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The song, which reached a prior No. 7 high in March, surges after he was shot & killed June 18.
XXXTentacion posthumously tops the Billboard Hot 100, as his single "Sad!" jumps from No. 52 to No. 1 for its first week atop the chart. The song, which had first peaked at No. 7 on March 31, reaches the summit after the ...

During the “no smiles” era of the East Coast vs, West Coast beef, anybody could get it on either sides of the country as it was proven with the death of late Hip Hop icons Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. Rap legend and Death Row Records ...

In an alternate future, the Notorious B.I.G. would have been rapping alongside Jay-Z on Roc-A-Fella Records. On the day of Biggie's birthday, the hip-hop community celebrated his legacy, which was tragically brought to an untimely end on March 9th, 1997. Now, a recent reflection ...

Johnny Depp portrays real-life LAPD detective Russell Poole, one of the lead investigators into the murder of Notorious B.I.G., in the first trailer for the upcoming film City of Lies. The film is the latest project to examine the Ready to Die rapper's drive-by shooting death, with ...

Maybach Music Group’s Meek Mill is out here respecting the late King of New York. The Philadelphia rapper has saluted rap icon Notorious B.I.G. on his birthday.

Meek Milly went to Instagram Monday (May 21) ...

Hip-hop has transformed dozens of times in the decades since the ‘90s, and will change dozens of more times in the years to come. That said, there won’t be a permutation of the genre that doesn’t carry The Notorious B.I.G.’s DNA.

He’s ground zero for many of today’s tropes, including the started-from-the-bottom narratives, that love of Versace, and the mainstream power of New York hip-hop. Every birthday is a reminder that the man born Christopher Wallace was able to accomplish all of this in just five years in the business and one album released in his lifetime.

This time of year is also for once again taking stock of Biggie’s tragically short catalog. Sifting through it, a lot of his material still stands as some of the best hip-hop has to offer, thanks to the charisma that naturally leaks out of his prose, as well as Sean "Puffy" Combs’ pristine ear for beats. That goes for every dimension of Biggie’s ...