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Christopher George Latore Wallace was born on the 21st of May 1972 at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood near the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The Notorious B.I.G. died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 1:15 a.m. after being shot four times by an unidentified driver in Los Angeles. An autopsy released fifteen years later revealed only the final shot proved fatal, entering through his right hip before lodging in his left shoulder.
Singles like Juicy, Big Poppa, and One More Chance helped shift focus back to East Coast hip-hop during a period when West Coast artists dominated the genre. His debut album Ready to Die arrived on the 13th of September 1994 and sold 500,000 copies in its first week while reaching number fifteen on the Billboard 200 chart.
Wallace's relationship with Tupac Shakur deteriorated after Shakur released Hit Em Up in June 1996 which claimed an affair with Faith Evans and accused Wallace of copying his style. The feud escalated when Bad Boy Records and Death Row Records became business rivals following Shakur's October 1995 signing to Death Row.
The Notorious B.I.G. certified U.S. sales exceed twenty-eight million copies including twenty-one million albums. Rolling Stone called him the greatest rapper that ever lived while Billboard named him the greatest rapper of all time in 2015 and The Source declared him the greatest rapper of all time in its 150th issue published in March 2002.