Video: Biggie Smalls “Juciy and Get Money”

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Video: Big­gie Smalls “Juicy”

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R.I.P. Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls

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R.I.P. Christo­pher Wal­lace aka Big­gie Smalls

Big­gie Smalls was a pop­u­lar East Coast rap­per, also known as The Noto­ri­ous B.I.G., who was mur­dered in 1997 by an unknown assailant.


Christo­pher George Latore Wal­lace was born in Brook­lyn, New York on May 21, 1972. He was the only child to Vio­letta Wal­lace, a Jamaican pre-school teacher, and George Letore, a small-time Jamaican politi­cian and welder. Letore left when Christo­pher was two years old, leav­ing his mother to raise him alone. Smalls was an excel­lent stu­dent, win­ning sev­eral awards, and was nick­named “Big” due to his large size. He grew up dur­ing the peak years of the crack epi­demic in the 1980s, and started deal­ing drugs around the age of twelve. He attended the George West­ing­house Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy High School, where Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes were also students.

At the age of sev­en­teen, Smalls dropped out of school and became fur­ther involved with crim­i­nal activ­i­ties, and was arrested on weapons charges in 1989, and sen­tenced to five years pro­ba­tion. A year later, he was arrested for deal­ing crack cocaine in North Car­olina, and spent nine months in prison. He started rap­ping at a young age, and made a demo tape using the name Big­gie Smalls. In March 1992, he was fea­tured in The Source’s Unsigned Hype col­umn, and pro­duced a demo that was heard by Sean “Puffy” Combs at Uptown Records, who arranged to meet him. Smalls was signed by Uptown, but Combs was fired shortly after­wards, and Smalls fol­lowed him to Bad Boy Records.


Smalls began releas­ing a series of remixes under the name The Noto­ri­ous B.I.G., and col­lab­o­rated on a num­ber of projects. On August 4, 1994, he mar­ried R&B singer Faith Evans, and soon had his first solo hit song as the dou­ble A-side sin­gle ‘Juicy / Unbe­liev­able’ reached # 27 on the charts. His first solo album Ready to Die was released on Sep­tem­ber 14, 1994, and reached # 13 on the Bill­board 200 album chart. The album was even­tu­ally cer­ti­fied four times plat­inum, and was released at a time when West Coast hip hop was promi­nent in the charts, shift­ing the focus back to East Coast rap.

In 1995, Biggie’s pro­tégé group Junior M.A.F.I.A. released the album Con­spir­acy. It went gold imme­di­ately, spawn­ing sev­eral hit sin­gles. Big­gie con­tin­ued to work with other artists, col­lab­o­rat­ing on a num­ber of hit songs. By the end of the year, Big­gie Smalls was the top-selling male solo artist and rap­per on the charts. How­ever, he soon became involved in a quar­rel between the East and West Coast hip-hop scenes, and became a pub­lic rival of Cal­i­for­nia rap­per Tupac Shakur.

In Sep­tem­ber, 1995, Smalls began work­ing on his sec­ond solo album, but was arrested sev­eral times in 1996 for harass­ment and drugs and weapons charges. In June, 1996, Shakur released a song called ‘Hit ‘Em Up’, which dissed Smalls per­son­ally and sug­gested that Shakur had slept with Smalls’ estranged wife Faith Evans. On Sep­tem­ber 7, 1996, Shakur was shot mul­ti­ple times in a drive-by shoot­ing in Las Vegas, dying six days later. Rumours of Smalls’ involve­ment in the shoot­ing were ram­pant, although Smalls denied any involve­ment. While record­ing his sec­ond album, Smalls was involved in a car crash that shat­tered his left leg, tem­porar­ily con­fin­ing him to a wheel­chair. The injury forced him to use a cane once he was able to walk again.


Big­gie trav­elled to Cal­i­for­nia in March 1997 to pro­mote his upcom­ing album and film a music video. On March 5, he gave a radio inter­view in which he claimed to have hired extra secu­rity since he feared for his safety. On March 9, Smalls and his entourage left a party at 12:30 a.m. to return to the hotel. The group was trav­el­ling in two GMC Sub­ur­bans. While stopped at a light, two vehi­cles pulled up along­side the Sub­ur­ban car­ry­ing Big­gie, where one of the dri­vers rolled down his win­dow and fired numer­ous rounds into the Sub­ur­ban. Big­gie was hit in the chest by four bul­lets, and rushed to hos­pi­tal, but was pro­nounced dead at 1:15 a.m.


His mur­der remains unsolved, and there are many the­o­ries regard­ing the motives and iden­ti­ties of the killers, many of which involve Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the co-founder of Death Row Records. Smalls sec­ond album was released fif­teen days after his mur­der, enti­tled Life After Death, and it imme­di­ately reached # 1 on the Bill­board album chart. It received strong reviews, and gained Dia­mond sta­tus in 2000. Smalls is con­sid­ered to be one of the great­est rap artists, and The Source mag­a­zine named him the great­est rap­per of all time in 2001.

