A judge has reinstated a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G., reversing an earlier decision to dismiss the case. U.S. District...
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Biggie is coming to the big screen. Fox Searchlight has hired Jamal Woolard, a Brooklyn-based rapper, to play late rap icon Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., in...
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A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. against the city of Los Angeles may be amended to include several other defendants, including...
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What's the world coming to when one can't even trust the word of convicted killer?
Waymond Anderson, an inmate at California's Corcoran state prison and a key...
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Diddy is set to executive produce a film based on the life of rapper Notorious B.I.G.
The film will be made by Fox Searchlight films and directed by George Tillman Jr., who...
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The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic on the rapper will be filled through an open casting call, the film's producers told The Associated Press on...
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A judge threw out a defamation lawsuit by a man who claimed Fox Television and a hip-hop magazine falsely accused him of involvement in the unsolved murder of rapper...
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Biggie's case is all about the Benjamins again.
In light of the Los Angeles Police Department's recent
decision to assign a new task force to investigate the...
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It's hip-hop's version of the JFK assassination.
Nine years after the Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive-by
shooting--a murder without a named suspect, let alone a...
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Six veteran homicide detectives are leading a new police task force investigating the unsolved 1997 killing of Notorious B.I.G.
The new probe comes in the face of a...
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The family of the late Notorious B.I.G. and the city of Los
Angeles are getting a do-over.
A couple of weeks after
stating that an attorney representing the slain...
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It's buck-passing time.
Nearly a week after their
courtroom scolding, the lawyers for the family of slain rapper Notorious
B.I.G. have answered charges that they...
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Los Angeles has agreed to write a hefty check to the family of the
late Notorious B.I.G.
The Los Angeles City Council on
Wednesday approved a $1.1 million payment as a...
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The Federal Bureau Of Investigation has ended a 18-month probe into the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI ended...
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Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late Notorious B.I.G., has altered her wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles Times reports...
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The estate of the Notorious B.I.G.'s (Christopher Wallace) won a legal victory last month in its ongoing wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department....
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a six-year-old theory that a Los Angeles Police officer orchestrated the 1997 shooting death of the Notorious B.I.G....
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Eminem has produced a new song, "Running (Dying To Live)," for the new soundtrack, Tupac: Resurrection, which will be released on November 4. The song, which will be the...
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Sylvester Stallone, who became a household name for his portrayals of Rocky and Rambo, is currently working on a new movie, Rampart Scandal. The film will detail the...
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Biggie & Tupac filmmaker Nick Broomfield is urging the public to contact the Los Angeles Police Department's Police Chief William Bratton to demand more investigation into...
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Jay-Z, Loon, the Notorious B.I.G., Carl Thomas, Black Rob, 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake, Fat Joe, Nelly, Lenny Kravitz, and Beyonce Knowles are among the artists featured on...
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Patti LaBelle has been added to the lineup of performers at a tribute to the mothers of Jam Master Jay, Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who...
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Sean "P. Diddy" Combs signed a worldwide distribution deal with Universal Records for his Bad Boy Entertainment label on Thursday (February 6). The financial terms of the...
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Damien "D-Roc" Butler, Lil' Kim's former manager and childhood friend of the Notorious B.I.G., was sentenced to three years in prison in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday...
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Brooklyn-based rappers and sometime collaborators Lil' Kim and Jay-Z will be featured on two new episodes of VH1's Driven next month.
Jay-Z's episode of Driven is scheduled...
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The mothers of Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who met with untimely deaths are being honored. A tribute to the special women will happen at...
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The Notorious B.I.G. and 50 Cent have "hooked up" for a new song, "N--ga," which has turned up on some underground mix tapes. The song uses two verses from the slain...
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A documentary on the unsolved murders of hip-hop friends-turned-rivals Notorious B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur opens in Los Angeles and New York on September...
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The murder of Tupac Shakur, who was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September of 1996, has remained unsolved for six years. However, according to a new report...
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The estate of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) has put out a request seeking information from the public to aid with its recently filed lawsuit against the Los...
