“Every hustler knows you can’t hustle forever”. Christopher Wallace, or The Notorious B.I.G, was a Brooklyn based rapper who made Sean “Puffy” Combs and Bad Boy records a success. He was described as ‘“A mountain of a man , 6ft 3in, 280 lb, black as tar, with a W.C. Fields scowl and a lazy eye”’ (History). But Wallace’s life was short lived. He was shot at a red light in Los Angeles by an unknown shooter. Many people place the blame on the blood against crips gang rivalry, but others believe that it was a sinister plot of revenge for the west-coast rap legends Tupac Shakur’s death.
Biggie Smalls, or the notorious B.I.G, lived up to his name, being one of the greatest east-coast rap legends