The Notorious B.I.G. rapped a great deal about his childhood, most notably on hits like 1994’s “Juicy” and the posthumously-released “Sky’s The Limit.” Now, the public is able to own a piece of Biggie Smalls history. The late rapper’s Clinton Hills, Brooklyn apartment 3L on 226 St. James Place is on the market. The area was formerly known as Bedford-Stuyvesant, as New York magazine reports.
Reportedly inhabitated by an older couple at present, the $725,000 asking price is up $300,000 from the published sale figures nine years ago.
“The tour buses that come by regularly are enough,” listing agent Judith Leif told The Daily Intelligencer. “I don’t really know yet what impact, if any, [The Notorious B.I.G’s connection] will have on the sale. I think it’ll be notable, but I don’t know if novelty translates to a purchase.”
The property remains on the market.
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and???
Biggies mom has said a number of time before he really really exaggerated his story and it wasn’t as bad as he made out he came from a good home and done great in school but fell into the wrong crowd as he got older.
and that changes nothing
He came from a good home yet didn’t have a father figure. Makes sense.
Clinton Hill, singular, asswipe.
And the neighborhood was NEVER known as Bed-Stuy…
How the fuck could it when Bedbord is x blocks to the east?
Not that Brooklyn ‘hoods have 100% fixed borders but where the fuck do you live that you write this bullshit?
In fact, historically, the name Clinton Hill predates Bedford-Stuyvesant, although there was an area known as Bedford or the Bedford district. Fuck what New York magazine says, like some numbnuts intern there has a goddamn clue?
Yo check out the pictures of his apartment. That shit is HUGE. Its not the ghetto projects that I thought it would be…
word. it’s almost like a small-ass house more than it is an apartment
shit changed, he would have lived there 30+ years ago
that area was never known as bedford stuyvesant and I’m from brooklyn.
One room shack my ass… That apartment is love
Biggie’s mom worked like a Jamaican… oh wait, she was Jamaican! Biggie Jamaican too, of course.
St James Place was ** NEVER ** ‘ghetto’ the way ya’ll have learned to think of it. It was a middle to upper middle class area, with some rich people around, and an art and engineering college (Pratt) nearby a few blocks away…
Black migration + white flight made the neighborhood do a racial flip-flop from the 1950s or so to the 1990s, when it started flipping back but there are some nice ass buildings there and sure, a few that had hadn’t been well maintained over the years but overall it’s NICE, no matter how rough Fulton Street itself could get.
Big was a street nigga ! R.I.P.
I’ma buy that joint and use it as Blue Ivy’s closet
RIP to BIG, y’all should checkout http://www.thegrandreport.com too, they usually have some good reads as well
Biggie’s fat fuck ass couldn’t fit through a door frame surely?
I’m a phgt 🙂
Fuck Biggie… Nas 4 eva
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am so hipster… do not even listen to rap
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Coli in dis bitch. Dipset!!!!!!!!!!
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knamean this shit got tax each month run bout damn 900 dolla that more than a broke nigga like me can afford on welfare shit.. gottdamn that bullshittin mothafucka had bank son
No pics of the apartment? this site is getting worse daily. smh
what does it matter, its not like its stayed the same since he lived there.
click on the ‘New York magazine’ link in this article then click the ‘listed for sale’ link on that page. it’ll take you to the seller’s web site where it has a gallery of photos of the apartment
imma buy it one day when i make it outta here!
Tupacs appartment better….
Yeah, it had cable.
Been up for sale 9 years ago and nobody wants it
Ja Rule will buy the apartment