Hip-hop artist Mal Jones discusses the importance of the late great Biggie Smalls and his lasting influence on rap. Mal then talks about being approached by a JEA executive after a performance at his The Lyricist ...

Two of New York City’s finest emcees nearly appeared together on a potentially classic track, but a late night weed session may have prevented that magical moment from happening. Nas sat down with DJ Khaled’s We The Best Radio show for a lengthy discussion. Esco talked ...

The March 1997 murder of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace remains an unresolved wound in hip-hop’s collective consciousness, but it’s a deeper and more profound pain that his mother, Voletta Wallace, has had to endure over the last 19 years since her son was shot and killed in Los Angeles. ...

Thanks to J. Cole, The late great Notorious B.I.G. was going going, back back, to Cali Cali yet again on Saturday (Feb. 20). Hitting the main stage as the headliner for Shaun White’s Air + Style Festival in Los Angeles, Cole paid tribute to the legendary Brooklyn ...

In the past, Shaquille O’Neal has talked about how he spent some time with The Notorious B.I.G. on the day he died. In his 2011 book, Shaq Uncut: My Story, Shaq wrote about how he met up with Biggie at a tattoo parlor just hours before his death and mentioned how he planned to ...

Hop Songs chart and Drizzy joined the late great Notorious B.I.G. and Rihanna as the only artists in the history of the chart to have more than one song enter at No. 1 in its first week. Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” replaced “Work,” his ...