The Notorious B.I.G. - легенда рэпа Бигги Смолз

1972

Christopher Wallace. aka the Notorious B.I.G., is Kim in Brooklyn, New York, on May 21.

1989

Wallace dn>ps out of high school to instead sell crack on the streets of Brooklyn, in his Bedford-Stuyvcsant neighborhood.

1989

Wallace is arrested on a weapons charge and is sentenced to five years probation.

1991

Wallace is arrested in North Carolina for selling crack and is scn-tenced to nine months in jail.

1992

Wallace's demo appears in The Source's "Unsigned I lype," a column read by Uptown executive Sean "Puffy" Combs.

1992

Combs and Uptown chief Andre I larrell sign Wallace to Uptown, and Wallace begins to appear on several remixes.

1991

Wallace's first child, T'Yanna Dream Wallace, is born.

1991

Wallace's single "Party and Bullshit" is released to great reviews.

1994

Wallace marries singer Faith Evans in a private ceremony in upstate New York.

1994

Wallace's first album. Ready to Die, hits the streets and is an instant success. The album firmly establishes Wallace as a rapper.

1994

Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot at a Manhattan studio. Shakur blames Wallace for the shooting, triggering the infamous rivalry between the West Coast's IVath Row Records and the East Coast's Bad Boy Records.

1995

Wallace produces and releases Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s debut The Conspiracy.

1996

Faith Evans delivers Wallace's second child, Christopher Jordan
Wallace.

1997

Wallace is shot and killed in Los Angeles, after leaving a party
hosted by Vibe magazine. His murder remains unsolved more than
a Jo. adc later.

1997

His album Life after Death is released posthumously, debuting at no. I on the Billboard 200.

1999
Bad Boy releases Bom Again, a posthumous album that features several unreleased tracks recorded by Wallace before his death, and his single "Nasty Girl" becomes Wallace s first no. 1 Billboard hit in the United Kingdom.

2005

1 lis family files a wrongful death suit against the City of Los Angeles, which ends in a mistrial.

2005

Bad Boy releases Duets: The Final Chapter to high sales and lukewarm reviews. The album, a collection of manufactured duets between Wallace and other artists, was promised to fans as the last Wallace release.

2007

Bad Boy relea-es Greatest Hits, which debuts at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.