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The Notorious B.I.G.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls was dealing drugs by the time he was 12 and was constantly in trouble with the police. But he developed a rap act to perform on the streets, and his edgy, brutal rhymes and free-flowing delivery came to define the genre, representing East Coast hip hop in its bitter feud with its West Coast counterpart. Spotted by Sean "Puffy" Combs, he released his debut album Ready To Die in 1994; a hardcore autobiographical record in which he referred to himself as Frank White, a fictional drug baron in the 1990 movie King Of New York. The name Biggie...