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  Biggie Smalls Web Site
Welcome to the Biggie Smalls web site at EWS Music.
This web site was created in 1997, shortly after the tragic death of Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious BIG, aka Biggie Smalls.
This is one of the first web sites created in dedication of B.I.G. Check out the content we have and be sure to tag the guest book.
www.ewsonline.com /biggie   (140 words)

  
  The Notorious B.I.G.
Biggie's solo debut was in the spring of 1993 with "Party and Bullsh*t" which appeared on the "Who's the Man" soundtrack.
Biggie was tragically murdered on March 9, 1997.
Biggie's lastest album was released on March 25, 1997.
members.aol.com /subseven/biggie.html   (341 words)

  
 About biggie smalls, biggie smalls pictures, biggie smalls biography
Biggie (a nickname given to him because of his weight) wanted to be an artist and honor-roll student.
Biggie and Puff ran down stairs to see what was wrong, but while Tupac was being loaded in the ambulance he gave them the middle finger, blaming them of setting him up.
Biggie was rushed to Cedars-sinai Hospital where dozens of friends waited outside wanting to here good news, the doctors did all they could to revive the rapper but he was pronounced dead at 1:00 a.m.
www.famousdjs.com /celebs/biggie_smalls.htm   (784 words)

  
 Biggie & Tupac
Biggie Smalls, is one of the most famous stories of the 1990's; while their murders remain the most puzzling mystery in Hip Hop today.
Shakur believed Biggie was responsible for the attempted murder, but Biggie claimed he had nothing to do with it.
Biggie on the other hand recorded much less music than Shakur in his three professional years of rapping before his murder; yet was just as famous and loved in the music industry.
www.reelmoviecritic.com /Movies20031Q/id1803.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Biggie and Tupac (2002): Voletta Wallace, Russell Poole, Marion "Suge" Knight - PopMatters Film Review
Biggie Smalls stands with his head tilted to the side, his fl headrag pulled low over his large eyes, as Tupac Shakur, equally artful, throws his hand up in a big old "fuck you" to the camera, not hating so much as representing, the way he did.
Broomfield's film ends up being much less interested in Biggie and Tupac per se than in the simultaneously extraordinary and mundane circumstances surrounding their deaths, in particular, the go-nowhere investigations.
Biggie and Tupac picks up arguments made elsewhere, by others, including ex-LAPD officer Russell Poole (who claims his investigation was thwarted by superiors) and Randall Sullivan, author of LAbyrinth, that the murders resulted from a combination of gang and cop vengeance plots and have since been covered up by a variety of conspiracies.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/biggie-and-tupac.shtml   (1185 words)

  
 AllHipHop.com : Features
D-Dot: [Biggie was] a good friend, somebody who I really and truly respected and who truly respected me. Biggie said to the world, “If you wanna f**k with me, you've gotta get past D-Dot, Stevie J and Nashiem first.” That's why when you look at Life After Death, Clark Kent only had one.
Biggie came out to the studio, and he had his own little chick in the bathroom with him.
Even when Biggie was here they would give me the beat let me lay my verse, then give everybody the beat to go and lay their verse.
www.allhiphop.com /features/?ID=1010   (1552 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: The Notorious B.I.G.
There was often talk that Biggie and Combs may have been involved with a robbery and shooting of 2Pac in 1994.
Additional charges Biggie was facing included charges from 1996 alleged drug and weapons violations and an additional assault charge stemming from a New York City nightclub incident.
Biggie is survived by his estranged wife, Faith Evans, and 2 children.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-n/notoriousbig_main.htm   (1363 words)

  
 IndieSent Exposure:Biggie Tribute Part III-Biggies Final Minutes
Combs said he and Biggie had been told it would be a private party, but when they arrived at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Blvd., that clearly wasn't the case.
Biggie's car followed, with a friend behind the wheel and Biggie in the passenger seat.
Biggie was slumped in his seat, as if he had tried to duck.
www.indiesent.com /Biggie5.html   (932 words)

