On what would’ve been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 50th birthday, his friend and collaborator Diddy took to Twitter Spaces alongside Jay-Z and Fat Joe (per HipHopDX) and shared stories about the late rapper ...

Diddy and The Notorious B.I.G.’s friendship dates back to the early 1990s. Biggie was at a crossroads in his personal life, having to choose between selling drugs on the streets of Brooklyn or ...

The Notorious B.I.G. introduced the world to the grandeur of his double album Life After Death with the lead single “Hypnotize,” released on the first day of March 1997. The song became one of ...

When Notorious B.I.G.’s funeral procession rolled through his native Bed-Stuy in 1997, mourners began blasting his track “Hypnotize,” and it subsequently turned the rapper’s wake into a party. Just ...

1997: The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" reached No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 3, 1997. Although the single was originally released in December 1996, Biggie's first single off his final ...

The Notorious B.I.G. would have turned 44 this year - it's been 20 years since the rapper's death. He was shot Mar. 9, 1997 shooting, and the world is still devoid of Biggie-style rhymes that set the ...

Hip-hop has always been about appropriation. Not necessarily cultural, but at least formal--it's a genre built on samples, riffs and reinterpretations, making collage out of found parts. In this ...

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The Nets came up big on Biggie Night. Brooklyn honored one of the borough’s favored sons, and Billboard’s greatest rapper of all time, when the Nets celebrated the late Notorious B.I.G. throughout the ...

Her name is Megan Thee Stallion but maybe she should change her name to Megan Thee GOAT because her latest freestyle may have impressed Biggie Smalls himself if he was around today. The 24-year-old ...