, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana), veterans of hip-hop (Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem), R&B (Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans) and even alternatives (Korn) sing. The style of the album differs markedly from the rest of Biggie's work.

There are many theories surrounding Biggie's death, the most common being the East Coast/West Coast feud in the United States. Rumor has it that it was revenge for the death of Tupac Shakur. There is also information that the Los Angeles rap community was outraged by his influence in this area. We must not forget the version according to which Biggie became a victim of the feud between the Bad Boy (Puffy) and Death Row (Suge Knight) labels, especially since at the moment, whistleblowers say that Suge himself planned this murder. There is also a version that the killer was a member of a gang that Biggie hired to guard him on trips around the West Coast, and to whom Biggie paid little. Although the official file says that there was a so-called. "drive by shooting" - when fire is opened from a car passing at a slow speed, some claim that a certain person approached Biggie's car and talked to him, and then started shooting at him. The LAPD compiled a sketch of the suspect, but no one has been found to this day. Either way, Biggie's death has become a symbol of the senseless violence that troubles America.

Biggie's murder brought public attention to the so-called. "rap war" and called for reconciliation on both sides. Both coast rappers such as Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, Doug E. Fresh and more attended a summit held by Louis Farrakhan in Chicago where they signed a unity pact that included a combined tour and album. Puffy Combs couldn't show up for this meeting, but, like Ice-T and Ice Cube, sent his people as support. Ice Cube also canceled two shows he had scheduled in Los Angeles out of respect for the deceased rapper. After the death of Biggie and Tupac Shakur, their joint single "Stop The Gunfight" was released, recorded several years earlier.

The history of hip-hop has a number of tragic events concerning the fate of artists whose lives were cut short at the peak of fame, but without whose creativity it is impossible to imagine the development of culture. So, we propose to recall the five most significant losses, whose names will forever remain in the memory of hip-hop connoisseurs.

Tupac

His life was shrouded in a chain of intense events, and death became a cornerstone in the rallying and solidarity of hip-hop representatives.

Tupac became the first rapper to receive a monument, unfortunately a posthumous one. He also became the first artist to write an album while serving time in prison. By the will of fate, he managed to survive after five serious bullet wounds, which he received a day before the sentencing in the case of sexual harassment.

A seven-foot bronze statue at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

He was mortally wounded 2 years later, on September 7, 1996. They say that Tupac had a premonition of his imminent death, and therefore in the last months of his life he spent most of his time writing new songs.

Today, Tupac Shakur is a legend whose bold statements about the cruel reality set the tone for the development of hip-hop and have not lost their relevance to this day.

The Notorious B.I.G

Unlike Tupac, fame and recognition came to Biggie long before his death. His debut album Ready To Die literally blew up the audience and was a resounding success. The record was sold with a circulation of 4 million copies.

But despite the rise of his career, the artist was in no hurry to change his rowdy character and continued to regularly break the law. He was repeatedly accused of illegal possession of drugs, and also attributed to attacks on people. It was Biggie who appeared as one of Tupac's attackers before the trial. It is noteworthy that both ultimately denied this information.

Biggie died on March 9, 1997 as a result of an armed attack. This death also remains unsolved. Among the many versions there is revenge for the murder of Tupac, but the police have no direct evidence of this.

Pimp C

The musical career of Pimp C was more than successful. Despite the ubiquitous addiction to drugs and the addictions of his environment, Pimp C struggled with negative influences, and music became what helped him. The musician broke into the world of hip-hop in the late 80s and became a respected figure among fans and pros. A member and founder of the legendary duo UGK, he also acted as a producer of many famous artists, whose names still do not leave the most prestigious music charts.

Pimp C died on December 4, 2007 at a Los Angeles hotel. The cause of death was respiratory arrest during sleep due to an overdose of cough medicine.

Eazy E

Eazy E's debut album made a real revolution in the world of hip-hop. The 20-track album sold over 2.5 million copies. It was the album Eazy-Duz-It that laid the foundation for such cult genres as west coast hip-hop and gangsta rap.

A significant role in the biography of the artist was played by a sincere enmity with Dr. Dre. Album titled It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa, released in 1993 and mocking Dre, went platinum twice.

In February 1995, Eazy E was taken to the hospital with suspected asthma, but the diagnosis was shocking - advanced AIDS. He died in the hospital on March 26, 1995, having previously reconciled with Dre and Snoop Dogg, and also became engaged to Tomika Woods.

