18 years after his death, HipHopDX retraced the location of The Notorious B.I.G.’s last moments and visited the site of his shooting in Los Angeles.
Tracking the path Biggie took from a Vibe after party to the traffic light where he was shot in 1997, DX’s Andre Grant helped capture the modern-day setting of the still iconic intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
The intersection is currently the site of the under-construction Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a planned 300,000 square foot space dedicated to the history of and ongoing education about film.
B.I.G. was only 24-years old when he was murdered. After the shooting, the Ready To Die rapper was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was pronounced dead early on the morning of March 9 following an emergency surgery.
More than ten years after his death an autopsy report for Christopher Wallace was made public. The report revealed that three of the four shots that struck Biggie were not fatal, the shot that killed him injuring his colon, liver, heart, and one lung.
I WISH THE ENTIRE DX STAFF WOULD GET KILLED THERE AS WELL
Wow man, that’s an incredibly effed up thing to say to anyone, no matter how you feel about them.
We lost one of greatest that ever did it to some petty shit 18 years ago today and on this day of commemoration, rather than respecting the continued legacy of an artist through most people that now make up culture, you deem a group of hardworking writers that spend the majority of their days trying to ensure that their readers have a pulse on what’s happening around the world of hip hop to death. Like really, to death? You realize that you had the option to not click on this article, read through it, fill out all of the necessary information required to comment, and post it. Also, rather than standing behind your words, you negate your name. Funny style.
Man, I swear. They way people talk behind their keyboards and screens, you’d think they had bazucas on deck.
you probably suck more if you are trolling a site you loath. Stop wasting your life.
you love this staff…. look how you take time out of your day to let them know theyre on your mind? thats love.