Short answers, pulled from the story.
Christopher George Latore Wallace was born on the 21st of May 1972 at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He was the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents and grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood.
The Notorious B.I.G. released his debut studio album titled Ready to Die on the 13th of September 1994. The album reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified four times platinum.
The Notorious B.I.G. was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on the 8th of March 1997 and was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. the following day. He was twenty-four years old at the time of his death.
The album Life After Death was released sixteen days after The Notorious B.I.G. died on the 25th of March 1997. It achieved four-time platinum certification and became the highest-selling release of the year.
The Notorious B.I.G. had the vocal range of a baritone and typically rapped in a deep tone described as a thick, jaunty grumble. His style was characterized as cool, nasal, and filtered with an ability to layer multiple rhymes in rapid succession.