Big was looking to get back to the streets, but Puff’s ambitions were set towards launching his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment. “And it had a lot of personality - like a light on his feet kind of big brother.” But Uptown dropped Biggie after Combs was fired, setting the rapper’s career in limbo. “He had a voice that just sounded like it was heavy, funky and rhythmic,” Harrell would tell the New York Times in 1994, just after Ready To Die went Gold. Uptown CEO Andre Harrell was immediately impressed with B.I.G. The MC would land some noteworthy early guest appearances on tracks by artists like Super Cat ( “Dolly My Baby”) and Heavy D ( “A Buncha N-as”), working closely with Combs at Uptown Records. From there, word got to upstart mogul-in-the-making Sean “Puffy” Combs about the gifted lyricist from Brooklyn.

Dre's West Coast G-funk.The story is well-known: Big Daddy Kane’s DJ Mister Cee heard Biggie on a tape and invited the burgeoning rapper to a showcase for The Source. into a hip-hop sensation - the first major star the East Coast had produced since the rise of Dr. By the time the dust settled, Ready to Die had sold over four million copies and turned the Notorious B.I.G. Biggie's third single, 'One More Chance,' tied Michael Jackson's 'Scream' for the highest debut ever on the pop charts it entered at number five en route to an eventual peak at number two, and went all the way to number one on the R&B side. Its lead single, 'Juicy,' went gold, and the follow-up smash, 'Big Poppa,' achieved platinum sales and went Top Ten on the pop and R&B charts. delivered his debut album, Ready to Die, in September 1994. Blige's single 'Real Love.' He soon guested on another Blige remix, 'What's the 411?,' and contributed his first solo cut, 'Party and Bullshit,' to the soundtrack of the film Who's the Man? Now with a considerable underground buzz behind him, The Notorious B.I.G.

The Notorious B.I.G., made his recording debut on a 1993 remix of Mary J. Before his death in 1997, he released two studio albums both garnering critical and public acclaim: 'Ready To Die' and 'Life After Death'.

During his life he moved many crowds with his conversational style in Hip Hop. (Business Instead of Game) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY on May 21, 1972. Notorious 'Christopher George Letore Wallace' B.I.G. The Notorious B.I.G.'s album Ready To Die.

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