This rivalry existed between Biggie and Death Row rap superstar Tupac Shakur, a New York City native, who relocated to Los Angeles and Death Row Records because of the feud. Although Ready to Die brought massive fame to Biggie, he is most famed for his somewhat overplayed and ultimately tragic involvement in rap's most infamous feud between the East and West Coast scenes. "One More Chance," which sampled the R&B song "Stay With Me," was a remix of the song by the same name that originally appeared on Ready to Die. That same year, B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance" debuted at #5 on the Pop Charts, tying Scream/Childhood as the highest debut single in music history. That same year saw the mainstream introduction of Biggie's labelmates Lil' Kim and Lil' Caesar by the rap star. (Junior Masters At Finding Intelligent Attitudes) released the album Conspiracy. In 1995, Biggie's new group Junior M.A.F.I.A. The album is considered by many to be one of the best and most hardcore hip-hop albums of all time. The album features one of rap's most famous "playa anthems", the song "Big Poppa." Biggie's album drew critical acclaim for its vivid story-telling and razor-sharp lyricism, such as "They don't know about the stress filled day/Baby on the way, mad bills to pay/That's why you drink tanqueray/So you can reminisce and wish/You wasn't living so devilish." Another standout track is "Warning," another song in which Biggie displays his story-telling ability. Ready to Die is regarded as one of hip-hop's all-time classic albums. Blige on What's the 411?, then released Ready to Die, his debut album, in 1994. He first gained notice for working with Mary J.
This was the turning point in his life which led him to believe that drugs were not the way to go and he wanted to pursue a career in rap. In the process of doing so he was caught and forced to complete a nine-month jail term. He began trafficking drugs from New York to North Carolina. Because of his infatuation with selling drugs he began to take major risks in day-to-day life. He believed that selling drugs was nothing major and it was just the way of life for a young African American growing up in the ghetto.
Even as a young honor-roll student, he believed it would be best for him to drop out of high school at age seventeen to sell crack to live a comfortable life. B.I.G.'s mother Voleta Wallace was a preschool teacher who claimed that Christopher had lived a comfortable life (he claimed otherwise). The 6'3", 300 pound rapper was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City.
In his lyrics, Biggie also referred to himself under the alias Frank White (taken from the 1990 movie King of New York starring Christopher Walken). (Books Instead of Guns)., was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s.
Christopher Wallace (March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in the 1975 comedy, Let's Do it Again) and Frank White, but best known as The Notorious B.I.G.