The Notorious B.I.G. remains one of Hip Hop’s most exalted MCs even 24 years after his tragic murder. On Tuesday (March 9), social media lit up with tribute posts to the late Brooklyn legend as people remembered Big on the anniversary of his death.
Unsurprisingly, Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of the many paying their respects to the rap titan, taking to Instagram to share a photo of Big.
“B.I.G. FOREVER!!!!!!!” he wrote in the caption. “We love and miss you King!!!!!”
Diddy’s post elicited comments from Rick Ross, Swizz Beatz, Swae Lee and Tobe Nwigwe, among others, who were all eager to show their love.
Biggie — real name Christopher Wallace — was shot and killed on March 9, 1997 while on a trip to Los Angeles to promote his sophomore album Life After Death and the shooting is still unsolved. But through his friends, family and fans, Biggie’s legacy firmly carries on and continues to inspire subsequent generations.
Numerous documentaries have been made about the celebrated rapper’s life. Most recently, Netflix unleashed the film Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell, which centered on the memories of his lifelong friend Damion “D-Roc” Butler and shied away from dwelling on his murder.
Instead, director Emmett Malloy took a deep dive into the people and places that birthed Biggie — from his visits to his mother’s family in Jamaica to Big’s former Brooklyn stomping grounds. Along with Diddy, Butler, Biggie’s mother Voletta Wallace and Jamaican uncle and grandmother, the film includes jazz musician and neighbor Donald Harrison and other childhood friends.
Diddy officially inducted Biggie into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November during a ceremony broadcast on HBO. The special segment included tributes from JAY-Z, Nas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ms. Wallace, daughter Tyanna Wallace and son C.J. Wallace.
The Hip Hop mogul, who signed Biggie to Bad Boy Records in 1993, delivered an impassioned speech about his late friend and collaborator, saying, “Big just wanted to be biggest, he wanted to be the best, he wanted to have influence and impact people in a positive way, and that clearly has been done all over the world. Nobody has come close to the way Biggie sounds, to the way he raps, to the frequency that he hits.
“Tonight we are inducting the greatest rapper of all time into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Notorious B.I.G. representing Brooklyn, New York, we up in here!”
F*** Diddy, He’s the main reason that he’s dead in the first place. And the fact that he’s alone is getting 75 percent of his profits while his family only gets the remaining 25 percent.
Diddy only remembers cuz his bank accounts exploded on that day too.
It’s great that Puff is doing something to uphold his legacy but one can’t help but feel that BIG’s murder could have been avoided if Puff had looked out for him differently. He may still have been with us today. How different would hip-hop have been?
Rest in power to one of the Ilist dopest lyrical geniuses to ever bless a microphone couldn’t agree more diddy is one of the reasons biggie is no longer with us and would still be with us if he would if kept big out of danger and also suge knight is also the reason big got killed I will always belive that and he had a lot to do with 2 pac getting killed too suge was too shady for his own good
Biggie will always be the King of NY for me, he was in a league of his own. RIP big fella, still bumping your tunes daily. ???
Diddy should be dead instead of Biggie and Suge should be dead instead of 2pac. RIP to the Hip Hop Legends and Middle Fingers to Shady Suge and Homo Diddy.
The whole East Coast/West Coast Beef BS could’ve been settled peacefully if Diddy and Suge’s personal beef with each other was handled.Suge tried to muscle in on Diddy and Diddy ignore the business attempt then when Suge’s best friend/business associate “Big Jake” was killed be Diddy’s bodyguard “Wolf” with no real explanation at all… that’s what started their war and it just kept growing ever since. Suge kept nurturing and fueling 2pac newfound hatred for Bad Boy as a way to not only make money, get back at Diddy,but also get 2pac the revenge and satisfaction/ redemption he felt that he needed. Diddy knew during all this what was going on from the moment that Big Jake was killed and he said nothing. To the moment when 2pac got shot in the Quad Studios. The sky subliminal disses they kept putting out instead of just either fully going to war or squashing the beef. Once 2pac was murdered, then Diddy and Biggie were getting a bit too cocky and because Diddy was more focused on the money instead of doing what was morally right to protect his client. He allowed Biggie to go to California, on several radio stations where he freestyled a couple subliminal verses stilled aim at 2pac who died 6 months ago in the man’s home state. Yeah.. Smart move.. That’s why he’s not here now. Diddy is and will always be known as a homosexual opportunist and a heartless leech.
what does homosexuality got to do with not having your shit together. these two personalities are legendary.
Shut up, you dumbass h0m0
Huh? You must be young or new to Hip Hop to not know what really started the rift between Suge and Puff? And also it’s old news but everybody knows that Puff is a switch hitter.