Big­gie Smalls late wife Faith Evans with their son Christoper.

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Feel Good Classic: Jodeci “Cry for You”

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Video: Lil Wayne Goes To Jail

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Racist A$$ Dan Rathers Speaks On Obama: “He’s Articulate But, He Couldn’t Sell Watermelons…”

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Racist A$$ Dan Rathers Speaks On Obama: “He’s Artic­u­late But, He Couldn’t Sell Water­mel­ons…”
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t’s amaz­ing but EXPECTED how ver­bal the media and Repub­li­cans have been since Pres­i­dent Barack Obama took office. For­mer CBS News anchor­man Dan Rathers voiced his opin­ion about Pres­i­dent Obama and lets just say he couldn’t have used a more RACIST anal­ogy to get his point across. This is a free coun­try and you can say what you want BUT some peo­ple still need to watch they _________ mouth!!!

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Birdman Speaks On His “Priceless” Project And Plans For Cash Money/Young Money While Weezy Serves Time

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Hip-Hop Wired recently caught up with The Bird­man as he dis­cussed his new project “Price­less” as well as Cash Money being a dom­i­nant force in Hip-Hop now for over 15 years. He also speaks on their game plan and how Cash Money and Young Money plan to move and hold Lil Wayne down while on his forced vacation.

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Women’s History Month: Oprah Winfrey

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Women’s His­tory Month: Oprah Win­frey

Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion host, actress, pro­ducer, phil­an­thropist. Oprah Gail Win­frey was born Jan­u­ary 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mis­sis­sippi. After a trou­bled ado­les­cence in a small farm­ing com­mu­nity, where she was sex­u­ally abused by a num­ber of male rel­a­tives and friends of her mother, Ver­nita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Ver­non, a bar­ber and busi­ness­man. She entered Ten­nessee State Uni­ver­sity in 1971 and began work­ing in radio and tele­vi­sion broad­cast­ing in Nashville.

In 1976, Win­frey moved to Bal­ti­more, where she hosted the TV chat show, Peo­ple Are Talk­ing. The show became a hit and Win­frey stayed with it for eight years, after which she was recruited by a Chicago TV sta­tion to host her own morn­ing show, A.M. Chicago. Her major com­peti­tor in the time slot was Phil Don­ahue. Within sev­eral months, Winfrey’s open, warm-hearted per­sonal style had won her 100,000 more view­ers than Don­ahue and had taken her show from last place to first in the rat­ings. Her suc­cess led to nation­wide fame and a role in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film, The Color Pur­ple, for which she was nom­i­nated for an Acad­emy Award for Best Sup­port­ing Actress.

Win­frey launched the Oprah Win­frey Show in 1986 as a nation­ally syn­di­cated pro­gram. With its place­ment on 120 chan­nels and an audi­ence of 10 mil­lion peo­ple, the show grossed $125 mil­lion by the end of its first year, of which Win­frey received $30 mil­lion. She soon gained own­er­ship of the pro­gram from ABC, draw­ing it under the con­trol of her new pro­duc­tion com­pany, Harpo Pro­duc­tions (‘Oprah’ spelled back­wards) and mak­ing more and more money from syndication.

In 1994, with talk shows becom­ing increas­ingly trashy and exploita­tive, Win­frey pledged to keep her show free of tabloid top­ics. Although rat­ings ini­tially fell, she earned the respect of her view­ers and was soon rewarded with an upsurge in pop­u­lar­ity. Her projects with Harpo have included the highly rated 1989 TV minis­eries, The Women of Brew­ster Place, which she also starred in. Win­frey also signed a multi-picture con­tract with Dis­ney. The ini­tial project, 1998’s Beloved, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Mor­ri­son and star­ring Win­frey and Danny Glover, got mixed reviews and gen­er­ally failed to live up to expectations.

Win­frey, who became almost as well-known for her weight loss efforts as for her talk show, lost an esti­mated 90 pounds (drop­ping to her ideal weight of around 150 pounds) and com­peted in the Marine Corps Marathon in Wash­ing­ton, DC, in 1995. In the wake of her highly pub­li­cized suc­cess, Winfrey’s per­sonal chef, Rosie Daley, and trainer, Bob Greene, both pub­lished best-selling books.

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In The Clear: Top Ten Acne-fighting Tips

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Zits, blem­ishes, spots, pimples–let’s face it, we’ve all bro­ken out at one time or another. And in our quest for Joy Bryant-esque clear skin, we’ve done every­thing from dab­bing tooth­paste on our zits to swear­ing off choco­late and French fries. Although there isn’t one defin­i­tive pimple-curing treat­ment or pre­scrip­tion, if you’re armed with the right infor­ma­tion, a flaw­less com­plex­ion doesn’t have to be a fan­tasy! Here, we rounded up the top ten expert tips on how to pre­vent and treat stub­born break­outs, for good.

