Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie Smalls and “The Notorious B.I.G” was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn New York. Biggie Smalls was a childhood nickname that Christopher was given due to his size compared to others. As a young boy in Bedford- Stuyvesant, where he was raised he began to create his own music. It was nothing but hard times in his community being a young teen surrounded by drug dealers and drug addicts. His father left the family when Biggie was two years old. Voletta Wallace, Biggies mother, was a single parent. She worked two jobs to take care of the house and her only child. Struggling to make ends meet Biggie soon turned to the life he knew and what he was surrounded by turning himself into a drug dealer leaving his mother obscure.
Biggie Smalls was seventeen when he was first arrested for selling crack. He spent nine months in a North Carolina prison…show more content… He also influenced other artists himself such as 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, Jay-z, Fat Joe, Eminem, and Lil’ Kim. Biggie was a really big influence to the world. It wasn’t just about his music it was because of his style. He’s music had meaning, his phrases and the way he sung his music making his songs into stories. It was more of a twist he wasn’t like the other rappers he was different in his own way. For those who didn’t like rap listening to Biggie was a good way to change a person’s feeling about hip hop.
Biggie was an honest, charming, and coldhearted type of person. His music showed the difference in human race. There are so many different ways to show how different Biggie was within his music. He wasn’t just a rapper he was a messenger as well. He told real stories in his music he even exposed real life problems situations that we still struggle with today. Biggie was a really talented man. His “Ready to Die MC” was not written down his completely came up with it in his head no pencil nor
