Billboard rates his 1997 posthumous opus, “Life After Death,” among the greatest rap albums of all time. Following her son’s murder, Voletta Wallace took control of Biggie’s estate ...

All while grieving the loss of Biggie, who died at age 24 with only two albums under his belt, 1994’s “Ready to Die” and 1997’s “Life After Death,” which came out two weeks after the ...

Biggie Smalls’s mother, a preschool teacher and devout Jehovah’s Witness, didn’t listen to her son’s music until his death. After his killing in 1997, Voletta Wallace’s life’s work ...

The rapper, real name Christopher Wallace, was murdered in 1997 aged just 24, weeks before the release of his follow-up album ...

Biggie’s 1994, four-times platinum debut ... rivalry between himself and Los Angeles rapper Tupac Shakur. Life After Death was released 16 days later, and would eventually sit atop the ...

Ready to Die and Life After Death, the latter of which debuted atop the Billboard 200 and arrived just weeks after he was gunned down in Los Angeles. Biggie is notably hailed as one of the pillars ...

Trending on Billboard Biggie’s albums Ready To Die, Life After Death and the posthumously released Born Again spent the combined equivalent of more than 3 years on Billboard‘s top album sales ...

The musician — born Christopher George Latore Wallace on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and also known as Biggie Smalls — released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994 and posthumously released Life ...

She spent two decades fighting for control of her son’s music rights, and signed a deal shortly before she died valuing the estate at $200 million.