Ban­ish Bac­te­ria
Bac­te­ria, oils and other zit-causing grime linger on makeup brushes, cell phones, pil­low cases (how often do you change them?) and the head scarf you use to wrap your hair at night. To avoid break­outs, make sure you clean them reg­u­larly. Wipe down hard surfaces.

Scrub-a-Dub
“Wash­ing and scrub­bing more fre­quently will not help your skin—it’ll only irri­tate it,” says der­ma­tol­o­gist Dr. Ken­neth Beer. “Cleans­ing your face twice a day is suf­fi­cient for most peo­ple.” He rec­om­mends using a cleanser with sal­i­cylic acid, gly­colic acid or both, like Neu­tro­gena Oil-Free Acne Wash ($6.39)

Wel­come Matte
When select­ing prod­ucts to use on your fave, always avoid for­mu­las con­tain­ing cocoa but­ter, shea but­ter, petro­la­tum, min­eral oil and peanut oil—these ingre­di­ents can cause pores, cre­at­ing major acne. New York City der­ma­tol­o­gist Rose­marie Ingle­ton also sug­gests using makeup that‘s labeled non-comedogenic (does not block pores) and oil-free. “Also, liq­uid foun­da­tions are bet­ter than com­pacts,” she says. A mat­ti­fier like Peter Thomas Roth Max Anti-Shine Mat­ti­fy­ing Gel ($35) will soak up any oil and remove shine for hours.

Nat­ural Woman
When it comes to fight­ing zits, Anas­ta­sia Soare, estheti­cian and owner of Anas­ta­sia Bev­erly Hills, says, “I love using home reme­dies that my mother passed down.” Here’s her rem­edy for get­ting rid of facial and body acne: Squeeze half a lemon in a bowl and mix in one egg white. Then, apply the mix­ture on top of the affected area for up to five min­utes. This mask will dry up even the worst acne on face and body.

Out, Damn Spot!
If you have an inflamed pim­ple that’s scream­ing for some TLC, “try apply­ing some ben­zoyl per­ox­ide gel, or sal­i­cylic acid gel on the inflamed area,” says Dr. Ingle­ton. Intraceu­ti­cals Clar­ity Blem­ish Repair Pen ($89) con­tains a pow­er­ful blend of these ingre­di­ents and is designed with a replace­able tip to reduce daily con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. “If the pim­ple is very large and painful,” says Dr. Ingle­ton, “your der­ma­tol­o­gist can inject it with a cor­ti­sone solu­tion to reduce the size overnight.”

No Pop­ping!
We know, we know…popping pim­ples is so tempt­ing. But before you even think about doing it, book an appoint­ment with your der­ma­tol­o­gist or esthetician—fast. “Squeez­ing your pim­ple causes fur­ther inflam­ma­tion and will always result in a dark spot,” warns Dr. Rose­marie Ingle­ton. “Instead, have your derm per­form an extrac­tion using a spe­cial tool that removes all the con­tent with­out induc­ing more inflammation.”

Hair Help
Your hair­style can some­times con­tribute to facial acne. If the oil and dirt from your bangs have caused pim­ples on your fore­head, now’s the time to pull it back! Or, try switch­ing to styling prod­ucts con­tain­ing nat­ural oils that won’t clog pores, like Kairos Anti-Acne Hair Care Trio ($60), a unique sys­tem that clears blem­ishes and helps to pre­vent future break­outs while cleans­ing and detox­i­fy­ing hair – leav­ing it shiny, silky, and residue-free.

Spa Day
Stress is one of the main causes of break­outs, so clear your pores and your head at the spa. Our new fave? Fix Mal­ibu Medispa, a gor­geous new med­ical spa over­look­ing the Mal­ibu pier. Try the Fix Zit Facial or the Hydra Facial, which cleans pores with sal­i­cylic acid and pain­lessly sucks out the debris with a gen­tle lit­tle vac­uum (not as medieval as it sounds, we promise).

Fruits & Veg­gies
There’s no med­ically proven fact that choco­late and soda cause acne, but it is proven than eat­ing healthy pro­motes flaw­less look­ing skin. “Healthy skin starts from the inside out,” says Dr. Howard Murad. “When it comes to tak­ing care of your skin, you have to take care of the whole body.” He rec­om­mends eat­ing col­or­ful raw fruits and veg­eta­bles, which con­tain good-for-your-skin antiox­i­dant and anti-inflammatory ben­e­fits. Also, try sup­ple­ments con­tain­ing vit­a­min A and Zinc to reduce skin irritation.

Lighten Up
Now that you’re rid of the zit, you’re tor­tured by the scar it left behind! Dr. Murad rec­om­mends cur­ing hyper­pig­men­tated spots with prod­ucts that con­tain light­en­ing ingre­di­ents like hydro­quinone. Try Murad Acne Post-Acne Spot Light­en­ing Gel ($60).

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Did Aliens Create The Nazca Lines?

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Video: 50 Cent “OK, You’re Right”

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