The record sold four million copies and earned several awards, including Billboard’s rap artist of the year and rap single of the year.
He released his debut album, “Ready to Die.” in Sept. He signed with Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, who then worked for Uptown records.
Biggie, who sold crack at the age of 12, got his break in the music industry in the late 1980s. Voletta was a Jamaican immigrant who worked as a preschool teacher in Brooklyn while raising her son as a single parent. “It seems to me that it’s one giant conspiracy, and someone is definitely being protected somewhere down the line. There’s no closure for me until that murderer is behind bars and sentenced,’ she said. Get it from the Apple app store or the Google Play store.
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I don’t know why they haven’t arrested who was involved. “They’ve done their investigation, but they just refuse to move forward. “I have a very good idea who murdered Christopher and I genuinely believe that the LAPD know exactly who did too,” she said. The two had a rivalry that many say spilled over into violence. Voletta says she likely knows who killed her son. Many connect Smalls’ death to that of Tupac Shakur on September 7, 1996. I know there will be a few tributes in honor of Christopher, and that’s great he’s still remembered, but it’s very tough for me and my family.’ ‘When it comes to the anniversary of the passing of his death, I don’t really like to talk about it. He was my baby, and I think about him every day. It’s unnecessary that Christopher lost his life at just 24. He was so young, so talented and his life was taken far too soon. “Any mother who has lost a child knows exactly the devastation I feel, it’s the worst pain in the world and one that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy.
As a family, we’ve collectedly grieved and it doesn’t ever get any better for us. His sister T’yanna hurts every day because of his loss. Diddy watching from a separate car, the Brooklyn native was struck by four bullets from a Chevrolet Impala that pulled next to his GMC Suburban SUV.įrom her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Voletta told the Daily Mail “It’s not just me that is devastated. He just gave his final performance at the Soul Train Awards before he was shot to death while leaving an after party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in a two-vehicle convoy. says she knows show killed sonĪ source from the rapper’s inner circle reportedly told the rapper may not have been the target of the shooting.īiggie, whose given name was Christopher Wallace, was killed on Main a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.