N.Y. and also known as Biggie Smalls — released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994 and posthumously released Life After Death in 1997. The latter is one of the only hip-hop albums to reach ...

New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, died in 1997 at 24 in a shooting. After her son's death, Wallace was dedicated to keeping his memory alive through advocacy and ...

Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac confirmed her death Friday to The Associated Press, saying she died at her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, after hospice care. She died of natural causes.

Her death was confirmed by the Monroe County Coroner’s Office. Wallace was born in Jamaica in 1953. She gave birth to her son Christopher, better known as Notorious BIG or Biggie Smalls ...

Yanac. She was in hospice care. Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in Los Angeles in March 1997. He was 24. Billboard rates his 1997 album “The Notorious BIG ...

Voletta Wallace, the mom of the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G., died at 78 of natural causes at her Pennsylvania home.

Voletta Wallace, the mother of late rapper The Notorious B.I.G, has died. She was 78. Wallace died at her home in Stroudsburg ...