Guru

Guru founded the band Gang Starr in 1987 and their debut on the music scene can hardly be called successful. The first recordings of the musicians were poorly appreciated by critics. After a line-up change, between 1989 and 2003, Gang Starr released 6 rather successful albums, two of which received gold status.

In parallel with the group, the musician was also engaged in solo projects, in which he was looking for new ways of sounding. It was the Guru who first began to sample jazz compositions and rap, which is still successfully used by modern artists.

All these five deaths are tragic in their own way. Some of them still remain a mystery, others were the result of irreparable health problems. However, one thing is known - fans will always remember the names of these musicians, and their work will influence the current, billion-dollar-profit hip-hop culture for a long time to come.

Tupac Shakur (2Pac)

American hip-hop artist, producer and actor from Harlem. Glory overtook him during his lifetime, but after his death, the rapper became a world legend. Tupac was the first artist to record an album behind bars. Maintaining the classic image of a rapper from the ghetto, the musician did not give up a life of crime, which was associated, among other things, with drugs. As a result, he was attacked six times. The seventh attack turned out to be fatal: in 1996, a 25-year-old guy was shot on one of the streets of Las Vegas. After his death, he was included in the prestigious ranking of "100 Immortal Artists" by Rolling Stone magazine. The killers could not be found.

Big L (Lamont Coleman)

Another Harlem rapper who was shot in the street in 1999 without arresting the killers. Since childhood, he was fond of hip-hop dancing and even participated in freestyle battles in his area. One day, he sneaked into an autograph session with producer and rapper Lord Finesse and begged him to look at his skills. Finesse liked the young talent, and he immediately took Lamont's phone number. Before his death at 24, he managed a lot. Several of his albums and singles in the 90s were on the list of the 20 best hip-hop albums according to Billboard magazine.

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The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)

The Notorious B.I.G. - one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history, who feuded with Tupac Shakur as part of the war between the two coasts. The same East Coast and West Coast. In the words of 2Pac himself: "These motherfuckers of the East Coast ran into me." The Los Angeles Times even published an article about the fact that Tupac was ordered by his famous opponent. But the 24-year-old Notorious finished just as “legendarily”. He was shot from a passing car in 1997.

Jam Master Jay (Jason William Mizell)

Member of the influential 80s hip-hop group Run-D.M.C., which influenced the style and sound of modern rap. He was also a mentor to 50 Cent and a producer for the hardcore hip hop band Onyx. In the 2000s, he even founded an academy where he could study DJing. Despite the fact that of this tragic five musical legends he lived the longest - 37 years, he did not escape the fate of the rest. Jason was shot dead in 2002 while working at Merrick Boulevard Studios in New York. No one was punished for this.

The Man Who Ordered Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur), - US law enforcement agencies reported that many years later the murder of rapper Notorious Big was also solved ( Notorious B.I.G).

Clayton Hill, a prisoner serving time for tax evasion, said he knew the killer's name: “Davud Mohammed wrote to me that they ordered Biggie for him, paying $ 25,000”. According to Hill, he and Muhammad were members of an African-American fraternal and political organization group (the sect Nation of Islam owned by Louis Farrakhan). Hill said he was instructed by the society to help dispose of the killer's weapon:

“I met Muhammad at the bus stop and warned him that I was following directions, so he did not resist. Mohammed took out a bundle, carefully unwrapped it, and there was a semi-automatic pistol wrapped in a man's shirt, either nine- or forty-millimeter. “Someone in Chicago needs it,” I told him and took it. As expected, I took the weapons to Emil Mohammed, Louis Farrakhan's personal driver, but I doubt Farrakhan knows anything about this.

According to Hill, the man he identifies as Dawood Mohammed is very similar to Amir Mohammed, who is also a member of the sect and has been repeatedly accused by the Notorious family of killing the rapper. All suspicions with Amir were removed due to lack of evidence, but now Hill cannot say for sure whether they were different people or the same.

Prior to this, there were many versions of the murder of the rapper, among which is the theory of enmity between the East and West coasts of the United States: revenge of the label boss Death Row Records Suga Knight for the death of Tupac Shakur ( 2pac). There is another, according to which he simply became a victim of the enmity of the labels Bad Boy Records And Death Row Records. In any case, this murder drew public attention to the so-called. "rap war" and caused an official reconciliation of both sides.

