But Biggie didn t become a multi-platinum superstar until after he was assassinated in Las Vegas, just before the release of Life After Death on March 25, 1997.

On the cover of his stunningly ill-timed second album, “Life After Death,” Biggie Smalls stands next to a hearse with a personalized B.I.G. license plate.It begins the way the last Notorious B ...

Biggie’s death and the release of Life After Death could be considered the bookend to Run-D.M.C.’s 1986 breakthrough, as hip-hop had to pause for a second and reassess itself in a way that it ...

The album: Life After Death The release date: March 25, 1997 The backstory: By the time The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, aka Biggie, aka Christopher Wallace) readied his sophomore studio ...

The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 album Life After Death, which was released just days after he was murdered, is an iconic piece of hip-hop history.Now, to coincide with the ongoing celebration of hip ...

Biggie referenced the accident in the song “Long Kiss Goodnight” from his Life After Death album: “I used to be as strong as Ripple be / ‘Til Lil’ Cease crippled me,” he rapped.

Life After Death is the Notorious B.I.G.'s Bad; ... 1997, Biggie’s legacy has rested on Life After Death, the two-disc opus that shined a light on his talent as a rapper.

Though Biggie was murdered on March 9th, 1997, two weeks before Life After Death came out, that album permanently deposited a pop-esque happiness into rap music, from 50 Cent, who partied hard in ...

In the mid-1990s, The Notorious B.I.G. began working on his sophomore album, 1997’s Life After Death.Following the success of his 1994 debut Ready to Die, Biggie had a tough act to follow.On ...

Biggie was armed with an education gained in the proverbial school of life. He was quoted in a New York Times article, published the day after his death, as saying, "Me hustling and selling drugs ...

But even though that “top 3” is locked in, Biggie stands head and shoulders above the rest in my eyes for one simple reason: I’m still impressed by Biggie, even all these years later.