Rolling Stone and Billboard both named him the greatest rapper of all time while New York City street vendors still hawk T-shirts bearing his likeness. He remains larger than life, nearly a quarter century after his murder. His second and final album, “Life After Death,” has sold more than 11 million. The album has sold more than 6 million copies.
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His meteoric rise to fame began in 1993 when he signed with Combs’ Bad Boy Records.īiggie’s first album, “Ready to Die,” was released a year later and spawned a series of hits, including “ Juicy” – an iconic hip-hop track that now boasts more than 388 million YouTube views even though the song hit the airwaves well over a decade before the video platform existed. Upstart entertainment executive Combs read the article and met Biggie for the first time at Sylvia’s, the soul-food landmark in Harlem. The Source magazine profiled Biggie in a 1992 feature about unsigned talent. But, say Sikorski and Carson, there has been little to no activity on the case for years.īiggie was born in Brooklyn in 1972 and, as a teenager, descended into a life of crime, including arrests for gun possession and dealing crack.īut his rap skills were legend on the streets. The criminal investigation into the murder officially remains open, according to the LAPD. The civil case filed against the LAPD by the Wallace family in 2002 contains much of the evidence about the murder but remains sealed under order of a federal judge. Sikorski and his production team now demand that law-enforcement officials in California renew the investigation and solve what the filmmaker calls “the JFK assassination of the rap world.” They’re joined in their effort by Carson. Carson said he shared this information with Combs and that the record label exec was “pretty freaked out” to learn that he was the intended hit. The original target was not Biggie, said Carson, but Sean “Puffy” Combs, who was in the vehicle ahead of Biggie’s SUV on the night of the murder. “Mack is a registered owner of a 1995 Black SS Impala with chrome wheels, the exact description given as being driven by Wallace’s shooter.” “Amir Muhammad, AKA Harry Billups, the godparent to LAPD Officer David Mack’s two children, has been identified by several sources as the trigger man,” reads the formal FBI request, penned by Carson, that the investigation be given a Los Angeles case file number.
David McNew/EPA/Pool via ReutersĪ 2003 FBI report obtained by The Post that outlines the case for prosecutors supports the claim Carson and the filmmakers make today. Former FBI agent Phil Carson said Marion “Suge” Knight was the one who financed the shooting that killed rapper Notorious B.I.G.
“All the answers are in black and white,” Sikorski said, claiming that he and “City of Lies” director Brad Furman are among the few people who have read the sealed court files behind the unsolved murder.
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The events that followed his murder have frustrated fans, observers and the Wallace family for nearly a quarter century, swirling with accusations of an official and widespread cover-up.īut Carson and film producer Don Sikorski, whose movie “ City of Lies” chronicles the murder, its probe and the aftermath, told The Post the murder itself is no mystery. or Biggie Smalls) was 24 when he was sensationally gunned down on a Los Angeles street in the early morning of March 9, 1997. “I had evidence that LAPD officers were involved and I was shut down by the LAPD and city attorneys inside Los Angeles.”Ĭhristopher Wallace (aka the Notorious B.I.G. The alleged cover-up “was the biggest miscarriage of justice in my 20-year career at the FBI,” said Carson.
“There were plenty of others who helped orchestrate it allowed him to pull the trigger.” He’s the one who pulled the trigger,” retired FBI agent Phil Carson, who worked the case for two years, claimed to The Post. “All the evidence points to Amir Muhammad. an execution carried out by Nation of Islam convert and hired hitman Amir Muhammad with the help of corrupt Los Angeles cops, according to an FBI agent who worked the case and sources who have seen sealed court documents. Notorious B.I.G.’s famed NYC apartment hits market for $1.7Mĭeath Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight financed the hit on Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. Raekwon talks Wu-Tang and growing up on Staten Island with Jalen Roseīiggie Smalls’ iconic Brooklyn apartment sells for over asking price Life after death: How the Notorious B.I.G.
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