His Accomplishments… Tupac was the first rap artist to have two number 1 albums in a row on the Billboard's top 200 chart. As stated before, many people compare his fame to the Notorious B.I.G.'s fame, but the highest status on the album charts that Biggie ever achieved while alive was #13 on the top 200 albums chart, and #3 on the Rap and RnB charts. Tupac did all this before rap was as popular as it is today, in the dying days of grunge rock.…
At age 17, she died of cancer leaving him on his own. He soon ventured into the streets where he committed several crimes. Shawty Lo had been arrested 28 times before he started rapping. He was convicted four times and was facing a 40 year sentence but his longest jail stint served was one year, in 1994. Shawty Lo first founded his own own hiphop group in 2003, called “Down for Life” aka D4L.…
The rapper Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G denied playing a role in the murder. In support of his denials, Wallace's family produced computerized invoices suggesting that Wallace was recording a song in New York City recording studio the night Shakur was shot. Wallace's manager, Wayne Barrow, and rapper Lil' Cease publicly denied that Wallace had a role in the crime and said they were with him in the recording studio the night of the…
Christopher Wallace known as “Notorious B.I.G or even Biggie Smalls” by his many adoring fan. Biggie Smalls passed away on March 9th, 1997 after being shot multiple times. His death is still unsolved, and numerous of people do not understand how. Before he was shot he was leaving a music party event. He was riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban when another car pulled next to them and they had opened fire on the car.…
Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G., lived a short life. He was 24 years old when he was gunned down in 1997 in Los Angeles, a murder that has never been solved. Smalls was from New York and had almost single-handedly reinvented East Coast hip hop — overtaken in the early 1990s by the West Coast "g-funk" sound of Dr. Dre and Death Row Records. With his clear, powerful baritone, effortless flow on the mic and willingness to address the vulnerability, as well as the harshness, of the hustler lifestyle, Smalls swung the spotlight back towards New York and his label home, Bad Boy Records. He styled himself as a gangster and although he was no angel, in reality he was more of a performer than a hardened criminal.…
Ready to Die released September 13, 1994, by Bad Boy Records and Arista Records. Recording for the album took place during 1993-94 in New York City at The Hit Factory and D&D Studios. It was the only album Biggie Smalls lived to see release. The album became a certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Also, the album has reached a certified quadruple platinum with sales.…
John Gotti Net Worth Introduction Powerful Italian-American gangster John Gotti is also famous as the head of Gambino Crime Family of New York. Also famous as Teflon Don, John Gotti had a net worth of around $10 million at the time of his death. Biography & Wiki John Gotti was born on 27th October 1940 in South Bronx, New York. His father’s name was J. Joseph Gotti and his mother was Fannie who were Italian immigrants. His father works as a day labor and finds it pretty hard to run a family of 13 children.…
was born. Biggie was first heard on a remix of a Mary J. Blige song and a track on the Who's the Man? (1991) soundtrack. After these successes, the album worked on earlier went through its final touches and was released in 1994, titled "Ready to Die." The record was considered platinum quickly, and the Notorious B.I.G. was named MC of the Year at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards. After the quick success of the album, Biggie went back to get his friends, some who didn't even rhyme.…
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on april 4,1934 at the age of 39. James Earl Ray was the man who shot Martin Luther King jr. King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee when he was shot. After that he was rushed to st joseph’s hospital. There he died at 7:05pm on april 4.…
"They found him in a lifeless condition with no breathing. They were able to bring back some breathing," Lt. Patrick McCormack told The Daily News. "This was an excellent job by the officers and they definitely saved the life." Although the 45-year-old rapper's collapse was…
In 2006 Kanye and a highly respected rapper, 50 cent's , got in a feud over who was the better rapper. The deciding factor of the two rappers was to drop an album on the same days and decide by album sells. So, in 2007 50 cents dropped Guns N' Roses While Kanye dropped Graduation which killed 50 cents in album sells. Kanye West’s Graduation is a album you have to check out because, it was his first rap album that was highly respected of Kanye, it was the first rap album to really experiment with other type of music , and the first rap album to…
Feuds have been going on for many generation between families or groups of people for no reason. The book Huckleberry Finn and in the two articles “Hatfields and McCoys” and “East Coast vs. West Coast Rappers”; they each describe a feud that happened in either the story or in the articles. Feuding In my mind is unacceptable because there is no reason that two family should fight each other over who is the best family. I feel like families do this because they’re too ignorant of each other and don't have any forgiveness for themselves towards others. In the book Huckleberry Finn there was a feud between the Sheperdsons and the Grangerfords.…
And it came to Suge Knight’s attention that Tupac was going to leave Death Row Records – and the evidence shows you just don’t leave Death Row Records and get away with it," said LAPD Detective Russell Poole. Along with the notion that Suge Knight was not having it with Pac leaving Death Row, Shakur had fired Kenner as his attorney shortly before his death and was looking to begin his own label (Makaveli…
On April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee he was shot and killed.…
Jenee Desmond – Harris wrote an article called “Tupac and My Non-thug Life,” which was published in an online article called The Root. The title of this article seems very contradictory and that is because it is. This article is about how Desmond – Harris, as a young privileged half white, half black teenage girl, finds herself trying to embody Tupac after his death. The contradiction of this is that Desmond-Harris did not relate to Tupac in the ways of how they grew up. Desmond – Harris had yet to confront any of life’s hard edges when Tupac had passed.…