  
 CBC Cinema Real Documentary Festival: Film Information - Biggie and Tupac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.), as an in-depth investigation brings to light the possibility of police cover-ups and corruption, making the lack of official detective work on these cases all the more shocking.
In Biggie and Tupac, award-winning British director Nick Broomfield (Aileen: the Life and Death of a Serial Killer; The Leader, the Driver and the Driver's Wife) boldly ventures into a series of confrontational, and potentially dangerous situations to expose the truth behind the murders, and the conflict-ridden music industry.
To get to the heart of the alleged feud between Biggie and Tupac, Broomfield interviews family and friends-including Biggie's charismatic mother, who doggedly campaigns to bring her son's killer to justice.
www.cbc.ca /documentaries/cinemareal/biggieandtupac.html   (347 words)

  
 RapCentral.co.uk - BIGGIE SMALLS - NOTORIOUS B.I.G. INTERVIEWS
Biggie: I already sat myself down and said I didn't want to be the thirty year old rapper waitin for an advance on the record deal.
Biggie: Right now we're workin on the Big Poppa's Chicken and Waffle Shop that set to open in NY at the end of the summer.
Biggie: The tour starts in May. Suppose to be me, Puffy, the Goodfellaz, Lil Kim, Lil Ceas, 112, and the the way it's looking Mary (Blige) also.
www.rapcentral.co.uk /biggieIntervws.html   (1501 words)

  
 Biggie & Tupac DVD review
Biggie Smalls, born Christopher Wallace, is the only one of the two victims who is actually shown speaking in video clips during this work.
It is this love that drives her to this day to find out the truth about her son’s premature death, and her drive also appears to have inspired Broomfield’s desire to get to the bottom of it all, as well.
If you add in the fact that Biggie was under FBI surveillance at the exact time he was murdered – yet this crime still remains unsolved – you just have to wonder if there might be more than a little police cover-up at play here.
www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/tupacbiggie.shtml   (1173 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man (Biggie Weatherford): Books: Nancy Bell   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fiona "Biggie" Weatherford (Biggie and the Mangled Mortician, 1997, etc.) is a fixture in tiny Job's Crossing, Texas, where she and her grandson J.R. team up to detect in quintessential down-home style.
Unmatronly Texas sleuth Biggie Weatherford (Biggie and the Mangled Mortician, LJ 6/1/97) and her young grandson investigate the murder of the owner of a chicken-centered restaurant.
Biggie personally believes that it is her divine right to investigate the murder.
www.amazon.com /Biggie-Fricasseed-Fat-Man-Weatherford/dp/0312969376   (1942 words)

  
 Who killed Biggie Smalls? - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On March 9, 1997, Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, whose legal name was Christopher Wallace) was gunned down while he was leaving a star-studded Vibe magazine party after the Soul Train Music Awards.
Biggie, 24, was pronounced dead less than an hour later, shortly after he arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Although there were a dozen witnesses and hundreds of clues, the Biggie killing remains one of L.A.'s most notorious unsolved homicides.
dir.salon.com /news/feature/2000/10/16/biggie/index.html   (795 words)

  
 The Enemyboard :: View topic - Biggie is no Legend
Biggie took the focal point of mainstream/hardcore Hiphop back to the East Coast with 'Ready to Die', that's why he maintains a legendary status.
But at the time, Biggie was the most relevant, and he used that to open a lot of doors and make some very powerful moves.
Biggie was a LYRICIST and he went platinum (like jdee said bringing focus back east) on mic skills alone...before puffy really glossied up his beats for the later album.
www.publicenemy.com /pb/viewtopic.php?t=26584&view=next&sid=56030770225654e96ec6c2b1b6c1ec7d   (1359 words)

  
 Biggie - Tupac Adversaries, HitEmUp.com
Tupac said that Biggie never intended to sign with Bad Boy Records when he was with Thug Life, on the contrary, he didn't like Sean Combs.
Biggie signed with Sean Combs' label and released the CD Ready to Die which mainly dealt with death.
Biggie became a very popular rapper while Tupac was in jail, which confirmed his hypothesis.
www.hitemup.com /tupac/adversaries-biggie.html   (509 words)

