He is remembered for his storytelling ability, talented freestyling ability, and his easy to understand yet complex flow.
His career was overshadowed by the Bad Boy/Death Row Records feud during his life, but following his untimely death in 1997, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game and, since his death, Books Instead of Guns), was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply.Ĭhristopher George Latore Wallace (– March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975’s Let’s Do it Again) and Frank White (from the film King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G.