People in Biggie's Clinton Hill neighborhood gather to watch his funeral procession drive by on March 18, 1997. Notorious B.I.G. Before he was Biggie, B.I.G, Notorious, Big Poppa, he was Christopher Wallace. Biggie Smalls Last Words "I'm having chest pains, I'm having chest pains," were Biggie Smalls' last words, spoken to his wife Faith Evans moments before he lost consciousness. . It sparked a war of words between Faith Evans and Lil' Kim, who was upset at her portrayal in the movie. [Chorus: The Notorious B.I.G.] New York Daily News Archive via Getty Images, Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images, New York Daily News Archive / NY Daily News via Getty Images. He had formed the group to mentor young rappers including Lil' Kim, with whom he would have an affair. Not only did Ready To Die go six-times platinum and immediately establish Biggie as a major new player in the hip-hop game, but it gave West Coast rappers some real competition from the East Coast. But if nothing else, this news negates our pet theory that Tupacs last words were Please, dont make me into a hologram.. Twenty-five years after his murder on March 9, 1997, the case remains an unsolved mystery. [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. A later 2005 story by Chuck Philips alleged that an informant for the Poole-Sullivan theory, Psycho Mike, was a schizophrenic with admitted memory lapses who confessed to hearsay. Twenty-five years after his murder on March 9, 1997, the case. (Evans would speak about this many years later in 2014, when she told MTV that Tupac once hit on her after a recording session, "but that ain't how I do business," she said.). Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. In the land of blind posthumous Biggie songs, "Dead Wrong" is the one-eyed king. [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. "At the end of the day we're family, whether we like it or not," Kim said in 2016, shortly before she and Evans went on tour. Biggie had more darkly ornate visions, especially about the value of black life in a world where brand names, crackheads, deceased friends, and Lear jets, all represent a doomed existence. That same year, as he worked on music for his debut album, Biggie Smalls met Tupac for the first time. (May 1972 - March 1997) Many people thought the legendary Biggie Smalls was just being paranoid when he wrote lyrics to a song called 'Suicidal Thoughts'.
