Notorious B.I.G.

For Swizz Beatz' latest installment of Monster Mondays, the hip-hop impresario teams with Rick Ross for the new tune 'The Transporter.' The symphonic beat, throws in a sample of Notorious B.I.G.'s voice taken from his '10 Crack Commandments,' making for another solid performance from Ross...

Thirteen years after the death of legendary Brooklyn rapper, Notorious B.I.G., Los Angeles police officials are investigating new evidence that might finally close the unsolved case. Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in his car, while leaving a music industry party in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, but a perpetrator has not been named in the case...

Debra Antney was frustrated recently, when her son Waka Flocka's house was raided by police, who referred to her as "the Candy Lady," and accused her of running a prostitution ring. "There's nothing going on for you to kick a door in," she said...

Saigon recently revealed that Jay-Z took a bunch of the beats Just Blaze made for him, including the one that became "Kingdom Come." "Jay-Z was jacking for beats baby," Saigon explained. "We were working at Baseline and we're like a close family...

Notorious B.I.G. routinely made microphone magic happen early in his career. Who can forget the image of the 17-year old Biggie ripping competitors apart on the streets of Bed-Stuy? Well, one of Big's most quoted moments comes from a verse that's known as the 'Madison Square Garden freestyle' and it recently received an animated treatment...

Shyne and Mark Curry aren't the only ex-Bad Boy artists lashing out against their former boss Diddy. Black Rob, who's fired shots at Sean Combs over the past year, has reignited his beef with the rap mogul. In a new interview, Rob speaks out against the Bad Boy family saying Diddy was janky from the start...

Rick Ross Week is upon us. With the release of the rapper's new 'Teflon Don' slated for today (July 20), expect a gigantic promotional push with critics and pundits offering their opinions on Ross' career and newest effort. Yesterday, the Huffington Post published an editorial entitled 'Rick Ross: Living out Notorious B...

50 Cent has found his latest target in Diddy, following the mogul's decision to recruit Fif's nemesis Rick Ross for his new group, The Dream Team. The Queens rapper is pulling out all the stops on Diddy, first ridiculing his decision to work with the Teflon Don, and now zeroing in on his supposed exploitation of the late Notorious B...

A reflective Diddy was last night's guest at Peter Rosenberg's Noisemakers series, answering questions about his musical and business successes over the years. The entrepreneur seemed at ease on the stage at New York's 92YTribeca community center, as he joked around and provided particularly illuminating stories about his work with Notorious B...

Brooklyn rapper Lil' Cease recently opened up about a Junior M.A.F.I.A. reunion, saying it was something he "would definitely want to do." On May 21, what would have been the 38th birthday of the late Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A. lyrical genius, Cease said that he was working on reuniting the hip-hop group...