The Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975's Let's Do it Again) and Frank White (from King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G (Business Instead of Game and, since his death, Books Instead of Guns), was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s. Following his untimely death in 1997, he has been immortalized as a hip hop legend.

Discography

Albums

• Ready to Die (Bad Boy Records, 1994) #1 US; 3x Platinum
• Life After Death (Bad Boy Records, 1997) #1 US (4 weeks), #23 UK; 10x Platinum
• Born Again (Released Posthumouously, Bad Boy Records, 1999) #1 US (1 week); 3x Platinum

Singles

• 1993 "Party And Bullshit" #56 US
• 1993 "Ready To Die"#1 UK
• 1994 "Juicy" #72 UK
• 1995 "Big Poppa/Warning" #63 UK
• 1995 "Can't You See" (Total featuring The Notorious BIG) #43 UK
• 1995 "One More Chance" #34 UK
• 1995 "Who Shot Ya?"
• 1996 "Playa's Anthem" (featuring Junior MAFIA) #48 UK
• 1997 "Hypnotize" #10 UK
• 1997 "Mo Money Mo Problems" #6 UK
• 1998 "Sky's The Limit" (featuring 112) #35 UK
• 1998 "Going Back To Cali" # 26 UK
• 1998 "Runnin'" (with 2Pac) #15 UK
• 2000 "Dead Wrong (Remix" (with Eminem) #78 UK
• 2000 "Notorious BIG" (featuring Puff Daddy) #16 UK,#3 US
• 2002 "Unfoolish" (Ashanti featuring The Notorious B.I.G.) #5 US
• 2003 "The Realest (featuring 50 Cent) #18 US
• 2003 "Runnin' (Dying To Live)" (2Pac featuring The Notorious BIG) #19 US, #17 UK (2004 release)