the Notorious B.I.G. memorial

Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was killed in Los Angeles march 9, 1997, just six months after the death of his West Coast rival Tupac Shakur. Wallace was 24 years old. He was a native of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up stealing and selling crack cocaine to make money in the rough, poverty-stricken area. As entertainer by no means he was role model for youth, but damn, he could rap. He was the undisputed hip-hop superstar of the East Coast and artists have created memorials to Biggie around the city.
Perhaps the most well-known is on the corner of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene area. Painted by local street art legend Lee Quinones and called "Comandante Biggie," the mural fuses Biggie with a classic depiction of South American revolutionary Che Guevara.
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