Recall that fame, money and recognition came to the rapper very quickly, immediately after the debut album "Ready To Die". Despite the new status, Notorius Big led the same way of life: he had several run-ins with the law, he was accused of beating people, illegal possession of drugs. In 1994 he and Puffy ( Sean "Puffy" Combs) were accused of involvement in the armed attack on Tupac Shakur. Meanwhile, creating their second album "Life After Death"(released posthumously in 1997), he became richer and more popular. On the morning of March 9, 1996, he was returning to his hotel in Los Angeles after a party. "Soul Train Award":

“Wilshire Boulevard intersection, the front car of the Chevy Blazer overshot the yellow light. Biggie's Suburban stops at a red light when a white Toyota Land Cruiser moving in the opposite direction suddenly makes a 180-degree turn and wedged between Biggie's car and the Chevy Blazer driven by Bad Boy's security chief. At the same moment, a third car, a black Chevy Impala, appears and pulls up beside Notorius' car.
In the cabin was a black man in a blue suit, bow tie, with a very short haircut. It was later suggested that the man belonged to Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. With his right hand, he took out a pistol, put it on his left forearm and emptied the magazine into the musician sitting in the front seat. All bullets (except two) hit Biggie. The killer's car took off and sped forward down Wilshire Boulevard. The Toyota Land Cruiser that was covering him turned sharply and also disappeared at great speed. writes a magazine Rolling stone.

In October 2010, Clayton met with the FBI and told everything he knew about those events. Case of the death of Notorious Big, whose real name was Christopher George Lator Wallace ( Christopher George Latore Wallace), resumed on his initiative. Hill himself, now in prison, is preparing a book in which he will reveal the details and tell about all the intrigues taking place in the sect of Louis Farrakhan Nation of Islam.

The Notorious B.I.G. is an American rapper who went by the pseudonym Biggie Smalls.

Performer Ilyina EkateriAmong the numerous icons of hip-hop, it is impossible not to recognize Biggie, thanks to his unusually childish and displeased face. This is a legend and one of the main figures of hip-hop, who, unfortunately, have not been with us for 20 years.

Little Christopher Wallace saw the light in 1972 and, for the first 17 years of his life, did not even know about the future prepared for him. He started, like almost all black children in the ghetto districts, as a drug dealer. His father abandoned him at an early age, leaving him in the care of his mother. His mother tried her best to put all her love into him and compensate for the lack of his father. She tried to protect him from the streets and their terrible influence, but living in the ghetto area still took its toll, and Biggie became interested in selling crack, as the prospect of easy money attracted him. He always said that he wanted to emulate drug dealers and saw them as an authority because he thought they reflected the real life of the streets. At the age of 17, he dropped out of school and spent a year in prison for selling drugs. But one day at one of the parties, young Christopher decided to compete with someone in a rap duel and impressed everyone with his recitative. After that, he became popular in his quarter, everyone was amazed at his talent for rhyming and the timbre of his voice that suited this.

The rapper decided to record his work as a beginner on a tape recorder, and these cassettes with recordings once got to the popular producer Puff Daddy, who saw the power of great talent in Biggie's work. And now, having adopted the nickname The Notorious B.I.G, part-time Biggie, in 1994 he released his debut song Juice, which brought him unprecedented popularity. The talented rapper hits the top of the charts. And in 1995, he received three nominations at the Music Awards. After that, Biggie releases his first album Ready to die and becomes the legendary rapper of the era. He starts working with other people like Mary J. Blige. Later, the rapper who gained popularity releases the single One More Chance, and he is thrown into a new wave of popularity and recognition. But, as it usually happens, popularity brings with it a lot of problems - accusations of illegal possession of weapons and marijuana, as well as problems with the law of his wife, a famous singer at that time. Constant skirmishes with the law begin to occur. However, the fateful moment in the life of The Notorious B.I.G becomes a conflict with the key figure of West Coast hip-hop 2pac. Rapper 2pac was killed by unknown persons who robbed him of a decent amount of money. And the public blamed the sincerely sorry Biggie and his producer Puffy for this.

The great east coast rapper was tragically killed in an assassination attempt by Tupac Shakur fanatics.
There is a lot of speculation about the death of The Notorious BIG, and the most likely is an East Coast vs. West Coast fight. The death of the legendary Biggie was revenge for the murder of a benchmark from the opposite coast. And this murder has become a symbol of a senseless rap war. After his death, the album "Life After Death" was released, which went platinum and was played on the radio a number of times. The funeral was attended by members of Public Enemy and Naughty By Nature. A lot of musical artists, paying tribute to the greatest rapper, released songs dedicated to him. First of all, this is the album Born Again, released two years after the death of the rapper, in which you can hear Biggie's old songs that have received a new life.




Biggie is deservedly considered one of the eternal classics of hip-hop and one of the world's greatest figures who influenced music.na Vladislavovna (ek_il)