Biggie Smalls murdered this day in 1997
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He was born May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn New York and died March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles California.
He died at the ripe old age of 24 years old after attending the Soul Train Music Awards in a hail of bullets fired by mean uncaring individuals who would just as soon kill you as look at you.
Wallace was a rapper and songwriter orginally hailing from Brooklyn, New York who became one of the greatest rappers of all time with that popularity of a genre only true afficinados of the culture can understand.
Me, I never was a fan — but I have always thought that his ending was a sad note to the never ending saga of violence in the United States and totally unnecessary. After all ... he was only pursuing his art.
Couple this with a ever heating and escalating East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud and tragedy was bound to ensue. This is the way of gangsters.
He knew the risks and spoke of them on occasion.
Even while he was attempting the quell the fighting in an effort for the two factions to perhaps collaborate more and wage war less.
His music involved the telling of hardship stories and criminality, but also of debauchery, of course sex, expensive automobiles, as well as partying and celebration.
The saddest part of it all is how those ignorant people with cash to buy automatic weapons enact revenge upon whomever whenever and that is the actual tragedy which is rap music, hip hop, and stupid forced rhyme scheme in lyrics with repetitive beat you like they own you background tracks.
He has released a number of well received albums with a portion of those posthumous releases and by and large I feel the man did not get a fair shake as we will never fully realize the full extent of his talent and reach in the presence of that cruelty known as the gangster lifestyle.
No, I was never a fan of rap or hip hop.
As for young Mr George Latore Wallace — he certainly deserved better than he received ... from his peers no less.