
Christopher Wallace only needed one verse to set up an entire backdrop: Brooklyn, its sidewalks, its schemes and its hunger for payback. Under the aliases Biggie Smalls, Notorious B.I.G. or Frank White, he made his mark in 1994 with a first album, "Ready to Die", released on Bad Boy Records, the label founded by Sean Combs. Deep voice, laid-back flow, an unbeatable sense of phrasing: "Juicy", "Big Poppa" then "Hypnotize" became tracks that hip-hop still quotes line for line. The imagery followed, right up to that portrait by Barron Claiborne where a crown set at an angle crowns him king of New York. His death in Los Angeles in 1997, two weeks before the release of "Life After Death", froze a short discography and a huge influence. A legacy that still stands tall on fans' shelves, between crowned POP figures and books that tell the story of the Brooklyn legend!
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