Notorious B.I.G's Daughter Celebrates Sweet 16 Birthday

By Alicia Cruz

Senior writer

Theblackurbantimes

Feliz Cumpleanos!

My, how time flies when it comes to children. Look who has graduated to "young lady" status. Yes, that's the daughter of late rapper, Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls).

T’Yanna Wallace is Biggie's oldest child. She just celebrated her 16th birthday in pure style...just like her father would have wanted, I'm sure.

T'Yanna was a mere toddler when her father was murdered as he sat in a vehicle in Los Angeles, California on March 9. 1997. Biggie, born Christopher Wallace, was gunned down while leaving a Vibe magazine party after the Soul Train Music Awards. His rise to success began during his short tenure as a crack dealer on the streets of New York. Thanks to producer, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Biggie left the lifestyle to hone his skills as a gifted rapper.

On the night of the mysterious shooting, as hundreds left the party, Biggie's entourage rolled out of the parking garage of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the Wilshire district with Rap mogul, Combs riding ahead of Biggie's vehicle.

The famed gangsta rapper's vehicle was sitting at a traffic light when a dark Chevy Impala pulled up alongside Biggie's vehicle and fired seven shots from a blue steel 9mm semi-automatic into the SUV's front passenger door.

Four of the bullets hit Biggie.

The 24-year-old Jamaican sensation was pronounced dead less than an hour later shortly after arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The shooter, described as a black male in a suit and bow tie has never been found.

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BY KERRY BURKE AND DAVE GOLDINER
He's B.I.G. as ever on the streets of Brooklyn.
Nearly 12 years after the killing of Biggie (The Notorious B.I.G.) Smalls, the rap star's memory and platinum-selling music still loom large over the changing Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where he lived.
"You feel him every time you hear his songs," said B.J. Miller, 47, who grew up nearby. Abraham (O.G.) Widdi, who gave Smalls his first job, bagging groceries, said the rapper's killers robbed the world of a prophetic voice and a gifted artist.
"They didn't give him a chance to go all the way to the top," said Widdi, 43, clutching his slain pal's photo.
"He was just starting out." "Notorious," a film about the too-short life and violent death of Smalls, opens this week.
It chronicles the rapper's made-for-the-movies journey from the corner of St. James Place and Fulton St. to stardom. He died, age 24, in a hail of bullets in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, six months after sometime rival Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas.
No one has ever been charged in either crime, spawning conspiracy theories about gangs, dirty cops and feuding East and West Coast rappers. The flick stars rotund rapper Jamal (Gravy) Woolard — a "dead ringer" for Smalls, according to Miller.
The late rapper's son, Christopher Jordan Smalls, plays his dad as a child. "This movie makes you dance, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry," Sean (Diddy) Combs said at the premiere. "It makes you respect life."
Born Christopher Wallace, Biggie Smalls was just 11 days old when he moved to BedStuy, then a hardscrabble stretch of liquor stores and bo-degas.
The future star learned his trade on Fulton St., where he shot dice, gulped wine and smoked pot. Eventually, he started selling crack to make money when his strict mom was away at work. Few dreamed the chubby teen would wind up famous.
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