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hold ya head notorious big free mp3 download Notorious B.I.G. Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 ? March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975's Let's Do it Again) and Frank White (from the film King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game and, since his death, Books Instead of Guns), was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s. His career was overshadowed by the Bad Boy/Death Row Records feud during his life, but following his untimely death in 1997, The Notorious B. His career was overshadowed by the Bad Boy/Death Row Records feud during his life, but following his untimely death in 1997, The Notorious B.I.G. has been celebrated as a hip-hop legend. He is remembered for his storytelling ability, talented freestyling ability, and his easy to understand yet complex flow. The Notorious B.I.G. is considered by many to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Christopher Wallace was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. His father, George Latore, left the family shortly after his birth, and his mother, Voletta, was a schoolteacher. While he is known to have dropped out of school and become a drug dealer, his mother has claimed that the family was not poor and that Wallace exaggerated his childhood situation in his lyrics. His best childhood friend and inspiration was a chubby kid who went by the name of Lil Punisha. Wallace, who originally didn't stray much farther than his Brooklyn neighborhood to sell drugs, began to traffic drugs to Virginia and Maryland where it was sold at a higher price. He was eventually busted, and served 10 months in jail. Shortly after he was released, he had his first child, T'Yanna. With a baby on the way, Wallace decided to start rapping. He developed into a talented lyricist, recording a demo tape with local performer Mr. Cee, who was the DJ for Brooklyn MC Big Daddy Kane. This tape reached The Source magazine and they co-signed Biggie in their ?Unsigned Hype? column, which is dedicated to aspiring rappers. The demo tape found its way into the hands of then Uptown Records employee Sean ?Puffy? Combs (now Diddy, who subsequently arranged for a meeting with Wallace. Combs and Wallace became instant friends, performing together on the 1992 reggae song ?Dolly My Babii? by Super Cat. Wallace first gained notice with ?Party and Bullshit,? his first single. He made his second mainstream appearance on the remix of Mary J. Blige's smash hits ?Real Love? and ?What's the 411?. He also appeared on the ?Flava in ya Ear? remix. He appeared on the album One Million Strong on a song called ?RUNNIN'? with 2Pac & Dramacydal. He also made an appearance on the Trapp album Stop The Gunfight on a track called ? Be The Realist? with 2Pac & Trapp. This album also contained a remix of ?RUNNIN'? called ?Stop The Gunfight.? All of these guest appearances built a sizeable buzz around Wallace's name leading up to his solo debut. In 1994, he released ?Juicy?, his first mainstream single. He also released Ready to Die, his debut album, which is regarded as one of hip-hop's all-time classics and credited with revitalizing East Coast hip hop. The album features one of rap's most famous ?playa anthems,? ?Big Poppa,? which samples the The Isley Brothers. Wallace's album drew critical acclaim for its vivid story-telling and razor-sharp lyricism, an example being the line ?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? from ?Everyday Struggle.? In 1995, Wallace's proteg?s, Junior M.A.F.I.A. (Junior Masters At Finding Intelligent Attitudes), released the album Conspiracy. That same year, Wallace introduced to the mainstream his crewmates Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease. His single ?One More Chance? debuted at #5 on the pop charts, tying ?Scream/Childhood? by Michael Jackson as the highest debut single in music history at the time, although this record has since been surpassed by Jackson's ?You Are Not Alone,? which debuted at number one. ?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. ?One More Chance? was also his highest selling single, going Platinum in a matter of weeks. Also in 1995, Wallace featured in Michael Jackson's song ?This Time Around?, which can be found on Jackson's HIStory album. This was not the only Michael Jackson song in which Wallace featured in. In 2001, Jackson included a rap verse sung by Wallace in his song ?Unbreakable?, which is found on Jackson's ?Invincible? album. By the end of 1995, Wallace had become one of the most famous and popular rappers in the world. He was named ?Lyricist Of The Year? by The Source, and many dubbed him the ?King Of New York? (a play on his ?Frank White? persona.) Big was notorized early in his career mostly for his lyrical content, which included hardcore gangsta-rap lyrics at a time when that style dominated the West Coast, and most of his native New York was dominated by the jazziness of A Tribe Called Quest and Gang Starr and the blend of Five Percenter/far East-influenced/gangsta stylings of MCs like Afu-Ra, Jeru the Damaja and the Wu-Tang Clan. Over the course of his career, fans who called him the greatest would cite his flow, topical diversity, and vivid, detailed storytelling; he also moved from simple thug lyrics to mafioso-like tales of ?gangsterism?, a posturing which some speculate probably contributed to his death. East Coast West Coast Feud. Although Ready to Die made Wallace a star, he is most famed for his involvement in rap's infamous feud between the East and West Coast scenes. Before Ready to Die was released, he began to associate with rap superstar Tupac Shakur, a New York City native who moved to Baltimore and later Marin City. The two recorded a number of songs together, and Wallace even performed alongside Shakur in a now-famous Madison Square Garden freestyle in 1994. However, their friendship ended when Shakur was shot in November of that year. Though there is no evidence suggesting it, Shakur claimed that Combs and Wallace knew about the shooting beforehand based on their behavior that night and what he had heard from his sources. He also thought that the lyrics in Biggie's ?Who Shot Ya,? were disrespectful and shouldn't have been released at such a time. Shakur subsequently joined Death Row Records after his release from prison in late 1995. Death Row Records and Bad Boy Entertainment were the two most successful labels of the 1990s, and with the two biggest stars in rap now associated with different labels, the feud escalated. In 1996, Tupac recorded a song called ?Hit ?Em Up?, in which he claims to have slept with B.I.G.'s wife Faith Evans, and claims that Biggie copied his style. Biggie never made a response, and the two even met before the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. However, when Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, rumors of Wallace's possible involvement in the murder cropped up almost immediately. He denied the allegations. Also around this time, he was involved in a car accident that shattered his leg and would force him to use a cane for the rest of his life. On March 9, 1997, Wallace was shot and killed in Los Angeles, where he had been attending a party by VIBE Magazine near the Petersen Automotive Museum. As his car pulled up to a red light, another car opened fire, hitting him six times and killing him almost instantly. His murder has never been conclusively solved, though theories abound as to the motives and identities of the murderers. Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and the Mob Piru Bloods gang with whom he associated are among the prime suspects for involvement. In his book, LAbyrinth, LAPD officer Russell Poole probes the circumstances and figures involved in the shootings. Biggie's death was a vicious shock to the entire music industry and sent shock waves around the world. The Notorious B.I.G.'s public funeral, however, was anything but peaceful. Wallace was loved in his neighbourhood, his funeral was a massive event. Thousands flooded into his Brooklyn neighborhood to catch a glimpse of his hearse, jumping on cars and clashing with police; ten people were arrested. When someone put on ?Hypnotize?, the whole crowd erupted. Theories about his death. Director Nick Broomfield and co-producer Dmitri Leybman have released an investigative documentary called Biggie & Tupac which implicates the LAPD and Suge Knight. Proponents of this theory defend it because the LAPD's elite robbery and homicide unit didn't begin to investigate Wallace's murder until a month after it happened, and the job was given to a poorly funded division of LAPD investigators; and several prison inmates who were once members of the Mob Piru Bloods have come forward and said that they know for a fact that Suge Knight ordered Wallace's murder due to their own personal connections. Conspiracy theories abound about Wallace's murder: Some believe that the Crips gang may have shot Wallace in retalliation for his not paying for the security services they provided at a previous party.