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You can view the "Unsolved" episode #4 "Take Your Best Shot" for those of you that have yet to see the fourth installment of this show which aired a couple of hours ago on the USA Network cable channel. The Task Force tracks down a person ...

For decades, the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1995 show in Toronto has been the stuff of local legend. It came up while we were researching for our oral history of the Concert Hall (though the show happened further down Yonge at the long-gone venue the Apollo) in bits and pieces, is often raised in discussions of Toronto hip-hop history.
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You can view the "Unsolved" episode #3 "The Mack" for a limited time for those of you that have yet to see the third installment of this show which aired a couple of hours ago on the USA Network cable channel. Frustrated by their lack of progress, ...

Craig Mack, the Long Island rapper who found fame on Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records in the mid-1990s, has died at age 46, his producer confirmed to the Daily News.

Mack — who launched to hip-hop acclaim with the platinum hit “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994 before being overshadowed by fellow artists such as the late great Notorious B.I.G. — died of heart failure at a hospital near his Walterboro, S.C., home Monday. “God bless my friend. He was a good friend of mine,” said Alvin Toney, who produced Mack’s debut album “Project: Funk Da World” and ...

Here is another vintage news clip recorded during that turbulent time for the music industry back in '97. The late great Notorious B.I.G.'s Body was returned for Funeral preparations after a full autopsy was performed. His body was held in California until the family could sign and authorize the release so that they can have the body flown back to his home town in New York. We can not believe that it has been that long since the night BIG was flown back home after being assassinated. ...

A U.S. district court judge ruled the lyrics 'party and bullshit' constitute fair use.

A copyright lawsuit brought by a member of spoken-word group The Last Poets over lyrics used in The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1993 hit "Party and Bullshit" has been dismissed, according to court documents reviewed ...