2. Christopher Wallace was born in
Brooklyn 1972. In school, Christopher
developed the name ‘BIG’ for being
overweight.overweight.
By the age of 12 Wallace was selling
illegal drugs, his mother didn’t know
about his drug sales until he was older.
3. Chris began rapping when he was a
teenager, he entertained people on the
streets.
After Wallace was released from prison,
he made a demo under the name Biggiehe made a demo under the name Biggie
Smalls.
After Biggie got signed. P.Diddy left the
label and made his own company, which
Wallace followed. It was called Bad Boy
Records.
4. Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were
friends, until Tupac got shot 5 times on
in September ‘94.
He blamed Chris & everyone at the
record. Shakur heard about Wallace’srecord. Shakur heard about Wallace’s
new song, he retaliated with a song
back.
A few months after the song was
released Tupac was killed in a drive by
shooting in Las Vegas ‘96.
5. Biggie was killed 16 days before his
“Life after death” album was going to be
released.
Wallace was killed in a drive by
shooting. He just got out of a club in L.A,shooting. He just got out of a club in L.A,
BIG was shot four times & the fourth
bullet hit vital organs which killed
Christopher Wallace.
Thousands flooded the Brooklyn
neighbourhood to see the hearse.
6. Biggie released one album during he
was alive, which was called Ready to
die.
After his death it has been five albums
which are: Ready to die, Life afterwhich are: Ready to die, Life after
death, Born again, Duets: the final
chapter & Greatest hits.
Ready to die have sold over 11million
copies & Life after death have sold over
10million in the US alone.
7. 3
3.5
4
The amount of the nominations Christopher
Wallace won.
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
Billboard
Music
Awards
Grammy
Awards
MTv Video
Music
Awards
Soul Train
Music
Awards
Nominated
Won
8. The 3 main albums sales
Number of sales How many times it
went platinum
Ready to die 11million 11
Life after death 10million 10
Born Again 5million 5
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volmer/3468349004/ By phvolmer –
Brooklyn Bridge. Upbringing Slide.
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05/8544026338/ By Takeshi Life Goes On
– BIGGIE
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rivalry slide
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many-people-attended-biggie-smalls-
funeral - Death slide
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many-copies-did-ready-to-die-sell - Album
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s_did_biggie_smalls_life_after_death_albu
m_sale - Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlmaral/204906
38/ - Tupac. – Rivalry slide.
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B.I.G -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur -
Rivalry slide
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