When did the notorious big die
When did the notorious big die
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Inside Biggie Smalls' Final Days and Drive-By Murder in Los Angeles
By early 1997, Christopher Wallace, better known Biggie Smalls or The Notorious B.I.G., was seeking to squash the East Coast-West Coast rap feud that many felt had fueled the September 1996 murder of his friend-turned-rival Tupac Shakur.
Now the father of a young son, and recently removed from a car accident that had left him using a cane to walk, Wallace was determined to see his dreams through as he finished up his sophomore album for Sean "Puffy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment, Life After Death.
He traveled to L.A. to shoot the video for its lead single, "Hypnotize," in February 1997, and stuck around for the Soul Train Music Awards, sitting for interviews in which he expressed sadness at Shakur's death.
Despite his efforts at peacemaking, the L.A.
music crowd gave the Bad Boy contingent a cool reception when they appeared on stage at the March 7 awards show, with Wallace stepping forw