At the conclusion of the brief service, Christopher was placed in a funeral coach and along with a cortege of cars was taken by procession to a nearby crematorium. A final audience was held for some three hundred invited guests including David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City. Christopher was placed in a an oversized African mahogany casket dressed in a white double breasted suit complete with a white ‘playa’ hat. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue for disposition.
His body was flown home to New York and taken to the Frank E. He was gone 45 minutes later at the age of 24. An ambulance rushed him to nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As with the Shakur shooting, a car pulled up to the Wallace’s vehicle and a barrage of gunshots found the mark and struck their target.
Six months later, in Los Angeles, Wallace himself was gunned down while sitting in his automobile after leaving a music industry party. However, police exonerated him due to lack of evidence. Shakur was shot while sitting in his car in Los Vegas after attending a boxing match. He became friends with fellow rapper Tupac Shakur but they became bitter enemies which culminated in both their deaths. A year later ‘Billboard’ magazine selected him rap artist of the year. The recording sold over 2 million copies. Notorious BIG rapped in a deep baritone voice about the usual gangster subjects and then unexpectedly changed to love and family responsibilities. Under his tutelage, Christopher first performed on albums with established artists then made his first solo album at the age of twenty one, ‘Ready to Die’ on Bad Boy Records. Upon release, he made a rap recording which landed in the hands of a young producer Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs.
Christopher was known locally for his rapping abilities. Notorious BIG was a product of his seedy neighborhood where, crime, drugs and decadence prevailed. At 17, The Notorious BIG was a high school dropout and soon in trouble with the law resulting in a nine month incarceration. He was singing and talking before he could walk. Notorious BIG was born in Brooklyn to Jamaican parents growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area and raised by his mother Voletta Wallace a preschool teacher. Notorious BIG Notorious BIG was large and imposing at 6 ft 3 inches Christopher Wallace weighted close to three hundred pounds.
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