Talk:The Notorious B.I.G.

Bed-Stuey

He's still categorized as being a person from Bed-Stuy. This is demonstrably false; he grew up in Clinton Hill and this is made evident both in the article and elsewhere. He said it in an age when people couldn't fact-check this sort of stuff to make him appear more authentic. Can someone take it out or at least change it to Clinton Hill? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.255.102.42 (talk) 09:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Add to biopic

Wallace's real life son, Christopher Jordan Wallace/Christopher Wallace Jr., plays the role of his father in his younger years (ages 8-13). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Befidled (talk • contribs) 09:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC) reaterdation statoin

Album titles were self-fulfilling prophecies

Shouldn't this article mention how eerily prophetic the titles of his albums were ? Especially in the sequence that they were titled and released? Like "Life After Death", which was recorded and titled while he was still alive, but released AFTER he unexpectedly died. Coincidences like that don't happen very often. 24.189.90.68 (talk) 22:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I think it just conveniently fits the content of the albums and a common theme of rapping about street and gangster life in that era. It's also a slight piece of a horrorcore element too which occasionally was shown in his songs. Plus it was just a good concept of bringing attention to yourself, commercially speaking. If I remember right tupac even claimed he wanted to call HIS album 'Ready to Die'._ morde _t ^.. 04:54, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree with User 24.189.90.68. It's similar to
A) 2Pac's song "Death Around The Corner". 2Pac was right. He was killed around the corner.
B) David Bowie's song "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide". In 1977, Five Years after he released the song, Bowie almost ended his life with drugs, fulfilling his own prophecy.
C)Joy Division's album "Closer" which was released after Ian Curtis' death. The word "closer" has a dual meaning too; it could be an adjective or a noun.
Pagen HD (talk) 00:26, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Remove website address?

Can I remove the "Website www.badboyonline.com/notoriousbig"? because it now gives a 404 error. Googling for an alternate web address for him doesn't give anything better than a MySpace page which doesn't include much of relevance. Lopifalko (talk) 07:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Already Y Done, removed 3 dead links from the external links section. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 00:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 24.60.98.163, 21 May 2010

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remove the last 2 links, they do not work 24.60.98.163 (talk) 17:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Y Done Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 00:05, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Eatmaxeat, 13 June 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} In Biggie Smalls' associated acts section it doesn't have method man as an associated act. Method Man collaborated with Biggie Smalls on his first album "Ready To Die" and he rapped with Biggie Smalls on the song "The What."

Eatmaxeat (talk) 19:04, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

• N Not done Please provide a reference to a reliable source. —Mikemoral♪♫ 21:26, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Inquiry about filmed death

I would like to add possible subcats of Category:Filmed deaths here, however, I see no citation pertaining to the amateur footage captured on the night of his shooting (as was disclosed in documentaries such as Bigger Than Life and Famous Crime Scene: Notorious B.I.G.). Well, I can easily cite the documentaries themselves, I'm afraid just doing that won't meet the standards of WP:RELY. I need something concrete. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 10:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 24.163.61.151, 10 March 2011

{{edit semi-protected}} Any reference made to an african american murder suspect should be changed to black as nobody knows the citizenship of the alleged murder.

24.163.61.151 (talk) 03:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. I'm not sure what you mean. —GƒoleyFour— 04:58, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

He's trying to say that it is unknown that the black shooter was an American citizen, therefore possibly not "African-American".Jasper420 19:32, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 71.185.7.105, 2 April 2011

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Originally,Biggie was chosen as the greatest mc of all time on MTV's list of greatest MCs, but after a disagreement with several voters on the roundtable he was later moved to number #3 on the list. 71.185.7.105 (talk) 18:14, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Do you have a source for that? Monty₈₄₅ 08:33, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 85.151.204.175, 12 May 2011

please remove the top5list.com reference, it's just spam, it's not a notable source, when searching for top5list.com on google this page is with the first results.--85.151.204.175 (talk) 17:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC) 85.151.204.175 (talk) 17:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Y Done Agree. CTJF83 15:28, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Fanzine tone

Can anything be done about a certain breathless, juvenile fanzine tone? It often seems to be written by and for the main character in Malibu's Most Wanted. Or is that inevitable, given the subject matter and who has information about it? It's a bit like walking into a comic store and overhearing an argument about Green Lantern which assumes the life or death importance of the subject. Isn't any kind of perspective about the age and race of the audience possible? There's all sorts of articles by now about how commercial rap plays a role in feeding white male middle school fantasies about African America as a place with no homework and lots of willing girls. The "wild wild West" trope has always appealed to them, a place where men are still men and gun each other down. What does that do to normal African Americans, to have that stereotype projected onto them? Lots of lit about that out there, but it's not in the fanzine websites. The article seems written by people who would laugh at slightly younger people who think the professional wrestlers are for real, but B.I.G was a character that Wallace played. He even fudged his character's birthplace, changing it from unknown, gentrifying Clinton Hill, home to a famous old college, to hardcore BedStuy. Mainstream big money rap had become, by Wallace's time, a kind of professional wrestling aimed at white adolescents, but this article is written by, and for, those believers. It's time to cite some of the literature out there that looks behind the curtain. Profhum (talk) 13:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 15 January 2012

why is rapper too short not in assciated acts he was featured on 5 tracks from wallace nd wallacem was featured on many of his tracks nd why nit craug mack bcz he nd big released a collabaraative album which went gold and the album released big,s career 117.199.151.186 (talk) 14:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

If you'd make a specific, specific, coherent edit request, please do so below, give a reference for your change, and change the "edit semi-protected" from =yes to =no. Skier Dude (talk) 04:00, 16 January 2012 (UTC)