Notorious B.I.G.

Digital cross process picture of Christopher George Latore Wallace (1972 – 1997). An American rapper, he was better known as the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or Biggie. Born to Jamaican parents, he grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn but was known for his presence in nearby Bedford-Stuyvesant where as a teenager he often performed on the streets.