  
 Biggie Smalls slain in shooting
Rap star Biggie Smalls, the "Notorious B. G.," was shot dead by a drive-by gunman late Saturday night as he was leaving a star-studded Vibe Magazine party in Los Angeles.
While some speculated that the murder of Biggie Smalls, who was the top rapper on Puffy's Bad Boy label, was the Death Row clan's payback for Tupac's slaying, another theory held that the killing was related to the ongoing conflict between the rival Crips and Bloods gangs.
He had to know which vehicle of the motorcade Biggie was in, which seat in that vehicle (it had tinted windows) and in which direction the caravan was headed.
centennialsociety.com /pez.biginfo.html   (5135 words)

  
 BigUpRadio :: Biggie Irie
With a voice like rich molasses and a commanding stage presence Biggie Irie is perhaps best known to Barbadians as a founding member of The Splash band, the only other group on the Island, besides Exodus, who dedicated their repertoire solely to reggae music.
But it was the U.S. release of the CD An Introduction to Biggie Irie in 1999 and the Spirit of Unity World Tour that same year that cemented his position as a solo artist in the world of reggae music.
By now Biggies is a respected voice on the local music scene and his 2003 album Where is the Love has sparked some interest at major record labels VP Records and Jet Star.
www.bigupradio.com /artistDetail.jsp?aid=10011   (1231 words)

  
 NotoriousBIG.co.uk - Rare Facts About Hip Hop Artist Biggie Smalls   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It's a strong fact that Biggie died with five songs in his head which he never got the opportunity to drop them for us to hear.
Biggie wanted to start a clothing line that would cater to "Big" men like himself, seeing as though it was hard to find the quality of clothing he admired in his size and style.
In Biggie's neighborhood, his peers gave him this name seeing as though he was Bigger in "height" and "size" than most of the people around him.
www.notoriousbig.co.uk /rarefacts.html   (1272 words)

  
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Biggie & Tupac opens in the UK first and reaches California later in the year.
Also likely to cause a stir is the lawsuit that Biggie’s mother Voletta has filed against the LAPD.
The LP's executive producer says he wanted to reissue the album — which now features two songs that were not included before, as well as a DVD — so it could provide a lesson of sorts.
espanol.lycos.com /info/biggie.html   (197 words)

  
 BIGGIE & TUPAC - DVD
But there is little to no white judgment or imperiousness on parade in Biggie and Tupac; rather, co-protagonists Broomfield and Poole are in continuous awe over the feuds between the Crips and the Pirus and the East and West coast record companies, turf wars that have adopted an impressive moral complexity.
The only colour condemned is green, though the societal forces that bred the culprit of greed in Biggie's and Tupac's deaths are not, for the most part, on the film's agenda--Biggie and Tupac is a whodunit told in the fashion of a crime procedural.
Discographies for Biggie and Tupac, a filmography for Broomfield, text-based profiles of Biggie, Tupac, Knight, Poole, Kevin Hackie (a bounty hunter), Billy Garland (Tupac's biological father), Mopreme (Tupac's stepbrother), Voletta Wallace (Biggie's mother), and Reggie Wright Sr.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/biggietupac.htm   (442 words)

  
 Biggie's Last Stand
Biggie Smalls climbs into the front passenger seat of his GMC Suburban, ready to take the festivities somewhere else.
No one has ever conclusively linked the murders of Tupac and Biggie, but the second killing is fixed in the public imagination as revenge for the first.
The former lead detective in the case, Russell Poole, resigned from the department in 1999, claiming that higher-ups had blocked his aggressive pursuit of allegations of widespread corruption in the department.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071501982.html   (880 words)

