UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Lincoln Center will honor the late rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G., with an orchestral tribute as part of its ...

As The Notorious BIG, Christopher Wallace released some of the best hip-hop of the 1990s. His murder, six months after the fatal shooting of his West Coast rival Tupac Shakur, left a hole in the genre ...

The backstory: By the time The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, aka Biggie, aka Christopher Wallace) readied his sophomore studio album, anticipation was high. After all, its predecessor – 1994’s ...

Usher is undoubtedly becoming the unofficial king of Las Vegas, thanks to his My Way Residency. Even with a career spanning 30 years, the singer has continued to find ways to honor the acts before him ...

Voletta Wallace, mother of legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G., has died in in Pennsylvania. She was 78. According to the Monroe County Coroner’s Office, 78-year-old Wallace was pronounced dead of ...

The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 album Life After Death, which was released just days after he was murdered, is an iconic piece of hip-hop history. Now, to coincide with the ongoing celebration of ...

Biggie first started selling drugs in his neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn when he was just 12 years old. At the time, the crack epidemic was ravaging New York in the late 1980s and ...

Although The Notorious B.I.G. was known for popularizing gangsta rap in the New York hip-hop scene in the 1990s, Christopher Wallace had a very different demeanor behind the scenes. He was a father to ...

Voletta Wallace, the mother of Christopher "Norotious B.I.G." Wallace (Image source: YouTube/Ticket TV) Voletta Wallace, the mother of all-time great rapper Notorious B.I.G., has died. She was 72.

HUDSON YARDS, Manhattan (WABC) -- Sunday would have been Biggie Smalls' 51st birthday. The Universal Hip Hop Museum is among the places that honored the hip-hop legend with an event at Hudson Yards.