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The Notorious B.I.G.'s (Christopher Wallace) widow Faith Evans, his mother Voletta Wallace, his son Christopher Jr., and his daughter and her legal guardian have all joined...
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The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Run D.M.C., Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash are among the 15 honorees who will be inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame Wednesday...
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Rapper Lil' Cease (born James Lloyd), formerly the hype man for the late Notorious B.I.G. and a member of Junior M.A.F.I.A., was arrested on Sunday (March 18) and charged...
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Two books by investigative journalist Cathy Scott--The Killing Of Tupac Shakur and The Murder Of Biggie Smalls--have been optioned by a pair of Hollywood producers who plan...
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Rumors that imprisoned rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight will be charged with the murder of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. are not true, according to web site sohh.com, which...
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Amir Muhammad -- a mortgage broker who's been considered a suspect in the murder of rap star, the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) -- is no longer under scrutiny by...
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Before his death last month, Big Punisher had collaborated with a bevy of rappers, several of whom were close friends of the Bronx-based rapper. A.G. recorded with...
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Late rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s posthumously released album Born Again proved to have the power to topple Celine Dion's two-week run at the top of the weekly SoundScan sales...
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Members of the hip-hop community aren't surprised by the news that an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, already behind bars for robbery, has been pegged as one...
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New York City music aficionados were given a sneak preview of Born Again, the eagerly anticipated new album from slain rap kingpin the Notorious B.I.G. , last week. Held at...
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A bevy of music fans are thrilled about Sean "Puffy" Combs's Bad Boy Records' Dec. 7 release of Born Again, the second posthumous album by slain hip-hop kingpin, the...
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While a major rollout is on for Born Again, the posthumous collection from slain rap icon the Notorious B.I.G. due Dec. 7, his mother Voletta Wallace has been keeping busy...
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"Dead Wrong," the first single from slain rapper the Notorious B.I.G.'s upcoming album, Born Again, will be released on Oct. 25.
The album, which is due Dec. 7, is...
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Voletta Wallace, the mother of slain rap icon the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), is back in the public spotlight, just in time for release of her son's second...
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Two-and-a-half years have passed since the murder of rap kingpin Notorious B.I.G., who was born Christopher Wallace. However, his spirit and music live on. Sean "Puffy"...
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Voletta Wallace, the mother of slain rap icon the Notorious B.I.G. (born Christopher Wallace), is forging ahead with her humanitarian efforts. Through her recently launched...
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Today would have marked the 27th birthday of rapper the Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace. According to a spokesperson for Bad Boy, the label's CEO Sean "Puffy"...
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Ice, the debut album by hip-hop sexpot Charli Baltimore, is finally set to be released next month. Since surfacing on the music scene as the alleged lover of slain rap...
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Marion "Suge" Knight, the imprisoned founder of the Beverly Hills-based rap label Death Row Records, is considered a key suspect in the slaying of hip-hop star the...
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Jazz trumpet master Lester Bowie is a man of many sides. With the legendary Art Ensemble Of Chicago, the avant-garde group he founded more than 30 years ago, Bowie has...
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The 1997 Consumer profile has been released by the Recording Industry Association Of America, the trade group that does all the muckety-mucking statistics for the major...
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Erykah Badu was the big winner at the 12th annual Soul Train Music Awards, held February 27th at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The turban-clad newcomer won awards...
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The 24th Or 25th Annual Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll (a title as quirky as the publication) has named Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind and Hanson's "MMMBop" as the top album...
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Soul Train creator Don Cornelius used end his TV show by wishing love, peace and soul to his audience. He's now made an exception for CNN.
Cornelius ended the recent Soul...
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Sean "Puffy" Combs will get another stab at taking home a trophy. Combs, shut out at the American Music Awards, has five nominations for the Soul Train Music Awards,...
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Voletta Wallace, mother of slain rapper Biggie Smalls a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., recently lamented the apparent lack of progress in the police investigation of her son's...
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Not that you won't get plenty more chances to find this out for yourself when MTV re-runs the MTV Video Music Awards 50 times a day for the next six months, but in case you...
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