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In the News
( 4 stories between 15th January 2009 and 8th April 2011 )Stranger Than Fiction Friday: Biggie Smalls’ Unsolved Murder
Apr, 8 2011
Back in January, we reported that the Lost Angeles Police Department’s investigation into the death of The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) had been “reinvigorated” as the result of new information. This week the F.B.I. released a 359-page file on the investigation and it appears perhaps the evidence needed to solve the case has been present all along.
According to the F.B.I.’s findings, the ammunition used was a “very rare” armor-piercing variety only available at two distributors in the country, yet also found at the home of corrupt, bank-robbing L.A. cop David Mack. In fact, Mack has long been identified as a “person of interest” given his off-duty work for Wallace’s nemesis, Death Row Records’ boss Suge Knight. Wallace was part of the East Coast’s Bad Boy Records and back in the late 1990’s, the two labels were embroiled in a bitter feud that left not only Wallace dead, but Death Row artist, Tupac Shakur.
So when the L.A. cops and F.B.I. searched Mack’s house and found not only the rare type of bullets that killed Wallace, but a “shrine” to Shakur, and the same make, model, and colored car described by witnesses of the fatal shooting parked in Mack’s garage, you might think to yourself, “That’s some fine police work.” But then you might also think about the investigation of OJ Simpson for his wife’s murder and you might reconsider.
Fourteen years later Wallace’s case remains unsolved. Mack continues to profess his innocence despite being named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Wallace’s family in 2007.
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Murder of The Notorious B.I.G. Being Reinvestigated
Jan, 12 2011
According to a CNN report, the investigation into the 13-year old unsolved murder case of The Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace) is again heating up. A task force charged with looking at the 1997 slaying was “reinvigorated” as a result of new information, but didn’t elaborate on the ongoing investigation.
On March 9, 1997, Wallace, 24, was shot four times in the chest while riding in a SUV in Los Angeles. At the time, Los Angeles police said a lone gunman in a Chevy Impala pulled alongside the Suburban and opened fire on Wallace, who was in the passenger seat.
Many think the shooting was payback in a war between East and West Coast hip hop record companies. New York’s Bad Boy Entertainment represented Wallace and Sean Combs, later reinvented as "Diddy," perhaps in hopes of distancing himself from his gangster past. The West Coast’s Death Row Records was headed by Marion "Suge" Knight, who, six months earlier in was fired upon in an eerily similar fashion. Death Row’s top artist Tupac Shakur was killed in the attack. That case also remains unsolved.
In the years since the killing, a number of theories have emerged, including the suspicion that police officers retained by the labels were involved.
Raised in Brooklyn, Wallace started selling drugs at the age of 12 and served nine months in prison before going on to sell more than seven million records.
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Biggie's Legacy Divides Fiddy And Diddy
Jul, 11 2010
Thirteen years after his death, the Notorious B.I.G. is the subject of an argument between two hip-hop heavyweights, 50 Cent and Diddy, head of Bad Boy Records.
Two months after Biggie's death, Diddy -- then known as Puff Daddy -- had a worldwide hit with the tribute "I'll Be Missing You." Since then, Bad Boy have released two posthumous Biggie albums -- Born Again and Duets - The Final Chapter -- and Diddy was executive producer of the Biggie biopic movie, Notorious. For 50 Cent, the final straw was Diddy's cameo in the new Jay Electronica track, "Ghost of Christopher Wallace."
"Enough is enough," Fiddy said. "Biggie's name should never have become Diddy's Black Card. When was the last time Diddy really was biggin' up his brother, not biggin' up his bank? This is just getting disrespectful." A Twitter-based petition to "Let Diddy know to let B.I.G. rest in peace" attracted 1500 signatures in two days.