  
 AlterNet: MediaCulture: Truth about Biggie and Tupac
Tupac was shot to death in a car in Vegas on 7 September 1996, and Biggie was murdered just 6 months later, outside a party in L.A. He wonders aloud how these two one-time friends came to an apparently fatal enmity.
Broomfield's film is less interested in Biggie and Tupac per se than in the simultaneously extraordinary and mundane circumstances surrounding their deaths, in particular, the frustratingly go-nowhere "official" investigations.
"Biggie & Tupac" picks up arguments made elsewhere, by others, including ex-LAPD officer Russell Poole (who claims his investigation was thwarted by superiors) and Randall Sullivan, author of LAbyrinth, that the murders resulted from a combination of gang and cop vengeance plots and have since been covered up by a variety of conspiracies.
www.alternet.org /mediaculture/15878   (759 words)

  
 NotoriousOnline.com - Remembering B.I.G. - [ News / Updatez ]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unfortunately, Calvin Lockhart the actor behind the role of Biggie Smalls passed away on Mar. 29 in Nassau, Bahamas due to complications from a stroke.
Biggie was recently honored by The Source with a special commemorative issue, featuring five collectable covers marking the 10th anniversary of the Brooklyn-born-and-bred rapper's untimely passing on March 9, 1997.
Biggie solidified his position with his classic 1994 debut album, "READY TO DIE." Through the combination of Sean Combs' powerful production and B.I.G.'s vivid rhymes, the disc brought Bad Boy Records to the forefront of East Coast hip-hop and went to sell over four million copies.
www.notoriousonline.com /bigonline/index.php   (1148 words)

  
 Biggie (give your input) - Beastie Boys Message Board
I have seen numerous people saying Biggie is one of the greatest rappers, personally I don't understand why, I have nothing against him in any way, if you don't care put your reasons why here.
I always enjoyed biggie more than tupac, but thats not to say he was a better rapper.
Biggie's flow and lyrics were sweet...his whole style was just badass.
www.beastieboys.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=51698   (1023 words)

  
 Absolute Anime / Kirby: Right Back At Ya! / Biggie
Biggie is a fat guy who wears a T-shirt with a winged, one-eyed letter A on it as well as yellow shoes and a blue hat.
Biggie is a member of the Otakings, a group of three professional geeky animators who signed a contract written by Nightmare Enterprises.
The Otakings were hired by King Dedede to help make a better version of the cartoon he made earlier where he was the hero and Kirby was the bad guy.
www.absoluteanime.com /kirby/biggie.htm   (151 words)

  
 Modamag.com | Biggie And Tupac (Movie Review)
There is a reason why the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls will never fit snugly into Hollywood Babylon.
But, as seen in the new documentary “Biggie And Tupac,” this case will remained uncertain for a long time to come because there is too much fear, money, and dishonestly involved to ever bring the figure behind these murders to justice.
Regardless of its fruitless grasping, “Biggie And Tupac” is still Broomfield’s best film to date, and a bold fresh step in trying to solve this tangled murder case for good.
www.modamag.com /biggieandtupac.htm   (419 words)

  
 NPR : Wendy's 'Biggie' Portion Gone in Name Only
What was once known as a 'biggie' drink at Wendy's is now just a 'medium.' Soft drinks now come in small, medium and large sizes only.
One of the nation's largest burger chains is switching to a new kind of cooking oil that will sharply reduce harmful trans fats, a move that nutritionists applaud.
As for the new 42-ounce soda, with up to 100 more calories than the old '"biggie," he says it's not really intended to be drunk in a single sitting, but rather consumed throughout the day.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5498454   (405 words)

  
 Salon.com News | Who killed Biggie Smalls?
Biggie, 24, was pronounced dead less than an hour later, shortly after he arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Although there were a dozen witnesses and hundreds of clues, the Biggie killing remains one of L.A.'s most notorious unsolved homicides.
Now, a former Los Angeles Police detective charges that the department's failure to solve the case may be tied to an unfolding Rampart scandal coverup.
archive.salon.com /news/feature/2000/10/16/biggie   (955 words)

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