Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., died Friday while in hospice. (Andy Kropa / Invision / Associated ...

Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. who worked to elevate his short-lived but influential career to hip-hop greatness, has died. She was 78. “We suffered a tremendous loss ...